Meditation can take different forms. There is more than one way. The important thing is to pause, be still, practice paying attention, being present and aware, observing what is going on in your “internal landscape: without attaching or reacting to it. Jon Kabat-Zinn, scientist and founder of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, University of Massachusetts, explains:
To explore the interior landscape of the mind and body, the realm of what Chinese Taoism and Chan masters called non-doing, the domain of true meditation, in which it looks as though nothing or nothing much is happening or being done, but at the same time, nothing important is being left undone, and as a consequence, that mysterious energy of an open, aware non-doing can manifest in the world of doing in remarkable ways.
Too often, managers are Human Doers using energy and action to spend themselves in the pursuit of goals, whereas leaders aspire to be full Human Beings seeking the renewal of transcendence to re-create themselves and others in pursuit of service-fueled purpose.
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