Back from Bali: A 12-Point Meditation On Our Moment
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Published in MEDIUM by Otto Scharmer
Just returning from two weeks of programs in Bali — where we are running a module of a year-long, cross-sector action learning program (MIT IDEAS Asia Pacific) and a multi-year advanced practitioner ecosystem (Ecosystem Leadership Program Asia Pacific) by the Presencing Institute for the region, both based on the U journey and presencing practices. Bali, with its thousand-year-old Tri Hita Karana philosophy (harmony with nature, harmony with each other, and harmony with the divine) is an important ancestral home of the Theory U framework and practices — even though I was not aware of it when I first wrote about the ecological, the social, and the spiritual divides of our time. Bali is where the Hindu court of the Majapahit empire — its priests, artists, and scholars — retreated when that empire collapsed on Java in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. It’s where that cosmology continued to live and evolve in connection with the Indigenous wisdom of an older island world. It is that blend that gives Balinese Hinduism its living quality.
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