Sunday, October 24, 2010

MAC Wk4 Reading_Art of Possibilities: Pulling It All Together

Chapter 10 suggests making yourself the board. Bring the entire situation into your game and you make the moves, rules, credits, etc. I do like this quote: “Grace comes from owning the risks we take in a world by and large immune to our control.”

“Gracing yourself for everything that happens in your life leaves your spirit whole, and leaves you free to choose again.” I wholehearted disagree with this. “Time and unforeseen occurrence circumstances befall them all.”—Eccles. 9:11 Waiting at a light and having a drunk driver ram into the back of me is not an experience for which I will accept responsibility. To include my lack of awareness about the statistics of loopholes in drunk driving laws as to how this accident happened to me or got on my board is absurd. It is an unforeseen occurrence. How I handle and/or react to the circumstance determines the remainder of my experience. This chapter is a bit much.

Frameworks for Possibilities
Unlike chapter 10, chapter 11 resonates with me--making new distinctions in the realm of possibility; substituting a new framework for the one that is spiraling downward.

Creating a new framework to address the actions of the teenagers while in Brazil was powerful. I hope to incorporate a similar strategy when the opportunity presents itself this week at school.

This is one of the best definitions I’ve seen for a vision “an open invitation and an inspiration for people to create ideas and events that correlate with its definitional framework.”

Chapter 12
Telling the We Story—the togetherness of you, me, and, others. Start by asking: What do WE want to happen? What is best for US? What is OUR next step?

Without a doubt, I was brought to this book as an idle traveler passing through, but I am so much more enriched for my journey.

3 comments:

  1. Irene says,

    Chapter 10 suggests making yourself the board. Bring the entire situation into your game and you make the moves, rules, credits, etc. I do like this quote: “Grace comes from owning the risks we take in a world by and large immune to our control.”

    Terrance says,

    I do concur with you about "Grace comes from owning the risk we take in the world by and large immune to our control" I know this first hand I have no controls but one thing I do have is hope and faith in what ever lies ahead. That faith and hope is powerful in it of it's self. The one thing that I have learned is no one came take away your life experiences, knowledge, talents and dreams.

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  2. I understand the idea of thinking that Chapter 10 was a bit much. I thought my head would explode! I think I can see what they are driving at, but I would have to read this several more times, possibly take a retreat in Tibet, and meet with the Dalai Lama, as well as the Zanders, and maybe I can wrap my head around it then. I see what you are saying, but I see what they are saying as well.

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  3. As your classmates echo, I understand your strong feelings about responsibility, particularly with your example with the drunk driver. So, now that the responsibility has been assigned to the drunk, where does that leave you? In the best possible world, the drunk acknowledges fault and pays recompensation for the wrongdoing. But what happens anything short of that? Does one stay in that moment until the wrong is righted? In life's short season how does one spend the few days given, particularly when tragedy visits? That's what the Zanders propose to curtail, the power of tragedy to dictate anything beyond the moment when it visits.

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