Sunday, October 18, 2009

Butoh Festival #5 Thailand



Butoh Festival #5 Thailand

I had a one months workshop with students of Chaing Mai University of Thailand and Japanese dancers group 10 years ago.
It was a collaboration among International WOW company in Thailand and Dance Rhizome from Japan.
All members were so young arround twenty, they were so energetic and full of rebellious spirit.
We created several collaboration peices together and performed at various places as
photos above. It is so dear memories for me.
Because, it was the first event of my world tour which continued for three years.
Ten years has passed from then.
Now I know that some of them become the host of the Butoh Festival Thailand.
I am so glad that they have overcome the hard conditions, and develope energeticly.
Dear Jaa, Jay, Kange, and everybody!
I love your spirits. Hope to go well.

Lee



THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL BUTOH FESTIVAL THAILAND 2009
Dec.11th-21st, 2009

BUTOH WORKSHOPS @ Democrazy Theater Studio, Tickets: 500THB
Dec. 11, 2009 @ 18:00-21:00, “The Body in Time and Space” with Joao Roberto de Souza (Ogawa Butoh Center ? Brazil)
Dec. 12, 2009 @ 11:00-14:00, “Mind/Body/Time: A Movement-Based Workshop for Cultivating Presence and Character” with Michael Sakamoto (USA)
Dec. 13, 2009 @ 13:00-16:00, “Moved Beings” with Keiko Yamaghuchi (Japan)
Dec. 14, 2009 @ 18:00-21:00, “Body Manipulation: Release Techniques in Butoh Practice” with Terry Hatfield (USA)

BUTOH PERFORMANCES @ Democrazy Theater Studio, Tickets: 400THB

Dec. 12-13 @ 19:30 featuring: Rocio Fernandez (Spain, Keiko Yamaghuchi (Japan), Nyoba Kan ( 寿板舞踏)(Malaysia), and Butoh Co-Op Thailand (Thailand)

Dec. 19-20 @ 19;30 featuring Joao Roberto de Souza (Brazil), B-Floor Company (Thailand),and Michael Sakamoto (USA)

PHOTO EXHIBITION and CLOSING CEREMONY@ Pridi Banomyong Institute

December 14-23, Photo Exhibition Featuring: Stephan Funke (Finland) and Boaz Zippor (Israel)

Dec. 21 @ 19:30, Closing Ceremony, Solstice Butoh Jam with all artists and guest musicians.
More info:http://www.facebook.com/pages/B-floor/68531536084

Reservation: Terry Hatfield bkkbutoh@yahoo.com

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Resonance workshop #1



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.

Friday, October 16, 2009

resonance workshop in Himalaya




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

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Life resonance as an Art of life

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.

Everyhting is resonance

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.

For open workshop

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.

Diverse subbodies and cobodies for explore the whole

We need around twenty subbodies and cobodies for create a butoh peice.
At least ten bodies for middle peice. When we can collect all of them, the peice become a whole.
Our 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.

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.

Imaginary duet

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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Hidden fluid




Proto ocean for life

Our human body has sixty trillions of cells. Each cell has each indipendent life.
How do trillions of cells resonate and become one human life?
They have so many kinds of resonance patterns which life has invented in four billions years after the birth of origin life.
But they need definitely water environment for resonance, because the important ways of resonance was invented in the ocean.
Still now, our life need the same environment as the proto ocean in our body for communication.
The origin life wan born in the ocean. They need the same environment for reproduction.
Then for the cell fusion of sperm and ovum needs the environment of fluid as the vagina and womb same as the proto ocean.
Glia neuron network in the brain need also proto ocean environment as the cerebrospinal fluid.
Six trillions cells need proto ocean for resonance, it is the body fluid.
But the consciousness doesn't take care of it, then we call it "Hidden fluid".

Lisening in the hidden fluid

When we calm down the consciousness, we can listen to the subtle changes of the condition of body fluid. Arround 60-70% of our body is made of water.
There are four basic ways of communication among cells; 1. Contact-dependent, 2. Paracrine, 3. Synaptic, 4. Endocrine. All of them need body fluid as medium.

Body fluid is the medium for cells resonance with various system of body.
The endocrine system uses blood and lymph fluid for communication of various hormens.
Also the immune system needs the body fluid for activity of macrophage, T-cell, B-cell, and NK (=Natural killer) cell. They are moving beyond the blood, lymph and body cells.
Neurons are connected by the synapse with other neurons. At the synapse, body fluid is necessary as medium for neurotransmitter. Glia cells and neuron cells comunicate at the synapse with using various transmitters.

To listen to the hidden fluid is to listen to the life resonance among sixty trillions of cells of the body.

When the conditions of body fluid change, we receive qualia as an emotion and desire.
If water decrease in the blood, we feel thirsty. If sugar decrease, we feel hungry.
If sexual hormone increase, we feel sexual desire. If blood presure increase, we feel unconfortable, and so on.

Become fluid body

Sway with ocean. There are no border between inside and outside. Just resonante with everything.

Transform from hidden fluid

When we can change the qualia of body fluid, we can transform our bodies into various conditions, and various being; frozen, liquid, vaporized, stone, and varius creatures.
Invent your own ways of transformation from the hidden fluid.

Keep on listening to the subtle change of hidden fluid.
It means to listen in the conditions of life.
Keep on listening in the subtle resonance of life all day long.
It is the way to be with life.



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How to get a whole qualia

In this month, long term students challenge to guide one day class.
Last week, chiara guided it. I became a participant. After various practices, she told us, "Go out to garden, and find a tree. Dance with it."
I found a jasmin tree. So sweet fragrance were spreading. Suddenly I found that the franrance connects to my Anima qualia.
I could reseach the Anima price which I have to dance in these ten years.
It was so pleasant experience for me.

