Contrary to what the egoic mind may like to believe, liberation from the suffering of pain and loss associated with physical form comes not by escaping the body, but by being fully present in the body. When illness, an accident, or the decline of the body with age show up, the vast majority of people are lost in the story of “poor me.” With personal ownership of physical form (“my body”), and with the psychological forms inevitably wrapped around this primary identity (“my pain,” “my sick- ness,” “my imperfection,” “my ugliness,” “my weakness,” “my loss,” and so on), a story gets created called “my suffering.” This fixation on form paradoxically indicates a lack of presence in the body or, rather, in the deeper energy field of the body.
THE LUMINOSITY OF BEING PRESENT IN THE BODY
THE LUMINOSITY OF BEING PRESENT IN THE BODY
THE LUMINOSITY OF BEING PRESENT IN THE BODY
Contrary to what the egoic mind may like to believe, liberation from the suffering of pain and loss associated with physical form comes not by escaping the body, but by being fully present in the body. When illness, an accident, or the decline of the body with age show up, the vast majority of people are lost in the story of “poor me.” With personal ownership of physical form (“my body”), and with the psychological forms inevitably wrapped around this primary identity (“my pain,” “my sick- ness,” “my imperfection,” “my ugliness,” “my weakness,” “my loss,” and so on), a story gets created called “my suffering.” This fixation on form paradoxically indicates a lack of presence in the body or, rather, in the deeper energy field of the body.