This book was written to assist professionals and students to become proactive in their own education, improve thinking, resolve personal and interpersonal conflicts, improve pedagogy, manage departmental affairs and guide administrative decisions. The text captures the practical experience of the authors with and formal training in TOC to address many of the issues facing today’s education stakeholders. The text is designed to teach methods for 1) "win-win" conflict resolution, 2) decision-making, 3) problem solving, and 4) analysis of systems using TOC’s powerful logic-based graphical Thinking Process tools. A creative thinker can identify, plan and achieve his or her goals just knowing the Thinking Process Tools.
A commentary on the 8th century Kashmir Shaivism text Spanda Karika (Verses on Divine Pulsation). This book is based on lectures given during weekly satsangs, prayer meetings, of the meditation center the authors ran from 1975 until 1982 under the guidance of their Guru, Swami Muktananda. The authors are professors of mathematics in two colleges of the City University of New York. The same inquisitiveness, experimentation, openness, and logical thinking required in studying physical science (obviously in the waking state) is also necessary in studying spanda--the conscious pulsation. The experiences that the study of the conscious pulsation brings are real as per Einstein's definition of reality since they also contain "sense perceptions that are common to different individuals... and in a measure, impersonal." Many researchers, whom we call saints, separated by time and space and not in direct contact with one another, have reported the same sensory experiences. Also they have reported experiencing something common: that which is beyond sense perceptions. The subject matter of the current text Spandakarika is the study of general nonrelational universal consciousness and special individual consciousness or awareness. The study leads one to experience that both are one and the same consciousness, whose essential nature is existence or truth and bliss, and whose manifestation is the entire universe regarded as consciousness's pulsation
Jnaneshwar (1275-1297) is a favorite saint of Maharashtra, India wrote over a thousand abhangs, or unbreakable devotional poems. Twenty-eight of his abhangs were written as a collection called Haripath (meaning "Sing Hari, study Hari [God]"). Jnaneshwar, his siblings, and many others started on the twenty-eight day journey from Alandi to Paithan to obtain the shuddhi patra ("purification document") from the Paithan pandits. Each day, Jnaneshwar wrote an abhang about the importance of singing Hari's name. The Haripath has been popular in Maharashtra for seven centuries, and its daily recitation is considered a complete spiritual practice. Most of the poems consist of four lines; they have a theme, Each abhang has its own character and unique flavor. Their messages are simple, direct, sublime, and even implosive. The most subtle, lofty teachings of the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, and Bhakti Sutras are offered to us freely-as Jnanadev says, "like fruit in the palm of our hand." He extols devotion as the most essential quality in spiritual life, and perhaps, most importantly, he sings to us about the importance and the impact of the company of the saints. In every verse, like a loving mother, he encourages us to take up the repetition of God's name and hold God close to us. He says, "As one repeats the name of God, millions of sins drop away. Hold onto the thought of Rama Krishna. Extricate all your negative tendencies, cut off all attachments. Don't hide behind the senses. Have faith in the holy places and rituals and always cultivate tenderness, peace, and compassion. In this way, you will make Hari your guest" (abhang 27). This book contains the 28 abhangs of the Haripath in Marathi with transliteration as well as English and Hindi translations. The English translation has been made as literal as possible by Umesh and Chitra Nagarkatte, and was edited by Dana Wilkinson. The Hindi translation was jointly composed by Umesh Nagarkatte and Ashok Vyas.
This book was written to assist professionals and students to become proactive in their own education, improve thinking, resolve personal and interpersonal conflicts, improve pedagogy, manage departmental affairs and guide administrative decisions. The text captures the practical experience of the authors with and formal training in TOC to address many of the issues facing today’s education stakeholders. The text is designed to teach methods for 1) "win-win" conflict resolution, 2) decision-making, 3) problem solving, and 4) analysis of systems using TOC’s powerful logic-based graphical Thinking Process tools. A creative thinker can identify, plan and achieve his or her goals just knowing the Thinking Process Tools.
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