A week after I heard the death of Ramesh, I danced Ramesh at the Forest Park in Rotterdam. A lot of memories overflowed over 20 years spent with Ramesh. Among them, especially, in the desert of Rajasthan, the bodily sensation of Ramesh at the moment when sudden cerebral hemorrhage occurred came to my body.
How many times have I danced the dead?
Swarn friends, Yamazaki, Tsuji, Hashimoto, the dead of the Pacific War, the deceased of Auschwitz, a strange death on the streets of Delhi, the dead of Fukushima 3.11 ....
Through dancing the dead and I become one.
The darkness of my body is full of the dead. It's as if their playground.
Little by little, it gradually approaches the country of the dead.

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Simon Thakur 
Sorry to hear this Lee. He was a wonderful presence at the school.

Ikuko Dhasa
 言葉が見つかりません。あまりに沢山の想い出がありすぎて。｢一家に一人ﾛﾒｽが欲し
い｣なんて冗談を言っていた私です。ポテトパランタは、最高だった。
同じ時間を過ごせたことに心から感謝し、御冥福をお祈りしますイグ

 I can not find a word. There are too many memories.
It is me who was jokingly saying "We want one Ramesh in every family." Potato prantha was the best. I am sincerely grateful that I could spend the same time and I pray for the souls

Vishal Choudhary
 This is so sad , and heart less ,,

Gadu Schmitz 
Ramesh was a wonderful friend, care taker and healer
at Subbody Butoh School. He treated every student with such care
that we often took him for granted. It is hard to imagine Subbody School without Ramesh. I love him as my brother. Ramesh, rest in peace.

Czap Gábor :-(

Sara Pons 
Ohhh Ramesh, beautiful image come to my mind thinking about him！

Chiara de Bona 
ohh Ramesh....beautiful presence! rest in peace!

Natasja de Lange 
Ramesh rest in peace I will always remember you <3

Monika Smekot 
OH NO!!!! what a sad news! what a loss for the planet. Such a gentle and sweet soul! He was a beautiful being! ve Lots of
love for his family... beautiful kids and wife. Thank you Lee for introducing me to Ramesh! Dear Ramesh I hope you are free from pain now and planning your come back to earth... we need good strong and inspiring spirits like yours!!!!!

Aymon Barrio
 You left an imprint in our hearts. Teacher. Sweet soul. Hard worker.

Christine Jaroszewski ❤️

Markus Gross 
Om shanti Ramesh it was a peasure to see your essence of beeing!

B Anneli Türva 
Beautiful Ramesh! You left only good memories.

十 をぢこ インドでは何度もロメスに救われた
ありがとうおやすみなさい

 I was saved by Ramesh many times in India. Thank you and sleep well! Wodico Tsunashi

Nikhil Dev This is so sad..i m so sad to hear about this..we have worked together for a long time..rest in peace Ramesh, you will always be remembered.

Monuj Saikia So Sad...RIP...

Elly Hermanussen Rhames teach you resonativity and you Rhizome Lee, showed me the meaning of Life Resonance Art. I am very greatfull for that! It means a lot to me! A beautiful Gift. Thank You so much!

Lakshika Pandey Lee is this is so beautiful... allowing yourself to live the sensations of different lives ..... celebrating life in its entirety including death.... connection prevails through deep sensations.... gratitude for being this wonderful person that you are..lots of warm affection.

Silas Valentine Yeah buddy! A beautiful butoh for Ramesh. He watches and smiles for you man.

咸 & 癇　-Two KAN

咸 (Kan) of Zamami and 癇 (Kan) of Tatsumi Hijikata

Both are rarely used words, but it is an essential concept that forms the basis of Beauty for two persons.

咸 (Kan) of Zeami

Zeami who was a founder of Japanese Noh dance, had investigated in what is the Beauty of Noh dance.

In his "Kadensho (What is Flower)" written in his age 40's, he defined it by three elements: Flower, Interesting, and Rarity.

But, in the later years, he said that in the previous difinition, it was still bound by the work of human heart, when we recognize it as "Oh, flower blooms!   Interesting! or Rare!".

