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deep in it. Know the technique; know as perfectly as possible. Become as efficient as you can. Then one day drop all technique, and let the dance happen.
All that you know will be involved in it, but now it will not be a directing force. You will be using it but it will not be using you. Only then one becomes a dancer -- otherwise one remains a technician. And to be a technician is very ordinary. You can know everything about painting and can be technically perfect, but still the painting will not be a real painting, a real creation, unless you forget technique. Then things start happening on their own.
Unless a painter becomes a child again, he is not a creative painter. A musician who only knows about his instruments -- the ragas and the rhythm and everything -- doesn't become a musician. He can become, at the most, a composer. But a moment can come when he forgets everything, and something greater than him possesses him.
So for at least one hour every day, forget all technique.
That will be your meditation. Every night, make it a point to simply dance to God. So there is no need to be technical -- because He is not an examiner. You will simply dance as a small child... as a prayer. Then dance will have a totally different quality to it. You will feel for the first time that you are taking steps that you have never taken before; that you are moving in dimensions which have never been known to you. Unfamiliar and unknown ground will be traversed.
By and by, as you will become more and more in tune with the unknown, all techniques wi!l disappear. And without techniques, when dance is pure and simple, it is perfect.
If you really know something, you need not remember it. You need to remember because you do not really know it and you have to continuously remind yourself that you have to move this way and that way. Forget all knowledge and start moving like a small child, on the spur of the moment. Whatsoever happens, allow it. Don't be a doer -- rather, let things happen to you. Let yourself be possessed, and by and by go with it as vigorously as possible. It should become a whirlpool of energy, because there is a certain
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