Vinn's Journal
10/1/2006 |
A tone vibrating within stimulates vigilance to the advent of eternal presence. Often it is summed up with a directive to practice showing up, not showing off. This directive is regularly voiced to all practitioners of Soul Motion™.
It seems that subjecting the motivations of others to a litmus test of suitable and appropriate behavior is more fitting to a court of law.
It becomes a touchy prospect when involved in artistic and creative expression.
One person’s tolerant threshold is another’s constraint of endurance.
I will not set myself up as a harbinger of proper expressive extensions in the dance or in the everyday.
I wish merely to reflect on personal perspectives and present them to you without dictates, for your consideration.
So the question was posed at a Sunday dinner in Los Angeles to say more to distinguish and facilitate in recognizing when either is present; the showing up or the showing off.
How do you know when you are in the midst of either one?
What are some of the signals?
Here’s what I notice about my own showing up and showing off.
When speaking of showing up I envision a force of awareness that outwardly reflects a beam of brilliancy.
This understanding illumines situations and reveals accuracy of perception and appropriateness of response as spiritual practice.
It is the practice of seeing of ‘what is’.
Showing up is a clear unadulterated view of conditions in the dance or in the everyday. There is a candid inventory of any hidden plan or self serving outcomes.
A humble accounting of the grace and gifts that flow through and out into the everyday becomes a thunderous theme of individual expression.
The whole environment becomes enriched and elevated as a result of showing up activity. Support is placed on the other and less horded by the individual.
Fear of the unknown and anxiety of the unfamiliar is reduced and replaced by a daring action of love.
Everything is lit up in showing up activity and the result is a shared light with all others.
This reflective light shines from inside, outward.
Showing up will proceed with empathy over envy.
Showing up is available for response with the moment and reachable for any adjustments.
Showing up includes the excluded while immersed in the personal.
To show up indicates a willingness to gaze upward with both vision and heart, and stand ready to be counted among the ground of a human, being.
To show up suggests a tending to the heart of humility and a trust in empathy.
To give up pretense and embrace presence is a measure of showing up.
To engage unabashedly in the emotional landscape of situations without reservation is a measure of showing up.
To avoid being caught up in the look good of conditions and allowing the self to ride the heart of the matter, wherever it takes one, is showing up.
When speaking of showing off I glimpse a light that is sought after and which spotlights actions that are illuminated at the expense of the surroundings.
Showing off highlights personal triumph and casts shadows over the immediate setting and all who are present.
Showing off is driven by agenda over awareness.
Showing off will spotlight the attention from the outside to the inward.
Showing off suggests a minimal concern to the tenor and song that is sung by the body choir.
Showing off hears only the strings of a personal composition.
Showing off separates itself out and apart from the surrounding scenery.
Showing off seeks to be lit by the spotlight of attention toward itself, for itself.
Showing off is gathering attention rather than scattering awareness.
Showing off curls in on itself and distracts, distorts, and destroys unity.
Showing off is set to play an individual level 10 against a community level 5.
Showing off is guided by a desire to fill up and be noticed.
Showing off looks no further than the tip of the nose with both eyes turned inward and nary a look to see who is present or what is happening.
Showing off is a one way ticket toward the self without a return journey toward the other.
Showing off will replace humility of the heart with hubris of the head.
Showing off operates from a dungeon of deficit.
I am never enough.
Show up and travel well, vinn