Lu, did you enjoy the new year? Hope you have a wonderful new decade!
You wrote about "touching" in the last letter. That's quite important and interesting topic,and remembered following memories with my cat...
I had a cat previously. Once I noticed that he shows a strong and sensitive response if I stroke the space only a few centimeters away from his body soft and carefully, rather than stroking directly. This is, off cause, the same as caress between human body.
Also, there is another interesting episode with "touching". When touching the surface of the water, if you approach your hand with a slightly distant space very carefully, you might feel the subtle sensation of clinging from the water surface on your hand, rather than touching directly. I sometimes wanna call this sensation "Love" between the hand and the substance water. There is a certain exchange between two beings.
This quite sensitive "magical space" is the space between "touching" and "not touching". I didn't touch directly, but we both could feel each other. Sometimes resonate rather strongly as playing harmony together.
Once I did an experiment with my cat. How far can I extend this subtle space between my hand and his skin, when I stroke him? Ten centimeters, it's not difficult. Twenty, thirty, forty..., tried to extend the distance. Let's try one meter, carefully and wholeheartedly, with deep concentration. He was sleeping, but his skin reacted. Then slowly woke up and saw me while waving the skin.
I thought that it should be possible to feel each other's vibration without touching directly, if I could fill the space between his skin and my hand with a "certain texture". Then, I had tried to stroke him about ten meters away, but off cause,I couldn't, jajaja. But, seriously, I believe that it's not impossible, if we sharpen our sensibility and mind as much as we can, with deep concentration.
Then,suddenly, I thought it should be not impossible to touch the moon, if we fill the space between moon and our body with this "certain texture", as cat's example.
It seems to be unrelated with "grow and practice love", but I think this "certain texture" is quite important and is related with Love. I believe that this texture as the "state of love, before we call it love".
Without this kind of "certain texture", we couldn't call it "true touching", even if you touch directly. Otherwise it gonna be unpleasant. To touch others is easily turning into violent. Love and Violence are both sides, I sometimes feel.
We can interact with "certain texture" on the space between "touching" and "not touching".There might be a stronger energy exchange, and off cause, it leads to the exchange of hearts unconsciously.
We can say that it's also quite important issue in dance and Butoh. Fill the space with this "certain texture", transforming and manipulating this texture of the space should be the role of a dancer, rather than dancing very well, I believe.
The topic changes a bit, but recently, I started to believe that "gravity" and "love" should be related. (Or let's say the gravity and gravitation is one of the "state of love, before we call it love").
Beings who are on the earth (humans, animals, plants and other objects...) are all pulled to the center of the earth by gravity. "The ultimate home of all beings on the earth is the center of the earth". It's the words of Japanese unique physical exercise master, Michizo Noguchi. He believed that all the beings should be in their own unique shape, movement and peculiarity under the gravity. Even physical exercise, each body has a different, so don't copy other's body, but ask gravity and own body, he said.
Some people say gravity and the body as inevitable jails. But the exchange between gravity and body are open to infinite possibilities.
Feel the weight of each part of the body sensitively,and realize that the energy flows passing through the backside of the feet and connecting to the center of the earth. This is "an encounter with the unknown" every time, and also journey to find true "home".
For me, this kind of sensibility for the gravity and body has the similarity as the "certain texture" of "touching".
Matters(objects) are attracted to each other by gravitation. To interact more sensitively, and feel the exchange of the energy flows. This interaction is almost "dance" with the others. Enjoying the delicate exchange between "touching" and "not touching". Transform the texture, and activate the relationship constantly.
(In addition,it's also possible to "touch" the beings who are not here, including dead people, when we dance. This is another important possibility).
This is one of the roles of dance, and also one the ways of growing Love, I believe.
Sorry for my late reply.
It's so difficult to explain, but very fun.
Ari
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