Entering the Seven Meditative
Spaces of Leadership
Conversation with Master
Nan Huai-Chin by Claus Otto Scharmer
Nan Huai-Chin is a teacher and scholar famous
in China but little know outside of
China and Taiwan. He has written over 30 books, which have
sold literally tens of
millions of copies in China, mostly on the black market
until recently. Few of his
books have been translated and made available outside China.
He is an advisor to the government as well as a noted spiritual
figure. Today, it is not unusual to find whole sections
of bookstores in China devoted to his works. He is noteworthy
for his knowledge and attainment in all three major strands
of Chinese culture: Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism. When
I visited Master Nan he had just finished a new interpretation
of one of the two Confucian classics, “The Great Learning.”
This essay, originally written by Confucius’ grandson
2400 hundred years ago has been a mainstay of Chinese culture
ever since.
C.O. Scharmer: Master Nan, I am so
grateful for the opportunity to meeting with you. I came
here with four questions. Should I go through all of them
upfront?
Master Nan/Translator Ken: Yes. Please.
COS: The first question concerns what
is going currently on in the world. We feel
that we are at the incipient stage of a new time. This transition
is characterized by
three revolutions: the rise (1) of new technologies, (2)
of new and networked social structures, and (3) of new spiritual
awareness. We know a lot of the first two. We only know
a little about the third development. Thus, my first question
is: Do you agree that we are at the incipient stage of a
new spiritual awareness and what is the nature of this underlying
shift?
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