Visudha has suggested that people outside Vancouver Island might be interested in donating to the Dance Across Borders fundraiser.
Please contact nlavoie@shaw.ca for address and receipt. And contact me (jbateman@shaw.ca) for background info that explains why we're so pumped about doing this ...
I also want to say that John's last note was bang on. Thank you for such clarity and insight. It really helped me see clearly about what the heck goes on in those fleeting 90 minutes!
As I spend time myself in this centered place on the floor, i feel mroe readily able to identify the inevitable shift back to the unbalanced dance of intellect & ego. Permanent residence: the brain, my Mel Brooksian producer/director of so many thoughts & judgments (self/other, humourous/depressing, wounded/look 'ma no hands joyous).
And then it's over, and the coats must be be put on and we head our separate ways. One personal goal for 2007, to be sacralized at the Ritual, is to try to carry this centredness out into the world. Because, as you, John, say, this is where our authentic self lives ... i'd like to make friends with this authenticity more often in the "real world."
