Budo international Martial Arts Magazine Jul.-Aug. 2014 | 页面 4

"One single desire overwhelms me: that of discovering what lies
behind the visible, of piercing the mystery that gives me life and takes
it from me, and of knowing whether an invisible and immutable
presence is hidden beyond the incessant flow of the world."
Nikos Kazantzakis
mmersed in the morass of everyday life, overwhelmed
by the urgencies, there where the leaves are the only
forest we can imagine, in the realm of confusion, we
will never find an answer. Many times not only do we
need to get out of that environment, but we need
something more complex... that it be this environment
what get out of us! A much more complex energetic
maneuver…
For most scholars of spirituality, energy body is the
synthesis of the irradiations of the soul; but the latter does
not dwell in a cloud separate from any other reality; even
though it is the substantial part of our self, it is, when
incarnated, living a physical experience. Like a fish in water
is wet, or the bird is exposed to the winds and inclemency of
its environment, the spirit and matter that make up our reality
interact with their surroundings.
These reflections result inevitably in an opaque language,
but, what is clear in the invisible if not what derives from the
own personal experience? And more importantly, what the
heck has all this to do with Martial Arts? I shall try to answer
both questions, but let me first go on with my reflections on
the important issue that opened in the first paragraph.
The ancients said that the energy of the environment was
constantly crossing with our luminous egg, wrapping it, going
through it and finally imposing on it, to incrust into it when
such energy found in our light sphere similar frequencies,
where they were "glued" by sympathy in vibratory clusters.
This process of accumulation and saturation of specific
frequencies, both positive and negative, polarized abruptly
every time they came to their peak.
A master of mine said that pollution was much of
something on a determined place; I know no better
definition. This pile of "something" is consequently always
negative. It makes us turn extremely dense and leads us to
collapse.
The ancient Shizen Miryoku defined the personal Universe
as a network of energies and tension that held our world, like
a spider web suspended at its ends. When a rope sustains
too much weight, it brings about a sinking of the being,
which eventually leads to a reversal in the energetic planes,
so that the lower chakras begin to act outside their natural
axis, leading the individual to a state of disharmony and
confusion. Our Universe of tensions sinks down, such as
space-time in the proximity of a black hole, and everything
that's around the person tends to be absorbed as if it was
sucked into a downward spiral, just like water going down
the drain.
Eventually, the strings that sustain our Universe of tensions
can't hold any longer the weight of everything that is
constantly falling into that hollow and so fasteners end up
breaking, and that is manifested through events framed in
the kind of extremophiles. As a Spanish proverb goes,
"everybody makes firewood of the fallen tree", or "for a
skinny dog all are fleas", and so, in many other cultures, you

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"If you do not raise your eyes you will believe
you are the highest point."
Anonymous

will find similar sayings expressing the same idea. First falls
one area of your life, then the next, and so on. Spiritual and
personal care are in charge of avoiding such accumulation
and realign the luminous spheres, attending to what crosses
in our lives.
The natural process of life is wear; as years go by and with
the friction involved in the very act of living, the encounter
with the others, with the interaction with the world and the
manifestation of our natures, with our destinies, the waters of
our rivers mix, intermingle; sometimes are contaminated,
others are absorbed by larger rivers, descend by gorges or
fall into vertiginous waterfalls where are vivified or evaporate.
There were many ancient cultures in which shamans took
care of people by "cleaning" what surrounded them, their
spiritual bodies. The idea that what we are ends just there,
on the border of the visible, is just another deception of the
senses. Invisible bonds join mother and child, husband and
wife, pet and owner... ties that are perceptible for those who
have the needed sensitivity, and that, as is frequently the
case, interweave into extraordinary events that surpass any
materialistic explanation.
We are bubbles of energy, luminous eggs crimped in lines
of tension with what is around us, constantly embroiled in
bigger spheres that have their own identity, and surrounded
by all kinds of forces and consciousness. We load our
memories and endure the interference of the force of those
who think of us, or of those wh