Sublime

In my own life, Zen and psychoanalysis have been practiced in tandem now for thirty years. Each continues to challenge, inform, and enrich the perspective of the other.

Alexander and his colleagues were asking people in Crown Heights to bring together a stew of racial and religious factions and create a community with some shared purpose and identity. But his group did not take the crucial step of preparing the participants for what would happen to them as they began to share and learn from each other’s perspectiv

Like everyone else, you have your own default settings: habits of interpreting and responding to events around you. It is essential to know what those default settings are to gain greater latitude and freedom to respond in new and useful ways.

People who lead adaptive change most successfully have a diagnostic mind-set about themselves as well as about the situation. That is, they are continually striving to understand what is going on inside, how they are changing over time, and how they as a system interact with their organization as a system.

We may remain oblivious to the ways in which we have used practice in collusion with our personal—and often neurotic—pursuit of autonomy, emotional invulnerability, or an attempted purgation from ourselves of the longings and desires that leave us open to suffering.

kinesics (body language including facial expression)

“We were looking for smarts and for people who had odd ideas. There was some experimental part to it.”7 Dennis, however, was clear about what he was looking for. He wanted people who had high math aptitude and high ACT (American College Testing) scores. He wanted people with some interest in computers or market methods. Those who worked to systemat