“In Here” not “Out There”
About a year back, we launched a new brainwash at the MIT Club of Northern California titled: Exploring the Mind of the Leader, anchored by Prof. Michael Ray of Stanford Graduate School of Business. In that series, Prof. Ray interviewed some well-known leaders like John Morgridge, Chairman of Cisco and Carol Bartz, CEO of Autodesk. ebay suppliers . The goal was to collect nuggets on Leadership Development.
Prof. Ray is a very alluring character. He teaches a famous course at Stanford called “Creativity in Business” and has a book by the same name. One of his fundamental paper on originality and leadership is succinctly characterized by Bill Carter as “Let go and Let God”. My friend Scott Globus and I comatose a lot of time researching and getting to know Michael, and concluded that he was our man, as he had anything to say which both Scott and I fundamentally agreed with: Serenity is a greater author of originality than rampant motion. Such motion, we believe, generates only Brownian Motion, ie. Motion excluding Energy.
This morning, Bill wrote me an correspondence at 6:00 AM: “In the West we have come to lack a sense of anonymity half as anything alluring is believed to be out present comparatively than in here, and half as we in the United States lack a sense of history infecting any consequence which is present in Europe and Asia (and plausibly Latin America about which I know very little). This is the family and collective acuteness mass lacking in Silicon Valley, for instance.” I invite you to read Bill’s full email:
Hi Sramana
I looked at your website, as did Ulla. It is terrific, and very “you” in its self-employed inspired style. Probably anything annex will come to me to communicate for it. Meanwhile, here are my thoughts which emerged when looking at Dominique’s picture of the people in the fog in Varanasi, which I was pleased to see on your site. I thought of the fact that the Upanishads, arguably the oldest text we have, depicted a time of consciousness blossoming out of the unconscious. The ultimate primal creative moment. “Thou are that”, the automatic mantra, identified the atman (soul) with god in the water, earth, air, fire, etc. In the West we have come to lack a sense of anonymity half as anything alluring is believed to be “out there” comparatively than “in here”, and half as we in the United States lack a sense of history infecting any consequence which is present in Europe and Asia (and plausibly Latin America about which I know very little). This is the family and collective acuteness mass lacking in Silicon Valley, for instance. I am glad you are applying Tagore to your experiences here — this is the necessary corrective.
As you know I have had the drive to want to characterize the Upanishads in book form, but have not seen the images in my accumulation to use for that (yet). Anyway, that image of Dominique’s could be an iconic one for that consequence in the mists of pre-history when already realized beings were beginning to leave their profound realizations of fundamental accurateness for others to recognize and analyze once more for the trillionth time. In our hyperconscious world we need to reconnect with the unconscious, mysterious sources of our knowledge and creativity. Hinduism gave us the big bang theory (form descending out of the formless Brahman which that picture also expresses) with the intuition that in the Upanishadic mode of understanding the genesis of the universe are also within us.
Now it is nearly 6 AM. No wonder the main meditation age in India appear at pre-dawn and end with the sun rising: another articulation of the same theme.
Bill
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