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Re: water

Posted By: MACK!
Date: MON, 10/14/02, 4:04 a.m.

In Response To: water (Mu)

Totally. I'm completely touched by the meaning of your words. Never attempted to find myself. Sought to lose my self in the art and the action. The process leads to transcension of self. Leads to something much bigger than self. Peals away the graphs and the tunnel vision and crystalizes a thousand ideas for what they are... seen without the scaffolding that you had previously constructed to get yourself there.

I am most happy when I am at the moment. The moment of now. An endless succesion of now without consideration of past and future, for you realize there is now past or future. Just the endless succesion of now, and you make each now the best you can. A good past or future is just what it looks like from outside looking in. But when you are inside of it, nothing compares to that. The trick is to get yourself inside every step of it. Make the preparation for the now, also the now. Some times it takes a few ritualistic movements or markings to get there. Some times it takes scaffolding.

Has my impression and philosophy changed? Yes. It has evolved. It has constantly grown with me. With the work. With the art and the action. At some point there is not seperation or distance between the act, the art, and the philosopy. That is the best part. To BE the change. To become the evolution. To LIVE the idea. To not see any line between living the art, and the art living you.

You go beyond self. Self becomes part of the larger picture. A tear drop in a rainstorm. You realize that every effort is a collaboration between you and all of the elements involved.

: "Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of
: self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment
: he loses concern over what impression he is making or
: about to make."

: O.k. Hi, I have some perhaps boring questions if you have
: time?

: I am asking, Then vs. Now How do you feel your approach
: towards art has changed since your earlier work up
: until now?

: I have just finished watching the Bruce Lee story and my
: or my what an every womans man's man! Ai, yai yai!

: He seems self dynamiting? As if the will dispels all
: ills. An interviewer pushed a pop quiz on him about
: his own views, saying? " I bet you don't remember
: what your philosophy was in the beginning of this
: interview"?

: Bruce Lee seems tired after a long death expose' and he
: put's his head down and looks doubtful and surprised
: then mad!

: He looks up and each word connects with further volcanic
: laser velocity, ending in "Be Water my
: Friend" !!!

: Jesus!
: It got me thinking of your own saga.
: How you have said at times that your we're so purposeful
: and archival in earlier years exhuming history to fuel
: a way into your own vortex, veil, unhinging what may
: be an expression of homage to yourself and exploration
: thru Eastern from southern almost into death?

: WEll, that is just my shakey eye into the realm of forces
: as to why is Kabuki?

: So, My question is ? Did your earlier systems,
: philosophy, methods, genres, explosion of rigid
: stereotypes of comic book styles originate from a goal
: to achieve freedom?

: As if to take out a carcinogenic toxic albatross out of
: the stream took great SKill, focus and dynamo just to
: create room for greater room?

: Or do you feel that all of the excercises just become
: natural later as a more direct expression of self?

: maybe both? hell i don't know what i am saying it's so
: late! But in watching, The Bruce lee, you know? I keep
: typing Bruce Less and having to retype! My core is
: dreaming Less is more as in his "empty cup"
: something I certainly admire!!!

: But? Do you miss a lot of the earlier martial arts
: training too? Kinda scary though, so strange when I
: think of how the passion of his (Bruce) as a metaphor
: is timeless but the death aspect is whoah, terribly
: lethal.

: Jeet Kun Do as a non system system was so revolutionary
: at the time, when it could be just the way it began
: and was his destiny to refresh.

: I just wonder? Does the Grande Theatre* of your artform
: intercept more into your essence of expression even
: more than a concrete form.

: By the way, I met someone whose birthday was Oct 7th.. He
: kept saying it was his birthday and I said... Oh
: really that's the day of the genius. He sure liked
: that! I said, well I mean? er? justice, i mean,
: rebellion, no I mean society thru theatre and all of
: the above. He had four arms waving like a
: hallucinating statue, then i realixed his son up upon
: his back was getting hungry!

: Like James Bond he reached into this waist pouch and
: pulled out several tiny tupperware container filled
: with all of these vegan epicurian treats... He say's
: meet "Shiva" I was like see? I told you?
: Shiva waves his arms and say's "gimmee five"
: I said ok but you have 20!

: aii yaii....

: He was one of the original members of the Blue Man group!
: I told him, like the jerk I am not knowing who, just
: remember it was me who told you... great theatre is
: comming. Kabuki! He said, yeah what's your name.. blah
: blah...

: I said are you really big on busting tyrany?
: He said, shit! No wonder I don't have a jOb! Any kind of
: boss is like the rack of inquisition.

: But, later this girl ran up to me? Do you know who that
: was? I said no... Just some guy who lived in Old
: Ceylonese temples? No he's the Blue boy and I
: remembered on Oct 6th your profile of you is in blue
: too, that is your face...

: strange!

: I guess hard work can lead to abandonment of self
: concious inner land mines. I just hope, your audience
: and powers that be never take that away from you! For
: living death is most loathsome.... I feel he forever
: lives fighting living death!
: that do takes eternal memory of the empty cup

: Bruce Lee say's it better.

: Thoughts on water...

: In response to an email from my good friend Tandy

: Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 00:40:08 -0500 (CDT)
: From: Ale Avila
: To: Tandy [email removed]
: Subject: water

: "Be formless, shapeless, like water... You put water
: into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a
: bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot,
: it becomes the teapot... Now water can flow, or it can
: crash, be water my friend."

: Just Mu.

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