Dance & Meditation “Dance is one of the most religious phenomena, but it has lost its meaning so completely that it has almost fallen to the opposite polarity. It has become a sexual phenome-non;  dance has lost the spiritual dimension.“ “Dance is a very symbolic activity, the most significant to be understood by a spiritual seeker, because in dance the actor and the action become one: the dancer disappears into the dance, he becomes the dance. And that is the whole secret of meditation, the meditator has to become meditation, the singer has to become the song. Dance represents that merger, that melting, more prominently than any other activity.“ “You can dance like a Zorba, you can meditate like a Buddha, and I don't see there is any contradiction. In fact, if you have danced totally, deeply, so deeply that the dan-cer disappears in the dance, that is the time to start medi-tation. And when you have meditated, and you are full of silence and peace and blissfulness, so much so that not that you are blissfulness, but you can bless the whole world, that is the moment to dance. Your dance then will be a showe-ring of blessings to the whole world.“ “Forget the dancer, the center of the ego; become the dance. That is the meditation. Dance so deeply that you forget completely that you are dancing and begin to feel that you are the dance." "The division must disappear; then it becomes a medita-tion. If the division is there, then it is an exercise: good, healthy, but it cannot be said to be spiritual. It is just a simple dance. Dance is good in itself ~ as far as it goes it is good. After it, you will feel fresh, young. But it is not meditation yet. The dancer must go, until only the dance remains ..... Don’t stand aside, don’t be an observer. Participate! And be playful. Remember the word playful always ~ with me it is very basic.” Volgende pagina ⇒ Compassion & bliss © Quotes van Osho © Afbeelding