Opinion
by Nagarjuna.

'I was here before.'
'No, you weren't.'
'This will last forever.'-
Horizons of the past.

'I will survive.'
'No, you won't.'
'This will end.'-
Horizons of the future.

What happened in the past
Is not happening any more.
If you think what happened then became you now,
What you grasp would be something else.
What are you but what you grasp?

If you are what you grasp,
You would not be here,
For what you grasp comes and goes;
It cannot be you.
How can the grasped be the grasper?

You're not different from what happened then.
If you were, you would not need a past.
You could survive without having to die.
The past would be severed, revocable.
Others would experience your acts.
Without a past you would be
Either manufactured or uncaused.

'I was here before.'
'No, you weren't.'
'I was and I wasn't.'
'You neither were nor weren't.'
'I will survive.'
'No, you won't.'-

Opinions are absurd.

If the gods were us,
We would be eternal;
For the gods are unborn in eternity.
Were we other than them,
We would be ephemeral.
Were we different,
We would never connect.

If I were half a god and half a man,
I would be eternal and ephemeral.
What can be ephemeral
Without eternity?

If this ends, what world would follow?
If this never ends, what world would follow?
Like a flame of a lamp
The flow of matter and mind
Neither ends nor never ends.

This would end
If mind and matter failed to flow
From the dying of their past;
It would never end
If mind and matter failed to flow
From a past that never died.

If half this ended and half did not,
I would end and never end,
Leaving half the grasper
Dead and half undead,
Half the grasped destroyed,
Half undestroyed.

Everything is empty-
In whom? About what?
Do opinions erupt?

For Gautama
In whose embrace
Dharma was shown
And opinions vanished.

What a strange act of synchronicity, I was on my way home tonight piecing together the structure of this post in my head, juggling through topics and realising the single biggest topic I wanted to talk about was Organisatonal Development and how misunderstood it is locally. Upon arriving home I met the first person to ever understand what it is that I do, on title alone (in other words, without the big picture, long conversational pitches and actually working on a project). Which in turn kind of through my pitching arm out, none the less, I have a a point to make.

Organisational development is about behavioural science, systemic thinking, processes, workflow. Most of all it's about people, and understanding how to best utilise themm. It is NOT human resourcing, hell I hate the term, people are not resources, we are the reason for corporation, processes and policy revolve around us, you and them.

There is however the greater role that has been lent the title "Strategic HR" which is become a larger more powerful source of business intelligence, and making the machine a far more humane and wonderful beast. Strategic HR, now sitting at the highest point of the business unit corporate ladder requires a strange blend of business acumen, political savvy and personal psychology understanding and is slowly becoming one of the most sought after and listened to area's. Through the 90's new CXO roles developed such as the CIO and CTO. My hope is that in future, through the want to better understand people in the workforce, a CXO role is developed for Strategic HR.

At the end of the day, business, as life, is about people. Let's treat each other with the respect that we deserve.