To open anatomical transparent eyes for the darkness of body help us to
transform weakened body.
Our daily bodies are bound by rough and large movement by using big surface
muscles. Also normal dance, sports are bound by the same rough and large
movements.
But we have deep layer muscles under these surface large muscles.
They are not straight but spiral, and connect bones beyond plural joints.
They are forgotten by daily body and dissociated into unconscious realm.
I call it "Hidden muscle".
We need to inhibit the gross daily body which is bound by only large surface
muscles at first.
Then we can listen to the subtle signal by transparent eye for subbody which is
connected to hidden muscle and hidden qualia.
To
open another dimensions which does not exist in daily world with using hidden
muscles and hidden qualia is one of the essences of butoh technique.
Hidden muscles in spine and body
When we remove large surface muscles like a large back muscles, chest muscles
and stomach muscles, the longest straight spine muscle appears.
( fig.1).
fig 1 Middle layer muscle of the back
This muscle is used to keep body straight with using bottom muscles together.
When we change the degree of contraction of then, we can control the
flexibility of the body.
For the meditation and Zen sitting we control them in medium degree of
contraction.
For transforming stone or puppet, we contract them in maximum degree.
When we release them in each degree, we can transform from solid body to liqiud
body and vaporized body according to the degree.
When we remove the longest spine muscle, we can find tiny muscles which connect
each spine in different dimmensions( fig2).
fig 2: deep layer muscle of the back
We use these hidden muscles to transform weakened body.
The skull and each neck spine bones, collar bones, shoulder blades are
connected by many tiny hidden muscles in different directions; straight, diagonal
and spiral (fig3).
fig 3 Between skull and neck
The spine and pelvis and leg bones are connected by psoas major which is the
biggest hidden muscle.(fig 4)
fig 4: Psoas major
Normally we use psoas to bend body, and to raise leg forward.
We inhibit these big movements of psoas, we just contract psoas a little for
shortening leg and subtle swaying.
Hidden muscles of legs and arms
Most
of hidden muscles run trans plural joints and connects bones apart spirally.
When
we stop surface muscles and use the hidden muscles, a strange movement which
does not exist in daily human world appears.
Not
making by head, but following subbodies which live in the darkness of body.
Subbodies
have their own qualia, image, timing, rhythm, we just follow them, and we can
sink down another dimension.
fig 5: lower leg
fig 6: forearm
Daily body can control only large and rough muscle; big hip muscle, long thigh
muscle, hamstrings, and so on.
We need them for daily movement and sports, all kinds of dance, but for
weakened butoh we start to inhibit the rough and large movements, then we can
meet subtle hidden qualia which are folded in the hidden muscles.
When we control them in contraction and release independently, we can transform
any kinds of hidden bodies; not-me body, proto bodies, puppet body, humanoid
body and weakened body which is swaying between death and life.
Long process to become butoh body
To transform weakened body, we need both of long training to listen to the
subtle qualia of darkness of body, and to be able to control subtle swaying of
each part of body in different dimensions by using hidden muscles.
It takes long time.
Tatsumi Hijikata also needed for five years after the legendary aggressive performance of "Nikutai no hanran"
(The rebellion of body, 1968, Japan), to transform the weakened body which die
down all gross movement of dance he learned, and completed the weakened body
butoh.
Start from a training for controlling each hidden muscle independently.
Next
stage is the trans joints movements with becoming another being in different
dimensions.
Always aware of subtle hidden qualia which are folded in hidden muscles, hidden
joints, hidden cavities, and hidden skins by opening transparent mind, then you
can transform another being which lives in different dimensions.
When
hidden qualia which are folded in your hidden part of body and subtle hidden
movement become oneness, the weakened body butoh begins from there.
Take off all conditions as a human.
Become an unknown being swaying between this world and another world.
Look at this living world by dead eyes from another world。
I was surprised by the students of this year. They have started the first
creation from the sudden depth in the darkness of body. I was moved with
surprise and pleasure. I have never seen these deep subbodies on only the
second weekend at the subbody school experiences. In the normal year we
used to meet them after several months experiences of subbody process.
This must be depend on the deep cobody experience of this year. Students
could enter in the deeper level of subbody/cobody process where is able
to open richer creativity which is released from dualistic judgement and
common illusions.
We are going to get very important key to open the infinite creativity
of subconsciousness. Especially the cobody experiences may guide us to
the depth of the corrective unconsciousness which Jung found under the
individual unconsciousness which Freud found.
I wonder until where can we go in this year!
I could be released from an obsession against cobody which bound me untill
last year. This year we can find the various ways to enter deep cobody
condition with together. So we can enter subconscious body mode as a group.
It is so tasty and rich creative process released from daily dualism binds.
Today we did the life upstream meditation together, and shift hidden fluid
into varios life stages. The origin life was single celled creature from
four billlion years ago to one billion years ago. So long time we were
floating as a single celled creature in the ocean. This is the reason why
we prefer the swaying qualia deeply.
We shift our body fluid into melting ameba condition next. We learned how
to shift it from sol to gel, and gel to sol.
