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| Researching a neccesary constelation in the Himalayan river |
30 October, 2009
Reseaching a necessary constellation
In this months, we traveled to various constellaton in the Himalayan nature;
mountain, forest, feild, river, and so on. So various subbodies came out
through the resonace between various land scape and inner constellation
of the darkness of body.
Today, we tryed to integrate all subbodies and constellation in the imaginary
world at the school.
So all travels were to find novel, numinous, necessary constellations and
subbodies.
Students tryed to reseach; "What is life?", "Who am I?".
How many diverse world is the life lstreaming?".
This integration process will continue for more one month until the end
of semester with opening the world=self channel.
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28 October, 2009
Superconductor of qualia
Students created a new piece on the next day after climbing up the Himalaya,
Everyday rich and deverse dance peices come out from the darkness of body.
Tamar integrated almost subbodies which found for these three months.
Xave used new music and opened full dynamic range subbodies.
Micar tryed resonance between movement and sound of singing ball.
Kaska walked in the garden and recieve another simisional qualia in the
pond.
Chiara created a new duo piece with Xavi.
I surprised at their infinite creativity. Is is a rare condition which
I named "Superconductor of qualia" which is open the infinite
creativity of subconsciousness.
It took for eight months from March.
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25 October, 2009
Subbodies on the Himalayan mountain
23 October, 2009, we climbed up to Truind pass (2827m hight). It took for
four hours trecking.
The place is a sanctuary on the edge between living area and dead's area.
So many Tibetan flags were swayed by mountain wind.
Students found one's own fit place for each constellation, and met each
subbody.
We needed to calm down as quiet as stones. Then we could open resonance
with the sacred nature.
So diverse subbodies came out with resonating with stones, trees, clifs, winds, frags, and so on. Stones might be laughing at us to meet strange subbodies. I could enjoy them as a birthday present for my sixty one years old, though my both legs have nearly collapsed by trecking. Also I was glad to become a weakened body physically. It took for fifteen years to lose my trained macho body. Good bye, young age.
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23 October, 2009
Unknown dimension in the self
We are continuing to dig tonnels in the darkness of body everyday.
Everyweek a novel dimension is found in the whole self.
We makes it a dance.
Not us, but our subbodies crerate them.
Our bodies become full of holes to other worlds.
Gradually our bodies become nearly transparent.
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17 October, 2009
Resonance workshop #1
The resonance workshop by students has finished succesfully.
One of the most impressive thing is that they could create so nice relationship
through workshop. When we could stop daily ego and self, we can experience
pure life resonance beyound every kind of border; nation, state, culture,
language, religion, genger, age, power, knowlege, and so on.
Every encounter becomes a creation of novel resonance pattern between life.
Participants gave back us a good feedback which they could get a novel
perspective for life by knowing the life resonance, and ithey need it.
To be able to give others a necessasry thing makes us a confidence. "Yes,
we can live to continue giving this work in the world."
Slowly we find the way of how to live.
I found that the next work for me is to build a "Resonance Workshop
Network" of world wide scale.
Because, the subbody school is too small to recieve all applications. Already
next year has been full. After next year is a few space. But if graduated
students open workshop at various places, we can respond to all applications.
Already several hundreds perticipants experienced subbody course, some
of them have already begun workshops at defferent place on this planet.
How can we assosiate all of these activities by life resonance.
We don't have any good sample for this. Many people were caught in the
trap of hyerarchic tree system which have a center and branches for making
an association.
Hyeralchic system is the beggest enemy for opening diverse creativities
of life.
We need to invent another way of human relationship.
It must be a novel experiment of a resocracy for the future of human society.
This invention may be my last work. I will never hurry to find it. I need
all of your collaboraton. Not only me, but all of you create it.
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| The second workshop by students |
Body resonance workshop-2
Students are going to open second workshop in November.
This time they will try it in the Himalayan nature,
in the mountain, forest, river, and so on.
Application: subbody@gmail.com
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16 October, 2009
Life resonance in the nature
This month, We moved in the nature. There are so many teachers in the Himalayan
moutain; huge rocks, stones, sand, soil, mad, slopes, criffs, flats, forests,
wind, sun, sounds, and so diverse river streams.
