When you make all the practice-maintaining ropes (i.e., ritual) disappear,
The practice disappears: it loses its forms and tends to become shapeless, until there is nothing left.
Rituals (however simple they may be), even reduced to allusion, to the symbol of a symbol, are to practice what musculature is to posture.
All muscles tensed, posture is not expressed
All muscles relaxed, there is no more posture.
The Buddha’s string: neither too tight nor too loose,
Speaks of posture, of attitude in life, of rituals in practice.
©FJ OCT 2024
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Notes & Silence 
Cannot the minimising of ritual be a radical ritual in itself?
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And conversely,
Turning everything into a ritual would mean to let go of them completely…?
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Possibly. To let go of the formalised rituals, at least. If spontaneity becomes the ritual method, certainly.
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