Vinn's Journal
2/1/2005 |
This is a sweet time. This is a sad time. This is neither. It is merely a time!
Often when presented with this type of Taoist consciousness I find myself scratching and staring toward a vacancy in the surrounding space. I kind of get it and yet it leaves me in a giant hole of mystery and uncertainty.
I wonder how this can be possible for the need to define is such an albatross that I get to wear and swing from the depths of my sadness to the heights of my ecstasy. Mystics and spiritual leaders from all traditions insist that nothing will trip my passage and impede my spiritual progress quicker and more completely than the need to know.
This brings me to an understanding of how the soul in motion is a vital force of creativity which bounds between taking action and letting be and is represented moment to moment in my breath cycle and heart beat. The action of the exhale and the space of the off-beat are fruitful planes of creativity as they allow for the emptiness to be filled again and the sound to re-emerge.
The dance which is constantly moving me is also created, moment by moment, in the empty space of not doing and not figuring it out. As I take that long journey from head to heart I arrive in a surrounding space filled with mystery and compassion.
The dance I practice is the one which familiarizes my steps into the unknown and the connection with all. It is a dance that is constantly revealing new shapes in space. It is a dance that does not allow me to choreograph the steps to fit all situations. It is a dance that dances me as I enjoy the wisdom to let go and the courage to let the pattern that connect us all, lead me. The name of this dance, again, is Surrender.
Be well within love
vinn
This is the alter we created during the February class in Boulder.