[MD] Trance Zen Dance

[John Carl]

"Among the many forms in which human spirit has tried to express its
innermost yearnings and perceptions, music is perhaps the most universal. It
symbolizes the yearning for harmony, with oneself and others, with nature
and the spiritual and the sacred within us and around us. There is something
in music that transcends and unites. This is evident in the sacred music of
every community-music that expresses the universal yearning that is shared
by people all over the globe."

-His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama


“I say we fill our guns full of love and we shoot for a new
dream<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXg6Cm_T9fk>
”


Trance Zen Dance is as cool name for a band, imo.  They're a local
group<http://www.trancezendance.org/home.html>that have been around a
while so I've heard their names on the radio more
than a few times, listened to a CD of their music once, from a friend.

We went on a quick trip to Reno, again, while my eldest daughter Em is home
for Spring Break.

So what I've been thinking about, between hotels, shopping and eating, is my
last post to Marsha, and why religious, spiritual or psychological are all
inadequate terms for transcendent experience.  Even though transcendent
experience is in a sense, psychological, spiritual and religious.

But really, what it is most of all is experience which takes us out of our
static conceptions of self.  Transcending our selves.

The problem with labeling this experience "spiritual, religious or
psychological" is that those are definitions of what lies beyond our static
conceptions of self.  If we fully realize and conceptualize the transcendant
experience with these terms, then we block transcendance.  For then, our
"outside" has become part of our conceptual arrangemand we can no longer go
there in seeking escape from ourselves.

We can't grasp transcendance.

And I think Marsha knows this well, with her embrace of "nothingness".  But
even nothing becomes something when it's abstracted and aimed at.  So that
doesn't make me all that happy either.  For instance, my nothing is
completely different from your nothing, since my nothing is dropping MY
patterns and your nothing is dropping yours.

And then there's the thing that Ron points to with his Emerson quote:

Fresh truth, like the thoughts of genius,

comes always as a surprise, as what Emerson
 calls “the newness” (CW3: 40). He therefore
looks for a “certain brief experience, which
 surprise[s] me in the highway or in the market,
 in some place, at some time…” (Z: 253). This
is an experience that cannot be repeated by
simply returning to a place or to an object
such as a painting.

A great disappointment of life, Emerson finds, is that one can only
“see” certain pictures once, and that the stories and people who fill a day
or an hour with pleasure and insight are not able to repeat the performance.

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I'm almost tempted to say, "duh", Ron and Emerson,  but that'd be repeating
a performance.


Our language,
Our language of creation,
Language of liberation,
We speak into that space
That we call the now
As we allow
To let truth
Teach us how.