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 giving rise to 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 for Werner'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. It's 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.