Bicentennial Man
The song of life plays it tunes and the body moves in synchrony with it. There is no need to think to do the right movements. The more we feel the rhythm without thinking, the easier and delightful the body movements will appear. The ears will listen to the sounds the mind will interpret those sounds and the body moves to them. There is no further thought involved.
The song of life plays its own tune. It is a tune of freedom. Freedom means to break from everything which is known. To feel free the “known” must be gone.
As we dance in joy of the sounds of music, likewise; we learn to move according to the different rhythms played by life itself. The more flexible I become through my own practice and experience, the greater my range of motion and thus my ability to move in synchronization with the tunes of life.
Life unfolds its beauty when I am ready to try. The bird wants to fly. To open the cage of comfort is an act of courage which allows us to feel the power of our own wings. Its true capacity.
To be honest with your own nature of innocence, freedom and enjoyment and to go beyond any boundary, any preconception, any mental wall in such a way as to experience the experience and to express the best of it, is to transform yourself.
Self transformation is a practical matter where life plays a tune and we move unlike anything we have done before. The tune cannot be the same if the CD of life is moving forward. The tempo of the songs of life will vary; at one time it will be salsa, another a jazzy tune and perhaps then a disco tune will appear. My dancing steps cannot be the same, for sameness means dullness, my steps need to change; I need to listen to the tunes without a further thought, break the schemes of what is a “proper dance.” The tunes play and I move. Life has given me experiences as a way to practice my own dancing moves. I have practiced many times those moves, but … I can only use them when the song is appropriate; then beauty and harmony will be experienced, it will be seen. That beauty is authentic.
Sometimes life will play an “AC\DC” tune. It is not for me to catalog the song as “good” or “bad,” since it is just another tune… another song. I can choose to dance and enjoy it or to let the song change my mood and stop my dance. Life is not a “rock and roll” song. Many songs will be played, but the good dancer knows how to move and enjoy every tune; every time.
The critic is outside, seeing the scene of life comfortably seated in a chair. Just like sitting in a Discotheque without dancing and without enjoying how others dance, but just to catalog what is “good” and what is “bad.”
The critic will be afraid of moving to the tunes of life since his own “good” and “bad” formula only works when others are dancing and not when he is the one on the dance floor. Knowing is to know yourself and nothing else.
Life is about experiencing and expression. The experience makes us grow as long as we don’t play the “good and bad” game. We can only express beauty when our experiences are beautiful.
The critic will be afraid of moving to the tunes of life since his own “good” and “bad” formula only works when others are dancing and not when he is the one on the dance floor. Knowing is to know yourself and nothing else.
Life is about experiencing and expression. The experience makes us grow as long as we don’t play the “good and bad” game. We can only express beauty when our experiences are beautiful.
When we look at a tiger we can catalog that animal as “good or bad.” However, our own limited perception cannot disagree about the beauty and majesty of a tiger, for beauty is beyond good and evil.
Beauty can only be expressed when we go beyond the stigmas, the stereotype, the judgments… when there is freedom from the known.
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