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Written by:Amparo Garcia-Crow
3/26/2009 6:20 AM

The music that came together last night was inspired by Meister Eckart's pearl of wisdom:

 

"The eye with which I see God---is the same eye with which God sees me" which got him into a lot of trouble with the Pope 700 years ago!

 

Meister Eckart's realization implies our inherent divine natures which I suppose can be threatening to some.

 

Dancing together---the Bardo--- is one big eyeball.

 

As I mentioned last night, I don't think its an accident that eye---when you speak it---sounds exactly like "I".

 

Dancing together is the one place where we can leave the "me, myself and I" and enter the "seeing" of our  inter-connectedness. I mentioned Indra's net which sounds alot like internet for very good reasons. The ancient God of Gods heavenly net that covered his palace is the perfect metaphor for the dance, it implies that at every corner where the net meets and connects---there is a jewel.  And that jewel, because it is crystal clear, reflects all the other jewels---infinitum. 

 

We are the jewels that meet and reflect the other when we dance.  We get to experience ourselves---together---becoming the one dance---being danced. 

 

Jack Hass says it beautifully:

 

Our selves exist only inrelation, whether it be with the earth, with others or with God. To realize this is to lose yourself in relation and more than that you are everything.  The boundaries of separation weaken and dissolve, and only the integral bonds remain which produce the cosmic dance."

 

Thank you for showing up to dance together, the bardo, and being such awe-inspiring reflections.

 

 

 

 

 

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Dancing with the Ancestors - Easter Sunday

The last Sunday I guided the music, which was Easter Sunday, we had a family reunion. We celebrated dancing with the 'missing' which in reality---in the dance, is completely present with us always.

I began with the notion of mathematics, particularly the mathematical probability that all living humans today have a common ancestor if you go back 2,000 to 5,000 years. (MAPPING HUMAN HISTORY by Steve Olson) Olson states that if you go back 5,000 to 7,000 years we would all have the same set of ancestors.

Year Generation Ancestors
2000 1 You You
1975 2 2 2 parents
1950 3 6 4 grandparents
1925 4 14 8 g grandparents
1900 5 30 16 gg grandparents
1875 6 62 32 ggg grandparents
1850 7 126 64 gggg grandparents
1825 8 254 128 ggggg grandparents
1800 9 510 256 gggggg grandparents
1775 10 1,022 512 ggggggg grandparents
1750 11 2,046 1,024 gggggggg grandparents
1725 12 4,094 2,048 ggggggggg grandparents
1700 13 8,190 4,096 gggggggggg grandparents
1675 14 16,382 8,192 ggggggggggg grandparents
1650 15 32,766 16,384 gggggggggggg grandparents
1625 16 65,534 32,768 ggggggggggggg grandparents
1600 17 131,070 65,536 gggggggggggggg grandparents
1575 18 262,142 131,072 ggggggggggggggg grandparents
1550 19 524,286 262,144 gggggggggggggggg grandparents
1525 20 1,048,574 524,288 ggggggggggggggggg grandparents
1500 21 2,097,150 1,048,576 gggggggggggggggggg grandparents

Using simple division - 1 trillion divided by 200 million - shows that each person back then would appear 5,000 times on the family tree of every single person living today ... It is mathematically inevitable that at some point, there will be a person who appears at least once on everybody's tree."

There were about 45 people dancing that Sunday. Using the numbers above, I asked everyone to imagine that every 'body' present---represented the numbers of parents/grandparents (since around 1870) that it took to get us here. And now. And in that spirit---we danced a family reunion, mindfully recognizing that in our individual DNAs---we shared a common be--ing.

What a blessing it is to recognize ourselves---dancing together.

By ampybird@gmail.com on  4/21/2009 2:10 PM
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