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“To begin philosophy by
considering perception makes it seem that living things can contact reality only
through perception. But plants are in contact with reality. They are
interactions, quite without perception. Our own living bodies also are
interactions with their environments, and that is not lost just because ours
also have perception. On the contrary, for us that functions in many additional
ways. Animal bodies - including ours - sense themselves, and thereby we sense
the interactional living we are. In sensing themselves, our bodies sense our
physical environment and our human situations. The perception of colors, smells,
and sounds is only a small part of this.”
Eugene Gendlin
You are not the body is a phrase I have had a lot of trouble digesting for at least 45 years. The statement; ‘you are not the body’, to my way of thinking, can create separation in our intelligences by suggesting that our soul is ‘more important then our body. I have found within the same field of higher thought the expression of unity with everything is the order of the day, I agree. I like being unified with everything.
The Logic of being and not being the body bumps into the knowledge that you are the everything. This may cause a slight separation of the logical centers where we house a blend of both the intuitive intelligence, as well as our kinetic intelligence. Today we can thank our lucky stars we have arrived with a body that has the wisdom of great minds, both past and present, to bring order to the chaos of human life.
The timely wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh encourages us to breathe and be aware as we animate our form through time and space. Dancing (moving) through time and space is an art form developed by trusting our seven intelligences. We gravitate towards what is music for the soul and resonate with what is good, true and beautiful. In this fashion we cultivate and co-create a future that honors the forms of our multi-dimensional wisdoms. Trusting our internal form and our external world to grow and transform misunderstandings to a perspective of grace, love and kindness. Sounds good to me!
“The body's interactional intentionality must not be read as something only
latent, only the prior work of a pre-linguistic, pre-cultural body. Rather, the
body's interactional intentionality must be understood as always still with us,
now. In sensing itself the body functions as our sense of each situation. It
would be a gigantic omission to miss this role of the body's self-sentience, and
to try to constitute the world out of percepts of the five senses.”
Eugene Gendlin
The state of brilliance, feeling the grace and dignity are
phenomenal when they visit, and at the same time are familiar and reassuring to
us. Obviously, in the past this state was present but somehow we get pulled into
states of self isolation. Working with breath, as we access the mental
landscape, is helpful because, the body senses what is true, universally good,
and beautiful.
Being tuned to how we feel and trusting our senses to direct us in an ascending way, is so useful. I thought how awkward and baffled I was as a result of being schooled in the gibberish of 1940’s monologues that are passed on as the wisdom for getting along in the world. Oh! were I awakened by an awakened one early, when all the value lines are open for growth, I would have created less samsaric interplay and more value in my sphere of influence. Be that as it may, Now is fine for feeling the gifts of all that awakens ahead.
"The body, the sense organs, the mind and the intellect
are the instruments for a human being. Only when one understands the secrets of
these instruments will one be able to comprehend the Atmic Principle.
SRI SAI BABA
Blessings
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