When we share the process together, we can become these creature's qualia
as a group with resonance among bodies.
To be able to experience these real qualia through cobody is the most important
difference from indipendent subbody experience of these lowere creature's
qualia.
I felt that it was the fake cobody process until last year.
I was too much bound by logical thinking to realize group process like as mirror, copy, birds group, initiater, promoter, follower, and so on.
Sorry for old students! It needed long time to release from thinking habits
and get real cobody process for me.
A student said that he understand what is to become subconscious body at
the firsttime through this experience.
So we can deepen this creative experiment through the year.
I am so happy to find the way of cobody finally.
Search a novel, numinous somatic feeling between a hidden joint and another
hidden joint.
When a small girl shrinks her body by shy, her various hidden joints resonate
and change shape; bending, twisting, shrinking, warping, unconsciously.
To become a miner in the darkness of body means to search a novel and numinous
somatic feeling between a specific hidden joint and another part of body.
Try vearious things. Twist, bend, shrink, warp, shake, sway, shock, collapse,
block, limit, die, and so on with various emotion and body conditions.
Surprising, fearing, being ashamed, shied, envying, cunning, feeling cold,
touching unkown qualia, encoutering a creature, coming out a hidden character,
dreaming, melting, warping, wondering, wispering, enduring, becoming mentaly
weak, and so on.
Find your own hidden connection a specfic body/mind condition and unconscious
body movement. It becomes unique technique for your subbody and cobody.
Become a miner for novel and numinous qualia in the darkness of body. This
is the main entrance for the subbody method.
Finally we found it!
The hidden key was "the rotten eyes" for becoming the real cobody.
I continued to research a hidden key to realize the real cobody for long
time.
Until last year I couldn't find it. I was so flustrated. Then in this winter,
I continued to face the edge against cobody.
To open daily eyes disturbed to become cobody.
I have to appologize to all old students. My biggest mistake was I guide
them with opening daily eyes to be cobody. I guided various method for
cobody; miror, copy, follow, initiate, promote, and so on. All of them
were misguide by me.
When we open daily eyes, we cannot enter the subbody and cobody mode deeply
enough.
The rotten eye was essential key to become subbody/cobody condition together.
Now I can tell you that it is the total process of one year course at subbody
school to transform from selfish ego or egoistic self to resonant self,
and finally transparent resonant life. Mind this point from the beginning
to the end.
Until this year I could not tell it crearly. The contents of subbody method
has so diverse variations and each content is deep and thick, then many
students have cofused on the way of process. Then I felt that an orientation
for the whole process at the beginning is necessary for students.
There are four kind of processes in the subbody method.
1. Conditioning
This is the method to shift from daily body mode to subbody-cobody mode.
We need to learn to stop daily mind and language thinking, and we can listen
in the subtle qualia in the darkness of body. This is the main thing of
subbody method.
There are twelve kinds of conditioning. You will learn one by one gradually.
When you leran one of them. Practice by your self immidiately at every
morning and get it so that you are able to guide the conditioning for others.
In a year, gradually the method of conditioning will be deepen to the deeper
integrated level.
2. Researching
After conditioning, you wil llearn various ways of practice to research
your darkness of body. You will learn so many diverse methods to travell
your whole self world. According the daily method, you will reseach by
your self or by your group for a while in each day.
When you catch a subtle signal of the body, you follow it, amplify it by
your whole body. It becomes your subbody and cobody movement of the day.
3. Creating
Through self reseach or group reseach, you create your own movement of
each day. Sometimes you create a subbody (=solo) movement, sometimes cobody
(=group) movement, and we share it everyday.
At the weekend, you integrate all movements which you met in a week, and
create a short peice of subbody or cobody. We share it together in different
resonance ways.
4 Resonating
These whole process is a group process by all students. it is not only
individual creation but cobody creation. Through the whole process we can
resonate each other freely. Invent novel ways of resonance in each moment.
The possibility of way of resonance is infinite.
Through these total process, you will transform a resonance body and mind.
To be transparent resonance body is the final purpose of the first stage
of one year. The second year will be the deeper course for becoming the
midwife of subbody and cobody. After graduating the process, you will start
the real resonance way of life with the world in your own way at different
place on the planet. The school time is the preparation for that.
I hope you can understand that the each part of the whole process is resonating
together. Each part is not separated from the whole process to transform
transparent resonance body. Through the process you will meet so many edges
which you must feel bad, but all experiences of edges are important absolutely
for the whole process.
A video of Sara /Death Ash was deleted from YouTube video.
It was the most viewed video of us. Over ten thousand people enjoyed it
for two years.
But, it seems that all naked videos are not allowed on the YouTube site.
Then we decide to give up to use on YouTube, and move to Dailymotion video.
Before, the google video accepted naked videos, but now they stop to accept
new upload.
( The former uploaded videos including Lee's long videos are avaiable to
watch on the following links; http://www.google.com/video/upload/Status?rf=1&hl=ja）
Though a family filter is added, but they accept naked videos on the Art
categoryy of Dailymotion.
Slowly we will move all videos to the Dailymotion video.
Please enjoy them!
Search numinous qualia among hidden joints