Today, Xavi guided it. After conditioning, and practice of audio resonance, and Jo-Ha- Kyu composition. He guided us to "The blind guide". One person put blind fold on the eyes. One more person became a midwife to guide and guard the partner. And when the blind person find a place, dance freely with listening to the darkness.
When I tryed this, I noticed a subtle difference in my movement.
When I move with opening only movement channel, the qualia is simple and shallow.
But when I open various channels, the movement increases reality.
Especially, when the relationship channel opens, the movement get deep qualia.
When the world=self channel is open, movement gets the whole qualia.

If we can guide others to open these big channel, it is shure that their movmenet bocomes deeper and more tasty.
How can we open these multiple channels?
I have already tryed in various ways.
I have guided students to open each channel one by one.
Now it seems to have another posibility.
There must be much more direct way to open non-dual and multi-channels.
I will try to take longer time for it. In october I will try to use for two weeks or more for opening relationship channel. And in the November, for one month to open world-self channel. These deep channels need for long time.
It becomes possible to reseach it with slow tempo with long term students.
This is the real speed of subbody for changing.
I realized that in the short term course, everything was not real speed for subbody.
I had to arrange the process in a shorten process, but it was something fake. That's why my subbody hated the short course so strongly.
We need to realize that everyhting has each own time to mature, and to be whole.

From fake to real cobody

From fake world to real world for subboy
---Learning from student's subbodies

In the second semester, one of the biggest changes is student's subbodies become real subbodies. They become mature subbodies.
Real subbodies are residents of non-dual and multi-dimensional world. They don't like to follow tree system at all; One, two ,three, A,B,C, and so on.
I learned a lot of things from them.
Because the subbody method was constructed for the beginners at first from ten years ago. The former students were just tourists in Dharamsala. Then it had a strict ripple system which was gradually shifting from daily mind and body to subbody.
Then all beginning methods were made by tree system which guides students step by step from dualistic world to non dual world; one, two, three, A, B, C, water dimesion, arrow diememsion, and door dimension, et cetera.

But it is not suitable for mature subbodies. They prefer to dive into real non-dual qualia stream directly. They want to follow no more tree method.
When I noticed it, it was biggest pleasure for me.
I have to re-costruct all of mehtod to be suitable for real subbodies.
How pleasant it is! Because now we can enter real non-dual subbody world together!
At first I have to reconstruct the ripple method.

From two dimensional ripple to multi dimensional ripple

Two dimensional ripple

I need to change image of ripple, from two dimensional ripple to multi dimensional ripple.
In the two dimensional ripple it is spread from inside to outside. I used this image from biginners stage to advanced stage. But in the multi dimensional ripple inside connect to outside directly. There are no inside and outside. It is completely rhizome.


Multi dimensional ripple

I used to proceed from simple to complex stage, easy to difficult step. But now it doesn't work. On the contrary, it disturbs student's subbody.
Subbody doesn't want to follow like this tree way. Subbody feels it fake.
We can start from the real complex qualia in non dual and multi dimensional realm.
I will reconstruct all methods with this multi dimensional ripple. It guide us from tree thinking to rhzome thinking, from dualistic thinking to non-dualistic thinking.
I am so glad that we can enter this realm with students at last.


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Hidden body--Practice Guide

Becoming unknown self

Calming down your daily mind and body with swaying conditioning.
Opening hidden joints, muscle, and cavities by conditioning No.5.

Your can catch subtle qualia at your various hidden parts of body.
Follow it, and amplify it by riding the tendencies with whole body.
So many hidden tendencies will come out.

Shadow,
not-me,
inferior characters,
disisociated personalities,
proto dreams,
nightmares,
day dreams,
illusions,
forbidden memories,
life memories,
fetus, baby, inner child, pure boy and girl, old man, old lady,
opposite sex,
near death body,
and deads.

They are transforming infinitely beyoud time-space.
They are true residents in our darkness of body.
Become the Hidden bodies.
We can explore our whole self with becoming them.

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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Not me, but life...




Not me, but life...

Listen to the life, What do you want to do most today?
Life is always resonating with the world, and creating something.
We just follow a subtle tendency of life.
Not me, but life makes it...
Real subbody is like this.
To be butoh dancer is to become a transparent medium of life.



Subbody Butoh Himalaya

Monday, September 28, 2009

Hidden fluid



Proto ocean for life

Our human body has sixty trillions of cells. Each cell has each indipendent life.
How do trillions of cells resonate and become one human life?
They have so many kinds of resonance patterns which life has invented in four billions years after the birth of origin life.
But they need definitely water environment for resonance, because the important ways of resonance was invented in the ocean.
Still now, our life need the same environment as the proto ocean in our body for communication.
The origin life wan born in the ocean. They need the same environment for reproduction.
Then for the cell fusion of sperm and ovum needs the environment of fluid as the vagina and womb same as the proto ocean.
Glia neuron network in the brain need also proto ocean environment as the cerebrospinal fluid.
Six trillions cells need proto ocean for resonance, it is the body fluid.
But the consciousness doesn't take care of it, then we call it "Hidden fluid".

Lisening in the hidden fluid

When we calm down the consciousness, we can listen to the subtle changes of the condition of body fluid. Arround 60-70% of our body is made of water.
There are four basic ways of communication among cells; 1. Contact-dependent, 2. Paracrine, 3. Synaptic, 4. Endocrine. All of them need body fluid as medium.

Body fluid is the medium for cells resonance with various system of body.
The endocrine system uses blood and lymph fluid for communication of various hormens.
Also the immune system needs the body fluid for activity of macrophage, T-cell, B-cell, and NK (=Natural killer) cell. They are moving beyond the blood, lymph and body cells.
Neurons are connected by the synapse with other neurons. At the synapse, body fluid is necessary as medium for neurotransmitter. Glia cells and neuron cells comunicate at the synapse with using various transmitters.

To listen to the hidden fluid is to listen to the life resonance among sixty trillions of cells of the body.

When the conditions of body fluid change, we receive qualia as an emotion and desire.
If water decrease in the blood, we feel thirsty. If sugar decrease, we feel hungry.
If sexual hormone increase, we feel sexual desire. If blood presure increase, we feel unconfortable, and so on.

