Open Space -- Nothing New

[Harrison Owen]

A little something to tickle your reflection --

Zhaozhou asked Nanquan, "What is the Way?"
Nanquan said, "The normal mind in the Way."
Zhaozhou asked, "Can it be approached deliberately?"
Nanquan said, "If you try to aim for it, you thereby turn away from it."
Zhaozhou said, "If one does not try, how can one know it is the Way?"
Nanquan said, "The Way is not in the province of knowledge, yet not in the
province of unknowing. Knowledge is false consciousness, unknowing is
indifference. If you really arrive at the inimitable Way, it is like space,
empty and open; how can you insist on affirmation and denial?"
At these words Zhaozhou was suddenly enlightened.

Translation by Thomas Cleary (Unlocking the Zen Koan)


Harrison


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>From  Sun Sep 10 14:31:29 2000
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I have been exploring Spiral Dynamics for about a week now that I'm reading
"A Theory of Everything".  Ken Wilbur is moving his ideas toward more
specific application and he thinks "Spiral Dynamics" is right on to his
image of nested holons.  I'm going to explore it more and thanks for the web
site.  Ken's article is pretty much what he put in the book.

To me it is an elaboration of Harrision's (and Eric Trist's) Reactive,
Responsive, Pro-active, Interactive, Inspired.  Ken Wilbur's thinking about
stages and transformation has got my wheels turning about what
"transformation" in organizations really means.  There is transformative
experience, which may or may not shift the organization to a new stage of
consciousness or necessarily create the conditions for the new stage to
become an ongoing trait.  I agree with Birgitt that that the shift is
turbulent and the formal leadership is citical to making it an ongoing
trait. There is a translative task that has to "work--be grokked" for the
leadership and the organization to sustain the shift.  I'm working with a
couple of clients in large systems now who have used enough Open Space that
I can begin to experience the dynamics there.

Spiral Dynamics, as I understand it, helps to clarify metaphors for the
coherent states.

Larry

Larry Peterson
Associates in Transformation
41 Appleton Ave., Toronto, ON,
Canada, M6E 3A4
Tel:/Fax: 416-653-4829

lpasoc at inforamp.net
http://www.inforamp.net/~lpasoc

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