So long as DW generates this sort of mob mentality, it is my citizens opinion that their centers are best considered as mere clubhouses, like pubs favoured by Man United vs Chelsea and the other football clubs.
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a guy was making a nuisance of himself and Nydahl asked him to leave as he was being disruptive. Then, another man who was similar in appearance arrived late, and Nydahl mistook him for the same guy and yelled at him to leave. This second guy was known to the sangha, and yet no one had the courage to tell Nydahl that he had the wrong guy.
The travelling teacher attributed this to his "karma", mistakenly meaning "destiny". It seems they could not admit the truth to themselves about Nydahl's intolerance at being interrupted, nor his anger directed at some innocent guy, but instead had to attribute it to this guy's "bad fortune".
Genuinely great leaders own their mistakes. And create a setting in which others are not afraid to speak out.
The military services can do better than Ole.
During World War II, Spike Milligan describes his favorite commanding officer and what happened one day when 56th Heavy Regiment Royal Artillery Battery D was called out and a plane flew overhead.
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'Battery all correct and present, sir!'
The roar of a plane mixed with cannon shells all over the place-M.E. 109 rooftop, red propeller boss--panic, Battery as one man into ditch--not Major Chaterjack, M.C. D.S.O --stands alone, in the road--unmoved, produces a silver case, lights up a cigarette. He is smoking luxuriously as we all sheepishly rise from what now feels like the gutter.
'He addresses us: 'Very good--you realise you did the right thing and I the wrong?'
What can you say to a bloke like that?
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall by Spike Milligan page 99
and this from the US Navy (PS I think 'rack' means your sleeping area, whether its a bed, cot, or bunk. the writer here is telling us he was going through hell with bedmakign inspection during training. POS stands for piece of shit)
The worst experience was that I had to cycle in a closet sized room for a couple of hours after a rack inspection showed I had way more than 6 inches of sheet at the head of my bunk.
I had to personally apologize for being a POS to each member of the company. This was my first rack inspection. On the second on, my CO started riding me again for the same issue. I was perplexed, I freaking KNEW I had it right. Come to find out he did not actually measure it, but he used a bar on the rack as a guideline. Also come to find out I had a rack with a bar that was 4 inches instead of 6 which gave the appearance of my sheet being to(sp) long.
Most valuable lesson I learned in the Navy shortly followed. OWN YOUR MISTAKES. He apologized for his earlier mistake and actually told everyone else he was wrong and I was not a POS.
Pretty stand up thing to do given the circumstances.
7/21/2009 10:01 AM
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http://bubbleheads.blogspot.com/2009/07/new-rtc-video.html
The best officers/leaders in the military services own up to their mistakes.