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<br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-01-07 17:27 GMT+01:00 Harrison Owen via OSList <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Sitting the Question is a wonderful approach, I've found. No rushing off to<br>
find the "answer" -- but just relish the question. Odd sounding, I guess,<br>
but my experience has been that if you sit the question, all those "answers"<br>
you first came up with look pretty trivial. And to cover another base -- One<br>
way of describing what "holding space" might be is that we are "sitting the<br>
question" for the whole crowd.<br>
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And oh... by the way, I guess a degree of senility helps.<br>
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Dear HO,<br>
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I am asking a question intrigued by "sitting".<br>
How come I tend to find answers to my questions when those asked by me just<br>
sit there and kind of look remote or something?<br>
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cheers<br>
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On 07.01.2016 15:02, Harrison Owen via OSList wrote:<br>
> Bhavesh... I'm sure culture has something to do with the way we<br>
> handle, appreciate questions. But at the end of the day, I suspect it<br>
> has more to do with maturity (some might say antiquity) than culture.<br>
> In West Africa, the Elders' job is to ponder the question. And more<br>
> often than not, their "answer" is another question. Buddhism, in<br>
> various forms seems to find real meaning in "sitting" the question.<br>
> Old and/or mature folks seem to do it "best." Or something.<br>
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> Hey Harold and World,<br>
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> Merry Orthodox Christmas from Moldova where it has been snowing all day!!!<br>
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> Your question triggered a different kind of questionING in me.<br>
> Personally I find questions/inquiry and Rilke's 'Live the questions now'<br>
> approach very useful.<br>
><br>
> *However my increasing sensitivity to culture makes me wonder whether<br>
> this approach works for everybody, or whether it is a cultural thing,<br>
> fitting more an inquiring Western culture? Sometimes do we<br>
> overemphasise this approach, use it in a kind of universal way?*<br>
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> I have my own answers/experiences to the above questions but of course<br>
> won't share them because you asked for questions!<br>
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> Smiles Bhav...<br>
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> p.s. Harold, we met at the WOSonOS in London and talked a bit about<br>
> complexity and Cynefin...<br>
><br>
> On 2 January 2016 at 23:58, Harold Shinsato via OSList<br>
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> Beloved Open Space Community!<br>
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> Instead of sharing New Years Resolutions (which never seemed to have<br>
> worked for me), would you share your New Years Questions? In other<br>
> words, what are the most alive and juicy questions and inquiries you<br>
> might ask the Universe in 2016?<br>
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> As a part of this invitation, I'm specifically *not* asking for<br>
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> these questions in this thread. If you want to ask a question and get<br>
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