Comments on: The middle way of management http://blog.marsdd.com/2007/07/26/the-middle-way-of-management/ The blog about innovation and commercialization in Canada Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:51:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: John Mc http://blog.marsdd.com/2007/07/26/the-middle-way-of-management/#comment-10864 John Mc Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:05:25 +0000 http://blog.marsdd.com/2007/07/26/the-middle-way-of-management/#comment-10864 Thanks Veronika. Our experience of the world and sense of "self" is largely a result of what we think, yet we rarely turn our attention to consciousness itself. To use an analogy, it is almost like a physician who decides they will not learn anything anatomy, physiology or pharmacology before practicing medicine. Consciousness is the last great frontier! John Thanks Veronika.

Our experience of the world and sense of “self” is largely a result of what we think, yet we rarely turn our attention to consciousness itself.

To use an analogy, it is almost like a physician who decides they will not learn anything anatomy, physiology or pharmacology before practicing medicine.

Consciousness is the last great frontier!

John

]]> By: Veronika @ MaRS http://blog.marsdd.com/2007/07/26/the-middle-way-of-management/#comment-10686 Veronika @ MaRS Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:55:26 +0000 http://blog.marsdd.com/2007/07/26/the-middle-way-of-management/#comment-10686 It is quite fascinating but intuitively not surprising that "meditator’s" brains are most suitable for high growth industries. To succeed in those highly unpredictable environments, an ability to recognize subtle patterns ought to be advantageous. Method of meditation is integrative by definition, and it gives a practitioner a new perspective on a familiar set of facts. I am most familiar with Advaita Vedanta, a 5000-year-old teaching of non-duality (for curious, a fun definition of this fundamental philosophy is here: http://www.advaita.org.uk/discourses/definitions/advaita.htm). Richard Davidson’s findings indicate that “meditation is the mental training involved in temporal integrative mechanisms and may induce short-term and long-term neural changesâ€?. Could it be that meditation is an important evolutionary tool that propelled our brains into the technocratic civilization of today? A related question: does the information flood produced by our highly distracting culture impede our ability to meditate? For further discussion, see: http://blog.marsdd.com/2007/02/21/have-humans-stopped-evolving/#comments It is quite fascinating but intuitively not surprising that “meditator’s” brains are most suitable for high growth industries. To succeed in those highly unpredictable environments, an ability to recognize subtle patterns ought to be advantageous.

Method of meditation is integrative by definition, and it gives a practitioner a new perspective on a familiar set of facts.

I am most familiar with Advaita Vedanta, a 5000-year-old teaching of non-duality (for curious, a fun definition of this fundamental philosophy is here: http://www.advaita.org.uk/discourses/definitions/advaita.htm). Richard Davidson’s findings indicate that “meditation is the mental training involved in temporal integrative mechanisms and may induce short-term and long-term neural changes�. Could it be that meditation is an important evolutionary tool that propelled our brains into the technocratic civilization of today?

A related question: does the information flood produced by our highly distracting culture impede our ability to meditate? For further discussion, see:

http://blog.marsdd.com/2007/02/21/have-humans-stopped-evolving/#comments

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