DANCING TOGETHER: the drinking
One afternoon, in paradise, in its most famous cafe called CONTEMPLATION: Lao Tzu, Confucius, and Buddha are sitting and chatting. The waiter comes with a tray that holds three glasses of the juice called "Life," and offers them. Buddha immediately closes his eyes and passes on the offer; he says, "Life is misery."
Confucius closes his eyes halfway - and asks the waiter to give him the glass. He would like to have a sip - but just a sip, because without tasting how can one say whether life is misery or not? "First I will have a sip, and then I will say what I think." He takes a sip and he says, "Buddha is right - life is misery."
Lao Tzu takes all the three glasses and he says, "Unless one drinks totally, how can one say anything?" He drinks all the three glasses and he starts dancing!
Buddha and Confucius ask him, "Are you not going to say anything?" And Lao Tzu says, "This is what I am saying - my dance and my song are speaking for me." Unless you taste totally, you cannot say. And when you taste totally, you still cannot say because what you know is such that no words are adequate.
You can't drink and talk at the same time! That's one of the reasons "Dancing Together" is a non-verbal space so that you drink of this juice called life!
I wish to offer a toast: "May your life be a dance you can drink a case of and still be on your feet!"