The Tao of Open Space

[Kate Armstrong]

Hello, Frank, and welcome to OS and the OS listserv! I am looking  
forward to many postings of wisdom (your own as well as others you  
share) from you. As I shared the Access Queen's training session with  
you, it's wonderful to be able to visualize you in my mind's eye as  
well as "hear" your voice. May you gain here as much as you give. ;-)

Appreciatively,
Kate

"The best way to predict the future is to create it now, together."


On Dec 23, 2005, at 4:28 PM, Frank Deitle wrote:

> Hello Open Space Cadettes!
> I'm new to the OSLIST and new to OST as well. I just did my first OS  
> with Lisa Heft this month and what can I say... I'm completely  
> obsessed.
> Someone must have made the connection between OS and the Tao Te Ching  
> before on this list but I was just re-reading Stephen Mitchell's  
> version of it today and wow! Especially "wow" is when I replaced the  
> word "Tao" with "Open Space" and the word "Master" with "Facilitator."  
> Try these on for fun:
>  
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> The Open Space that can be told is not the eternal Open Space.
>  
> Therefore the Facilitator acts without doing anything and teaches  
> without saying anything.
> Things arise and she lets them come; things disappear and she lets  
> them go.
> She has but doesn't posses, acts but doesn't expect.
>  
> The Open Space is like a well: used but never used up.
> It is like the eternal void: filled with infinite possibilities.
>  
> The Open Space doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both good and  
> evil.
> The Facilitator doesn't take sides; she welcomes both saints and  
> sinners.
>  
> The Open Space is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable.
> The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it,  
> the less you understand.
>  
> It is always present within you.
> You can use it any way you want.
>  
> When the Facilitator governs, the people are hardly aware that he  
> exists.
> Next best is a leader who is loved.
> Next, one who is feared.
> The worst is one who is despised.
>  
> If you don't trust the people, you make them untrustworthy.
>  
> The Facilitator doesn't talk, he acts.
> When his work is done, the people say, "Amazing: we did it, all by  
> ourselves!"
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>  
> Peace,
> Frank Deitle
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