[Ailist] Re: on sociopaths, bullying, and AI

[Lionel Boxer]

HHDL sounds lie a Freemason ;-) Freemasonry is part is based on these same principles of tolerance and inclusion; some say it was based on Eastern approaches to life such as Buddhism.  Dr Sir Edward Dunlop (who saved the author of Shogun in Changi POW camps during WWII) started life as a Presbyterian, maintained that religeon and also embraced Buddhism.  He was also a Freemason.  I know several other Christian/Buddhists who are also Freemasons (some retain their Christianity, but others reject it).

Lionel Boxer CD PhD MBA BTech(IndEng) - +1-416-482-3203
Associate of RMIT University - lionel.boxer at rmit.edu.au
Graduate School of Business
"I like action - moral courage is much less common than intelligence"
Prof Major Charles Boxer, Lincolnshire Regiment
The Sustainable Way: http://intergon.net/tsw
>>> julie caldwell <motivate at frontiernet.net> 01/11/08 12:22 AM >>>
Bingo Lionel   -- "suggesting how organisations can display  
sociopathic tendencies..."

This summer, while attending a teaching with His Holiness the Dalai  
Lama, HHDL addressed a group of protestors with an appreciative  
statement that thanked the protestors for engaging their right to free  
speech.  He said, "Free speech is very important.  I respect the free  
speech of these protestors."  Then he went on to explain about a  
practice he no longer follows because he believes the practice  
encourages sectarianism and Tibetan Buddhism promotes  
nonsectarianism.  This was the practice of these protestors, a  
practice HHDL believes is a practice of spirit worship that promotes  
one sect of religion over another.  He very clearly stated that it was  
the right of these people to practice as they wish and he does not  
condemn these people.  However, he does not want to promote this form  
of worship, so he has asked that they sit in the audience and not on  
the main stage with him and other ordained Sangha.

HHDL explained that this practice was an old Tibet practice promoted  
by certain monastic communities during times of spiritual decline.  He  
was taught the practice as a young monk but gave it up in the 1960s  
when he saw a conflict between the practice and the original teachings  
of the Buddha.  At the time he wanted to take teachings from one of  
the four Tibetan sects.  He shared how he was reading a text from one  
sect, that told to him not to attend teachings from the other sect  
because these teachings were inferior.  Since the Buddha taught that  
all teachings are valid, he decided this text was not valid, one that  
discriminated against others, something the Buddha does not promote.

HHDL went on to share that it is often the case when an individual who  
has many religious followers (like himself), or an organization (or  
nation) that promotes a specific way of thinking that is deemed the  
"right way", that a counter voice or group of voices will form in  
protest.  He went on to share that even a leader such as himself who  
professes to be open minded and inclusive is still a human being and  
as such is subject to having an ego.  What I gleamed from his  
explanation was that protestors (call them bullies -- on either side  
of the fence) are a natural "check and balance" response dealing with  
individual or group ego.

Lionel, I felt your comment nicely addressed the point of group ego  
and how it can manifest perceived bullies -- suggesting how  
organizations can display sociopathic tendencies.

By the way, after His Holiness the Dali Lama spoke about the  
protestors with much appreciative language and gave space to their  
concerns, it is note worthy to share that the protestors went away and  
did not return for the duration of the teachings.

His Holiness the Dali Lama engaged Jane Watkins to use the AI approach  
with and the Office of Tibet to address the needs of the displaced  
Tibetan people who relocated in India.  She worked with the Office of  
Tibet for 7 years, using the AI approach to optimize living and work  
conditions for the Tibetan Refugees (maybe 15-20 years ago?).  And,  
HHDL worked with David Cooperrider on the United Religious  
Initiatives.   In addition to using the AI approach, HHDL also engaged  
The Institute for Cutural Affairs with their TOP (technology of  
participation) Facilitation Skills Training with the Tibetan Refugee  
situation.     http://www.ica-usa.org/top-courses/courses-page-1.htm

Side Note:  While AI expands vision into mutual dreams and shared  
values --- TOP takes the expanded vision and reduces it down into  
specific next steps.

Sincerely,
Julie Caldwell
Emerging Futures Youth Network

"doing together that which we can not do alone"

On Oct 30, 2008, at 1:03 PM, Lionel Boxer wrote:

> Perhaps not all workplace bullies are sociopaths, but instruments  
> like LSI can be used to gage collective culture that suggests how  
> organisations can display sociopathic tendencies (I attended a  
> workshop a few months ago that demonstrated LSI data that suggested  
> this).  So, it is not necessarily the individuals we are interested  
> in.
>
> Lionel Boxer CD PhD MBA BTech(IndEng) - +1-416-482-3203
> Associate of RMIT University - lionel.boxer at rmit.edu.au
> Graduate School of Business
> "I like action - moral courage is much less common than intelligence"
> Prof Major Charles Boxer, Lincolnshire Regiment
> The Sustainable Way: http://intergon.net/tsw