Bucky carried the concept of sustainability to higher level— that of regeneration

Dear Joo Hock,

Please feel free to forward this to all my friends on your Bucky network.

It is my conviction that Bucky carried the concept of sustainability to higher level— that of regeneration. What I mean by this is that regeneration is to sustainability as sustainability is to the business-as-usual or conventional non-sustainable development. Sustainability is the concept that development will not destroy of degrade the foundations upon which development depends; that future generations will have the same level of life-support resources as the present generation has. (Non-sustainable development does not care about future generations and their resources or life-support systems; it is all about getting what is wanted right now.) Regenerative development takes sustainability to the next level. Instead of just having the same level of resources in the future as we have now, regenerative development strives to have more resources or better life-support systems in the future than we have now. Here's an example: conventional farming systems results each year in less topsoil and biological capacity to produce than the previous year. Sustainable farming results in maintaining topsoil and biological complexity and capacity. Regenerative agriculture results in more and better quality topsoil and biological complexity each year. One way of looking at it is that "sustainability" seeks to maintain what we have for future generations, and "regeneration" seeks to increase what future generations have.

Regenerative development is at the core of the design science methodology that participants learn at the annual Design Science Labs (http://www.designsciencelab.com/). A paper describing regenerative design can be found at http://www.designsciencelab.com/resources/index.shtml

Best regards,
Medard Gabel

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Medard Gabel
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Intuitive mind / rational mind - Servant and master

Here I am sharing an interesting point / fundamental distinction /powerful directions shared by our friend Joo Hock - as part of his Bucky's group activities: see below.

 I may not need to add anything except - as I am thinking about it - that the mind is a powerful tool - a tool "out of this world", a gift to humanity in a way, something that sets us apart - not so much because we are so great but because it gives us a special power: power of choice, power of discernment, power of intelligible perception, power of intelligence somehow. 

I like to think that intelligence comes in various form. Harvard Howard Gardner talks of multiple intelligence. There is one intelligence that has always been very dear to me and it is what I call Heart intelligence - it is a connective, integrative, inclusive form of intelligence and it is governed by the heart. Whereas rational, analytical, brain-based intelligence is more divisive, specialization-focused. I guess I will continue to explore this field.... Kindly contribute if you feel like....Cheerios to All :-)
from Joo Hock email (11/11/2011): Dear Friends and Fellow Buckians,
Last Sat. we listen to a talk by Iain McGilchrist on the Divided Brain. Interesting. Because I use to think that Right Brainers are Creative people, Artistic types, and that the Left Brainers are Logical, the Science types.
McGilchrist pointed that while the Left brain focusses, the Right Brain keeps a lookout at the Big Picture. So though one may be Right dominant or Left dominant, actually the two hemispheres of Brain they work together.
At the end of his Talk, McGilchrist pointed out that Einstein shared that the Intuitve Mind is a Sacred Gift, the Rational Mind is a Faithful Servant. Hmmm... Interesting Perspectives.

Think "Design" - Think "Tools" - Buckminster Fuller

Another follow-up by Joo Hock to Dr. DeBono's Talk on thinking posted on OIA.

De Bono talked about Design thinking.

In parallel with this idea, Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller, who called himself a CADS, (Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Scientist) talked about "redesigning" our environment in order to change human behavior in preferred ways, for the betterment of total humanity. In other words, instead of trying to reform man, Bucky preferred to "new" form the environment through Design Science Revolution (DSR), rather than watch mankind resort to bloody revolutions.

And DSR is Tools or Artefact Invention, doing more with less, via technology, thus upping the performance of our resources, creating real life-support Wealth.

DSR requires creativity and innovation.

So if you want to learn how to think like Buckminster Fuller?
Think Tools,
Think Artifact Invention.

What can you invent?
Or re-invent? (many years ago I had a friend who say "don't try to re-invent the wheel"? Good thing I didn't take him seriously) Go ahead re-invent the wheel. You might come out with a better wheel, and if not, you would have re-invented yourself, while trying.

So what IS Experience?

I'd like to share a Poem from my book, "What I feel like saying?"

Because I often asked myself, "so what am I experiencing?" as our lives, who we are may be perceived as a Bundle of Experiences. And Buckminster Fuller linked being in Integrity to speaking, from Experience. He had also defined Universe in terms of Humanity's Experiences.

My poem is entitled:

"What is Experience?"

