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Dance is a moving mindfulness meditation, an embodied prayer, a self-emptying surrender to the eternity of the moment, a deep bow to the bewildering grandeur of what is.
We are all participants in this dance. We are all dancers. We are all moving in response to the primal thrumming of the Universe.
And we have the creative freedom, even responsibility, to infuse every moment with our dance.
The miraculous piece is that our participation in this dance changes the world around us, whether we build up or tear down, whether we fashion beauty or deface it, whether we sow harmony or discord.
Every time we choose what is beautiful, every time we listen to the birds sing, plant a seed, smile at our reflection in the mirror, cough up a prayer, hold a hand, we are adding to the good. We are serving the World.
We are dancing.
When we surrender our bodies to the rhythm of the music and allow ourselves to be folded into the arms of the Beloved, what special souls we are!
We have dared to waltz straight into the heart of the Divine.
10 years after this was originally posted I learned this lesson: Dance is play. Have fun. ego rub #1 The sign over the garbage can at the entrance reads: “DEPOSIT EGO HERE.” Missed that. When will introductory classes stop feeling like introductory classes? How many years will I be dancing before I can walk away … Read more
We ought to dance with rapture that we are alive, and in the flesh, and part of the living incarnate cosmos. D. H. Lawrence.* The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not extinguished it. Gospel of John* This little light of mine. I’m going to let it shine. Traditional* …..A friend recently … Read more
Is $20 good value for a street-legal hug? It’s hard to keep track of the street value of differing commodities these days, in large part because the neighbourhood has changed. There was a time when you could buy almost anything on almost any street corner, from drugs to sex to pieces from your neighbour’s bike. … Read more
Just off one of those humiliating videotapings which due to some masochistic tendency, I feel compelled to subject myself from time to time. This is my desperate search for perspective and consolation …. “The two distinguishing elements of the Tango are sensuality and elegance.” Carlos Gavito. – “Ah, therein lies the rub.” Shakespeare. – … … Read more