Yet we see how much we forget it again and again, getting distracted by some desire to reach, to succeed, some comparison or judgment. The movements call us back to the watcher, and further, to an anchor of stillness, silence and inner peace.
Such is the inner process, the inner dance of attention. Learning to sense the body from inside, by and by this sensation of the body radiates the whole of our being. The watching does not stop at the body, but expands to the room, the other participants, the music and sounds...
Distance with thoughts and emotions is created (this is dis-identification). Stillness is experienced at the core of all movements, inaction behind action...
* The seen is movements, forms, rhythm, group action
* The seer is formless, inaction, motionlessness
The movements are a flowing current but there is no movement at the centre. Through the changing forms, whether quick or slow, round or staccato, we awaken to the unchanging and the formless. Hence this feeling of freedom and expansion...
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do you posess any real exact knowledge of the language of gesture and posture -transitions of Mr Gurdjieffs movements?
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