Square Sun, Square Moon: A Collection of Sweet Sour Essays by Reps Paul

Author:Reps,Paul
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 2012-02-06T16:00:00+00:00

The dance devotees over Japan, Hawaii, and U.S.A. meet weekly in their homes, pray and sometimes dance together.

Close eyes

and let yourself move

as you feel

to improvised singing.

Anyone can do this. To see hundreds of persons young and old dancing so simply, freeing themselves of human troublings, brings tears to one's eyes.

Such muga in motion is unlike dancing that overexerts and fatigues, that requires skill and training, that few can do, and that young and old do not do together. It feels like being rocked in a mother's arms and such good good feeling may continue into the next day. It is what dance may be.

It should be more enjoyed than explained. If we know why we do something, we say we are intelligent. Yet our knowing only surfaces our wisdom of being and can separate us from it. A greater wisdom is woven in our cells.

As we are humble about our assumed knowing, as we play we know, great nature becomes more friend, less enemy. Japanese, though often over-earnest, are ready players, singers, and dancers. Their religions tend to be enjoyable rather than threatening.

Ogamisama has patterned much of her teaching after the Tenrikyo faith which has many more "followers", whose beloved founder was also a woman who taught movement with chanting. Of the many modern religions in Japan, these two try to sing and move it.

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