Resonance with rock
Lie down on the rock. Llisten to the gravity, silence, stillness of the
rock. Stone has its own time. Stones seem still, but they are moving by
their own very slow speed in their millions years history. Himalayan rocks
have traveled from Indian ocean and fallen down from top to present place
by big flood when ice lake had broken. We can open another time. Slowly
change body posture and continue listening with streatching, rolling sitting,
and so on.
Resonance with stream
Sit on the rock near stream, and meditate with the stream.Water is always
streaming with various speed, rhythm, strength, and direction. Learn what
is stream from the water as a teacher of stream.
Water just follows the gravity, and it becomes various stream. it is controlled
by the law of gravity.
Feel the inner qualia stream in the darkness of body. It is also streaming,
but it is not following the law of gravity. Qualia does not belong in the
three dimensional space and one time dimension.
Resonancw with constellation
In the river, there are so various land scape; on the rock, under the rock,
between rocks, various streams, water fall, criff, flat, and so on.
Social persona bodies come out on the top of rock as a stage. Hiddem bodies
come up under the rock or negative spaces. There are fast stream, and calm
pool. Various hidden characters and creatures come out with resonanting
various constellation. Open all resonance with variation of constellation
in the natural land scape.
Full dimensional resonance
Life is resonanting in the multi-dimansional world. When you open full
of multi-bodies, you can show your whole lfe.
Butoh of life is to dance multi-dimensional resonance of life. Try to open
other dimemsion always with travelling the whole self world.
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12 October, 2009
Hidden body theater
By the accident of internet disconnection, these photos are 10 days ago.
Students diged different tunnels in the darkness of body every week.
This week they researched Hidden bodies which were folded in the darkness
for long years.
Slowly we travel the whole self world step by step toward the butoh of
life.
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7 October, 2009
Life resonance as an Art of life
It was the third day's of workshop, participants were hejitated what should
they do at the beginning of workshop, but today they started to enjoy the
experiment of resonance. .
Today, Xavi guided how to listening in subtle qualia in the darkness of
body through various conditioning; resonance touch of spine, resonance
with a flame of candle, resonance with each face and body, and so on.
They understand that everyhting is resonance, they can just follow the
subtle tendencies of life resonance, no one judge it.
Participants joined the experiment of resonance by whole body with joy.
They seemed to surprised at that they noticed so many interesting resonances
came up from their body. Through these experiments, we can find novel resonance
patterns and polish them.
After workshop, they continued various communications together. Resonance
workshop brought about nice encounters.
I noticed that resonance method is able to open a novel way of life.
And potentially people look for it. When resonance ability was opened,
it brings infinite creativity. The way of life changes drastically. We
can create vivid human relationships through resonance workshop.
Life resonance is an Art of life, to reconstruct a creative way of life.
I became aware of that my next work is to complete the resonance method
as an Art of life which people really need. It is not only creation method
of butoh,
but also a method for opening a novel way of life. It includes Creative
Art and Healing Art also.
If it will be completed, students can survive as a facilitater of the resonance
method in the world.
Until last year, it was so pity that I could not guide studetns how to
survive in their countries. Foutunately, Kats has already started to survive
with giving subbody workshop and shuatu work in USA.
We will build up this method as an novel Art of life to be able to develope
it in various regions in the world.
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6 October, 2009
Everything is resonance
Today was the second day of the open workshop. Chiara guided it. She started
from conditioning No.1; with feeling various vibrations of body. And she
guided "Cristal energy ball resonance". We meved with feeling
an imaginary energy ball between both hand. The ball chnaged size and enrgy.
We followed it. And we foud a partner. The energy ball was moving among
four hands. We just followed it. So various movement happend.
And she started ausio resonance. We made body sounds "u" at the
bottom of body, "o" at the berry, "e" at the chest,
"a" at the face, and guided to free improvisational resonance.
One person started movement at the center of the circle with resoannting
with the sound.
In the afternoon, we moved in the garden, she guided that a string moved
a part of our body. Differet parts of body are moved by imaginry strings.
