Vinn's Journal
April 2009 |
We are the dance shape shifting the space of silence and stillness.
All space is alive, eager for conversation as we speak the language of embodied presence.
This shape-shifting dance conversation is the everyday current and flow of all individual events, situations, and occurrences.
The everyday dance is an invention of steps, created in the moment, which move to rhythms and to sounds of the daily life.
We notice the steps to the daily scenes of this everyday dance comedy. Find yourself walking behind a too slow mother and stroller baby and watch your steps taken, to surrender to the pace, to get heated and outraged, to make assumptions about this person.
Notice the slow-burn gap between speaking to a person with ease and understanding or of severing their metaphorical head as they cut you off in a ticket line. There is a spiral rhythm, internal, steady, and oscillating outwardly, that influences the steps of the everyday dance.
Silence manifests as a field behind all sound and experience. It is a pause between the notes, a space between the melodies of the everyday life. Silence is a refuge between the stream of events and moment- to- moment discursive thinking that can overwhelm this person in his everyday dance.
We play and pray in a field of continual exposure to thought and to taut nerves that seem to second- guess all steps taken. In the greater view of this cosmic choreography these steps can send people to a vanishing point where ego and soul meet in duet. This duet consists of a series of fall and recover, which can bruise and batter the body. Rabbi Hillel stated it clearly over two thousand years ago; “I get up. I walk. I fall down. (Meanwhile) I keep dancing.”
With each step taken, each weight bearing shift of opinion, each movement of psychic location in the everyday dance, I become an opening to a vista view of renewed purpose and meaning.
There is no past yearning in this everyday dance. There is no future planning in this everyday dance. I step down, reach upward, step forward, push backward, all at once in every direction.
dance daily...vinn