5295 What is a Master
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:02:37 -0800
From: "Igor Polk" <ipolk@virtuar.com>
Subject: [Tango-L] What is a Master
To: <tango-l@mit.edu>
What is a Master.
The more you watch the dance of a Master, the more you discover of Elements,
Methods, Structure, Feel, Shape, and even History. It is a whole world in a
Master's dance. It has depth, it is multidimensional, multilevel. If you
watch a dance of not masters - you have feeling that you've seen it all.
Want-to-look-like-Masters adorn like crazy, boleo wide. And this is it. That
is not what counts.
Unfortunately, often Masters do not care about being recognized as Masters.
Happy are warriors: it is easy for them to find who is the best: one slash
of a Master, and not-Masters lay down dead. It is not like that in dancing..
It is difficult to recognize a Master. If you are not a Master yourself.
Igor Polk
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:39:31 -0700
From: "David Hodgson" <DHodgson@TangoLabyrinth.com>
Subject: [Tango-L] FW: What is a Master
I like that Igor:
Also having this penchant will add:
One aspect of a Master is someone (yes, male or female) who has been through
all their stuff... good, bad, and indifferent.
They have been through all the practice... joys, pain, heart ache and
sublime that comes along with it.
Regardless if one dances Tango, lives on a mountain top, sits in meditation,
participates in a high ritual, or does the dishes.
They do this to understand and integrate that they too have their head up
their As*, and still continue to dance.
The ones in process are looking for light.
The Master sees brown.
Zorrito...
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Subject: [Tango-L] What is a Master
What is a Master.
The more you watch the dance of a Master, the more you discover of Elements,
Methods, Structure, Feel, Shape, and even History. It is a whole world in a
Master's dance. It has depth, it is multidimensional, multilevel. If you
watch a dance of not masters - you have feeling that you've seen it all.
Want-to-look-like-Masters adorn like crazy, boleo wide. And this is it. That
is not what counts.
Unfortunately, often Masters do not care about being recognized as Masters.
Happy are warriors: it is easy for them to find who is the best: one slash
of a Master, and not-Masters lay down dead. It is not like that in dancing..
It is difficult to recognize a Master. If you are not a Master yourself.
Igor Polk
