LOVE IS THE ONLY OPERATING SYSTEM

Can you see it?

The above picture, ostensibly displaying a large cluster of red roses, is actually a simple example of a computer-generated 3D illusion, more appropriately called a stereogram.

A beautiful 3D object, which signifies the meaning of the foregoing phrase, a favourite catchphrase of Dilip Mukerjea, is embedded by computer manipulation within the seemingly random display.

It takes both of your eye balls to tango in order to see it. That's to say, your two brain hemispheres got to work together in perfect harmony.

If you see it, the 3D object remains floating in space, right in front of your eyes!

Yes, I know. The feeling is exhilarating & exuberating... just like falling in love!

[Source of Picture: Magic Eye Inc., producers of the 3D illusion images that ignited the worldwide craze of the 90's. They hold a patent for their cutting edge stereogram algorithm.

Just in case you still can't see it, here are some viewing instructions, courtesy of Magic Eye Inc.]

LEADERSHIP & LOVE

The awakened spirit exhibits leadership by looking within. Wisdom is nothing but a drop in the ocean of consciousness; enlightenment is the ocean. The soul of a leader is nothing but the essence of her followers. They are her depth; she is their surface. They are her periphery; she is their centre.

Is a leader made, or discovered? Perhaps uncovered, brought to light.

Morihei Ueshiba, the revered founder of Aikido, once stated: “The true martial art is love.” But love often remains shut up inside us; it need only be released. The question is not how to produce it, but how to uncover it. What have we covered ourselves with? What is it that
will not allow love to surface? How can leadership emerge?

Love is the sacred soil for leadership. When one is without love, the ego steps in, darkness descends, consciousness gets clouded. Love and ego cannot coexist: love begets leadership, the ego leads nowhere.

There is an unbridgeable distance between the ego and leadership.

The ego strives to bridge itself with the horizon, with a projected desire. But the horizon does not exist. So how can one make a bridge to it? We can only dream about the bridge. We cannot be joined with the nonexistential. Leadership is the absence of desire, of ego; it is an impulse to move in the present, towards spiritual fulfillment.

Life should not be about dread and defeat, but about achievement and exaltation; it can only happen through leading from love.

[Excerpted from the 'Leadership, Learning & Laughter' edition of The Braindancer Series by Dilip Mukerjea. All the images in this post are the intellectual property of Dilip Mukerjea.]