A nerve-wrecking
roller-coaster ride
getting goose-bumps
listening to ghost stories
in a dark and stromy night
Dunking yourself
in the waterfall's icy bite
Being bruised and battered
in an ego fight
raindrops drumming loudly
on Moonriver Lodge's tin roof
with all their might
(and I might add)
You'll be listened to
as you are in Integrity tonight!

composed by Joo Hock

Joo Hock on Perspectives can be very empowering

Wow! Edward de Bono posted on OIA's blog. Wonderful. DeBono's is one of those authors whose books I've been reading and recommending to my friends, but some of them tell me that DeBono put them to sleep, hmmm... I'm surprised and I wonder why? Perhaps his style is "dry," but he's substance.

Because I do find that he's really good. What he shares make good sense, especially in the field of creative thinking, lateral thinking, in fact DeBono coined the term lateral thinking, brilliant guy.

De Bono shared that perception is more important than logic.

Nicholas Negroponte (of MIT) said: Most engineering deadlocks are not solve by engineers. Why? Because Perception is more important than IQ!!

I found that his thoughts on thinking parallels Buckminster Fullers practices on thinking.

How so?

Well, Buckminster Fuller (Bucky) saw "things' at many level of perspectives, or put in another way, he has many ways of perceiving a thing.

Take a human being. He described us as a 28 Jointed Biped. Then an Astronaut on Board Spaceship Earth, then subsequently a Unique Behavioral Pattern Integrity.

Now how many other ways can you perceive or describe yourself?

1. A human be....
2. A Spir.... be....
3. A bundle of prog....
4. A bundle of exper.......
5. A cybo...
6. A transcei....
7. A Ver...
8. An Evolut...... Pro....
9. A Func.... of Uni.......
10. As Syntr......
11. As Min..
12. An ener.... eve...
More? What could you add?

Now all these newer ways of seeing ourselves is lateral thinking, for me at least.

But so what?
Well it's very empowering. When we see ourselves differently, we will think differently, and we can do differently.

Otherwise if we keep seeing the same way, well we continue doing the same things. Talk about insanity Ha Ha!

Reminds me of Eliyahu M. Goldratt's TOC (Theory of Constraints) In order to remove the bottleneck, sometimes it's not the physical contraints, it's the policies, the mindset, or the perception, the perspective that has to change.

Are you a Verb?

Some thoughts from Joo Hock to share:

Buckminster Fuller said:
"I know I live on Earth at present, I don't know what I am. I know I'm not a category, a thing, a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process, an integral function of Universe."

I have often shared this quote of Bucky, in our Bucky Group sessions, because I've found that it make sense.

Hmmm...what do I mean?

Well, who we are truly, is that we are not the physical! We are metaphysical, or as some have realized, we are "spiritual". We're not THINGS!

In the exploration of Universe, when we go from the macro realm to the micro realm, we discover that 99.99999....% of atoms is really empty space. What seemed solid, like our tables and chairs, including ourselves, are actually NOT solid after all. Electromagnetic waves, like X-rays can pass through our bodies simply because our bodies are not solid. The atoms and molecules of which we're comprised of are 99.99% empty space. These atoms and molecules behave according to certain behavioral patterns, which these patterns of behavior may be described as Principles, and the "solids" that we're made up, are Pure Principles operating and interacting in orderliness. Buckminster Fuller termed them as Generalized Principles operating in Universe.

But so what? What's the big deal?
For me it is a reminder not to be too attached to material things. And this is something most spiritual people talked about.

So?
What we really want in this day and age is to Experience.
With "artificial intelligence" power evolving and growing exponentially, we are certainly moving into this Age of Experience, with the realization of the Virtual Reality and Avatars that we can create.
We experience Creating. thus we are evolving and experiencing ourselves as gods.

So?
Future generations of human will be moving away from ownership of "things" to just needing to use "things" because what they really want is to live life to the fullest, and not wanting to be tied "down" to "material things" which they could not take with them when they have to say "bye-bye."

We are truly verb/gods.

Universe as Experiences of Energy Events

Some (Joo Hock) thoughts to share

I just watched George Smoot (posted on OIA by Ludo) talked about how our Universe was designed, and he's referring to the physical Universe. Brilliant talk on TED, brilliant graphics, etc. However I'm more in tuned to Buckminster Fuller's (Bucky) perspectives of Universe, which I can connect with. He defined Universe in terms of experience. I quote him, "Universe is the aggregate of all of humanity's experience." (He has a longer version, but at the moment this suffice) I find this meaningful, to me. "Universe is comprised of complexes of energy events, and our experiences of these events. End of the day, everything boils down to our Experiences, nothing more, nothing less. Take away our experiences in life and we won't have a sense of what is Universe.

