Midwife

 Midwife

 

Become Midwife Rhizome

 

An ideal form of future human

Midwife Rhizome is an ideal form of future human for me. I want to share it with you in the last part of the book.

We all try to grow up to Midwife Rhizome.

What is Midwife Rhizome?

Why do we need to become Midwife Rhizome?

How can we become it?

 

What is Midwife?

Listen to not only own darkness of the body but also to all of your friend's darkness of the body quietly 24-hour. It may connect to all human being and Life on the planet.

Always listen to how can we open the potential creativity of Life fully.

When we stop daily thinking and become subbody=cobody mode, the border between self and others disappears.

The midwife does not belong in Tree hierarchical system like the school teacher.

A midwife is a Rhizome that does not give knowledge from the top of the hierarchy but continues to learn from Life and shares the best with others.

There are neither teachers nor students in the Subbody Resonance Butoh. Everybody is co-researcher and co-midwife.

We listen to each other’s darkness of body and research in how it is possible to open the hidden creativity, originality, and resonativity (resonance ability) of Life.

Subbody=Cobody is the entranceway to become Life. Subbody=Cobody and Life itself are fundamentally Rhizome.

 

From “Care for self” to <Care for Life>

My philosophy teacher, Michel Foucault explored by up streaming the Western thought history to “Care for self” in the Greek era, the birthplace of the Western mind.

However, what we need now is Care not only for the self but also for others, and not only for human beings but Care for Life.

What is decisively lacking in modern thought is <Care for Life>.

 

From <Care for Life> to <Being Life>

It is important not to consider Life on earth from human heights, but to take off all human illusions and become Life itself.

Life lives in resonance with all Life. Life is resonating with each other through the infinite meshes of invisible Life Resonance.

Becoming Midwife Rhizome

Life is Rhizome itself without any hierarchy.  Anybody can become an initiator and organizer when meets novel Qualia through resonance emergence and take the initiative to share it in the world. That is the Midwife Rhizome.

 

 Like an Orchid Rhizome

Midwife Rhizome has both of super independence and super resonance. Even alone it can Initiate and organize everything. Like the Rhizome of Orchid. The roots of Orchid is like-potato shape, but when it is cut into a very small piece, it can grow up to complete the form. When you spread to the world as a Midwife, you have to take all responsibility at that place; how to communicate with the local people, how to advertise, how to collect participants and so on.

 

How to guide the Subbody=Cobody process

De-self own intention

At first, Midwife has to de-self one’s own intention and binds, then it becomes able to listen to participant’s darkness of the body to open infinite creativity of Life. Every day start from the de-self conditioning by yourself to release from stiffness, pain, blockage, unconscious emotional bind. Release personal tension at the throat by the biggest breathing and try the lowest voice without any tension.

Forget all planning or program of teaching and listen to the darkness of the body of participants, how it is possible to open their potential creativity of Life. Just focus on it.

The midwife is the opposite of the teacher. The teacher is based on the hierarchical Tree order of the difference of knowledge in daily human society. But it is a common illusion of modern human because all of us are totally ignorant about Life. There is no boundary between the midwife and the participants. All of us are co-learners, co-researchers of Life and Co-Midwife that supports each other.

 

 

Beyond Socrates's midwife method

 

According to his disciple Plato, Socrates argued with many Athenian citizens and led them to realize how ignorant they were about themselves. He lived as a midwife on <ignorance to self>.

What we are aiming for now is decisively not enough to <consideration for self>. To realize what we don't know about Life at all and to share the long step to become Life that is able to <Consideration of Life>.

Also, we don’t use the argument at all. The argument just activates the conscious ego.

If you notice a problem with a collaborator or participant, you should not point it directly in words. On the contrary, the ego resists and amplifies the guard. Rather, you take all responsibility of what your guide of conditioning and researching was somehow inadequate. Then you ask your subbody who works 24-hour a night before going to bed. And in the morning, subbody will let you notice the solution based on the deeper truth, mostly Non-dual=dual sway or Rhizome=Tree sway and so on. It should be. You can just guide the next day's conditioning and researching will solve it.