Transform from hidden fluid

When we can change the qualia of body fluid, we can transform our bodies into various conditions, and various being; frozen, liquid, vaporized, stone, and varius creatures.
Invent your own ways of transformation from the hidden fluid.

Keep on listening to the subtle change of hidden fluid.
It means to listen in the conditions of life.
Keep on listening in the subtle resonance of life all day long.
It is the way to be with life.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

From fake subody world to real resonance world

Learning from student's subbodies

In the second semester, one of the biggest changes is student's subbodies become real subbodies. They become mature subbodies.
Real subbodies are residents of non-dual and multi-dimensional world. They don't like to follow tree system at all; One, two ,three, A,B,C, and so on.
I learned a lot of things from them.
Because the subbody method was constructed for the beginners at first from ten years ago. The former students were just tourists in Dharamsala. Then it had a strict ripple system which was gradually shifting from daily mind and body to subbody.
Then all beginning methods were made by tree system which guides students step by step from dualistic world to non dual world; one, two, three, A, B, C, water dimesion, arrow diememsion, and door dimension, et cetera.

But it is not suitable for mature subbodies. They prefer to dive into real non-dual qualia stream directly. They want to follow no more tree method.
When I noticed it, it was biggest pleasure for me.
I have to re-costruct all of mehtod to be suitable for real subbodies.
How pleasant it is! Because now we can enter real non-dual subbody world together!
At first I have to reconstruct the ripple method.

From two dimensional ripple to multi dimensional ripple




Two dimensional ripple

I need to change image of ripple, from two dimensional ripple to multi dimensional ripple.
In the two dimensional ripple it is spread from inside to outside. I used this image from biginners stage to advanced stage. But in the multi dimensional ripple inside connect to outside directly. There are no inside and outside. It is completely rhizome.




Multi dimensional ripple

I used to proceed from simple to complex stage, easy to difficult step. But now it doesn't work. On the contrary, it disturbs student's subbody.
Subbody doesn't want to follow like this tree way. Subbody feels it fake.
We can start from the real complex qualia in non dual and multi dimensional realm.
I will reconstruct all methods with this multi dimensional ripple. It guide us from tree thinking to rhzome thinking, from dualistic thinking to non-dualistic thinking.
I am so glad that we can enter this realm with students at last.


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Hidden body

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Becoming unknown self

Calming down your daily mind and body with swaying conditioning.
Opening hidden joints, muscle, and cavities by conditioning No.5.

Your can catch subtle qualia at your various hidden parts of body.
Follow it, and amplify it by riding the tendencies with whole body.
So many hidden tendencies will come out.

Shadow,
not-me,
inferior characters,
disisociated personalities,
proto dreams,
nightmares,
day dreams,
illusions,
forbidden memories,
life memories,
fetus, baby, inner child, pure boy and girl, old man, old lady,
opposite sex,
near death body,
and deads.

They are transforming infinitely beyoud time-space.
They are true residents in our darkness of body.
Become the Hidden bodies.
We can explore our whole self with becoming them.


Body and subbody; Surface muscle and hidden muscle

Our daily bodies are controlled by consciousness with using surface muscles.
And our subbodies are controlled by subconsciousness through controling our hidden muscles unconsciously.
When we use hidden muscles and joints, our subbbodies and cobodies are activated.
We have forgot them, but our cells in each hidden part can remember subtle hidden qualia which connect to our subbodies.

When we felt fear, it is folded at our hidden muscles.
At our root of toungue, many unexpressed voice are printed.
"I wanted to say something, but I couldn't say anything at that time..."
Many hidden expressions are folded at our hidden muscles of face.
Dreams and hopes which was unable to realize.
So many hidden tendencies are folded with smallest collapsed postures.
Release them slowly .slowly.


Explore your whole self world with becoming carious hidden bodies.
We need to know all of them for becoming transparent body.
Otherwise, sometimes they will attack us with sudden emergencies.
We may fall into a panic, neuroisis, and various mental-somatic syndromes.



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Friday, September 25, 2009

Practice Guide "Eight channels conditioning"


Reseaching in the twilight zone between non-dual and eight channels

Life lives in the non-dual and multi-dimensional resonance world which are not separated in any channels. But our consciousness can recognize only one channel qualia at a moment.
We need to stop consciousness by swaying or any other conditionigs to become subbody mode which can feel the non-dual qualia stream. Then we can catch the moment which specific qualia come out from the non-dual realm which each channel is not separated clearly. It is the border zone of qualia between non dual realm and divided realm by each channel. Here is the most creative world where so diversitive transformations are happening at every moment.

Bodily sensation
Feel the breath of life with long tide rhythm which is your all cells spreading arroud for one munite with changing resonance patterns, and fading for one minute.
Feel the qualia stream in the darkness of body. There are streaming so many qualia in non-dual and multi-dimensinal world.
Remember your dream world. Resaeach the twilight zone when a dream starts.
In the beginning, we are floating in the non-dual chaotic world. Everything is not separated clearly. And when we notice, a subtle body sensation comes out from the darkness.
Slowly it becomes clear, where here is, and who I am.
You can feel a posture of your body and feeling of existing at a specific world. And the scene becomes clear with visual qualia and sound and so on.
Taste this transforming moment from non-dual qualia stream to a clear body qualia and the other channels separating. Always our life is floating in the non-space, non-time multi-dimemsion. Dreams guide you between non-dual and multi-dimemsional world to lower three dimansional daily world which is clear "Where here is, and who I am." with a bodily ssensation.

Chaos of moving qualia

Feel your hidden joints and muscles with being twisted and reverse twist qualia.
Your pelvis, ribcage, spines, legs, arms, face are warped in various direction, and reversed warp.
Taste the chaos which various moving qualia are streaming in the darkness. And catch a moment when a specific movement comes out.

Twilight zone of visual qualial

Feel the darkness of body which various subtle light streaming. It is the twilight zone between darkness and brightness. Taste the moment a shape comes out from the dark chaos. Always a dream starts like this. Also subbodies start like this.

silence with full of sound
Listen in the darkness, also there are full of subtle sounds and noises in the silence.
In the non-dual realm, there are no border between silence and sound.
Feel that so many inner qualia of musics, rhythms, voices are streaming and they are wishing to come out.
Each rib starts twisted in three dimensions. All hidden cavities change shape and resonante with breathing and body sound.

