Learning Organisation

Learning organisations are possible because, deep down, we are all learners. No one has to teach an infant to learn.In fact no one has to teach infants anything. They are intrinsically inquisitive, masterful learnerswho learn to walk, speak, and pretty much run their households all on their own.Learning organisations are possible because not only is it in our nature to learn but we love to learn. Most of us at one time or another have been part of a great team, a group of people who functioned together in an extraordinary way - who trusted one another, who complemented one another's strengths and compensated for one another's limitations, who had common goals that were larger than individual goals, and who produced extraordinary results. I have met people who have experienced this sort of profound teamwork - in sports , or in performing arts, or in business.Many say that they have spent much of their life looking for that experience again.What they experienced was a learning organisation.The team that became great did not start off great - it learned how to produce extraordinary results.

DEATH

You would know the secret of death.
But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?
The owl whose night bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light.
If you would indeed behold the spirit of death , open your heart wide unto the body of life.
For life and death are one , even as the river and the sea are one.
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For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

Reason and Passion

Your reason and your passion are your rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.

If either your sails or your rudder be broken , you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid - seas.

For reason , ruling alone , is a force confining; and passion , unattended , is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

Therefoe , let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion , that it may sing;

And let it direct your passionwith reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

Joy and Sorrow

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
And how else can it be?
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?

GIVING

You often say ,"I would give but only to the deserving"
The trees in your ochard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.
They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
Surely he who is worthy to recieve his days and his nights , is worthy of all else from you.
And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream.
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NOW

To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life.It is recognising what is primary .then you can deal with what is secondary with great ease. It is not saying , "I'm not dealing with things anymore because there is only the Now". No. Find what is primary first and make the Now into your friend, not your enemy.Acknowledge it, honor it . When the Now is the foundation and primary focus of your life , then your life unfolds with ease.

This Moment

This one moment - Now - is the only thing you can never escape from, the one constant factor in your life.No matter what happens , no matter how much your life changes , one thing is certain ; it's always Now.
Since there is no excape from Now , why not welcome it, become friendly with it?
When you make friends with the present moment , you feel at home no matter where you are.When you don't feel at home in the Now , no matter where you go , you will carry unease with you.

seeking

The egoic self is always engaged in seeking.It is seeking more of this or that to add to itself, to make itself feel more complete.This explains the ego's compulsive preoccupation with future.

Whenever you become aware of yourself "living for the next moment" you have already stepped out pf that egoic mind pattern , and the possibility of choosing to give your full attention to this moment arises simultaneously.

By giving your full attention to this moment, an intelligence far greater than the egoic mind enters your life.

Need to oppose

Built into the very stucture of the egoic self is a need to oppose , resist , and exclude to maintain the sense of seperateness on which its continued survival depends.So there is "me" against the "other" , "us" against "them".

The Egoic Self

In your dealings with people , can you detect subtle feelings of either superiority or inferiority toward them?You are looking at ego , which lives through comparison.

Envy is a by-product of the ego, which feels diminished if something good happens to someone else, or someone has more, knows more, or can do more than you. The ego's identity depends on comparison and feeds on more . It will grasp at anything, If all fails , you can strenghten your ficticious sense of self through seeing yourself as more unfairly treated by life or more ill than someone else.

What are the stories , the fiction from which you derive your sense of self?

The Truth

The Truth is far more all - encompassing than the mind could ever comprehend. No thought can encapsulate the Truth. At best , it can point to it. For example , it can say " All things are intrinsically one" That is a pointer , not an explanation.Understanding these words means feeling deep within you the truth to which they point.

Beyond thinkinking mind

Artistic creation,sports,dance,teaching,counseling - mastery in any field of endeavor implies that the thinking mind is either no longer involved at all or at least is taking second place.A power and intelligence greater than you and yet one with you in essence takes over.There is no decision -making process anymore; spontaneous right action happens , and "you" are not doing it. Mastery of life is opposite of control.You become aligned with the greater consciousness. 'It' acts,speaks,does the works.

Spitritual awakening

Spiritual awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.

when you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is.You don't want to be where you are. Here,Now.

still alertness

When you become aware of silence ,immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have steppedout of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.

Look ar a tree , a flower, a plant.Let your awareness rest upon it.How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being.Allow nature to teach you stillness.

suffering

Is suffering necessary? Ye and no.

If you had not suffered as you have ,there would be no depth to you as a human being , no humility, no compassion. You would not be reading this now.Suffering cracks open the shell of ego , and then comes a point when it has served its purpose.Suffering is necessary untill you realise it is unnecessary.

spiritual practice

If you can recognise , even occassionaly the thoughts that go through your mind as simply thoughts , if you can witness your own mental- emotional reactive patterns as they happen , then that dimension is already emerging in you as the awareness in which thoughts and emotions happen - the timeless inner space in which the content of your life unfolds.

