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very symbolic activity, the most significant to be understood by a spiritual seeker, because in dance the actor and the action become one: the dancer disappears into the dance, he becomes the dance. And that is the whole secret of meditation, the meditator has to become meditation, the singer has to become the song. Dance represents that merger, that melting, more prominently than any other activity.
Krishnamurti says: In the ultimate moment of meditation the observer becomes the observed. he is right. That's actually the definition of meditation.
Dance more and more, and remember to be lost in it, don't hold back. Go wholeheartedly into it so that only dance remains and there is no dancer. Whenever that happens you have come to know the very secret of all meditations. Then you can use the same key in any other activity: cooking food or taking a shower or going for a walk. You can use the same key to unlock all the doors. It is a master key.
To Grant: This is your new name: Swami Daso. Daso means the surrendered one. That's what sannyas is: a deep, total surrender, a surrender of all that is false, a surrender of all that is untrue, a surrender of the ego, a surrender of unconsciousness, a surrender of the mind, a surrender of misery, a surrender of past and a surrender of future -- all that is basically untrue, which is not really there. You only imagine that it is there, you believe it, and by believing it you make it real. Belief is a way to make unreal things real.
Give all your beliefs to me so that knowing can be yours. Give your ego to me so that you can attain to your self. Give your mind tome so that the no-mind becomes available to you.
-- How long will you be here?
-- Three days.
-- That's great! In three days you can do three things: They are known as the three great shelters in Buddhism: Buddham, sharanam, gachchammi.
First day: I go to the feet of Buddha. And the second day: Sangam sharanam gachchami -- I go to the feet of the Buddha's commune. And the third day, the last shelter: dhammam sharanam gachchami -- I go to the feet of the eternal law, the dhamma, tao. So three days will do! (much
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