“If we chose not to place identity at the center of our conducting, we could allow the dance of time to float into our imaginationsâ€. 146
As long as we conduct the continuity of the same, we live in a world where change is exceptional. … Conducting the experience this way we continue to ‘be’ our patterns and our limits, our prospects and our aspirations, the identities we proclaim and the perceptions we own. DTS 145…DTS 147
But we don´t have to identify with the position of being the conductor. Instead of conducting like a maestro in the concert hall, we can conduct as a wire conducts electricity. We can conduct without identity not shaping but allowing. DTS 147
Time ‘allows itself’ to be conducted, and so allows every kind of conducting as well. There is a style of conducting more in tune with the dance than the narrative. Instead of conducting forward into order, we can improvise. And the improvisation before (prior) the same (measure-out) move has unique qualities and dimensions. In this uniqueness there is neither exclusion nor derivation, the dimensions of every kind are included in the universal unique.
Time itself offers the gate to a subtle inward. Through the depth of open, the quality of life can be conducted within the reality of our own experience. DTS 154
Knowledge improvised on the basis of imperfections (pain, ignorance, obstacles) conducts the presentation of the universal unique.
In an inward and improvised conducting, we may touch the lightness of being: a loosening in the body, in the head, in the mind – a lightness let loose everywhere.
Carolyn,
I am glad you´ve liked it. I just want to emphasize that: “a lightness let loose everywhere” are the wonderful words of Tarthang Tulku, I just rearranged them to fit the essay.
Eliana – thank you. This is really clear: I appreciate the way you unite the two meanings of ‘conducting’ and explain the beneficial implications of our life in being able to practise an ‘inward and improvised conducting. Lightness let loose everywhere – what a wonderful Vision!