Emotional stream
Unknown someone warps your body into the limit. Catch the moment a emotion comes up from the change of body condition. We cannot name it, but feel the diversitive emotional stream. Your face resonates with various emotinal streams.

Relationship in proto stage
Various age's qualia of relationship are resonanting in the darkness of body.
When we are baby, we search mothers breast and drink milk. When it becomes full, we discharge. It the most pleasant moment for baby. Feel that mothers milk streams down from mouth to anus and digested into your body. It is the biggest sexual desire for baby between mouth and anus. Taste the very beginning moment when your human relationship channel opened. it is the moment when you separated from the non-dual oneness qualia of the fetus and womb.

Sways of world-self images
Our world images and self images( =Qualia of world and self) are always swaying. Among the qualia of "Everything's good" and "Something's wrong". Taste the swaying. It is resonating with your deep body qualia stream.






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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Spontaneous Resonance



Sponceneous Resonance

We entered into sponteneous resonance world.
Students have trained so many different resonance pattern, now any instruction is not necessary. We just follow spontaneous life resonance. Every moment is experiment. We just find the most novel resonance patttern in every moment.
We will polish this experiment during the semester.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Whole self meditation

Swaying meditation

With swaying meditation, ask your life
"What do you want to do the most?"

About this question you will meet many kinds of tendencies in your whole self.
Say "Hello" to each tendency, and taste the qualia of each tendency.
This will be long travel in the darkness of body to meet your whole self.

1 Ego

You will meet ego. Ego has several general tendencies.

Self story maker
Ego is always making an ideal story of ourselves about personality, character, and so on. When we believe the illusional story, we can be at home with our illusional identity as daily body.

Self justificator
Ego always corrects good images and makes our self images to justify ourselves in each moment. Ego ignores negative elements and dissociates them as not-me or shadow.
Not-me is hidden as the shadow in the darkness of body.
Ego always puts a blame for a failure on others. This is the biggest trap of ego.
It causes all problems in the world between egos, between nation-states.
When you meet it, calm down this first response of ego, and listen to whole self.

Thinking habit
Thinking with using language always comes up naturally, we cannot stop it, because it is unconscious process, when you notice it, just calm down it. "Hello and good-by", "See you later!"

Simulator
Ego always simulates future with variating world image and self image.
Ego is always afraid of bad situations. Through the simulations we can get the best scenario to avoid to be fallen in the worst condition.

Ego is living not only in the real time-space, but also living in the illusional space and illusional time. It is a world of qualia. But ego doesn't know about qualia, because it is unconscious process. To be aware of it is necessary to be whole self transparently.
Whenever you notice ego rise up in the subbdoy process, say "Hello and good-by" immediately. " I know you well. You are important for daily life, but not now. Now is the process of whole self travel. Don't disturb me."

2 Super Ego

Judge
Super ego is a judge or prosecutor in the darkness of body. It continues to judge everything, "This is right. That is wrong.", "This is good. That's bad." It continues to direct us to be right, to be just, to be honest, to be kind, and so on.
Super ego accepts only positive half of the whole self, and ignores the negative half.
Super ego suppresses all bad tendencies which it judged. Then these negative elements are folded in the unconscious realm.

Critic
It criticize you by cynical and negative attitude. It always pays attention to the negative side of whole. It points you about your hidden intention, and stops you to so something. It counts so many negative elements and discourages you.

Old grandmother
It finds some incomplete elements of your plan and forces you to give up it.
"You are not mature enough to do it. Wait for a while."
It always delays you to do something.

These three are the just different appearances of the Super ego. They are embodiment of dualism. When we are bound by language thinking unconsciously, we are often bound by dualistic judgment. We need to stop thinking by using language for released from them.
Be transparent about them. They are also members of our whole selves.

3 Shadow

Try to meet all members inside of your whole self,
including negative characters as cunning, artfulness, accountant, laziness,
liar, coward, inner child, crying baby, anger, violence, and so on.
Jung called them, shadow as the inferior personality.
Salivan named them, not-me.
All of them are elements of whole self which have been dissociated from our daily ego.
They are just various tendencies of life. They are closer to life than us. They are shivering between death and life in the darkness of body. When we meet them, just follow their tendencies, and amplify them to various subbodies; proto bodies, hidden bodies, weakened bodies and so on. To accept all tendencies without judgment is the only one way to be whole self.

4 Anima and animus

Anima is an opposite gender half of self for man. But we continue to seek her outer world as an ideal fatal partner. We are hungry for Anima unconsciously, because it is unconscious half of ourselves.
Animus is an opposite gender half of self of woman also.
They are resonating with our mother's imago (=ideal mother's image), father's imago and image of our real partner in daily life. The bind of Anima and Animus often destroy our real relationship.
They are one of the strongest archetypes. We need for long years to release ourselves from their bind.
Tatsumi Hijikata needed for forty years to be released from his dead sister. Kazuo Ohno needed for fifty years to be released from his Anima; La Argentina, and sixty years from his mother's bind as another Anima. After dancing Anima, we may be able to integrate our whole self as oneness.

5 Other Archetypes

Ego, super ego, shadow, and anima-animus are the most strong and common archetype which lives in the darkness of body of everybody.
C.G. Jung named it "Collective unconsciousness".
But not only them, there so many archetypes are living and influences you from diffrent directions.

Brave boy, Curious girl
They are so curious and active for novel things, they jump into new world without fear. Sometimes they encourage you a lot. You must be attentive to the travel into unknown world.

Wise old man

wise old man (or wise old woman) may give you a hint, awareness, advices, wisdom, special skill, courage, and so on.

Trickstar
Trickstar turns over every view point into opposite side. He is an inventor of novel view point. He can ride on the horse with reverse posture. Most of shaman has this tendency. He is a creator and destroyer.