The stream of thi9nking has enormous moment

Beyond the thinking mind

Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts.They never go beyond a narrow , mind made , personalised sense of self that is conditioned by the past.

In you , as in each human being , there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are .We may call it presence,awareness, the unconditioned consciousness.In the ancient teachings it is the Christ within or your Buddha nature.

Finding that dimension frees you and the world from the suffering you inflict on yourself and others when the mind made " little me"is all you know and runs your life.

Silence and stillness

When you look at a tree or a human being in stillness, who is looking? Something deeper than the person. Consciousness is looking at its creation.

Do you need more knowledge ? Is more information going to save the world, or faster computers, more scientific or intellectual analysis? Is it not wisdom that humanity needs most at this time?

But what is wisdom and where is it to be found? Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still , looking and lostening activates the nonconceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.

STILLNESS SPEAKS

Is stillness just the absence of noise and content?No, it is intelligence itself - the underlying consciousnessout of which every form is born.And how could that be seperate from who you are?

The form that you think you are came out of that is being sustained by it.

It is the essence of of all galaxies and blades of grass; of all flowers , trees, birds and all other forms.

Prevailing System of Management

Prevailing system of Management as DEMMING understood it late in his life why so few Mangers seem to be able to implement real QUALITY Management as he concieved it.
Management by measurement
focusing on short term metrics
devaluing intangibles
(you can only measure 3% of what matters - WE Demming)
Compliance based Cultures
getting ahead by pleasing the boss
Management by fear
Managing outcomes
Management set targets
people are held accountable for meeting Management targets ( regardless of whether they are possible within the existing system and processes)
Right answers Vs Wrong answers
Technical problem solving is emphasised
Diverging ( systemic) problems are discounted
Uniformity
Diversity is a problem to be solved
Conflict is supressed in favor of superficial agreement
Predictability and controlability
To manage is to control
The 'holy trnity of management' is planning , organising,controlling.
Excessive Competitiveness and distrust
competition between people is essential to achieve desired performance
without competion between people there is no innovation
(we have been sold down the river by competition - W E Demming)
Loss of the whole
Fragmentation
local innovations do not spread

The fifth discipline Peter Senge

I believe that the prevailing system of management is at its core dedicated to mediocrity. It forces people to work harder and harder to compensate for failing to tap the spirit and collective intelligence that charachterises working together at their best

Disillusion

Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people.People are born with intrinsic motivation,self respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.The forces of destruction begin toddlers - aprize for the best Halloween costume, grades in school , gold stars - and on up through University. On the job, people, teams and divisions are ranked, reward for the top , punishment for the bottom. management by objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plan put together seperately division by division, causes further loss , unknown and unknowable .

W E Demming

coincidence

THERE ARE NO COINCIDENCE AND NOTHING HAPPENS BY ACCIDENT . EACH EVENT AND ADVENTURE IS CALLED TO YOURSELF BY YOUR SELF IN ORDER THAT YOU MIGHT CREATE AND EXPERIENCE WHO YOU REALLY ARE.
YOU ARE THE CREATOR OF YOUR REALITY AND LIFECAN SHOW UP NO OTHER WAY FOR YOUTHANTHAT WAYIN WHICH YOU THINK IT WILL.
YOUR THOUGHT IS THE PARENT WHICH GIVES BIRTH TO ALL THINGS.
YOU CAN BE , DO AND HAVE WHATEVER YOU CAN IMAGINE.
THOUGHT IS CREATIVE.

trail

Know that what you do in the time of your greatest trial can be your greatest triumph. For the experience you create is a statement of who you are - and who you want to be.

create yourself

you are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore not to find out who you are,seek to determine who you want to be.
There is only one purpose for all of life, and that is for all that lives to experience fullest glory.

Loving

You have been taught to live in fear. You have been told about the survival of the fittest,the victory of the strongest and the sucess of the cleverest. Precious little is said about the glory of the most loving.
Love is the energy which expands,opens up,sendsout,stays,reveals,shares,heals.

Dichotomy of God

your will for you is God's will for you.

You are living your life the way you are living your life, and I have no preference in the matter.

This is the grand illussion in which you have engaged,that God cares one way or the other what you do.

I have given you free will - the power to do as you choose, and I will never take that away from you, ever.

It is this dichotomy- not caring deeply about the process but caring about the result - that comes close to describing the dichotomy of God.

Yet God in a sense does not even care about the outcome.Not the ultimate outcome.The ultimate outcome is assured.

Thank Me

When you thank Me in advance for that which you choose to experience in your reality, you in effect, acknowledge that it is there --in effect.
The correct prayer is therefore never a prayer of supplication,but a prayer of GRATITUDE,

Experience

The result of your not listening to your experience is that you keep re living it over and over again. For My purpose will not be thwarted ,nor will My will be ignored.You will get my message sooner or later.

wanting

You will not have that for which you ask , nor will can you have anything you want. This is because your very request is a statement of lack and your saying you want a thing works to produce that precise experience - wanting - in your reality