you may want to try feeling your hands as you sit here because the because you
are restless because your entire attention is still lodged in the head in
the mind and the mind must feel either Restless or anxious or totally bored
sitting here so if you cannot get out of that the body really is the if you can
simply begin by feeling the inner energy field in your hands and that there is
yes there is an aliveness there you can feel that there is a hand not externally
but internally if you closed your eyes and somebody asked you is your left hand
still there for a moment you would have to internally so to speak
look for it and then you would say you would feel something yeah
it's only question is how do you know that it's still there because it's not
touching anything you're not moving it and then of course you you will know
because I can feel it I can feel its energy that's how I know
that the left hand is still there
not a memory that it was there when I last looked and then your answer comes
from the memory yeah it's still there I saw it a minute ago and again these
things to the mind seem insignificant but they are of tremendous significance
to begin to inhabit the body which takes you out of inhabiting the mind
exclusively if you can feel your left hand or your right hand you can also
feel other parts of the body you have to just start somewhere
that becomes the entry point into the body I'm speaking particularly to those
to all of you but to those who either bought out of their minds well if you
were bored out of your mind you would be okay but those who are still bored in
their minds
or are feeling Restless and are thereby missing the essence of both of this
gathering get into your body get in there feel the legs the feet the
hands the arms so what if you can feel one hand you can feel the other hand
simultaneously you feel them pause at the same time the feeling of hand feet
you can feel both feet also as you feel your hands subtle at first some people
feel almost like a tingling sensation some people feel a warmth and then can
you feel the trunk of your body the belly sometimes to feel the belly belly
is very helpful to be in there taking one deep breath or two or three
Bres and following the breasts with your attention and feel the belly of the
abdomen is the more polite word feel the abdomen rising as you breathe in into
the belly and for a moment there's a cessation the belly is full and then
breathes out so breathing's a few times into the deep take the belly breaths
which means you have to follow it's not just a practice an external practice the
essence is that you follow the breaths with your attention and then when you
move into the belly so that the attention leaves the head and moves into
the body so you breathe into the belly and there you could say you're in this
is the center of your body around here solar plexus also but belly is a
beautiful Center and once you've breathed in a few times into the belly
you can actually feel the energy field of the belly here and you rest there and
from there radiates out energy into the rest of the body Hara the center as the
Japanese call it so here and you may notice then when you look at not only
the images of the Chinese fat Buddha with a huge belly whoo laughs all the
time because he has no problems left
toothless old man with a huge belly who cares whatever you say to him to come
with your problems he will laugh at you
but you may also notice that the Indian Buddhist and other Southeast Asian
Buddhas most of them have a very slight protrusion in the belly region so they
Superleague there's a little bit of slide because they rest here they do
there their center of gravity is not in the head as it is with modern humans
Western especially but the whole world has become Western
so the center of gravity is not in the head the center of gravity is in the
center of your physically perceived body but it goes beyond body so you can we
arrest there and sort of senses the the that field of aliveness is beautiful it
takes you out of the head your attention moves down here you unite with the
all-pervasive intelligence that is beyond the mind
that inhabits your body that isn't the only an expression of the one
intelligence is the intelligence that lives in your body as the life energy
that regulates thousands of complicated functions complicated on the point of
view of the human mind that regulates coordinates thousands of functions in
the body simultaneously - everything is just right well one thing slightly well
man adjusted the body would die immediately
you'd collapse temperature heart rate lungs circulation innumerable things
that you could spend the next five thousand years analyzing how the human
body works and you still wouldn't get to the end of it and it's only the the
outer body so there's an intelligence at work that is vast so true if you can
feel your body that is an entry point into that vastness and the deeper you go
if you do it for yourself you can do it with your eyes closed at first so that
you become familiar with inhabiting the body and realize as you go deeper that
it's not really about the body it's about sensing that vast
spaciousness that is here vast spaciousness so you enter the
spaciousness through the body and then everything comes to life once your body
comes to life and then you look around and open your
without losing the inner sense of body then you feel everything is more life
suddenly it participates in that because you are not deadening it anymore with
mental abstractions concepts labels it has always been alive couldn't see it
anymore couldn't feel it anymore
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