My amazing new friends from TAOC remind me of the entertaining characters from that famous Chinese Literature. “Journey To The West” ( JTTW ). The Monk, Tang Sanzang, and his key travelling partners: Sun WuKong, Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujing, and the White Dragon Horse -on their Pilgrimage to India. Although the characters from TOAC and from JTTW are vastly different. The evolution in each group’s Journey has given me great Inspiration and useful Lessons.
The main lesson I learned from JTTW is that the Pilgrimage to India brought each member, one by one together, and how these Fantastic Characters with each member’s special skills, cooperatively overcame many unbelievable Challenges. They bonded together as “Soul Buddies” and grew together spiritually.
In TAOC’s case, the Story has just begun. Their guiding goal is to create an Ecosystem to help deliver Paul Schafer’s vision in Transforming TAOE (The Age of Economics) to TAOC (The Age of Culture).. Schafer met Sahgal coincidentally and unhesitatingly they agreed to work together to bring Schafer’s Vision to Fruition. Watch, Wonder, and Create , respecting each person’s personal aspirations and capabilities seem to be Sahgal’s approach to most challenges.. What impresses me even more are the Collaborators’ Non Sibi Dedication to the Cause, Earnest Love and Care for the World’s Children- and the Effective ways in moving ahead with Open mind and Imagination. The present Collaborators by the way come from different parts of our world with cheerful and and colorful personalities. Their Journey will provide future generations a most interesting story to read and to remember, I believe. It may even be more meaningful than the fantastic “Journey To The West “.
A retired Architect at age 94 now. my interpretation of TAOC is still guided by my early Chinese Upbringing. I take the first three alphabets, TAO, right away from TAOC. TAO in Chinese is The WAY – Lao Tze’s TAO or WAY OF LIFE. See picture below. Subsequently, I find the right words for C. Yes, for me C stands for Conscientiousness, Civility, Creativity, Confidence, Collaboration, Compassion, and more. What a Truly Needed Pursuit today. I certainly should do my very best in Drumbeating for Paul and Rohit and the entire TAOC Team ! Drum Drum Drum. Cheers !
