Comments on: All Change is Good

By: David

David — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:37:02 +0000

And as they used to say in Landmark: “How’s that (not liking) working for you?”

By: roger reed

roger reed — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:53:20 +0000

As I told you in that very nice French resturant in Kingston the other day (metal in the risotto notwithstanding) change may always be for the good but that dosen’t mean I have to like it. The real question outstanding however from that conversation is and remains…..who are your local native american tribe?! The home team for Colorado?

By: David W

David W — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:19:02 +0000

Great discussion! I want to agree with David that all change is good. There is nothing ‘bad’, something bad would imply less than perfect and the Universe and the order of it is perfect, always. Subjectively, we can judge the good-ness and bad-ness of an event, or a thing, but that is judgment from attachment to outcomes. It’s great to have expectations, that’s how we grow in every sense. But when we let go and allow the expectations to manifest in any incomprehensible way they show up, we will ultimately receive many more ‘good’ things. Change is constant and inevitable, on micro and macro scales. Our success and fulfillment comes from how we manage change, and that’s thrilling!

By: David

David — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:59:32 +0000

HI James. Thanks for your comment.

Yes. All change is good.

And to your question regarding did I ask him what he meant, he answered: ‘Because I think that sometimes, from some perspectives, change isn’t very good at all’. And, later, in the bar, he agreed that whilst that statement was ‘true’ or ‘correct’ for him, it didn’t really help him in any way at all to have it be true or correct.

By: James

James — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:03:16 +0000

Perhaps he wasn’t focussing on whether *change* is good, but what you mean by _good_. Did you ask your interlocutor whether he had intended the implication you impose on him above? What was his reply?

Some framing questions: Good to whom? Good how? Good as opposed to what?

And if we have answers to these, do you mean good as desirable in outcome, or in presence? Good as in good now, or good later? Good locally, or in a wider sense?

By: uthatswho

uthatswho — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:16:32 +0000

I think I’ve stumbled upon the wrong David’s site but I like what you have written here. I will email the rest of my thoughts on it because will get rather long-winded.