Listening

 Listening

 

What kind of qualia should we listen to in the journey of the darkness of the body? This chapter will guide you through three particularly important three points. All of these are almost inaudible under normal language consciousness, so listen carefully while continuing the medimotion enough.

Very Subtle Qualia

Listening to subtle Qualia of the darkness of the body

 

 

I often use the word “Listening”.

What is Listening?

What do we listen to?

When we listen to the body, at first we can sense only ambiguous something that is not able to recognize clearly Is this sensation? Or the imagination? Or a dream? Illusion? memory?

We cannot distinguish at all.

It is Non-dual Qualia.

Qualia is everything that cell’s Life resonates with. Life resonates with Qualia of Gravity, Sunshine, Air, temperature, moisture, sound, smell…

Life is always resonating with these physical Qualia of environment. And not only those present physical Qualia but also inner memory Qualia of those that are reserved as the Life memory during the four billion years Life history.

Both are always resonating double. We call the former “Outer Qualia” the latter “Inner Qualia”.

We listen to the double resonance of both though we cannot distinguish as well.

But, during the listening, the non-dual Qualia shift to a certain channel Qualia; bodily sensation, movement, visual, audio, emotion, human relationship, world=self-image, and thinking channels so that we can catch it clearly. We follow it by the whole body-mind until it becomes a certain subbody movement.

When we co-research it with some friends, sometimes a friend’s movement affects you, or your movement becomes other’s movement.

Listen to the process, taste the resonance deeply. It is proof that the border between self and others disappears.

Listen to your own Qualia and other’s Qualia as well.

 

Listen to inside 50% and outside 50%. This is Transparent listening.

You will meet not only your friends but also meet the world Qualia.

In the world Qualia, it includes not only the physical world but also the invisible world Qualia that Hijikata called it “Behind world”.

Those are the Qualia that we listen to.

 

 

24-hour Listening

When we are entering into the real creation process, if you want to be a real Butoh creator, we need to stop thinking and talking completely. Keep infinite silence 24-hour.
Only in the infinite silence, you can listen to very subtle Qualia stream. Qualia are always changing and streaming in your Life, but it is extremely subtle. If you activate the language thinking and talking, immediately you lose the subtle Listening.
Keep listening to what you cannot remember in the darkness of the body. And at the same time keep subtle medimotion that your body is moved by someone with very subtle Qualia from all directions.
Keep the body to follow the unusual forms always.
If you continue these two, there will always be some form and movement of the body, there is a moment when A specific Qualia and body movement connected and suddenly crystallized as one. Hunt it, it is your subbody!  It is important to continue this work always.
As long as you continue it, it will be possible to complete solo or cobody piece for an hour in a year.
The movement consists of mostly strange movements and shapes. The memories that were forgotten to connect with are also full of strange, dusky, hardly o be explained.
By linking them together without any meaning or context, it becomes an unknown thing that you do not understand well. That is the characteristic of subbody=cobody.
When the movement led by one Qualia is over, it is the timing to accept the next subbody. In this process, strange developments are born one after another.
When you dance with others, the border between subbody and cobody disappear, your subbody become cobody, other's cobody becomes your subbody through Life Resonance.
We become unknown Rhizome that connect freely and separate flexible at any part of the body at any moment.
Become swarm, and become an alone wolf!
Transform individual to group instantly and reverse!
Sometimes it jumps to an unexpected place. Do not mind at all.
If you add a story that you can explain with your consciousness, the tree of meaning will immediately rise and it becomes boring. The chaos that nobody understands is OK. Life is moved only to something that has never been seen before. It will be over if the audience is convinced with the head. Constantly betray their expectations and keep even yourself amazed.
This is the essence of Life-Resonance Butoh that has become lucid recently and I can tell now it transparently.

Even sleeping time, we can continue Listening

 

We sink down to deeper research of the darkness of the body. We expand the Qualia listening from only school hours to 24-hour. Continue Medimotion that is moved by someone for 24-hour.

During sleep time, also we are moved by unknown Qualia which sometimes it becomes a dream.

Sometimes our mind state shifts from medimotion mode to meditation mode that we continue Qualia thinking with subtle Qualia without opening the movement channel. Taste the swaying among both processes.

We integrate the Subbody method, Hijikata Butoh method and Deleuze philosophy with researching "Quiet House" Butoh-fu.

Quiet House: The building of Subbody school transforms into the Quiet House that nobody talks anymore. We keep complete silence and listen to the darkness of the body.

The Red God: Life is moved by unknown Qualia always. The medimotion is what we moved by someone. This "someone" is "The Red God". The 24-hour medimotion means that we feel the invisible Red God for 24-hour.
Hijikata isolated himself for some years and meditate about his dead sister to invent his necessary last Butoh.

A girl who plans an evil deed in the rain: This is Hijikata's main motif of The Quiet House. We start researching each one's motivation for creation. Until we find own necessity of Butoh creation, we continue to seek it in the darkness of the body.

A fine spider's thread that runs on the forehead:
Beggar:
Cat Waist:
Behind World:
To control these four elements indigently is Hijikata's secret technique of the weakened body. He segmented his body into thousands of details and transformed various things.
Deleuze said <Differentiation and Differenciation> as same as Hijikata, to segment into different parts and each part transforms differently. 

Garbage disposal place:
When I rubbed a mirror, there was a swaying shadow of flower:
A fragile sound collapsed in a shed:
Can Factory:

The inner Qualia of cell's Life memories are resonating with multiple Behind World.
It is the Rhizome which is able to connect freely and separate flexibly.
Now finally we can integrate Hijikata method, Subbody method, and Deleuze philosophy.