Guest guest Posted July 26, 2001 Report Share Posted July 26, 2001 >> I have (whoa, I just lost my cool font)....I have so much love in my heart for That, which includes, of course, anyone who happens to be reading this in This precious Moment. Thank you. << Hello again. : ) This whole bit that you wrote gave me a smile in my entire being (oops, I almost typed beading...lol...have been beading lately and have beads on the brain...just call me beadbrain...). It even smiled into my body, for which I am even more grateful as today has been a more intense pain (chronic, physical) day, and also I have felt sick. Sometimes I feel betrayed by the body. Sometimes, I am reminded these things are not my body's fault and to love this body and care for it. Sometimes I remember I am not the body alone. It is all useful. But to breath a smile into this body today is a great gift. Again, thank you. I'm very glad you are part of the group. Shanti ~ Linda Rae Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 27, 2001 Report Share Posted July 27, 2001 Dear Linda, Excuse my current terse writing style... I mean this well, and support you more than you might conclude after you read this the first time. You wrote: > Sometimes I feel betrayed by the body. It would be good to find out what the meaning of this sentence actually is. The body cannot betray of course, as betrayal is a social behaviour activity, a social dysfunction that supports a mind set that believes that behavioural and moral deficiencies are part of reality... Betrayal is a socio-mental-moral dysfunction, NOT a bodily dysfunction. The body IS. If you feel tempted to argue that, you are merely holding off authentic self realization and integral self reclamation. True, "You are not the body," as you does not exist. When one says, "I am the body," that I does not exist either. When one says, "I am not the body," that I also does not exist. The body IS, The body is an individual, temporal and spatial expression of ALL THAT IS..., the body is part of reality... (I like to say divine reality or the divine life.) Bodies, just as much as any thing or any entity, are expressions, manifestations, phenomena of I AM in space / time. The body! Right here, at this moment one cannot do without it, if one could one would, but one can't, so one doesn't. Whatever argument doubts that is by itself conceptual, illusion, and yes... a betrayal of reality (from the Latin "res" = "thing"). Bodies, just like anything that sensorially perceives or can be perceived (Which means: measured through the senses or material extensions of the senses: maya, stuff with gravity.) Bodies are not concepts, notions. The I-dentification of the body, the I-dentification with the body is a notion, conceptual. What I write here differs from the way Ramana's words were recorded, interpreted, and translated... but we cannot worry about that. We all know that "recording" followers of a master do not fully understand the master... after all that is why they are still followers, students... > Sometimes I feel betrayed by the body. That statement actually means that you (the label on the body, the person, the persona) have been betrayed by another person... And somehow, you were forced to assume and believe that your body can play the role of the betrayer... (A very strong and almost successful projection by the betrayer who betrayed you. A devious role reversal.) That is an illusion that leads to the illusive loss of self, illusive loss of freedom and therefore intense suffering. The real betrayer is/was a person in another body who played betraying control games on you, and who forced you - under duress - to blame your body for the betrayal... It is complex... but such are the dynamics... > Sometimes, I am reminded these things are not> my body's fault and to love this body and care for it. The body is an indispensable phenomenon of I AM in space / time, so of course... > But to breath a smile into this body today is a great gift. The "smiling body" is actually the original human condition, a blissful "given" that became questioned... and in the questioning the smile turned into a grimace. Not anymore though...as "to breath a smile into this body today is a great gift!" Indeed Love, Wim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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