We enjoyed the self research with being moved by strings.
She guided the subbody cobody theater that one person started one's movement
at a place of garden, the other improvised with free resonance.
So intersting scenes appeared.
After workshop, a participant asked a question," What is the resonance?"
I answered, "This year we are researching a experiment of resonance.
Also this workshop is an experiment of it. What is resoance? So, everyhting
is resonance between life and life, life and dead. I showed the sample
with the grass. Totouch the grass is resoance, to break it is also resoance,
to eat it is resoanence. When we are bound by the concept of human, we
cannot resonate freely, because we feel that we are human, and you(=grass)
are not human. When we throuw out the concept of human ego, self, we can
resonate freely with everything. I showed various resonance with the grass;
touching, hitting, eating, rollling,stepping and so on. In the life world,
nobody judges like as "This is good resonance, that is bad resonance."
Everhtihing is resoance, just enjoy it through the workshop.
Through this demonstration and explanation, she seemed to get it.
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5 October, 2009
How to guide new participants into subbody world
Students try open workshops in this week.
Five new participants joined from Dharamsala.
I disicibe some essential points for guidning the beginners into subbody
world.
1. Calming down daily body and mind
After self intoroduce by short word, we keep silence for all days.
To stop language thinking is the most important point at the entrance of
subbody world. Without talking we shift from thinking mode to listening
mode into the darkness of body.
Guide participants to calm down all thinking, if thinking comes up, catch
the moment and calm down it.
2. Taste comfortable body feeling
By conditioning No.0 (Breathing), No.1 (Vibrating) ,No.2 (Swaying), or
No.11 (Resonance touch), taste the most confortable body feeling.
Listen in them and guide participant into comfortable listening mode.
To taste comfort is important to shift to subbody mode.
Release all tension, intension, thinking, judgment, doubt, and anxiety.
3. Slow down and listen in subtler body feeling.
On the way of a conditioning, suddenly slow down the speed into the minimum.
Listen in subtle body feeling. It is so subtle but it has so many different
kinds of qualia:
As a physical body feeling; gravity, warmth,coollness, tightness, flexibleness,
itchyness, and so many kinds of undiscrived qualia.
As a mental qualia; memories of each ages, forgotten memories, dreams,
illusions, imaginations, and so on.
They are streamning and transforming in the darkness of body.
4. Catch a subtle signal and follow it
When you catch a subtle signal of tencency at a part of body, follow the
tendency by your body. Any mevement can be come up.
5. Amplfy it to a unique movement
You will meet so many qualia, when you meet a novel, new, fresh qualia,
follow it and amplify it to an unique movement.
This is the subbody.
6. Researching subbody world
Reseach various subbodies, and ask your life, "Which one do you like
to be today?"
Become the subbody. Create your own movement freely.
7. Subbody-cobody resonance
We share subbodies. One person starts movement of one's subbody. The others
resonate it as a life freely. Everyhting is resonance. Invent unique resonance
in each moment. This is subbody cobody theater. Enjoy it.
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2 October, 2009
Diverse subbodies and cobodies for explore the whole
We need twenty subbodies and cobodies for create a butoh peice.
At least ten bodies for middle peice. When we collect all of them, rhen
the peice become whole.
Because the whole self has the same diverse as the Universe.
All of strings which make qualia are resonanting together in the Universe.
Life has experienced so diverse qualia in the four billions years long,
and all of them are folded in unique way in our darkness of body.
The subbody is like a vehcle to explore the Universe, we need to change
various vehcles; walking, byscle, car, ship, submarine, plane, rocket,
and so on.
Sometimes we need to transform a mole to dig a tunnels, a dolphine to explore
the ocean, a bird to ride on the wind, an ameba to enter the tiny world,
a bee swarm to resonanting life, a wind to stream the space, a stone to
taste the etarnal time, and so on.
We need to be all of hidden bodies, to explore the complex darkness of
body, to be opposite sex, to be fetus, to be child, to be old, to be dead,
to be possessed body, to be kugutsu body to contact other world.
When we can integrate all of them, we can show everything of the whole
self and life transparently.
Now we enter the integrated creation process in October, and november.
