Diya
Associations---India Prayer Meditative Trance Candle
Tapes Found On---
Origin---modern
Choreographer---Lynn Shelton
Notes
This is one of the dances where the capacity of the circle to cultivate
ëThe Collected Stateí will greatly enhance the effect of the dance. The
Collected State, a term used frequently by Yakzan, is very simply attained
to by cultivating the capacity to use the breath as a sensory organ to
witness the body ... the tightness, the looseness ... becoming aware of
the areas that are felt as well as the areas that are not felt. This capacity
is innate and natural. It is often awakened within a person upon the first
attempt, but certainly in almost all within a month of practice. Once this
capacity is comfortably attained, we then turn our ability to use the breath
as a sensory organ to witness conditions towards our emotional center (this
may be felt in a tactile manner as the area in the belly where the butterflies
sometimes occur) and then towards the energy within the skull, the substance
from which our thoughts arise. Having developed the capacity to witness
all three of these areas of oneís self at the same time, we then ask ourselves
... Who is this who dares watch my mind?
Going in ... becoming this One Who Witnesses ... is the beginning
of the Collected State.
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