{"id":83,"date":"2006-08-15T18:24:37","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T06:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unfoldingleadership.com\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2010-09-28T14:22:11","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T21:22:11","slug":"washing-my-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unfoldingleadership.com\/blog\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Washing My Face"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hear Dan read this post.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

We all want to know where the point of trans\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtion lies. I would say it is in \u201cno space,\u201d the place we come to after exhaust\u00ading every\u00adthing we know\u2026and every\u00adthing we are, a point of pure med\u00adi\u00adta\u00adtion. The cur\u00adrent the\u00ado\u00adry base, exem\u00adpli\u00adfied by Otto Scharmer\u2019s \u201cThe\u00ado\u00adry U\u201d<\/a>, sug\u00adgests exact\u00adly this process of emp\u00adty\u00ading our\u00adselves of every\u00adthing known so that we can lis\u00adten to a best future Self, a source of deep intu\u00aditive wis\u00addom. (Check out the \u201cPub\u00adli\u00adca\u00adtions\u201d sec\u00adtion of his web\u00adsite for great down\u00adloads, includ\u00ading a short \u201cmini\u2011U\u201d expe\u00adri\u00adence on video.) Scharmer describes the bot\u00adtom of the U as where we touch a larg\u00ader field that goes beyond our present aware\u00adness, a place of new insight and new con\u00adscious\u00adness that enables us to solve the prob\u00adlems we have been stuck by using our cur\u00adrent, more lim\u00adit\u00aded awareness.<\/p>\n

What he presents is both a beau\u00adti\u00adful new mod\u00adel and an exquis\u00adite\u00adly old one. Those of you famil\u00adiar with labyrinths<\/a> know them as a pro\u00adfound spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal tool of unknown antiq\u00adui\u00adty, a tool that is still emi\u00adnent\u00adly vital and provoca\u00adtive as a way to access inner wis\u00addom. It is at the cen\u00adter<\/a> of the labyrinth, metaphor\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly the bot\u00adtom of the U, where aware\u00adness is born, the seed of a new way of being. Once the seed is grasped, doors unlock, and a trans\u00adformed way of liv\u00ading may arrive, grad\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly over time, or in an instant. The \u201cprocess\u201d of walk\u00ading a forty foot wide labyrinth is decep\u00adtive\u00adly sim\u00adple: 1) Wait for the readi\u00adness to enter; 2) walk for\u00adward, just fol\u00adlow\u00ading the path \u2014 this is not a maze \u2014 sequen\u00adtial\u00adly let\u00adting go of the past and sur\u00adren\u00adder\u00ading to new knowl\u00adedge; 3) humbly wel\u00adcome insight at the cen\u00adter; and 4) return to the world, reflect\u00ading on the how your world is chang\u00ading. Near where I live is a labyrinth that I walk some\u00adtimes. In the cen\u00adter is a mound of shells and a sim\u00adple stone bench. Like past lives that have served well and are now gone, the shells at the cen\u00adter remind me how I am often faced with grief, and in turn, in touch with these feel\u00adings, I am also able to rec\u00adog\u00adnize my splin\u00adtered but real whole\u00adness. If I can\u00adnot expe\u00adri\u00adence the grief, then I can\u00adnot also remem\u00adber the rich\u00adness of my life and that fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal whole\u00adness. But when that sense does come, the answers often come with it.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Like many, I am supreme\u00adly inter\u00adest\u00aded in the cen\u00adter of this lotus blos\u00adsom, the point of aware\u00adness, the place to wait<\/em> and to receive<\/em>. The place, as Otto Scharmer would say, where we touch the larg\u00ader field. Ah, and what is the larg\u00ader field? I am reduced (and expand\u00aded) to speak\u00ading in metaphors: a sum\u00admer mead\u00adow, per\u00adhaps, where I kneel down and ask as the poet, Mary Oliv\u00ader,<\/a> asks: \u201cTell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and pre\u00adcious life?\u201d Or per\u00adhaps it is sim\u00adply a dark mir\u00adror before which a sin\u00adgle can\u00addle burns \u2014 come clos\u00ader to view your own true fea\u00adtures. Or maybe it is as many sug\u00adgest, the flower<\/a> twirled in the hands of the Buddha.<\/p>\n

Per\u00adhaps we can nev\u00ader know exact\u00adly what the place of true trans\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtion is, a space as close to us as our own breath and yet, depend\u00ading on our cir\u00adcum\u00adstances and suf\u00adfer\u00ading, one that may seem hun\u00addreds of miles away. Liv\u00ading\u00adSource may be one of its names. Well, what\u00adev\u00ader you want to call it, I would say it is what holds us in the depth of this remark\u00adable Uni\u00adverse. It is<\/em> that depth, no less. A pat\u00adtern of some kind? Or the end of pat\u00adterns? An open palm? A riv\u00ader in which to wash my Face.<\/p>\n

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Hear Dan read this post. We all want to know where the point of trans\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtion lies. I would say it is in \u201cno space,\u201d the place we come to after exhaust\u00ading every\u00adthing we know\u2026and every\u00adthing we are, a point of pure med\u00adi\u00adta\u00adtion. The cur\u00adrent the\u00ado\u00adry base, exem\u00adpli\u00adfied by Otto Scharmer\u2019s \u201cThe\u00ado\u00adry U\u201d, sug\u00adgests exact\u00adly this\u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading Wash\u00ading My Face<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,27,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness","category-transformation","category-wounds","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unfoldingleadership.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unfoldingleadership.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unfoldingleadership.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unfoldingleadership.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unfoldingleadership.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.unfoldingleadership.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/www.unfoldingleadership.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unfoldingleadership.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unfoldingleadership.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unfoldingleadership.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}