| Tree rhizome |
What is tree-rhizome? Daliy world is bound by dualism thinking--good/bad, in/out, up/down, me/others, subject/object, high/low, positive/negative, center/edge, and so on. It is called 'Tree'. 'Tree' system has trunk, branch, leaf, as a hierarchy, like as directry system in computer. When we think with using language we have to bound by these 'tree' thinking. Subbody and life belong non-dual and multi dimensional world. There is only resonance. Resonance has no subject, no object. Resonance is happening in multi dimension and non dual world. It is called 'Rhizome'. Rhizome has no center, no edge, no subject, no object. It can connect freely and separate freely. It changes shape, number, and qualia flexiblly. For the consciousness of daily mind can not understand this at all. Then we need translation technique between lower dimensional 'Tree' world and multi dimensional 'Rhizome' world. For getting this, you need to be able to go and come between both world freely. This is 'Tree-rhizome' method. 'Jo-Ha-Kyu' of Tree-rhizome process Jo: Start from single channel, single qualia Ha: Increase number of channel and qualia Kyu: Enter into multi dimensional=non- dual world This is general principles for practice and for performance. At first we cannot enter or guide into rhizome world directly, because it is too much complicated unknown world for daily body. Then we need to open the most simple entrance. Here, I discribe about practice process. 1. Jo: Open single channel, single qualia We start from body channel. Because it is the most primitive channel for the life. Origine life has only body channel. Single celled creature has not eyes, ears, nose, tongue, arms, legs, tale. But single celled creature can feel every kinds of qualia--gravity, light, wave, wind, taste of things, and so on. They can feel them through body. In their body so many qualia are folded as inner qualia through four billions life history. Then the first practice should start from this most basic channel. Feel the gravity, light, warmth, air, sound, fluidity, solidity, and so on. Find a specific point to start feeling the qualia at a part of body. Catch the subtle signal from body, and follow it, amplify it to the limit, and proceed to next stage. Next basic channel is movement channel. Ameba can move in their own way. Follow them. Become each kind of lower creature. Hydra has inner cavity, they change the shape of body cavity and they move flexiblly. Also sea anemone. jellyfish are move from body cavity. We can learn from them the secret transformation way of hidden cavity. Next developement in body channel was to get spine. Fish can swim by spine movement. Follow them and learn it. In each kind of animal has their own way of movement. Learn from them how to move the hidden joints in unique timing, rhythm, speed, direction, and so on. 2. Increase the number of channel and qualia guradually Primitive creature does not have eye. They feel the qualia of light through skin. Imagine how the skin feel the light. The proto qualia are folded in our hidden skin as inner life memory. Imagine that the first moment when a creature got eye. Remember your first experience when you transform from fetus to baby. Then slowly each creature develope how to use eyes. Practice the transparent eye, edge eye, half eye, lizard eye, animal eye, bird eye, human eye, humanoid eye, dead eye, and so on. Next, open audio channel. Ameba catch the vibration of air through the whole skin. Fish has ear at their side skin line of body. They catch the changes of vibration and pressure of water. And practice how to use the body sound with resonance among body cavity, oral cavity, nose cavity, and hidden cavities. Through opening these channels, we can find some strange changes happen in our body unconsciously. These unconscious body feeling come out as a emotional signal, and we can recognize a specific feeling. Amplify it through changing voice, face, and whole body. Open human relationship channel next. Feel another creature through your hidden skin. Contact another subbody movement of your friend with different distance, through differret channels--with the distance of five meter, one meter, one foot, one inch, and the distance between touching and not touching, direct skin touch, deep tisuue, deep muscle, bone, and resonate with inner qualia stream of your freind's body. Open various way of strange relationship. This is the subbody-cobody theater. We can notice through these practice that we can transform from subbody to cobody. Through this process, you can increase the number of channel and number of dimemsion of your subbody butoh. 3. Enter into multi dimension=non dualism world The biggest channel for us is the world image= self image channel. World image and self image are always resonating together. When you were a fetus, your mother's womb was your world. Your self image and world image was oneness. After becaming baby, your world was your mother, and you increased your world=self images gradually. In your dream world you can experience the shift from a world=self image to another world=self image. We have so many diversity of them. Taste the resonace between the world image and self image. It is resonateing in the multi channel,multi dimensional world. Finally, you can realize that the biggest world=self image channel and the most primitive body channel is the same. They are resonating in the non-dual and multi dimensional world. You will aware that this is the real rhizome wolrd for life. In the practice and in the creation of the subbody butoh dance, when you reach the world image=self image channel, it will be the final Kyu stage of whole process. Enjoy these travels in your whole self world. It has infinite richness. |