A size walk
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The essence of Butoh walk is not to transfer in the physical time/ space, but to transform into and between different dimensions.
"A size walk" is one of the most basic Butoh walk, which Yoko Ashikawa has given at her workshop in 1989 with following the Hijikata method. it was after three years from Hijikata's death, in Japan, recorded by Kayo Mikami.
1. Walk with becoming a fixed size body.
2. Not walking, but shifting body between heaven and the earth.
3. Eyes become glass ball eyes; open the third eye between the eyebrows.
4. The speed which the scenes are reflected on your glass ball eyes is quicker than the speed which you see the scenes.
5 Put the razor blades under the soles.
6. Carry a water vase on the top of the head.
7. All joints are hanged by spider's thread.
8. A wish to walk goes ahead, the shape of the body follows it from behind.
9. The traces of the walk are hanged in front of you and behind.
3. Eyes become glass ball eyes; open the third eye between the eyebrows.
5 Put the razor blades under the soles.
6. Carry a water vase on the top of the head.
10. Forest at the back of teeth. Spider's threads in the empty cavity of the body.
11. Already the eyes have stopped to see, the legs have stopped to walk.
Your being itself become walking eyes, and walking legs.
12. The walking demands the discontinuity of walk, and
suggests an expanse of space.
1. Walk with becoming a fixed size body.
1 to 7 is the conditions how to stop active human daily body and transform into a dead body which is trying to stand desperately.
1. Walk with becoming a fixed size body.
2. Not walking, but shifting body between heaven and the earth.
Stop normal legs movement as a human. Not you but someone moves your dead body.
3. Eyes become glass ball eyes, open the third eye between the eyebrows.
4. The speed which the scenes are reflected on your glass ball eyes is quicker than the speed which you see the scenes.
Stop watching of physical daily eyes. Your eyes have rotten down; they change to glass ball eyes which are open without focusing on anything. Instead of them, the third eye which is able to resonate with the invisible Qualia among different dimensions is open.
5 Put the razor blades under the soles.
6. Carry a water vase on the top of the head.
7. All joints are hanged by spider's thread.
You can touch by only one point of the feet with the floor, knees, legs, pelvis is always swaying in a different direction, with keeping the fixed size of the body.
Various joints are moved by spider's thread into different directions.
8. A wish to walk goes ahead, the shape of the body follows it from behind.
9. The traces of walk are hanged in front of you and behind.
8-12 are guidance into a multi-dimensional realm beyond time and space.
Your wish is separated from your dead body. Your dead body wants to catch up your wish for walking, but it is so hard. Your dead body and your spirit are separated and lost way in the multi-dimensional world.
10. Forest at the back of teeth.
Spider's threads in the empty cavity of body.
A forest means not only physical forest, but it is a metaphor of a conglomerate of hidden Qualia of the darkness of body in the multi-dimension. The forest is a big secret, mystery, like as a Universe. Dance with keeping your forest. It resonates with your hidden cavity through the spider's thread, too.
11. Already the eyes have stopped to see, the legs have stopped to walk.
Your being itself become walking eyes, and walking legs.
12. the walking demands the discontinuity of walk and suggests an expanse of space.
A size walk is a kind of walking meditation.
Through the size walking, you enter into the non-dual and multi-dimensional world.
It is not the four-dimensional time/space where our daily bodies exist, but the non-dual and multi-dimensional world where the Qualia of life are streaming among life and death.
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