Animal guide
Sometimes an animal gives good advice for travel. They are spirits for other world.
We need their help.

Great mother
She loves everything, and she eats everything.
She is so empathic, gentle, kind and violent.
Because she is a womb of every element.
For she, everything is fetus belonged in her.
Be good friend with her, but be careful not to be eaten by her.
We have deep tendencies to go back to the oneness world when we are fetuses in the proto womb.

Pure hope
We may have forgotten it, but it is hidden in the darkness of body. It's just innocent, it doesn't know the world enough. But we can keep it and grow up them with together slowly.

Attitude for them

Become a midwife who is listening to the whole process transparently without ego and self.
Subbody which is not recognized yet as a member of whole self by you is like a fetus.
You need to listen to their subtle breath carefully until the birth when they come out as a subbody or cobody. Give them best help at the best timing for birth. Accept them as a new member of your whole self.

When you meet strange and dangerous subbodies within you,
you can just recognize them and leave from them.
Keep safe distance with them until you are ready to contact them.
Slowly, slowly you can become a friend with them in the safe distance.
And some day you can dance them finally.



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Saturday, September 19, 2009

Deep Individuation

Deep Individuation

Last week we did conditioning of five hidden qualia which are folded at hidden cavities, hidden joints, hidden mascles, hidden fluid, and hidden skins. Students met so many novel qualia and explored them. Through this experiences so many subbdoies came out.
It was the first stage of of Sen (=Novel, fresh, intersting) of Sen(Novel)-Shin (Deep) -Hitsu( Necessary) researching method.

"Sen-Shin-Hitsu" method for reseaching

Sen (=Novel) : Folow novel, flesh, intersting qualia widely
Shin (=Deep) : Reseach dep connection with your life, forthe individuation
Hitsu (=necessary) : Invent necessary subbody-cobody movement for survaval as becoming life

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This week we will enter into the second stage of reseaching ;Shin( =Deep). When we will meet novel qualia, we try to reseach deep conections with hidden memories, proto dreams with a specific qualia. Then it grow up to deep individuational stream with own whole qualia.
Individuation is a special term of Jung. It means to become oneself with opening full of potentials.

These hidden conections are folded in the unconsciousness. Our consciousness cannnot remind them, because they are belonged in subconscious realm.
We need to become subbodies to contact with hidden connection and hidden constellation.
When we stop daily htinking, and become subbody mode, we can catch subtle siganls which are folded in various hidden part of body.

To reaserch five hiddens will help you. With reseaching five hidden part of the darkness of body, listen in subtle forgotten conections between movement and inner qualia stream.
Slowly special hidden constellation which only you can feel will come out and it will guide your subbody movemet into the deep individuational world.



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Thursday, September 17, 2009

120 times kanreki (=sixty years old)




Jomon-sugi is one of my biggest techer who encourages me always.
He is the oldest tree in Japan who's age is 7200 years old.

I am now sixty years old, we call it "Kanreki" which means one cycle of life has finished.

I could feel my life as a mass transparently without being bound by each
detail..

But he is 120 times sixty years old.

How transparently he can see everything in diversitive dimensions between
life and death.

To stand like as he is the final dream of my butoh.







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Different dimensional resonance

Resonance between different dimensions, this is one of the most basic plinciple of life.
In the nature, eagles,plants, bacteria live in different dimensions and resonating together.
Dead creatures are rotten in the earth, bacteria eats them, plants get nutrition from them and generate ogygen gas through sun shine energy, and so on.
The dgrees of resonance are different, some one is directly, another one is very far resonance.
But anyway every life is resonating in different dimansion.

We can learn various resonance pattern from nature.
When we get this thechnique, theater become so novel world.

This week students reseach the different dimansinal resonance in various channels.

One subbody open audio channel, and make various body sounds, the other subbody resonate with it in different distance.
Sometimes similar resonance which body movement and sound sychronize.
Sometimes body movement takes distance from audio stream, and keep its own rhythm.
When we can control these resonance pattern in varius distance,each subbody can be in diffferent dimansion in a space.

Slowly students learn various resonance pattern, then subbody cobody theater becomes so rich taste which we have never seen before.
We wiil continue to investigate in this.
There are hidden novel posibilities infinitely.



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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Sinking into the drakness of body

15 September, 2009



The demon of dualism



The controlling power of dualism is extremely deep.
How deep our thinking is controlled by dualism!
Today, I realized that my resonance method was bound by dualism for long years.
The awareness was so bitter.

There are neither subject, nor object in the resonance.
The resonance occurs from both sides naturally.
This is the first principle of resonance which I have found already.
But, in my method of resonance was not followed the principle of resonance.
On the contrary, I used to begin from a simple mirror copy (line symmetry) or disc copy (point symmetry).
It was a physical practice method which I found over ten years ago, but still I follow it.
Because I thought that it must be simpler and easier for students.
Then slowly I used to guide students from the simple physical resonance to complex multi-dimensional resonance.
But, some students suggested me some resistant feeling.
I had felt a subtle the same feeling against my method, but I could not notice what was problem.
On the contrary, I thought the reason why some students resist it must be depend on the too much individual education, and they feel difficult to follow the others.
I used to guide them to die down their egos deeper.
But it was me who was bound by preconceived idea deeply.

The ease or simple is the biggest demon of dualism.

To accept the complexity of multi-dimensional resonance is too complex, then as a simplifying method, the dualism was used as a convenient way of daily thinking.
The division of easy/complex was also a dualism bind as same as the dualistic judgment as good/bad, right/wrong, high/ low, beautiful/ugly, and so on.
I must know well about it, but still I was bound by the way of simplification of dualism.

Simplification is the demon of dualism.

We must not start from simplification for learning resonance.
We don’t need to decide the role of leader and follower for learning resonance.
We can just start from real resonance which has no leader, no follower.
We stand for facing each other, and the resonance start at a cell of both bodies.
We have six trillions of cells in our body. One cell of twelve trillions of cell of two bodies can initiate a subtle movement, the other cells resonate it beyond the difference of two bodies. We don’t know what will happen at next moment, we just accept the process of resonance totally.

