Tool Promoting Emergence of "Mi-ugoki"

Toward to Way of Being as Embodied Knowledge Integrating “Chi-Joh-I”

Abstract

“Joh-cho” is the harmonious and integral combination of intellect, emotion, will, and sensation, belonging to neither “thing” nor “mind”.We must acquire “Joh-kai”, an affective way of understanding, in order to understand “Joh-cho”.Authors believe that embodiment supports “Jo-kai”, considering phenomenological concepts such as “Hyoh-joh”, “Kinesthetic Melody”, and so on.On the basis for that concepts, we are able to acquire “Jo-kai” by seeing through our own body, not only with our own eyes.Therefore, it is necessary for acquiring “Joh-cho” and “Jo-kai” not only to study through writing about that concepts, but also to encourage our own body to be a medium of seeing, which authors call that “emergence of Mi-ugoki”In this paper, we also introduce a piece of the practice with an application which encourages emergence of “Mi-ugoki” we are working on.