not an oxymoron
Posted in On Practices, The Path on Feb 24th, 2010
A salient aspect of Dancemeditation is learning to be receptive inside our bodies. We have to do not doing in order to undo overdoing. We make an effort to let go. Michael Sells in his beautiful introduction, in Early Islamic Mysticism, to Qushayri’s essay on Tawajad (Making Ecstatic), Wajad (Ecstasy), and Wujud (Ecstatic Existentiality), gives [...]
Posted in The Path on Feb 6th, 2010
Below are three stages of development in the tradition of Sufism articulated by Qushayri. Their simplicity is helpful — graspable benchmarks.
Moving from one to another rests on understanding oneself. In Dancemeditation this means time spent with, and in, the body. We are our bodies. Within a movement practice, we see, feel, and discover who and [...]
Posted in Of Core Knowing, On Practices, The Path on Nov 20th, 2009
During the recent NYC Intensive, I wrote:
I entered the Black Velvet Inner-ness where breaths float as jewels.
Breath is the activator and lens of subtlety. In the realm of subtlety we can dissolve into that which is most infinite and most intimate. For Sufis, the court of love is found inside the subtlety inside the [...]