鄭子太極拳の目的 ー 天上の音楽
鄭子太極拳は型も推手も比較的単純なために、安易に考える向きが多いように思う。 鄭子の真の目的について語ったのは、筆者の知る限り汪調源先生だけで、先生によると型も推手も本当は関係ないので、大事なのは天上の音楽を聴くことだけだそうである。 これは鄭子の独創ではなく、ヨーガの伝統に則っていることが、下記の文献から明らかだと思う。
TALKS ON THE PATH OF OCCULTISM - VOL. II
A Commentary on “The Voice of the Silence”
A Commentary on “The Voice of the Silence”
Indian tradition on the subject says that when kundalini rises she dissolves
the qualities of the various chakras through which she passes and carries their
essence upwards. When she reaches the fourth, the heart chakra, the yogi hears
the sound from above, called anahata-shabda. Shabda is sound; an-ahata means “not beaten”; so it is that sound which is made without beating things together. The term is therefore symbolical of that which is above the planes of personality.
The practitioner’s touch with the higher triad begins at this point. Those who
want to increase the contact between the higher and lower manas should not
dwell in meditation on anything below it. The following meditation, translated
from the Gheranda Samhita, is one of those prescribed for the heart centre. It
illustrates the way in which the yogi gradually withdraws his attention from his
surroundings and concentrates it upon his Ideal.
i. Let him find in his heart a broad ocean of nectar,
ii. Within it a beautiful island of gems,
iii. Where the sands are bright golden and sprinkled with jewels,
iv. Fair trees line its shores with a myriad of blooms,
v. And within it rare bushes, trees, creepers and rushes,
vi. On all sides shed fragrance most sweet to the sense.
vii. Who would taste of the sweetness of divine completeness
viii. Should picture therein a most wonderful tree.
ix. On whose far-spreading branches grow fruit of all fancies—
x. The four mighty Teachings that hold up the world,
xi. There the fruit and the flowers know no death and no
sorrows,
xii. While to them the bees hum and soft cuckoos sing.
xiii. Now, under the shadow of that peaceful arbour
xiv. A temple of rubies most radiant is seen,
xv. And he who shall seek there will find on a seat rare,
xvi. His dearly Beloved, enshrined therein.
xvii. Let him dwell with his mind, as his Teacher defines,
xviii. On that Divine Form, with His modes and His signs.
the qualities of the various chakras through which she passes and carries their
essence upwards. When she reaches the fourth, the heart chakra, the yogi hears
the sound from above, called anahata-shabda. Shabda is sound; an-ahata means “not beaten”; so it is that sound which is made without beating things together. The term is therefore symbolical of that which is above the planes of personality.
The practitioner’s touch with the higher triad begins at this point. Those who
want to increase the contact between the higher and lower manas should not
dwell in meditation on anything below it. The following meditation, translated
from the Gheranda Samhita, is one of those prescribed for the heart centre. It
illustrates the way in which the yogi gradually withdraws his attention from his
surroundings and concentrates it upon his Ideal.
i. Let him find in his heart a broad ocean of nectar,
ii. Within it a beautiful island of gems,
iii. Where the sands are bright golden and sprinkled with jewels,
iv. Fair trees line its shores with a myriad of blooms,
v. And within it rare bushes, trees, creepers and rushes,
vi. On all sides shed fragrance most sweet to the sense.
vii. Who would taste of the sweetness of divine completeness
viii. Should picture therein a most wonderful tree.
ix. On whose far-spreading branches grow fruit of all fancies—
x. The four mighty Teachings that hold up the world,
xi. There the fruit and the flowers know no death and no
sorrows,
xii. While to them the bees hum and soft cuckoos sing.
xiii. Now, under the shadow of that peaceful arbour
xiv. A temple of rubies most radiant is seen,
xv. And he who shall seek there will find on a seat rare,
xvi. His dearly Beloved, enshrined therein.
xvii. Let him dwell with his mind, as his Teacher defines,
xviii. On that Divine Form, with His modes and His signs.
