It also means Response, and in that meaning I find instruction guiding me towards a certain stance in relation to my life. The art of response requires Listening which necessitates the ungoing cultivation of a patient, calm receptive presence. When I walk outside and look up at the sky, I can open myself to receive its blue as a gift or as a letter that is addressed to me. Something in me rises to meet that presence which calls to me through the purity of Blue. And when I encounter suffering in the world, I can let its mystery address me, calling forth compassion from my own depths.
Response is an artform that requires opening, listening and knowing oneself and one s reactions.
Respons-ibility is the freedom to respond wisely, rather than be enslaved by patterns of reaction. Yet all of us have had powerful experiences that transcend our usual perception of separateness and plant deep within us a seed of the truth of our essential unity and interconnectedness. It is the seed of Tzedek, of righteousness. Most often that seed is ignored, belittled, compartmentalized, mystified, kept secret or forgotten. The time has come to face the music.