Can you dance

I used to work as a guard/counselor for a prisoner work release program. We would live in tents for 33 days at a time helping young prisoners work and re-connect with nature. One night the other guard and I started talking about what makes a person a prophet or a guru. We decided that the difference is that the prophets and true guru's can close their eyes.

This was our theory:
Life is a fog...you cannot see where you are going and people live life walking around fumbling, trying not to get hurt. Some people go through life with their arms outstretched and feel for things that could injure them. Inevitably, they find them. Some people don't bother moving and just sit down. Some try to bulldoze their way through, some curse their own blindness, some look for others who claim to know the secret path and grip on to their coattails...

You get the idea...the metaphor could go on forever.

True Prophets and Gurus, we concluded, don't walk, they dance and they do it with their eyes closed...and smiling. Do they hit the obstacles? Of course they do, that's why they are smiling.

You cannot dance another's dance, you must dance your own. You can always dance with a partner though.

See, I told you this metaphor could go on forever.

Here is what I took back to my tent...
The harder we try to avoid falling and stumbling, the less we create movement in our lives. Harv Ecker always said, "What you resists...persists."

If we can dance and let our falling be part of the dance...if we write the stumbling off as the perfect moment to dance on face first to the floor, then there are no mistakes...only dancing.

By our stumbling, the world is perfected.

Why do they dance with their eyes closed?
Because theirs a fog. What is the use of trying to see your way through? Wasn't it the Shaolin Monks who said, "It is a foolish man who runs in the rain...you cannot avoid the inevitable."

Let go of your ideas that you are in control. Just dance. You will trip and fall, everyone does. Even the Master. But the master does 3 things:
1. Laughs
2. Get's up
3. Keeps dancing despite the world around them. (Eyes closed mind you!)

Please teach the children how to dance, and smile.

From my dancing heart to yours, 
Aaron
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