Werner's
work evolves ongoingly as a function of its true nature, and
expands exponentially as a function of the listening for it in the
world.
Over the years, many things have been said in the gallery about the
delivery methods deployed making
Werner's work,
available. When Werner first took
front and center stage,
when the possibility of transformation first became real in the world,
when that fish walked up on land for the first time bringing with it
elephants
and eagles like a possibility, it was said the delivery methods
were harsh, austere, even arrogant. Whereas the
Zen
master jogs his students with a tap on the shoulder, some called
Werner's work,
the "two by four over the head" approach to enlightenment.
Of course, there wasn't ever a two by four anywhere in sight. But
that's what they called it anyway.
Lately in the same gallery it's been said the current iteration of
Werner's work,
has kinder, gentler delivery methods, that the
kinder, gentler delivery methods are a result of a new intention coming
from savvy marketing which realizes a less arduous approach is required
to maintain customer interest.
I assert if you look, you'll see the intention behind the totality of
all iterations of
Werner's work,
historic and up to the minute current, has hardly changed
at all. The intention is to share the possibility of transformation and
make it real in the world. An island of stability in an ever changing
universe, this intention remains reliably, put it in the
bank constant. I assert something else accounts for the
impression that a retooling of delivery methods has occurred.
To the river trying to flow through the rock, it may
indeed appear there's been a change in the rock's quintessential
nature once the river figures out what works is to flow
around the rock.
Indeed, if any changes at all have occurred in the delivery methods of
Werner's work
they can be accounted for not by reworked marketing
strategies but rather by a simple obvious yet expected dramatic shift
in the listening of the world for
Werner's work,
for Werner's ideas, and for
transformation.
Millions and millions of people no longer need convincing
about the possibility of transformation. By now we know it's possible.
There's been a contextual shift in the listening for
transformation in the world due in part or wholly to Werner's enormous
albeit largely unheralded impact. Inside this shift in global
listening, not only has transformation become a real, tangible,
thrilling, live possibility, but the perception of and the
receptivity forWerner's work
has also shifted dramatically. With this shift in receptivity for
Werner's work
comes an opening, a
clearing
in the global listening for it. So its delivery methods naturally
appear to be "kinder and gentler" because, to paraphrase the old adage,
even though they're still just as rigorous to speak as they always
were, now they're easier to listen.
What was once opined as the "two by four over the head" approach to
enlightenment is no longer seen that way simply because a ready
listening for transformation, a global appetite for
transformation has opened up. Its value now clearly evidenced, both
neophyte and veteran participants in
Werner's work
are more likely to listen for
transformation
from the get go.
Because of that, the
Zen
master's two by four tap is no longer required. The river,
already
anticipating
that transformation works like a possibility, now flows
around the rock. But the rock's quintessential nature
hasn't changed.