The world of energy

The most important and most difficult step for the student is to abandon the world they know and throw themselves into the world of energy. This sounds relatively straight-forward but to manage it requires years of work – a particular type of work such as Tai Chi or Heartwork that gradually nibbles away at the foundations of that known world until collapse is inevitable. This process tends to require many repetitions as the student becomes expert in rebuilding their known world with slightly different foundations – anything rather than enter the real world that beckons us all all of the time. Eventually the student has the maturity and wisdom, acquired through their heroic efforts at demolition as well as their ridiculous attempts at reconstruction, to understand that their known world is a self-construction – what their senses perceive and what their mind imagines and creates is some sort of self-projection and as such it repels and keeps at bay the immensity of the world of connexion and energy: it is necessarily confining – a narrow constricting insignificant contortion of reality. The work, and poetry, somehow present us with sensations and experiences that don't fit neatly into our world – they behave badly causing that confining skin to weaken and rupture. The subsequent bleed is a real communication – or communion – our energy mingles if only momentarily with that all around and suddenly we join and perceive, if only momentarily, the world at large. This is softness – the dissolution of barriers and boundaries.