[Zen] Dancing Meditation

2008-09-10 Thread Camila Diehl
I am from Brazil, and we like dance, even dance as martial arts. The power of dance is chi also. Dancing is like zazen, as much as walking zazen? Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo!

Re: [Zen] Dancing Meditation

2008-09-10 Thread Edgar Owen
Camila, Yes, dancing can be zen. Anything can be zen, but especially if one dances with one's chi that is Zen. The problem is one can get hung up in particular dance moves or have one's Zen distracted by the music or one's partner or whatever rather than moving directly to the chi. The

Re: [Zen] Dancing Meditation

2008-09-10 Thread Jody W. Ianuzzi
Hello Edgar, The dancing that Camila is talking about is a style of martial art that was developed to look like dancing so as not to allert the authorities that people could defend themselves. I think it is very clever. JODY Current Book Discussion:

Re: [Zen] Dancing Meditation

2008-09-10 Thread Edgar Owen
Jody, Yes, capoeira is that, but I wasn't sure that was all she was talking about. Edgar On Sep 10, 2008, at 7:17 PM, Jody W. Ianuzzi wrote: Hello Edgar, The dancing that Camila is talking about is a style of martial art that was developed to look like dancing so as not to allert the