🙂
A Hasidic tale:
The Jews of a small town in Russia were eagerly awaiting the arrival of a Rabbi.
This was going to be a rare event so they spent a lot of time preparing the
questions they were going to put to the holy man.
When he finally arrived and they met with him in the town hall, he could sense the
tension in the atmosphere as all prepared to listen to the answers he had for
them.
He said nothing at first; he just gazed into their eyes, and hummed a haunting
melody. Soon everyone began to hum. He started to sing and they sang along with
him. He swayed and danced in solemn, measured steps. The congregation followed
suit. Soon they became so involved in the dance, so absorbed in its movements that
they were lost to everything else on earth; so every person in that crowd was made
whole, was healed from the inner fragmentation that keeps us from the Truth.
It was nearly an hour before the dance slowed down to a halt. With the tension
drained out of their inner being everyone sat in the silent peace that pervaded
the room. Then the Rabbi spoke the only words he pronounced that evening: “I trust
that I have answered your questions.”
A dervish was asked why he worshipped God through dance. “Because.” he replied,
“to worship God means to die to self; dancing kills the self. When the self dies
all problems die with it. Where the self is not. Love is. God is. “
🙂
🙂
A Hasidic tale:
The Jews of a small town in Russia were eagerly awaiting the arrival of a Rabbi.
This was going to be a rare event so they spent a lot of time preparing the
questions they were going to put to the holy man.
When he finally arrived and they met with him in the town hall, he could sense the
tension in the atmosphere as all prepared to listen to the answers he had for
them.
He said nothing at first; he just gazed into their eyes, and hummed a haunting
melody. Soon everyone began to hum. He started to sing and they sang along with
him. He swayed and danced in solemn, measured steps. The congregation followed
suit. Soon they became so involved in the dance, so absorbed in its movements that
they were lost to everything else on earth; so every person in that crowd was made
whole, was healed from the inner fragmentation that keeps us from the Truth.
It was nearly an hour before the dance slowed down to a halt. With the tension
drained out of their inner being everyone sat in the silent peace that pervaded
the room. Then the Rabbi spoke the only words he pronounced that evening: “I trust
that I have answered your questions.”
A dervish was asked why he worshipped God through dance. “Because.” he replied,
“to worship God means to die to self; dancing kills the self. When the self dies
all problems die with it. Where the self is not. Love is. God is. “
🙂