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40: Meditation

July 27, 2007 @ The Tao of Project Management from P M Blogger

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Someone once asked me what the ten thousand things are.

In the hurly-burly of project life it sometimes seems that there are very few moments of peace and quiet. We all know that we need these moments to slow down, take stock and re-charge our batteries. But how does a project manager use them?

The poor project manager probably frets over what is happening on the project, worries about what might yet go wrong and gets angry at life and the world for their problems. That way lies despair!

The good project manager uses the time to meditate calmly, returning to their inner self and becoming silent.

What is happening when nothing is happening?

What is the difference between what is happening and how it happens?

Can you start to sense how what is happening arises out of how it happens?

Through meditation we can start to understand the process and through understanding the process we can begin to understand the principle. This is the way things happen.

This is the way of the project manager.

The Tao
Chapter 40 of the Tao is very short,
Lao Tsu tells us:

Returning is the motion of the Tao.
Yielding is the way of the Tao.
The ten thousand things are born of being.
Being is born of not being.

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