Going back to 1/2 Essay 5, there's no match between the static information on DNA and the phenotypical motions. There are two different universes, and it takes involved calculation to make any connections atall - see fish-swarms 1/2 Essay 7 (logical regression etc.)
So, in that case, there IS a connection? Only if it's calculated and using algorithms. So how it it that genotype 'gives rise' to phenotype (physique)?
The basic problem of a martial artist is known as "psychic stoppage". This occurs when he is engaged in a deadly contest with his antagonist, and his mind attaches itself to thoughts or any object it encounters. Unlike the fluid mind in everyday life, his mind is "stopped", incapable of flowing from one object to another without stickiness or clogginess. At this point, the martial artist ceases to be master of himself, and as a result, his tools no longer express themselves in their suchness. So to have something in one's mind means that it is preoccupied and has no time for anything else; however, to attempt to remove the thought already in it is to refill it with another something!
Ultimately, one should be "purposeless". By "purposeless" is not meant mere absence of things where vacant nothingness prevails. The object is not to be stuck with thought process. (Bruce Lee, Artist of Life, page 203,204)
The Western syndrome is to calculate answers to things, so the assumption is every has a calculated answer. But, if you take human feet, there cannot be any calculated connection to genotype. Feet are for walking and running and kicking and have mechanical properties.
The same for hands; touching the toes is a mechanical property of the athletic body in motion (involving the spine, the graceful, dancelike attribute of the human figure, musical, affecting.) So how is that possible?
Kwan-yin (Avalokitesvara), the Goddess of Mercy, is sometimes represented with one thousand arms, each holding a different instrument. If her mind stops with the use, for instance of a spear, all the other arms (999) will be of no use whatever. It is only because of her mind not stopping with the use of one arm, but moving to another, that her arms prove useful with the utmost degree of efficiency. Thus this figure is meant to demonstrate that when the ultimate truth is realised, even as many as one thousand arms on one body may each be serviceable in one way or another. (page 206)
"Purposeless" and "no thought" mean there is no calculation possible for the multiplicity of cases (take a centipede or a spider.)
The Western mind will find this hard to accept - and this is almost a type of weakness. After all, the body is strong, just Let It Be. The active body clearly operates in invariable time or rhythm.
The divine rhythms of the planets also operate in invariable time. However, calculation tells us that time is variable - and this is the world we live in. Variable time allows calculations to be made that are hyper-accurate.
This places us in an alternate reality of hyper-accuracy. However, as described in the last two posts, this is a sterile reality that does not recognize degraded environments that continually revive. The cycles that take place in invariable time.
In other words, variable time is quintessentially sterile, antiseptic, lablike or hospital-like. Google Maps will probably inevitably lead to the Amazon House of attached heads and expressive algorithms (see TofF2).
Accuracy and calculation are persuasive to the ego, but weak to the active body, to the psyche that thrives on degraded environments, lichens and fungi on fallen trees.
The degradation is physical strength and psychical revival and existing in invariable time. The psyche is empowered and able to be independent of spirit and rebel. This is the world one must return to for the sake of natural rhythms.
