Sinergy
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Interesting topic. I keep flashing back to Mask where the boy shows the blind girl what red looks like by putting a hot rock in her hand. Have you ever read about peak experiences? People brave death and crippling injuries to climb Mt. Everest. There may have been a point to climbing to the top of a snow covered hilltop before Norgay climbed it, but now it is so yesterday's news. Except there was the guy a few years ago who jogged to the top and back, and next week there will be a troupe of skateboarders doing it, but I digress... There is a space that a person (from what I have read) finds as a performer, as an athlete, (or that I have experienced teaching my class, scening, sparring, etc) as whatever, where all of reality melts away for me and all that is left is myself and the people I am involved with. For me there is a mental silence that is deafening. There is no future, there is no past, there is no emotion, it is being in The moment in a way which I cannot find in my daily life. There is just me and my partner. And there is such a wondrous beauty in the moment that I get all giddy and weak kneed thinking about it. Hope this helps, Sinergy
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