Re: Centering the Follower?

[astrid <astrid @RUBY.PLALA.OR.JP>]

> > This was not my statement, more like Robert Hink (?) describing
something
> > that I also wrote about to the list months ago.
>
> The Zen like mental state  where I have no thoughts in my head at allI am
no longer
> worried about what I am creating, if it is good enough, where it is
> going, etc...  It feels like there is a direct path from feeling to
> sound and the experience is very immediate.  When the music is over I
> feel like I am waking up from a dream. I think this is what the old
milongueros in
> Buenos Aires are after when they go out dancing.  I think this feeling is
the magic we
> are all after.  The milongueros all talk about it, often in very poetic
> terms.

Thanks, Robert, you said it better than I think I ever did on the list.
footnote:
from a wall hanging in a meditation room
"My cat sits in Zazen every day. But not as seriously as I."

What that has to do with practising tango, you figure out for yourself.

; )
Astrid
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