Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 19:16:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Mike Reynolds <aquaviva11-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: violence


'Tzu 'origin, source, beginning, ground; cause,
reason, motive, line of descent, path to the origin,
your self, intrinsic'

I would like more details particularly on the
atmospheric side of the image...here we find again the
image of Shake we recognized earlier as the primary
force necessary to 'issue-forth-from,' the neurotic
stagnation of male identity. Chen 'shake, oldest son,
beginning of the male branch'
[Claudio Rise, Spontaneous Images and Divinatory
Images in Sandplay Therapy, Eranos Yearbook,
V.61(1992)p.63. See also Sandplay Therapy in Japan,
Tokyo: Seishin-shoboh, 1982]

Tzu-jan 'true suchness'is supposedly a Zen(Chan)term,
but was installed in Chinese thinking well before
Buddhism entered China. Deleuze and Guattari's
doubly-articulated image may play happily on the
atmospheric in Tellenbach:

'So the sphere of throwness or of endogeneity is
characterized by specific meaning contents intimately
linked with those of a vital nature and -- since
meaning connections are always connections of
affectiveness -- through the corresponding modes of
Dasein of the non-volitive, namely, the kinesis and
frame of mind....We are aware of becoming atmosphere.'
[Tellenbach, Melancholy]

This is why such arts as Feng Chiao(Waiting for the
Ethers)came into vogue in accordance with atmosphere:
it's not at all simply 'wind/water'(feng shui).

Two Confucians took to the streets to 'investigate
things.' Having come upon a brothel, one was shocked
as his companion moved to go inside. Meeting again the
next day, the obvious questioning arose. The reply: 'A
prostitute was with me, but not with my mind.'

Organic shifting lines, surges of blood in the heart's
apple, nourisher of dreams, xin ___'heart.' 

I am only ashamed that my mind has not been single.
[Shen Yueh, Liang shu, 242]

Tellenbach's passages suggest that in war, the will to
movement or an action can be frozen: the soldier is
paralyzed by fear. Before volition, can it not also
react with lightning speed amidst the chaos as well?

'And amid all of this prolific and phenomenal
diversity there is detailed order and an elaborate
coherence which cannot ultimately be disturbed, and
which is so even without our knowing it is so. This is
what is called principle. Principle is not a separate
entity which depends on material force in order to
exist or which 'attaches to material force in order to
operate.'
[K'un-chih chi, Part I]



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