MEDITATION, LEADERSHIP AND ETHICS

ABSTRACT

New leadership emerges when ethics are rooted in spiritual practices that allow our true nature - truth, integrity, happiness and wisdom - to be expressed. We have to re-educate ourselves about this, first, by examining our addictive behaviors, then by recognizing what we are truly seeking. We create the conditions for this to happen through silence, meditation and mindfulness practice. I explore the interconnection between leadership qualities and ethics, and chart a path to a sense of internal freedom that can re-construct society with a different form of leadership. This leadership is sculpted from the deep experience of oneself in meditation. This is how we re-educate the world. I refer to ethical guidelines provided by Thich Nhat Hanh as signposts for the spiritual traveler, so that we know how to behave and honor our interconnectedness with everything. I like Greenpeace’s motto of "We All Live Downstream!"