Hi folks. Earlier this month we spoke about the NLP presupposition, 'The Map Is Not The Territory' and that Virginia Satir, the family therapist that Richard Bandler & John Grinder studied in their research for NLP, suggested that there were 250 ways to do the dishes. Well here is a short story that a coaching colleague shared with me some time ago that suggests that there is really only one way to do the dishes!!
When a guest volunteered to do the dishes after the dinner the Master said, Are you sure you know how to do dishes? The man protested that he had done them all his life. Said the Master: Ah, I have no doubt of your ability to make dishes clean I only doubt your ability to wash them. This is the explanation he gave his disciples later: There are two ways to wash dishes: One is to wash them in order to make them clean; the other is to wash them in order to wash them.
That was still far from clear, so he added: The first action is dead because while your body does the dishes your mind is fixed on the goal of cleaning them; the second is alive because your mind is where your body is.
Anthony De Mello - One Minute Nonsense
So the question is, how present is your mind when you are working on your day to day tasks, be they in a personal or professional context?
My best
Séamus
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