Sweet 16?
I look at
the date and the number 16 comes up twice. 16 strikes a common chord when we
were asked to fill an assessment form on how meetings were conducted in the
last few days. In my assessment I calculated that it’s a 16 hour day (much too
much) which includes sadhana, the spiritual regiments of the day. This
morning sadhana, from 4 AM to 9 AM, can be rigorous when you consider
the battle that is to be taken in fighting off temptations, distractions, and
mental offenses, requiring several additional hours to labour through. Then you
have hours of presentations which requires hearing attentiveness in a sit down
format.
We did have
the joy of interactive team building ventures which require a bit of moving
about from one end of the room to the next. For the most part, all is held in
one room. Cumulatively, it gets nauseous doing little physical work for five
days in a row.
Perhaps I
sound like I’m complaining. A good monk would not stoop so low. Okay, so I’m a
bad monk, but I’d like to suggest some change. In the five days here we covered
too much territory, so much so that in the end, very little stays in the head.
If topics discussed are more thematic and we deal with less issues, that might
be a better option.
And you
know, you can’t help talking to friends between meetings. That means meetings
between meetings.
Dear God,
what a good walk can do to balance all the table and chair discussions, and the
information overload. I look forward to tomorrow when the meetings are over.
May the
Source be with you!
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