Whether it's at the individual or organizational level, we're focused on pathology and use a lot of very negative terms to describe our experience. We hold each another accountable for achievements that are in fact impossible, because we can't pretend that chaos doesn't erupt in our lives and that we have it all figured out. We just can't pretend that. But our organizations insist on that illusion and make us feel badly for not being able to live up to it. These world views converge on us and we're left loathing ourselves and feeling overwhelmed.
Leaders are so afraid of paradox, so afraid of uncertainty.
It takes a lot of bravery even to consider that uncertainty is not a threat, that in fact it's creative and powerful. Yet I also know people have a clear recognition that most of us are good and want to serve others. We know compassion is available in our selves and that we will experience compassion from others. So many people are realizing that the only way to go through this increasingly crazy time is to focus on ourselves not in a narcissistic way, but understanding that the source of peace and the place to find rest is within. The thing that intrigues me is how society and organizations can encourage the things that meditation fosters at the individual level.