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 <[email protected]> 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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