thanks for this julie. and yes! i think the gift of open space sometimes (always?) is the opportunity to look into what is. to deal with it directly, rather than playing cat and mouse with its shadows. when the someone, leader, manager, or community participant like ted and the peace movement, says something that *is* in the invitation, it opens the space for others to address it direclty. i *thnk* we are more and more ready to be direct. heartening, and still challenging, these not separate either! <grin>
m Julie Smith wrote:
Awesome, as always, Michael..... let me pick up on one thin strand. You said: springing from healing, related by etymology and by varela to what might be called 'wholing'... it seems important that any study would embody (i love that word, peggy) a state of no separation between those studying and those being studied. springing from what glory says, i think it's essential that ost be studied from *within*. <<< My recent reading has included Krishnamurti, who speaks passionately about dissolving that separation (within ourselves) between observer and observed. When we separate those two aspects of ourselves (the part observing separated from the part being observed), then we are, by definition, separated. Inwardly, we've separated ourselves into two aspects: the observer and the observed. The choice to perceive an observer separate from the observed necessarily removes us from the being/acting space of Oneness we keep talking about, and so we find ourselves being/acting from a place of separation. One learning for me was a deeper understanding of that elusive Oneness. Krishnamurti helped me grasp a little more deeply concepts of acceptance, nonresistance, and deeply entering into the Now (as he says, the "what is") as necessary attributes to radical transformation of our lives. He helped me see that entering deeply into "what is" means entering it exactly as it is, without attempting to hide from, change, improve, or sanitize the "what is." Interestingly, Krishnamurti also speaks at length about conflict. He teaches that separation necessarily results in conflict, which means our personal decision to dissolve that separation between observer and observed is necessary to transcend conflict. This seems consistent with all that Harrison and others have said about OST and conflict. OST invites an individual/group state of being and acting that approaches that space of inner and outer Oneness. In giving permission for each individual to honestly and openly express "what is" from their point of view (to reach a state of inner Oneness), the group comes closer to a collective state of inner/outer Oneness, which results in that dissolving of conflict that Harrison has talked about. Or something like that. Julie * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
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