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background-color:> "Frank Deitle" <commoikos@gmail.com> schrieb:
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<div>Hello Open Space Cadettes!</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div>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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<div>The Open Space that can be told is not the eternal Open Space.</div>
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<div>Therefore the Facilitator acts without doing anything and teaches without saying anything.</div>
<div>Things arise and she lets them come; things disappear and she lets them go.</div>
<div>She has but doesn't posses, acts but doesn't expect.</div>
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<div>The Open Space is like a well: used but never used up.</div>
<div>It is like the eternal void: filled with infinite possibilities.</div>
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<div>The Open Space doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil.</div>
<div>The Facilitator doesn't take sides; she welcomes both saints and sinners.</div>
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<div>The Open Space is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable.</div>
<div>The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand.</div>
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<div>It is always present within you.</div>
<div>You can use it any way you want.</div>
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<div>When the Facilitator governs, the people are hardly aware that he exists.</div>
<div>Next best is a leader who is loved.</div>
<div>Next, one who is feared.</div>
<div>The worst is one who is despised.</div>
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<div>If you don't trust the people, you make them untrustworthy.</div>
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<div>The Facilitator doesn't talk, he acts.</div>
<div>When his work is done, the people say, "Amazing: we did it, all by ourselves!"</div>
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<div>Peace,</div>
<div>Frank Deitle</div>* *
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