And I appreciate Bucky's definition even more, because when we see Universe from this perspective, as Experiences, then it is truly comprehensive, covering not just the Physical, but inclusive of the Metaphysical, of thoughts, ideas, feelings, the invisible, the relationship of energy events, Generalized Principles, etc.

Like it took me quite a while to come to share with you here on OIA Learning Hub - the Generalized Principle of Lag operating! Ha Ha

Perhaps you might want to pause here for a while and reflect.

And I like his (Buckminster Fuller's) Poem, "Cosmic Plurality" which I've committed to memory, and use as a "tool" to share some perspective with others when appropriate.

It goes like this:

"Environment to each must be
All there is that isn't me
Universe in turn must be
All that isn't me and me

Since I only see inside of me
What brains imagine outside of me
It seems to me you may be me
If that is so there's only we

Me and we
Two which love makes three
Universe perme-embracing
It Them You We"

George Smoot on the design of the universe | Video on TED.com

It was said that Buckminster Fuller understood the architecture of the Universe. I take it to mean that he had a perception of how Universe of Nature organized itself, and continues to organize itself. And here is a guy sharing about the design of the Universe. This should be interesting, I haven't not watched this yet while posting this blog

George Smoot on the design of the universe Video on TED.com

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About Me

Speaker, Trainer, Business owner and Social Entrepreneur, Joo Hock has been championing the Thinking, Philosophy and Ideas of Buckminster Fuller. He is a catalyst, in the Bucky Group’s (the unofficial Alumni of the Money & You Seminar) activities, as a True Learning Organization. A practitioner of the philosophy of the 20th Century Leonardo da Vinci, Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller (the inventor of the Geodesic Dome.), Joo Hock has facilitated various Workshops and Retreats on Innovation, Creativity and Change (based on The Generalized Principles of Universe as uncovered by Bucky) for corporate organizations and the public. Interfacing for the somewhat difficult to comprehend thinking, ideas, and the works of Bucky, JooHock shares from a layman perspective, and his (Joo Hock's)life today demonstrates that living the "principles" as shared by Bucky, has made a difference to his (Joohock's) life and could make a difference to the lives of others. Bucky is, in his opinion the forerunner in the Great Marathon of Humanity, JooHock feels "Learning" should be fun. This blog is also dedicated to his mentor, Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller.

The love potion you made tastes terrible. How will you drink it?
Usually when I'm faced with having to drink a potion of Chinese medicine which is basically a concoction of yukky tasting stuff, I pour it into a wine glass, and say "cheers", or "Yam Seng" to a friend, at the same time downing it in one gulp, follow by a glass of water. Love potion? No problem. "...urgh...burrp.."Interests
Reading Buckminster Fuller
Anthony de Mello
Krishnamurti
Deepak Chopra
Neale Donald Walsch
Charles Handy
Barbara Marx Hubbard Paulo Coelho
Eliyahu M Goldratt
Eckhart Tolle
Margaret Wheatley
Irene Sanders
Hugh Prather
Edward deBono
Tony Robins
Anita Roddick
Fritjof Capra Travelling
Speaking
and conducting Bucky Fun workshops
Favorite Movies
Shawshank Redemption
Tuesday with Morrie
Einstein Big Idea. Conversations with God.
Favorite Music
Inspirational Songs
When You believe
Follow your Heart
Color of the Wind
Songs from the Musicals
Les Miserables
Phantom of the Opera
Favorite Books
Critical Path
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
Grunch of Giants
Intuition
Buckminster Fuller on Education
Awareness
Age of Unreason
The Empty Raincoat
The Hungry Spirit
The Elephant and the Flea
and many more

Welcome to Joo Hock

We come to Joo Hock
Joo Hock has agreed to become an author for OIA Learning Hub blog. That's an honor and a privilege for us as we are inspired by Joo Hock's turn of life... the book he wrote, his passion with Buckminster Fuller and how he dedicates his life and time to spreading the wisdom of Buckminster Fuller. Joo Hock do share with us as much as you feel like and we hope to grow and attract more followers in our quest for "playing together, learning together, living together".
Ludo