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this weekend’s conference
what an inspiring conference. about forty leaders and technologists in my buddhist sangha are here to discuss the technology needs for our international organization. we have folks here from england, germany, the netherlands, california, texas, montreal, halifax and british columbia, and from all over north america. what’s inspiring the most to me is to have so many seasoned meditators in discussion, argument, negotiation, and reflection. any group of this size could easily degenerate into stuck opinions or factions or digressions. but we’ve kept it together amazingly well. Is that rude to have such a low expectation for a working group of this size? or is that wisdom? but it’s been wonderful.
the best quote of the weekend about collaboration, by mary whetsell, “i’ve heard that engineers like to solve problems. therefore, they tend to prefer their solutions.”
mostly we’ve been reviewing proposals and completed work to our international web site, membership database, email systems, and how we’re reaching people now and plan to in the future. the basic kung fu is to improve communication in all directions. Not a new problem for any organization of any size. ours has about 10,000 core members and probably 100,000 people regularly participating in meditation programs and buddhism classes internationally. and it’s growing.
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17. November 2006 at 1:18 pm :
Dear owlmonkey, I was taking a break from writing and typed in “see old apple ads” into google. Your site popped up. It was completely fortuitous, as you know how little your site has to do with previous apple ads. I enjoyed reading your thoughts. I am a big fan of Adyashanti, someone you had mentioned in an entry. In addition, I just finished DIAMOND IN YOUR POCKET by Gangaji. It’s nice to know that there are like minded people in cyber space. Take good care. Truly Yours, Lawrence
17. November 2006 at 5:58 pm :
Thanks for taking the time to write and connect!