Learning to live in open space in all the moments of our lives (was Causing Trouble/Digging Heals)

[Chris Corrigan]

Sometimes, I whisper behind my hand to people I know and trust, that hosting
an Open Space event is a form of meditation, in the same way that practicing
a martial art is a form of meditation.  It is tat cultivation of inner
stillness within outward motion, as a way of embodying exactly what is
happening within the gathering itself where inner stillness somehow hangs
together within the whirling motion of the marketplace.

When I am holding space, I often have the sensation of thoughts arising that
can be posted on a board and left there for th egroup to resolve.  Thoughts
of control in particular are best burned off by the self-organization in the
room.  And if they aren't burned off then it isn't long before a participant
comes along and asks a question that helps me burn them off further.

A friend f mine, a yogi, shared with me the insight that everything is yoga,
that yoga is simply the mindful awareness of the body in the world.  I feel
the familiarity in that.

Chris

On 3/25/07, Raffi Aftandelian <raffi at bk.ru> wrote:
>
> Dear Robyn,
>
> Thank you for sharing onlist about living in OS.  That was a great
> story!
>
> It really spoke to me because an apparently unrelated question came to
> me today unexpectedly:
>
> What would a meditation with a conscious open space essence look like?
>
> What would the form of a meditation with a conscious open space
> form look like?
>
> In other words how would the elements of os's form, the circle, the
> opening, bulletin board, the marketplace, etc. be reflected in one's
> meditation method?
>
> Or do the essential ingredients of the form of any meditation already
> contain them?
>
> Or is that even necessary?
>
> If OST strips down how humans get work done to the essential conditions
> for
> right doing, then -extrapolating from the language of Harrison's Spirit
> book
> -the elements of form of the method should offer guideposts to the form
> of a meditation that would allow for the essential mythos ("the right
> story") to emerge, out of which would follow the liturgy ("what people
> do").
>
> Or do many forms of meditation already do that?
>
> Warmly,
> Raffi
> San Diego, USA
>
> www.openspaceworld.ru
> skype: raffi_1970
>
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CHRIS CORRIGAN
Facilitation - Training
Open Space Technology

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