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Caution to the winds?

Written by: Michael Gerber

Article Overview: Yes, let’s throw caution to the winds and throw out our old habits with it. I just listened for the first time to my introduction to the Vancouver Dreaming Room recently past, and was I surprised!

Caution to the winds?

Yes, let’s throw caution to the winds and throw out our old habits with it. I just listened for the first time to my introduction to the Vancouver Dreaming Room recently past, and was I surprised!

It was wonderful!

I’m sorry, I know, I shouldn’t be saying such a thing about myself. But if you knew me you would realize that it is the last thing I would do. I never listen to myself, not my CDs, not my Speaking tapes, not my Dreaming Room tapes, nor do I ever read the books I have written. (I haven’t read any of these Manifestos either).

The logic is, once written, once said, it’s dead.

At least that’s my motto. Doesn’t have to be yours. I simply can’t bear to go back and repeat old business. There is so much I would have done better, or at least differently. So, yes, I love to throw caution to the winds, to go into uncharted ground, to let it rip, to speak out once and then shut up, and to speak out again, and then shut up, and then to write my heart out and then say something entirely different.

I only wish I could do it all so much better than I can.

But, again, as I said earlier, I just listened to ten minutes of a CD of my Vancouver Dreaming Room and I couldn’t help but feel the energy all over again, the way I felt when I first said what I said. The introduction of Beginner’s Mind and a Blank Piece of Paper, and why that’s such a significant idea (not only mine, but Zen Mind Beginner’s Mind by Suzuki), the idea that we can begin ourselves and our life and our business and our relationships all over again, anew.

I also said that this is an almost impossible thing to do.
Yet, in every Dreaming Room we attempt it, each of us in our own way, some of us struggle, some of us don’t try at all, some of us are wistfully helpless, some of us are tough and make noisy tributes to leaping over the bridge. Some of us cry, and some of us just rage with joy. So many emotions in the Dreaming Room. So many issues, barriers, struggles, completions, transformations. I love the feeling of going for broke. I love to watch as others do it. I love to have a hand in what happens, and then let it go and do it all over again differently with someone else. And then someone else. And then someone else.

I love it when I find myself like a blank piece of paper, empty of all guile, empty of all trying, empty of all conclusions, empty of all but what is present there in between us, in the space that is created when people earnestly open themselves up. I love to be filled up and then emptied, it feels like nothing else.

So, yes, let’s throw caution to the winds. Come join me in The Dreaming Room. I promise you I won’t know any more than you will what is going to happen to you. But, when it’s all done we will be able to knock back and have a great belly thumping laugh, and perhaps something else.

Here’s to something else.

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Article Tags: blank piece of paper, bridge, caution, completions, dreaming room, emotions, heart, impossible thing, logic, manifestos, motto, old business, old habits, piece of paper, rage, relationships, suzuki, tributes, vancouver, zen mind



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