I’m writing this from Baja at the Modern Elder Academy, a one week intensive programme led masterfully by Chip Conley and Jeff Hamaoui.
Reflecting on the power of building close trust and collaboration in a group and what emerges from that.
In a session yesterday, Chip riffed on the power of presence, and that in our uber-connected world we often have our faces in our phones and that is absence.
One of the parts of the week long gift of this immersion is daily morning meditation. Chip then referenced this by noting that Meditation helps us not be absent.
It hit me :
Meditation is the absence of absence.
I then shared that with one of our compadres, Jeanne, who said “hey, a koan”, which google tells me is :
“a paradoxical anecdote or riddle, used in Zen Buddhism to demonstrate the inadequacy of logical reasoning and to provoke enlightenment.”
The more we think, the less we know.
The more we are in our head, the less we use our heart to find wisdom
Feeling a sense of being enlightened I can take back into the world in my leadership,