To accept everything is a principle of resonance, too.

I must find it before in my written method, but the practice method could not accept it yet.
I could not listen in the subtle signal of body and life enough.
I realized that the depth of the darkness of body. There are so deep binds of dualism and archetype.

The release from the binds of dualism and archetypes does not proceed quickly.
It takes time for the awareness sinking into the body.
This must be the real speed of changing.
There may be no other way except of acceptance of this slow speed of change.

I must re-organize the resonance method from the foundamemtal.


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Sunday, September 13, 2009

Sara will perform at Butoh Festival in Barcelona










Sara informed us about Barcelona Butoh Festival that she is going to perform on 10th October.
If you have cahnce, don't miss it. Sara's video "Death Ash" is the most viewed video of Subbody Butoh on YouTube. Already over 17000 people have viewed and enjoyed it!

Hi Family!

I'm writing to invite you to the butoh festival in Barcelona where I'm going to perform a "solo" the next 10th october at 22pm... What I've hear about it, the place is little and you need to make a reservation for the entry which cost is 7 Euros for three solo performances... who wants to come is welcome... if not, there's aldo the possibility to see the solo-performance for free the next 13th november in the C.C. Sandaru. The webpage is: www.barcelonaenbutoh.com
A part of this, I send you lots of kisses and love to everybody. See you soon and even if I'm absent, I'm still there and you are in my heart. Lots of love,

sara

Hola familia!!!
os escribo para invitaros si quereis y os apetece al fetival de butoh donde voy hacer un solo el dia 10 de octubre alas 22 horas ... por lo que me han dicho el lugar es pequeño y se necesita reservar entrada que vale 7 euros 3 solos ...quien le apetezca vienvenido ... sino tambien esta la posibilidad de verlo gratis el 13 de noviembre en el ccsandaru la web es: wwww.barcelonaenbutoh.com(si no es .com es .es, nunca me acuerdo).
aparte de esto aprovecho para mandaros muchos besos y abrazos a todos nos vemossss pronto a pesar de estar bastante ausente, hay estoy y estais en mi corazón , os quiere,

sara.

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Saturday, September 12, 2009

The Life 1



What is life?

Finally the day has come to be able to struggle to the deepest problem for me.

All of my previous steps existed for solving this question.

How is it possible to contact with the principle of life?

I tried to listen to the life in the darkness of body at Himalaya for long years.

At the first awareness about life which I got is swaying.

Life is always swaying in the world.

This is the first characteristic of life which I found.

I tried to upstream the history of life throuhg subbody meditation.

Characteristic of subbody meditation is to open all channels. Especially body channel and movement channel. Because life is always moving, without movement sensation, we tend to be bound by only thinking channel. Thinking channel is bound by dualism so deeply. We need to release ourselves from all of dualistic judgment, because it disturbs us to be life. Life has no judgment. We need to enter life world without any words, but with opening full of body and movement sensations.

When we enter the darkness of body without thinking, we meet the life sway.

When we upstream the history of life which has four billion years history, we reach the moment of the birth of life on the earth.

What happened at the moment of the birth of origin life?

We need to learn The String theory for investigating in this question. According to String theory, everything in the universe is made of the change of resonance pattern of String. String is minimum size in the universe as Prank length; 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000m.

Each string is resonating in the Prank size space. Surprisingly, the String theory said there are eleven dimensions in the Universe. Only three dimensions of space and one time dimension are spreading after big ban, but the other seven dimensions are still curled in the minimum space of Prank length. Strings are vibrating in the eleven dimensions including tiny sized seven dimensions. There are infinite resonance patterns of strings. Each resonance pattern becomes a specific material or energy.



For example the simplest resonance pattern makes the Gravity. Another resonance pattern becomes Electro-magnetic power, and so on. There are four powers in the Universe, Gravity, Electro-magnetic power, Strong power, and weak power, all of them are made of the change of resonance pattern of String. Also all kinds of materials are made of String resonance.

One day a big question occurred in the meditation, “How about life?”

Life is neither physical thing nor energy. Life is another thing which is essentially different from them. The essence of life must be hidden in the tiny hidden dimension which nobody knows yet.

I can re-understand through String theory, the swaying of life which I found before is the resonance.
I renewed the first finding about life as following;

The first essential characteristic of life is the resonance.

If also life is made of the change of resonance pattern of String, what happened at the moment of the birth of the Origin life?

Try to imagine the moment with becoming the Origin life. It must be the completely dead world around the origin life. A novel resonance pattern of String had begun in the dead world. Strings started a specific resonance pattern. It was the origin of life. The resonance pattern had two specific characteristics.

The second characteristic which only life has is that life can maintain the special resonance patterns of strings as it is.



The third characteristic is that life can renew the resonance pattern including new resonance patterns which life invents with new materials or energies.

It may seem a contradiction between the second and the third one. But life does not belong to the dualistic logic world. Dualism is mere conbinient simplification for daily life.Life belongs in the non-dual and multi dimansional resonance world. The integration of these paradoxical characteristics is the essence of life.

I noticed that the swaying which was my first finding about life was essentially the resonance of life.

At the early age, life was able to resonate with a few patterns of materials and energy, Gravity, subtle electricity, water, amino acid, protein, sodium, calcium, and so on. But around the origin life there were so many things which life could not find proper resonance pattern in the dead environment. Life had to invent new resonance pattern with new things in every moment desperately. Because if life could not find proper resonance pattern with them, it meant immediately death. Life was resonating with dead from the first moment to present time at every moment. Life’s history is the history of infinite inventions. Also life continued resonance with dead from the beginning to now.

So, then we can find that the fourth characteristic of life is the resonance with dead. The third characteristic is infinite invention of novel resonance pattern with everything.

When life found a new resonance pattern with something, life could keep memory of it in the cell as qualia. Qualia is not physical as same as life. It must be subtle resonance pettern of String in hidden tiny dimensions. Only life can feel and use qualia. This is the essential difference between qualia and information. Machine as computer can use the information, but not qualia.

