This marvelous body of ours is like a cosmic antenna. Through the exquisite composition of our external and internal senses, we receive the information that allows us to construct our reality. We do this nanosecond to nanosecond, and so it appears to us that the world is a solid, permanent, and something of an object with which we can engage. And yet in truth, it is ephemeral. The time span along which changes take place may be a bit longer than we can easily perceive. The changing seasons are not detectable in a minute or hour, but we wake up one day and the trees are more orange than green, and we feel the passing of the summer.
In contrast, the ephemeral nature of dance is experienced in real-time. There are no freeze frames in the dance. We cannot linger to savour, stop to contemplate, or indulge in an emotional freeze. We keep dancing even if we do return to revisit and experience that which has given us joy or pleasure. Ultimately the dance flows and even if it seems like we are repeating or cycling back, in reality, we are creating new and layered experiences of the things that are familiar to us. Words cannot capture the nanosecond, to nanosecond experience of the dance, and by extension, life.
Like the dance, life is lived, not explained. Sadly when people are caught up in the explanation, they repeat and hold onto stories that are really relics from our past. What is happening NOW? Which is my dance in this nanosecond of eternity? Our mind can only draw a blank with these questions. The answer lies enveloped in music and dance. The answer is really that there is no separate dance that is our particular dance. There is only one dance, one life, and to suck out every drop of the mystery of this cosmic experience, we need to keep moving. To dance life here, now, fully.
_Christos Daskalakos
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