What can we do to help us all learn and move on?

[Holon Consulting]

Dear Paul-
Thank you this inspiration to "remember."   Very powerful & very
appreciated,
Joy Keller-Weidman
Holon  Consulting
(707) 839-4710

> From: Paul Roberts <proberts at SPIRALPARTNERS.COM>
> Reply-To: OSLIST <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 10:08:01 -0600
> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Subject: What can we do to help us all learn and move on?
>
> Excerpts from Meg's post:
>
> ...Enron, Arthur Andersen, Nortel, Royal Bank of Canada being sued by
> Robobank of Holland... and now Worldcom. Is there a pattern here?
>
> really thinking that we/ they could get away with it...
>
> And what about "us"...
>
> Greed and attachment may be human failings, but enough is enough already!
>
> SO, I wonder if we're at a turning point here?
>
> What can we do to help us all learn and move on, to help the spiral turn...
> in healthy fashion?
>
> I would really appreciate any other ideas, what other folks are doing, your
> thoughts on the matter.
>
> ...with a frown and a smile!
>
> =====================================================================
>
> The first 20 years of my life created a pattern of judgement for for me
> that I have spent the next 30 years learning to unlearn.
>
> As I have continued to zig and zag on the path, I have become more aware of
> my own tendencies towards judgement...transferred from my family system to
> my various adult social systems...especially those relating to the work
> world.
>
> For me, finding my essential stance remains my first priority, even more so
> when there is a "falling apart".  It is, at the same time, both the
> simplest and the hardest thing for me to do.
>
> When I find my way back to that place, I find answers come to the questions
> Meg poses here...questions I have posed many times myself.  In that place,
> my thoughts and actions align, and my interactions with the larger systems
> in which I live become clarified...again...and again...and again.
>
> Particularly in times of piercing the veil entirely, when the entire shelf
> of ego-self has dropped away, even for short periods of time, my
> perceptions have radically altered:  difference has been replaced by "no
> difference", judgement by radical acceptance, conditional love by
> unconditional love.  Those moments have provided me the ability to begin
> again:  to find, to understand, to articulate, and to move from what I am
> calling here "essential stance".
>
> Words have been powerful tools of remembrance for me.  Here are two poems,
> one ancient, one modern, that speak to me about a certain kind of radical
> acceptance that help me remember, so I can "go home" spiritually,
> cognitively and emotionally.  Here, and only here, is the open space I need
> to think and act clearly in times of crisis.
>
> Best,
> Paul Roberts
>
>
> Tao Te Ching #28 (Lao Tzu tr. Mitchell)
>
> Know the male,
> yet keep to the female:
> receive the world in your arms.
>
> If you receive the world,
> the Tao will never leave you
> and you will be like a little child.
>
> Know the white,
> yet keep to the black:
> be a pattern for the world.
>
> If you are a pattern for the world,
> the Tao will be strong inside you
> and there will be nothing you can't do.
>
> Know the personal,
> yet keep to the impersonal:
> accept the world as it is.
>
> If you accept the world,
> the Tao will be luminous inside you
> and you will return to your primal self.
>
> The world is formed from the void,
> like utensils from a block of wood.
>
> The Master knows the utensils,
> yet keeps to the the block:
> thus she can use all things.
>
>
>
>
> Please Call Me by My True Names
> Thich Nhat Hanh
>
> Don't say that I will depart tomorrow--even today I am still arriving.
>
> Look deeply:
> every second I am arriving to be a bud on a Spring branch,
> to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings,
> learning to sing in my new nest,
> to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
> to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.
>
> I still arrive,
> in order to laugh and to cry,
> to fear and to hope.
> The rhythm of my heart
> is the birth and death of all that is alive.
>
> I am a mayfly metamorphosing on the surface of the river.
> And I am the bird that swoops down to swallow the mayfly.
>
> I am a frog swimming happily in the clear water of a pond.
> And I am the grass-snake that silently feeds itself on the frog.
>
> I am the child in Uganda,
> all skin and bones,
> my legs as thin as bamboo sticks.
>
> And I am the arms merchant,
> selling deadly weapons to Uganda.
>
> I am the twelve-year-old girl,
> refugee on a small boat,
> who throws herself into the ocean
> after being raped by a sea pirate.
>
> And I am the pirate,
> my heart not yet capable of seeing and loving.
>
> I am a member of the politburo,
> with plenty of power in my hands.
> And I am the man who has to pay his "debt of blood" to my people
> dying slowly in a forced-labor camp.
>
> My joy is like Spring,
> so warm it makes flowers bloom all over the Earth.
>
> My pain is like a river of tears,
> so vast it fills the four oceans.
>
> Please call me by my true names,
> so I can hear all my cries and laughter at once,
> so I can see that my joy and pain are one.
>
> Please call me by my true names,
> so I can wake up and the door of my heart could be left open,
> the door of compassion.
>
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