You know, the opposite of the dance is the thing that we’re all trying to do: **we’re trying to catch hold of it**. And you can’t catch hold of it. You can’t take a **whirlpool out of the water** and look at it, and say, “Now I’ve got a whirlpool.” It’s a pattern of movement of the water.

And you are a pattern of movement of the whole universe. You are **not** something that is going to **be caught** and held.

The human being is something that **flows**. And when you try to **hold onto it**, it is like trying to hold on to a waterfall. You just get a handful of water, and the waterfall **goes on**.

This is why all attempts to be **permanent** are based on a profound misunderstanding of the world. Because the world is not **permanent**. It is a system of **perpetual change**.

And when you try to grasp and hold onto yourself, and say, “I want to be me, and I want to stay that way,” you are trying to **stop the flow**. And that creates **pain**.

You see, if you resist the flow of the river, and you put your hand in it and push, the river pushes back. If you relax, and just go with the stream, it carries you. But if you try to hold on to yourself, you are resisting your own change. And this is the source of all the serious difficulties we get into.

Because the whole idea of the **ego**—the separate little “me”—is this attempt to **stop the flow** and be **static**. But it is absolutely impossible.

We’re trying to **hang onto things** that are **not there**. And that’s the source of the whole frustration. The moment you understand that everything is a process of **flow**, you can let go. You can **trust it**.

And when you **trust the universe**, you don’t have to worry about whether you’re going to be a **success** or a **failure**. You don’t have to worry about whether you’re going to **win** or **lose**. Because the game is simply to **play**.

And if you’re playing the game to win, you’ve **missed the point**. Because the winning is just the final chord. It’s the end of the dance. And nobody wants the dance to end. They want it to go on, and on, and on.

So, the point of it is to see that you are the whole process, and that you are **safe**. The moment you stop clinging to yourself, and you let yourself **go with the stream**, you discover that you are not just a **local eddy** in the stream, but you are the **whole stream**. You are the whole cosmic energy.

Mahalo

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Clifford "RAY" Hackett I founded www.adapt.org in 1980 it now has over 50 million members.
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