Monday, 16 March 2015

Dialogues on Personal Leadership


The true leader has no rank. He is beyond compare. He is just one's own potential in full flow. He is alive to his child like spirit, celebrating this moment. He is spontaneous to the moment. He is a leader to every event.

He is responsive to every moment. He resonates to the situation: then he makes no choice. He simply responds from his awareness. Then as a plant that responds to sunlight he responds naturally. There is no judgement, no analysis, no decision.

He is as ordinary as three pounds of flax. Just do it!
      
XXX in reply to Steve
·This sounds more like an enlightened soul than a leader who is one amongst us.


Steve Correa 

Well, not exactly. The true leader must live in the market place, not away from it. The market place is the circumference on which he operates, his social area of karmic action. Yet, at the core is his centre: his true mindfulness. In top class leaders in their field of work, be it musicians, actors, poets and leaders, he remains but the channel for his work. Compete focus and full awareness is an invitation to all of us to awaken our own leadership within.

It is attainable. There is no path, no gate. It is a gate less gate!

YYY in reply to Steve Correa

 I agree that everyone has leadership qualities and it is for the individual to realize the same and respond to situation and circumstances appropriately, It is like a leader without a title.

ZZZ in reply to Steve Correa

Very True, We should simply remember that no matter what our position within any organization and no matter old we are or where we live throughout the world, we have the power to show leadership. And no one and nothing can ever deny that.

QQQ in reply to Steve Correa

I agree ! As said " He responds from his awareness" - I would add on that a Leader responds from his awareness of his strengths" . If one can play to his / her strengths - leadership will come naturally - leadership styles may differ!

Steve Correa 

Awareness is an insight to one's completeness. All that is, is perfect. His so called weakness is as perfect as his so called strengths. Like wings they help him soar - together they help fly to one's potential. They is no need to add, no need to drop. Just acceptance of who one is. Then there is no journey, no path. One passes through the gate less gate. The destination reached all at once, there itself. When one drops the disease for the wish to be perfect, when one accepts that one is just perfect and unique. Then true existence begins, the maya drops. Life is lived. Celebrated.

Steve Correa in reply to Steve Correa

A few more builds: There is no right or wrong, no good or bad qualities, no bad or worse: the qualities you have is just you. Accept your human instincts as they are, don't fight it. Deploying these instincts with true insights is total awareness. Over time leadership is the capacity to move from pure instinct to true insights like a slide, the latter development which become the beacon to guide us. Through experiencing traumas and abandonment and abuse in earlier primary systems tends to split this progress to usual maturity. Looking within not outside for truth is the way. Leadership is then acquired as an art, through personal development. Being aware of one's patterns, and side stepping it to make new choices, new actions, new meanings is your potential. We all have this inate freedom. As Buddha said, be your own light. We are our own laboratory, there is no truth outside. Through one's experimentation with oneself (Vedanta) discover your own truth. Then Act and respond with personal insight. Trust your own experience, your own insight: discover your own personal leadership.

I repeat there is no good or bad, no right or wrong, no bad or worse. No strengths or weaknesses. 

·SSS in reply to Steve Correa

Strengths and weakness makes you what you are! Your weakness which are perceived as weakness makes you unique and different.

Steve Correa in reply to Steve Correa

Well said SSS. I believe you have experienced that yourself. :)

The other who perceives 'weakness' knows not herself, how would she assess you, except for her own befuddled lenses. While the blind steer to appropriateness, the one who is guided by one's own insight steers to responsiveness.


SSS in reply to Steve Correa

SSS: Yes I did . Thanks

TTT in reply to Steve Correa

Before any great achievement comes the acceptance of your particular reality and then you learn to adapt to it, to use it to excel and fly
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Steve Correa 

Go straight on. Keep Walking. Not to achieve something out there, or to despair what is here. There is no better or worse, nor good or evil.

Go straight on, is the commitment to the journey itself. Not to reach a destination. Not to remain and stop and stand still to one's own potential. Not to compromise oneself by agreeing to what is. That's it. Not say, "I will accept no more growth". 


Go straight on, is to move despite faltering, failing, stumbling. The journey itself is the destination. And the self unfolds even more to infinite possibilities. The acceptance you refer to, must be the 'remembering' to keep walking!

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