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IS YOUR RELATIVE EXISTENCE HAPPENING AS IF YOU ARE DANCING LIGHTLY OR AS IF YOU ARE DOING A STIFF, BOOT-STOMPING, GESTAPO-STYLE MARCH?
Consideration 1
Which is closer to the way you are moving through the relative existence?
Consideration 2
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Consideration 3
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DANCING DEFINED
Dancing: “To move one’s feet or body, or both, rhythmically in a pattern of steps.”
Dancing: “To leap and skip, as from excitement”; “to move nimbly or quickly”; “to dance with joy”.
Dancing to “another tune”: “To forfeit one’s behavior, attitudes, beliefs.”
Dancing: “To move merrily”; “to express pleasure by motion.”
DANCING
“Dancing can involve a fluid, even, natural motion which, at its core, exudes joy and pleasure and lightness. It can also involve no movement at all when the dance takes place within and provides a sense of fullness and unchecked joy. Either way, there is never a “roller-coaster” type of jerkiness with post-realization dancing. There is smoothness and gracefulness and agility. Moving through the relative existence post-realization is like moving smoothly across a dance floor (not in some helter-skelter fashion and not in some roller coaster fashion with excessive up’s and down’s but in a slow, deliberate, even, level, steady, flexible, and effortless manner.)”
(Floyd Henderson)
“The ‘end game’ with non-duality is not to be able to eat, drink, breathe, talk, dissect, and analyze non-duality; nor is the ‘end game’ to spend all of one’s waking hours pontificating about non-duality. The ‘end game’ is to reach an understanding that results in a love of silence and solitude; that allows Reality to be overlaid upon the relative so that a nisarga (natural) manner of abidance happens; that allows all to happen spontaneously while, ironically, also happening deliberately”; and that allows whatever happens - or whatever does not happen - to be enjoyed fully. With the sense of limitlessness that manifests post-realization, then all can be relished: the working required to assure independence, the walking, the eating, the looking at what nature has to offer, the sitting, the sharing, and, yes, the dancing.”
(Floyd Henderson)
[It is explained this way in the book FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE]:
“Realization is marked by the abandoning of all concepts. On this multi-step ‘journey,’ we’ve used many concepts to remove concepts, not unlike the proverbial thorn used to remove a thorn. If you have something within you like a thorn, and you use a thorn to get rid of that which was within, that which was causing your misery, what effort need remain after the removal?
The work is done; the tools required for the task - the thorns needed to remove the thorn - are no longer required. What further exercises could be indicated? Realized, you will not know any concern about any thorns from ‘the past.’
You will not long for any thorn to return. You will not save spare thorns just in case they might be needed in ‘the future.’ You will not work to maintain your ‘state of non-thorn-ness.’ It’s all gone, all dissolved. It just happened automatically when the last concept dis-appeared.” At that point, you can just enjoy the dance.]
Other quotations about dancing lightly:
On with the dance! let joy be unconfined;
No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
(George Gordon, Lord Byron)
You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart.
(Author Unknown)
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
(Ted Shawn)
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.
(Agnes De Mille)
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
(Havelock Ellis)
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here we should dance.
(Author Unknown)
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.
(Martha Graham)
We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive . . . and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.
(D.H. Lawrence)
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
(Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.
(Hopi Indian Saying)
SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ:
“I am neither the potentiality nor the actualisation, nor the actuality of things. In my light they come and go as the specks of dust dancing in the sunbeam. The light illumines the specks, but does not depend on them. Nor can it be said to create them. It cannot be even said to know them”
and
“The moon dancing on the water is seen in the water, but it is caused by the moon in the sky and not by the water.”
[Floyd: “So, too, the dancing that is seen among the realized is caused not by “a person” but by the freedom that follows the understanding of the functioning of the totality and by abiding thereafter as ‘Your Original Nature,’ overlaying Reality upon the relative.”]
A visitor to Maharaj’s loft noted:
There was “a woman . . . beginning a guru-disciple relationship with Maharaj. He was encouraging her to take initiation from him. It was like watching a romance, a dance.”
[Floyd: “Once the Oneness is known and True Love manifests, then the dance can happen. To some, the dance might look like romance, like “love,” yet it is not. It is merely the dance that occurs when the instrument of the heart begins playing a melodious tune called “Real Love Understood” after the Wisdom manifests - the Wisdom which allows for the knowing of the Oneness . . . the understanding of the Everything-ness.”]
From another visitor to the loft:
Speaking of Maharaj’s morning ritual, he noted that Maharaj would “ . . . join the bhajan-dance and forget himself.”
[Floyd: “Actually, it is because he forget his ‘self’ that he could then dance.”]
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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THE EXPLANATION
Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:
"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
