A piece of wisdom from
June 18, 2020 · Thursday
The quote
“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
— Phil Jackson · Flow State
The concept
Sisu
The Finnish word for the strength that shows up only when everything is gone.
Two hundred days of darkness a year. Forty below in winter. Russia next door. The Finns had to invent a word for the strength that shows up only when everything is gone, and they named it sisu. Sisu is not grit. Not resilience. Not courage.…
A practice for today
Walk one slow block today and observe the lesson of Sisu. The Finnish word for the strength that shows up only when everything is gone.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 2.47
कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन। मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि॥
“Your right is to the work itself, never to its fruits. Do not let the fruits of action be your motive, and do not be attached to inaction.”
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