We can find that the ffifth essential characteristic of life is qualia.

Exactly saying, life and qualia is not different thing. Life and qualia are born at the same moment, and they are oneness. All kind of life memories are qualia. Some of important qualia are imprinted in our genome. The others are kept at our cells as temporary memories. The whole process between temporary memory, long term memory, and DNA memory is not solved yet. It will take long time, because essential secret must be hidden at the tiny seven dimensions where the strings are resonating.

These are the essential characteristics of life which I could find through subbody meditation for these ten years at Himalaya.

When we investigate in the butoh of life, these perspectives about life guide us. This is the reason why we need to resonate with other world, because life is resonating with them. Also it is the reason why we need to stop daily rough thinking, because life is resonating though so subtle qualia with the other world including dead world.



Let’s look back the essential characteristics of life.



Resonance
Maintenance self resonance pattern with integrating new resonance pattern
Infinite invention of novel resonance pattern
Resonance between life and death
Qualia


When we become life, we have to follow these essentials, as ash walk, as nest walk, as wearing other world, and with subtle qualia. The subbody butoh method is what just follows the principles of life.



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The Butoh 11





The face of forest


A student of Hijikata asked him, "Why can you make so complex faces as your solo piece?"
He told about so many elements of his choreograph, and said
"It is impossible to become such a face of the forest without multiple resonance among these complex conditions.
We need to assosiate all of them on your face at the same time."
Now we can read his last butoh score which he left only one as "a butoh score for solo of Queit house( See chapter 8)"
It is composed by so complex multi dimensional resonance among various elements.
He called it "The face of forest", but maybe it is hard to imagine the qualia of real forest which he meant for young people of present age, because almost of them have never seen the real forest, because the primeval (=virgin) forests had distroyed completely in agricultural and industrial history.

In the primeval forest, there are so rich ecological system, multiple kinds of creature and materials resonate together deeply. It is the real natural condition of life which resonate with everything in multiple dimansion.
As the slideshow above shows, the old tree in the primeval forest is already a world itself. So many kinds of life and death resonate on the tree. .Some of them survive for ten thousands years, they have experienced every kind of changes, happenings, dramas between life and death.

The face of forest which Hijikata meant is to become a face as these old trees.
He could complete the method how to become it.
We can see it in his Butoh score.
I translated part of it in the chapter 8. Though it is only the first paragraph of them, but you can see that it has so many complex elements which resonate together in multiple dimensions.

When you see his butoh by video at the first time, you may not recognaize what is happening. It looks only various parts of body swaying in different directions. Also for me I could see only it during over ten years.

But during I continued to watch it carefully, and repeated to read his butoh scores deeper and deeper at the same time, slowly it comes out transparently that the essense of his butoh is multiple resonance among all kinds of physical conditions and invisible qualia.



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Monday, September 07, 2009

Wearing the rear world







We meditated with audience for a while before starting the last weekend theater.
Because an essensial change is happening on student's body in the second semester, but it is too subtle to notice by busy daily body and camera.
Only at the real moment we could share it through life resonance, it was so tasty.
Students became a quiet body through the breath of life.
And started to carry the quiet body as an ash walk.
The biggest change was what students became to listen to the rear world.
They wore the rear world, and carryed it.
They could listen to so many qualia of the rear world.
Exactly saying, it is not only a world.
Life is resonating with so many another world; dead world, hidden memory, forgotten dreams, life memories when we were another creature, underground world, heaven world where so many archetypes are floating, uiverse, and so on.
We can wear and carry all of the rear world.
When students started walking with them, they could control all of the space with unknown indications.
From the rear world so many qualia visited hteir body. They also wore them on the various parts of body, and hidden skins as subbodies.
Subbodies wanted to come out, but students controled them at the minimum size.
This is the Nest body. They carryed nest body quietly.
They could become wear so many layers of qualia.
This was the biggest change, though it was so subtle that daily eyes could not catch it. Also it is unable to catch by camera.
Everyhting become more subtle and quiet littele by little.
I recognized that it took time for half year for changing of body and mind.
This is the reason why I had to close the short course.
Slowly slowly we are entering a novel realm together toward the butoh of life.



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The Breath of Life

According to the Craniosacral method, our bodies breathe in three kinds of rhythm, except of the lung breathing rhythm.
They call it "Breath of life" or "Primary respiration rhythm".

When I didn't know this method I have found a similar rhythm for calming daily body and transforming "Quiet body".
Quiet body is for me the first one of ten bodies. I found that I need to be quiet body which is released from all kinds of busy rhythms of daily body and mind.
At first I tried to traditional breathing in various culture, Buddism, Yoga, Tao (Taichi), and so on.
But for me the most comfortable rhythm was longer than the rhythm of lung breathing. I didn't know why, but anyway it worked for me to transform Quiet body, then I did it for long years without naming.
Recently I had a chance to learn Craniosacral method from a student, Pia.
She is a long experienced practitionor of Craniosacral method and Yoga.
I found that their concept of "The primary respiration" or "Breath of life" ex is the same rhythm which I found as the best rhythm for Quiet body.
Also the basic way of thinking about life and body, the Craniosacral method and Subbody method have so many similar thoughts. I will investigate deeper about this.

The breath of life

1. Long tide

The first one is long tide breathing which they call the primary respiratory mechanism. It has 45-50 seconds rhythm. It is the breath of life different from the lung breathing.
This rhythm is so similar of my teacher of life; Nenkin (Slime mold). Its body fluid changes the direction of stream opposite direction in their body in each 40-60 seconds.
Then they can recognize all constellation of qualia between self and world. (See video above. Notice: The speed is amplified.)
We can be with our life in this long tide rhythm.

2. Mid tide

The second rhythm is mid tide which has 12 second rhythm. It is called as potency tide or fluid tide, too. It is also different from lung breathing. It develope from life breathing to the body fluid.. The body spread toward upper and wide direction for arround 12 seconds and fade down and body becomes longer for 12 seconds.

