Photo by Volker Schramm
On July 10 Berlin’s first inter-religious Music Festival “Faiths in Tune” took place.
The Dzogchen Community of Berlin, Dödjungling, performed three Khaita dances – Tashi Dangpo, Sodang Yala and Tashi Montshik – and also showed the Dance of the Vajra that Benefits Beings, wearing the costumes.
Dancers performing the Dance of the Vajra that Benefits Beings in costumes. Photo by Volker Schramm
Thanks to many dedicated helpers, supporters, guests from Austria and the preparation with our beautiful teacher Lenka Tchernobay, it was a happy gathering and an inspiring day.
THE VAJRA DANCE
The Dance of the Vajra is a result of the profound meditation of the Dzogchen master Chögyal Namkhai Norbu.
The Master received the terma “The Vajra Dance Liberating the Six Classes of Beings into the Six Pure Dimensions” from 1989 on.“Vajra” is a Sanskrit word and means diamond.
In the Dzogchen teaching the Vajra is a symbol of our essential nature, which is pure, clear and immutable like a diamond.
Practicing the Dance of the Vajra one can discover this real nature by being in the state of contemplation; and one can learn to maintain and stabilize this knowledge not only in sitting meditation but also being in movement. In this way it can become part of our daily life.Since 1991 Chögyal Namkhai Norbu has taught four different Vajra dances.
While all four dances harmonize the three main aspects of our being – body, energy (or voice) and mind – each dance has its own specific characteristics.The “Dance of the Song of the Vajra” is a complex symbolic dance connected particularly to the energetic aspect of our existence.
Through their sound, all the syllables of the Song of the Vajra are linked to specific energy points within our inner mandala, our body, and our outer mandala, the external dimension of the world.
Through sound, color and movement we can coordinate these energy points and create a harmonizing communication on the level of subtle energy.The “Dance of the Vajra that Benefits Beings” is a symbolic dance of compassion.
It is more related to our physical level.
It frees the tensions related to our conditioning by different emotions.