Slowly sudents has start integration. Please wacth the process how much
their subbodies and cobodies grow up into multi-dimensional diversity.
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2 October, 2009
How to fix and grow your choreography
Yesterday, a student asked me, "How can I fix my choreography?"
"Why do you ask it?"
"Because I cannnot develope my peice from a improvisation to fixed choreography."
Then now I will guide the process to create a fixed choreography, and grow
up it. throuhg real time resonance.
1. Repeat it many times until it sinks down into your body.
When you find a novel sequence in your self reserch or improvisaton, repeat
the part many times until your body remeber it with keeping real qualia
stream.
2. Keep the real qualia stream
Each subbody movement has each own specific qualia stream. You need to
keep whole qualia stream of the sequence. Remember the whole process when
the novel sequence came out. From your conditioning process to the reseaching
and creation process, print all of them in your body.
3. Find the best timing for the movement.
Every movement has its own best timing. Until you get the best timing
for it, continue "Try and reduce. Cut and polish".
This process is the same as sculptor. Sculptor completes a static shape
through cut and polish. Choreographer completes a moving shape through
the same trials.
When you find the best timing of it, it is very clear, because suddenly
it turns to the beauty, and you can imprint it in your body with surprising.
You become to able to repeat it with pleasure from your bottom.
4. Fix it with the best Jo-Ha-Kyu.
Normaly, a subbody movement seems miserable and ugry. It doedn't looks
so-called beautiful. But, when it gets the best Jo-Ha-Kyu, it crystalizes
into the beauty. This is the magic of Jo-Ha-Kyu.
Any ugry movements have a potential to be the beauty. Find the best position
in the total Jo-Ha-Kyu of your peice.
5. Grow the peice with many times repeating.
A choreography is not completed in a short time. Whne you get a fixed Jo-ha-Kyu,
repeat the peice many times in the various conditions. All repeatings is
the re-creation. Whenever you repeat it, it grows up with a real time resonance.
6. Real time resonance between choreography and improvisation
Through these repeating process, you can integrate the choreography and
improvisation. In each trial of your fixed choreography at different place
and time, every time you can renew it including partial improvisation.
It is real time resonance. Slowly your subbody peice will grow up, and
it becomes your friend.
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1 October, 2009
Imaginary duet
We try to open the human relationship channel.
The first step of relationship channel is to sink into the origin of relationship
of life.
Here has completely other logic.
1 Sinking into the origin of relationship
After swaying meditation enough, open the relationship channel of life.
Sink into the fetus world when we didn't know that we are human.
When we were fetuses, we were not divided into self and others. Fetus and womb was oneness.
There was the origin of relationship before we were devided into self and others.
We are from there.
We take off the illusion of self consciousness of human which is divided
into self.
Other logic of life before the divide of self and others
There are no diviide between one and two for cell's life.
A cell divides into two cells, and refleshs itself. There is no divide
between old and young, because they always become young again. And sometimes
two cells become one by cell fusion.
Life has continued cell division and cell fusion.
One becomes two. Two become one.
One cell becomes multi cells. Multi cells become one individual life.
One is multi, Multi is one.
This is real logic of life.
We are used to be bound by Euclid matimatics for long years.
We beleive that one is not two, two is not one, but it cannot adapt to
life.
Life has its own another logic which has never been discrived by words.
This flexisible transforming world is the origin of relationship of life.
Our lives always go and come between non-divided world between self and
others and divided daily world as a dream body and subconscious body.
In the dream, we transform from a person to other person or being flexibly.
When we notice, we transfer from a world to other world. The world images and self images are streaming and transforming always.
A gentle mother transforms to devi.
A lovely girl transforms snake and monster.
The archetype world of myth and forklore also sways between diveded and
non diveded world.
This is the most original experience for life.
When we take off the human binds, we can taste the most universal qualia
of life.
A novel experience about world will begin from here.
2 Imaginary duet
In the darkness of body, There are so many qualia are streaming and transforming.
Try to taste all of them, and find out the most favorite partner for you,
and dance with it.
Your partner is living in the non-dual transforming world, it changes shapes
always.
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