Ashley Cooper wrote:
"Passion to responsibility is more of a glide than a phase shift." chris, will you say more about that?
In my example of a drain, it seems that passion (noticing that the drain needs fixing) leads to volition (the thing that motivates me to get up) to responsibility ( the act of doing it). Seems like a glide to me though; it's not accurate to describe it in terms of these three phases.. I know there is an exercise in insight meditation where you try to pay attention to volition: those moments between intention and movement when your will begins to express itself. This is the glide between passion and responsibility and of course, the meditation exercise invites you to try to see that moment. Staring deeper and deeper into that small point in time, looking for a tipping point is the point of the exercise. It is to make us more aware of that transition from noticing to acting. If there is a phase shift that is where it lies, around the arousal of volition. I haven't seen it yet, but maybe that's just me. At any rate, we talk about passion BOUNDED by responsibility. I think there are two descriptive metaphors at play here. The bounded metaphor helps us to understand that our passion cannot extend to encompass everything AND still make room for responsibility. The responsibility part focuses our passion into energy we can use to get things going in Open Space. The other metaphor, that of passion sparking responsibility through volition is useful for understanding how and why we do things. Developing that understanding helps us to do things more mindfully. I guess. Chris -- CHRIS CORRIGAN Bowen Island, BC, Canada (604) 947-9236 Consultation - Facilitation Open Space Technology Weblog: http://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot Homepage: http://www.chriscorrigan.com [email protected] * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