3. Cranial rhythmic Impulse

Thr third one is CRI (Cranial Rhythmic Impulse) which is for 3 to 10 seconds rhythm. CRI is also the developement of the breath of life through the craniosacral motion to the body movement. In the swaying meditation you may find it as the most comfortable rhythm of sway.

I was seraching a method to calm down body and mind deeper for these years, because I planed to practice of possessed body and transparent resonance body. It requires us to controll body and mind more deeply to become possessed body, because if not we meet a danger to be possessed by strong unknown emotional storm from unkown dimension of qualia.
I notced that to learn the breath of life which has these three kinds of rhythm will help us to calm down and to control us to be ourselves firmly, even any kinds of qualia visit us.
Especially to remember the long tide and mid tide is usefull, when we are out of control from quiet condition.

To be with your life all the time

When you got the Breath of life, you can enter the novel realm to learn the transforming method of possessed body and transparent resonance body.

Toward the Butoh of life

Also this is useful for investigating in what is "the Butoh of life" which Hijikata longed for in his later years and could not completed, because of his death.
In front of you, an unknown virgin flontier in where nobody has stepped is waiting for you.



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Kugutsu body





Kugutsu is a thing which has the shape of human-like as you can see on the slideshow above.
Kugutsu is merely a dead thing, but it mediates beween this living world and another world ,like as the dead world thorugh various qualia.
It is moved by another strength from another world through resonance.
It is similar with puppet or marionette whic is manipulated by manipulator. off course there are many traditional culture of manipulated puppet theater in Japan. It called Bunraku or Ningyou Joruri. The puppet is called Kugutsu or Deku, but the essence of Kugutsu is a medium beween this living world and another wolrd.

It is so difficult to explain it by English. I can just tell some essences of Kugutsu body.

1. Become a Quiet body through the breath of life.

2. Resonate with another invisible world behind the Kugutsu

3. Become a medium between this world and another world

This is all what I can describe. It may seem so rough, but for me it is impossble to explain the multi-dimentional resonance wolrd by my elementary English vocabrary.
Because there are neither subject nor object in the resonance world.
Right now it is unable to describe about resonance by English grammer which every word was divided into subject and object. I need to invent another logic to describe non-dual and multi-resonance world, but it will take long time.

Tightrope walk

When you carry the Kugutsu body, there are some specific technique to keep stillness.
One is tightrope walk which you walk on a line between the first toe and heel. Imagine that you are walking on the tightrope in the space.

Sinking feet

Not lift up your foot at all, but imagine that your foot sink into the ground with pressing down each foot.

Nijiri walk

Carry your Kugutsu body with using only toes. Repeat toes bend and streatch.

Oriental walk

Slide your Kugutsu body toward side direction with using your toe ball and heel one after another.



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The Butoh 10 A Girl who planed an evil deed in the rain

10 A girl who plans evil deeds in the rain





A girl who plans evil deeds in the rain

Hijikata wrote this sentense at the first line for his last butoh score of "Solo in the Quiet
house" (1973).
Who is this girl?
Where did she came from?

Hijikata was born as the last son. He had five elder brothers and five elder sisters.
He loved a sister who was taken picture with him when he entered an elementary school
(See above slide arround 1935)
She had to leave from him to work at far-off town from her home village soon.
But Hijikata had traveled to meet her by long train after entering the elementary school.
He faced his sister who dressed with so loudly cloths and gaudy make up.

Why my sister had to gone?
Why did she dress such a colorfull cloths?
What did she do at the far-off town?
Young Hijikata had to ask himself many times in the dream arround mystery of his sister.
But he as a child could not solve the mystery, though when he became adult, it was so
easy to understand the cruel circumstances.

Later he talked about this, "In that age when Japanese nation-state fight against the world,
our northern area had to suply three things for the nation-state. The first one was rice, the second was horse, and the third was women."

It was a big tide which no one could niether resist nor escape at that age.

Hijikata spend time alone with dressed his dead sister's dress(Japanese Kimono) and with
long hair for long years in his forties.
He told, " I breed a dead sister in my drakness of body. We live together. I learned how to
comb long hair, how to behave with lady's dress. I learn everyhting about her in the every morning.
There are so complex relationship, more than that she falls down in the darkness, I also fall down. When she stand up, I fall down. When I devote in the creation of a butoh piece, she gives me an advise to stop all expressions. Dead sisiter is my real teacher of butoh.
We need to lesson hard with the dead constantly. We need live together with dead."

Hijikata spent for long time with his dead sister. it continued from his childhood to forties.
Hijikata might entered in her dream world so many times.

"What dream did you dream? Your whole life was as if in the hard rain. Many men's bodies
had passed through your body. Nothing must be remained in your dream. You must planed only evil deeds in your dreams. You needed to take back which you have lost in your life. Let me know the details of your nightmares.

In these long process, his dead sister's qualia and his body transformed into oneness.
It fermented, decayed, and crysttelized into a butoh peice in the depth of the darkness of
body.

He wrote the first sentense at his last butoh score.

A girls who plans evil deeds in the rain.

And he transformed his sister, she starts dance. Her outline transformed as an animal shape. She who plans so many evil deeds, and transformed into one after another.
Hijikata's butoh score had more than three hundred lines with so conplicated and pricise choreographies. But his dead sister could accept all of them. The evil deed was an extreme creation of butoh. It was a completion of the weakened body butoh method.
He could be burn out, and released from the bind by the anima as his dead sister.
After this performance, he stopped dancing, and concentrated in choreograpfy to his
company.
He entered into another process of creation. He continued to invstigate n the next stage of weakened body technique.
He worte in his notebook at his fifties, we need the butoh which is called as the name of life.
We need to enter the non-dual world before the self and the others have separated.
Butoh have to sink down into the hidden logic dimension where we assosiate with the spirits without any medium.
These images were his last investigation for butoh which is called as the name of life.
But he had to stop his investigation before it comes out with a form.

Now is the time which we continue the investigation toward the next stage of butoh.

What is the butoh of life?
Let's investigate in together.



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Friday, January 02, 2009

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