But, There are moments that we are unexpectedly moved by something spontaneously without the work of heart such as "Flower!", "Interesting!" or "Rare!".

"What is it that Life is moved without the work of the heart? "

Normaly we use the word "感( Kan)" to express to feel. But, it is work of human heart, he had to invent a new word 咸 (Kan) to express it, He delete a Heart (心）form the character of 感 that means to feel.

He had to invent a new word <咸>(Kan).

It is just Life Resonance that is transmitted from Life to Life beyond the function of the human heart.

He had met the secret of the Beauty It is Life Resonance itself.

感 (Feel）- 心 (Heart） = 咸 (Kan, Life Resonance)

Based on this 咸(Kan=Life Resonance) beyond the work of the mind, he established "the dual illusious Noh dance to go and come between this world and the other world in his late age.

The 咸(Kan) is directly transmitted from Life to Life without word, and without mind.

He finally found that the essence of beauty is the Life Resonance itself.

Tatsumi Hijikata's <癇の花 Flower of Kan>

On the other hand, Tatsumi Hijikata pursued novel beauty, after undergoing various experiments of dark butoh at the young age.

He who worked on the creation of "Weakened body butoh" that reduced all dynamic movements from his dance. And finally reached to the ultimate beauty called <癇の花 Flower of Kan>.

Flower of Kan is a novel, very sensitive beauty swaying between this living world and the dead world. Life becomes weakened by accumulation of various Life Resonances; attacked, invaded, forced, eaten and so on between Life and the world.

Sometimes the mentally or physically disabled Life shows a special beauty momentary that is not able to resonate well with the world.

Tatsumi Hijikata called it as <Flower of Kan (癇の花)>

"The eyes of rocky cicadas"

Some concrete image to explain the flowers of Kan shows what id Kan?

"Butoh is not an expression, not expressing raw emotions and feelings as they are.

We swallow it once.

Then chew and wait the ferment until it is brought up to a beautiful wine.

Wait and wait and grance by the eyes of rocky cicadas that sunk down into the rock.

That is the Butoh of Life. "

In "Hoso-tan" (1972), he performed the near death Life which was eaten up by pimples, with a dragging crawling movement.

In the solo of "Girls" in "Summer Storm" (1973), "Quiet House" (1974), Tatsumi Hijikata could dance together with his dead sister who could not dance for many years.

Among them, crawling on the ground,

Hijikata danced <Flower of Kan> by a subtle last moment of Life.

Beauty of Transparent Life Resonance

Zeami's <咸 Kan> and Hijikata Tatsumi's <癇の花Flower of Kan>, both of them are swaying beauty of Life that fluctuates between life and death.

They discovered the ultimate beauty as Life Resonance transmitted from the Life to the Life.

How can we create the novel beauty of Life Resonance in this contemporary world?

What to do is just question the Life.

Ask you Life, "What do you want most?

What difficulties do you encounter?

What are you asking for?"

The answer will be reply by the subtle tremor or fluctuation of Life at some part of your body.

Listen to life and move according to the subtle Qualia, and listen to Life again.

Listen,

Move,

and listen.

In this simple listening repetition, the seed of a fine Life Resonance technique to come is germinating.

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What to learn from handicapped people

"Master, Ttsumi Hijikata said.

"Butoh dancers have to learn first from the handicapped person's gesture.

They are not disabled.

On the contrary, a healthy person who is unaware in his / her every move is in fact a prisoner of a narrow body view and is inconvenient.

Following this teaching, the disciples brought a bent convulsive movement to the dance. That was the basis of Ankoku Butoh." (Natsu Nakajima)

Yes, exactly!

The ＜Subtle listening technique＞ which is trying to share on this summer tour is to learn from the handicapped people.

Every time the handicapped people move one body hardly, they listen to the body,

grasp what changes happened and focus on the next stroke.

It is the very essential technique to learn from them.

Our Life is always resonates with the inner cosmos and outer cosmos through subtle Life Resonance Qualia.

Slowly move a part of your body, and listen to what Qualia changes on your body . And resonate with next Life Resonance Qualia.

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