Moshe Feldenkrais: “If It’s Not Good For You, Let It Die.”
I really enjoyed the implications of the quote below as one of the systems that Moshe is talking about letting die is, in fact, “The Feldenkrais Method.” Though the method that he is speaking to was his method and way of acting in the world, not the representations that came afterward.
“It must be good for you and not for the yoga and not for the Feldenkais teaching. It should be good for you. Find out what is good for you and let all the other systems die if they want. But you live. You live the way you want it.”
Here’s the quote in Moshe’s words with a litte more context:
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Feldenkrais Quote: Let It Die.
We can also push the words a bit forward, saying that this, as every serious method, wouldn’t reach any good or bad effect, if it dosen’t contain in its inner part a “training” for dying. How could we be able to stand the lives we sometimes live, if we were not strongly grounded, or connected, on (or with) the certitude that it will come to an end? This is a very important philosophical point of view, even more if it is related and considered within the evolutionary(?) convictions of M.F. that we all share with him. So one should be also able to leave some parts of himself dying along with his dislikes. ( I’m your friend on fb)
Valerio – Thanks for your comment. I have not replied as I simply do not have the words to do your ideas justice. There something very profound about what you wrote and I very much appreciate it. – Ryan
I just listened to that quote again. I really love it. Thank you Moshe!
- Ryan