When I see the overbooked agendas of managers at large companies, I think WTF…!!! These people never take the time to do nothing. That precious time dedicated to creating a space inside oneself, capable of welcoming new thoughts. Without this time, there is no creativity, no new ideas, no room for the future, intuition, vision. Managers become mere automatons, just capable of repeating the past.
No improvement!
It is fundamental to put at the center of one’s life this emptiness that does nothing.
“Two birds, inseparable companions with the same name, are perched on the same tree. One of them eats the sweet fruit of the fig tree, while the other, a witness, contemplates it without eating.” The parable of the two inseparable birds – Mundaka Upanishad.
The great creativity and inventiveness of the ancient Egyptians is attributed to the flooding of the Nile. In fact, during almost half of the year, the Egyptians were condemned to inaction and observation, and it is in these moments of inaction that their most luminous ideas came.
“Thirty converging spokes joined at the hub, form a wheel; but it is its central void that allows the use of the chariot. Vessels are made of clay, but it is their emptiness that makes them usable. A house has doors and windows, and it is their emptiness that makes it habitable. Thus, being produces usefulness; but it is non-being that makes it effective.”
Lao Tzu, Tao-te-king, chapter 11.