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What is Transparency?

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  What is Transparency?   Transparen cy  means not being b ound  by outside. Transparen cy  means not being b ound  by inside. Transparen cy  means not being b ound  by anything. Listen to inside 50%, outside 50%. Keep this balance exactly to be transparent. Transparency means not being bound by anything, not bound by internal elements and external elements, and we can become Transparent Life. The word of inside and outside is tricky, it changes always depend on the focusing condition. Subbody mode For example, when you are subbody mode, inside means inner Qualia; feeling, emotion, desire, memory, imagination and so on, outside means present physical resonance with the environment. Cobody mode When we are cobody mode, the outside becomes a friend’s movement and inside becomes yourself. Subbody=Cobody  mode In the  performance , the outside becomes the audience and inside becomes the dancers. Performance is the training chance to  ch...

From individuation to Becoming Life

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  From individuation to Becoming Life Individuation and Becoming Life Psychologist C.G.Jung and philosopher Gille Deleuze, whom I learned a lot, put <individuation> as a human goal. <Individuation> means realizing 100% of Self potential. <Individuation> is a precious goal. However, the present age that the destruction of Life and Earth has advanced to its limit, that's not enough. Not only becoming Self but <To become Life> is what the deepest matters. What comes after the “human death” predicted by philosopher Michel Foucault is <Becoming Life>. If there is something in this book that I can add to the achievement of my teachers, it will be <Becoming Life>. Only that can open up our brilliant Future.  (See chapter 4 “Research the 5 Desires”)  

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  <Becoming> and <Reduction by X and regeneration> <Becoming> in Hijikata Butoh <Becoming> is a fundamental of Butoh. <Reduction by X and regeneration> is the most universal method for <Becoming>. Tatsumi Hijikata wrote it a lot in his last solo Butoh score "Quiet House". “Becoming a girl. Becoming a stuffed spring. Becoming a behind world. Becoming a Shisha(Dead) that is able to transform to everything infinitely. Becoming a mad man=child=beast. Becoming a vaporized body. Becoming a chimera. ...and so on.” Each sentence of the score is the variation of becoming. And he uses the technique of <Reduction by X> in each becoming. Reduction by X means to reduce an element from the normal human body.  X can be anything, then it is the universal transformation method to become everything in the Universe. For example... “Becoming a girl means to reduce sexuality and age from his human body. Becoming a stuffed spring means to reduce Life from ...

The amazing synchronicity of Hijikata and Deleuze

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  The amazing synchronicity of Hijikata and Deleuze We could find so many amazing synchronicities between Hijikata and Deleuze.  1 . First synchronicity about the ego Hijikata said,   “We have to go to the place before the differentiation of self and others.” Deleuze said, “To reach, not the point where one no longer says I, but the point where it is no longer of any importance whether one says I. We are no longer ourselves.” Both are the way to release from the modern bondage of ego.   2. Second synchronicity of the transformation method to overcome the ego bind Hijikata invented <Reduction by X and regeneration>, Deleuze invented <Deterrtorialization and reterritorialization>. Both are the transformation methods to release from all kind of binds; ego, self-identity, humanity, sexuality, nationality and so on. X and the territory can be anything. Then both method is completely the same. You can replace “territorialization” into X, then Hijikata method be...

Words that have changed my life

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  "Order of the things" Michelle Foucault Words that have changed my life This word of Foucault that I met at the end of my twenties changed my life fundamentally.   We can take off the "human" that is imprinted by the modern society, it turns on the light of the huge hope.   This word has become the guidance that I was able to reincarnate as a Butoh dancer in my 40's.   Because the Butoh, created by Tatsumi Hijikata also pursues to take off "human", and it opened up a practical way to become Life.   In those days in my twenties, what should we do exactly after the death of "human", I had no idea about it. I was wandered with searching in the darkness of body, it's no way to be the "Superhuman" as if in Nietzsche. However, after 20 years of retreat in the Himalayas, the practical enlightenment that we take off "human" and at the same time, the way of "De-self" to take off the "Ego", "Self-ident...

My predecessors

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  My predecessors Michel Foucault (1966)   The death of God and the Disappearance  of Man I would like to introduce the most important philosophical discoveries in the 20th century. The most important philosophical event in the 19th century was "God has died" by Nietzsche. And in the 20 century, Foucault predicted "Disappearance of Man". It happened in France in 1966. And, surprisingly, in Japan at the same time beyond the sea, Tatsumi Hijikata was created Butoh that abandons all human conditions. It was surprising synchronicity! We knew the fact that Life is connected to one in the Abyss, through it. Only my generation has experienced the amazing synchronicity of Life in 1968 world revolt by world youth. However, someday again the day when the world Life will resonate to Rhizome will come. Tree-like hierarchical order confines the creativity of Life. Someday the Life in the world will notice it.  I believe it. "I believe that the human has been If not a bad dr...

Life, Qualia, Resonance

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  Life, Qualia, Resonance     The  m ystery of Life, Qualia, Resonance   I want to share the biggest mysteries for me. It is what is Life, what is Qualia and what is Resonance. What is Life?   Scientists tried to define Life in various ways such as self-replication, self-organization, etc. But all the Life theory have been overlooked one point that only Life can sense the Qualia and thereby able to control itself.  Modern Life research is limited to material research on DNA and genes, and Life cannot be viewed radically as something that resonates and swaying between material and non-material. Life is a special being which can resonate with subtle Qualia. Qualia is everything that cell’s Life resonates with; Qualia of Gravity, Sunshine, Air, Weather, Temperature, Moisture, Sound, Smell and not only those present and physical Qualia but also inner Qualia which is reserved in the cell as the Life memory. The newborn Life had very few resonance patterns w...