The contrary of brainstorming
OST is the contrary of brainstorming.
:- Doug.
What is the work of conversation? It is bringing us back together. It is finding and creating our together—past, present, and possible.
:- Doug.
Archive for November, 2013
Each of us Indra’s Net
Each of us
humans in being is Indra’s Net you do not know this metaphor of old Hindustan? See a bejeweled fisher’s net standing in form of arms and legs, heart a-beating, imagination, a center of erotic vigor, dreams residing everywhere
each jewel reflecting
all the others not only in your net but all the others’ others
quantumly
look into this
ruby emerald jasper sapphire and see tears hugs loneliness full and empty solitude silence song dance family around the dying bed and the birthing bed rich panoply of languages
all is possible in Indra’s Net in your Indra’s Net have you watched all the dreams? Have you looked into and through each jewel into and through each of the ten thousand other potentials opening?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1373–The day the tulip tree died
Footprints in the Windsm # 1373
The day the tulip tree died
I heard no sound
I looked and it was down
It kindly avoided with its 90 feet
Just feet away the building in which I stood
Another day will hold the work of clearing
For this day a silent kind of mourning
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Tentacles
We have a world made up of separated pieces of one. Perhaps we only think we are separate, and don’t look to see where we are each and all attached tentacles.
:- Doug.
A wonder
It is necessary to have others. We cannot give without some separation, yet we are all one. A wonder. We are not simply alike, but one. We are not giving to ourselves or because we gain. We want to give. We like to give. We love to give…and give to love.
:- Doug.
We need others
We need others
To be whole
If you’re not whole
I’m not whole
Attend:
It is necessary to
Give
:- Doug.
Hear the bedrock
Connect, connect
to the underlying
hear the bedrock
moving carrying
four deer loping
birds darting
across a grey sky
:- Doug.
You try to hold yourself apart
You try to hold yourself apart
From others
To that extent
You are in a
Dying culture
:- Doug.
something to learn, take in
The more I see the conversation of all
The less I read professional journals
During the boring sessions of seminars
There are no boring sessions
And all is lively juicy conversing
Not something to learn, take in
But something happening in which to
Participate
:- Doug.
Why do we say such things?
The world is larger than we see
Why do we say such things?
Science is looking for the smaller
The tiny building blocks
Muons, quarks, strings
And finding instead
Stuff is 99% space!
Amazingly we look at the universe
Spread out before our night eyes
And wonder: What more?
What holds it all together?
What in us seeks this overall
Control?
:- Doug.
Demented, fermented and circumvented:
Demented, fermented and circumvented: but still very much alive!
:- Doug.
Who asks for Open Space?
Who, never having seen Open Space Technology, asks for it? But I think those who have trouble thinking, like everyone, are starving for touch, conversation with or without words, music, engagement. How many never have visitors? 75%?
:- Doug.
Bedrock is emerging
Bedrock is emerging
Beneath our feet
We don’t have to put it there
—Cannot
Trust!
:- Doug.
trust that there is support when we give up control
Open space means we trust that there is a support when we give up control. It is then that the real security emerges.
:- Doug.
Holding hands
Holding hands
A glance exchanged
Hugging
A walk together in the autumn leaves
A touch
Humming along in a group with an old song
Playing tic-tac-toe
Many the ways we converse
:- Doug.
all around
G is all around
nourishing this place
bringing down autumn leaves
softening the earth
…“It” is raining!
:- Doug.
Inviting Imagining In-gathering
The work of each human is Inviting Imagining In-gathering:
Inviting others to the conversation of life
Imaging what can be and what else can be
In-gathering of each other
For the family of humankind
:- Doug.
Let’s ask some good questions!
OK folks:
Let’s ask some good questions!
Let’s make good things happen!
:- Doug.
