Conscious Space
Project: Polytopia

Meet Gangaji, who speaks about silence and space and writes in Hidden Treasure:

Naturally we have been thrilled to realize that we can choose to live a different story, one we feel more in alignment with. There is yet another choice. We have the capacity to take a moment and release all stories. We can experience what it means to be nobody, uncovered even by our primary identity.

Underneath all the stories, we can experience that deep core of ourselves that is historyless, genderless, and parentless. Naked. That presence is unencumbered by relationships and has no past and no future. In the core of our beingness we are free of definitions. Unencumbered by our definitions we experience ourselves as conscious intelligence aware of itself as open, endless space. This instant of being storyless is an instant of freedom. For even if our story is filled with light and beauty, to the degree that we define ourselves through that story, we are less free.

After such a moment, stories are never the same. They can be present, as they most likely will be, but they no longer have the inherent power to define our reality.

Enjoy the invitation to become conscious of what is always here, while Gangaji teaches us nothing, in 8 minutes video of Satsang, (Sanskrit सत्सङ्ग sat = true, sanga = company), a call to the collective space of refuge, this heart of space.

Thu, Jan 3, 2013  Permanent link
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If we are only teaching what we know...
Project: Polytopia, The Total Library

... our children can only do as bad as we are doing, and this is the challenge we are facing - we have to go beyond it. — Gunter Pauli

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Forget about the fact that while we were doing in the past the right way is going to bring us to the future.
It is not
and this is one of the biggest lessons we have
as parents, we want our kids to be better
and here is a picture of my little baby
and my two sons
we always want it to be better but that means that we have to create the space of our children
can invent, develop new pathways to the future
Because if we are only teaching what we know
our children can only do as bad as we are doing
and this is the challenge we are facing
we have to go beyond it.

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My quest today is to see how can we design a new competitive model
a business model based on sustainability whereby we define sustainability
as the capacity to respond to the needs of all with what we have
and that's the way natural systems do it all the time
the past twenty years we've been doing things…
that we thought were the normal way to do it
but it was an economy that was based on what we did not have
and so what do we have?
well, first of all we have a lot of needs
and since there are so many unmet needs for water, for food, for healthcare, for housing
there is a growing demand, even at a time of a recession
and we have the science to develop it
so much of the science is available
and we don't use it, it gets buried
so how do we achieve a sustainable society?
we achieve a sustainable society when first of all, we think positive
that's what this conference is all about
think positive
second, learn creatively
and third, if any one of you thinks this meeting is a success
it is because when you go out of this meeting you do something
too many meetings are talk shops
too much talking, no action
dream it, don't do it
that's unfortunately what we hear too often
so my work today, is very much focusing on doing all of this at once

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More from Gunter Pauli's TEDxTokyo talk, with full transcript on http://dotsub.com

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Categories: introduction, science, thrivability, future Polytopia, visionary, learning, education, sustainability
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