Chapter 1 ~ Shareholder, Employee, Customer: The Basic Triad
As in the Foreword, I read directly from the book as well as comment. There are pauses along the way so be patient, please.
Foreward
I go in and out reading text from the book to adding my own comments. The image is of my own notes from summarizing this highly dense foreword. It is helping me make sense not only of the whole book but also how to present this in a limited timeline.
Coming Upon Reality
“What has meaning is the coming upon Reality and from there, living in society, living in this world, then there is beauty & love–otherwise, there is nothing.” Jiddu Krishnamurti To me, this is what it feels like after meditating on a challenge. It feels like something substantial has happened. When he says “coming upon reality,” …
Chapter 8–Conflict and Growth
September 10th, 2020 ~ I attended the first of 4 classes of a course on Mindfulness in the Workplace. It is based on Marc Lesser’s book “7 Practices of a Mindful Leader.” I began to journal–that was one of the assignments along with reading the first part of the book. I am quite familiar with …
Krishnamurti Online Retreat with Mukesh Gupta
The past 6 days, I attended a 6 day online retreat. We met everyday at 430pm til 630pm. It was organized by the Krishnamurti Foundation in Vancouver British Vancouver. The guest leader was Mukesh Gupta. He woke every morning in India at 430am and led us. I was hesitant to join, partly because I …
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~ To learn Buddhist logic or philosophy as an academic subject would be a waste of time to any but the professional philosopher, particularly where that philosophy is made available by Western classical scholars steeped as they are in process thinking. What is suggested is that we rediscover the complementary discipline as a Western discipline, …
Love, I Assure You, Is Passion
April 26th ~ You cannot be sensitive if you are not passionate. Do not be afraid of that word passion. Most religious books, most gurus, swamis, leaders, and all the rest of them say, “Don’t have passion.” But if you have no passion, how can you be sensitive to the ugly, to the beautiful, to …