What is a body?
What is my body?
What is a human body?
What is your body?
What does it mean that I have a body? That I live in a body? That this body is my home?
What does it mean that I was born and I will die?
Is a body something to be ashamed of? Is a body pain and pleasure, aversion and attraction, that keeps us stuck in this samksara, as perhaps one interpretation of Buddhist scriptures might teach?
Is a body something beautiful and attractive? Or repulsive?
​So that we know who we want to hang out with based on their appearance?
The illusion of the body is because when we open our eyes we see “your body” we see the body of all the objects around us. We see a separation of individual bodies that we have given names like “tree” “person” “rock” “car” “sky” we have given all of these names to all of the various forms, the 10,000 things of the Tao.
When we see each other’s bodies, we see separation, we see you and me. When I close my eyes, the sensations and the sounds of your voice, the touch of the wind, of your hand, aren’t separate from me. It is vision, when our eyes are open, and time that make things appear distant, individual.
If I imagine the reality that I am a point of awareness at the center of my experience, I am aware of all around me by sensation.
What do you mean sensation? I talk a lot about it.
What does it mean to have a body?
What is a body?
What does it mean that I was born and I will die?
When I go to sleep at night, there’s more fluidity between what form my body takes and the forms in my environment. I can go through walls, I can dissolve. I don’t need a body when I am dreaming.
But here, there is this body that we wake up into every day. Is it here to get me to work? Is it here to take me on a walk? Is it here as an avatar so that I can communicate with you?
My body is a stream of sensations.
Will it end when I die?
My body is a stream of vibrations. They change depending on the vibrations of the bodies that mine is around like a guitar string resonates with the tone of a struck tuning fork.
Mainstream culture doesn’t give too much attention to the depths of what’s inside of us.
How does mainstream culture see bodies? We have hospitals, and lingerie. We have dance parties—that’s on the outskirts at nighttime.
We have suits and ties. We have graveyards.
How does mainstream culture see our own and each other’s bodies?
We have medicine and surgery. We have judgments and insecurities. We have comparisons and calorie restrictions and Photoshop. We have an image to model what our bodies are to aspire to. An image of health. What does it look like in modern society?
The gender dichotomy is being rewritten now. More and more, people are empowered in their individuality. Though the stigmas may be still considered mainstream, less and less people want to subscribe to the idea that only a certain image is beautiful.
Beyond the image, there is still so o o o  m u c h m o r e .
Remember the Qi Gong master, who, with his intensity, can move objects without grasping them, who can levitate, and just by his eyes, he can repel one who approaches him. This is our bodies’ hidden power. Remember the mediator who can see inside his cells, access God through his own seated stature,
With his e y e s c l o s e d.
And what if I say we are embodiments of god/creator/source, embodiments, meaning, our mind won’t be able to understand “I am God,” the sentence implies duality because that is how our language works. The words can only describe “I am god” but when we directly, immediately, intimatley feel the sensation of love in our hearts, when we feel the sun on our face on a chilly day, when we feel the vibrating tingling between sleep and waking, when we feel connected to another human’s body, there isn’t a confusion of duality.
There is j u s t t h e s e n s a t i o n
Our bodies are… portals? Even that isn’t articulating it perfectly. It’s not that we are going through the body or through sensation.
When we shift our attention to what we feel, it isn’t up for debate.
When I close my eyes and I feel, the plethora, infinite feelings, always changing, no one can tell me “well maybe you feel this other way” because I can feel my Truth.
When I touch the cold stream with my hand and I feel it, I can describe it using the words “it feels cold” someone can tell me “that is hot,” but I feel it. and it is cold.
This is how our bodies are wise. They communicate directly, unquestionably, immediately, viscerally, as sensation. This is what Intuition is. It’s not complicated.
How does it feel?
On either polarity of a decision. Yes, no.
The more we keep track of how we feel in a situation, the more we can recognize that a similar situation is calling on similar feelings to make our decision easier. So I can feel when I’m considering doing something that isn’t for me, it has a similar feeling to it as the last time that I did something that wasn’t right for me, it had a certain feeling to it. a feeling of motivation, where that motivation is coming from. Who is motivating me, in my mind? My conditioning? Other people’s voices? I start to recognize what it feels like when I’m motivated from other people’s voices.
​When we pay attention and keep track of our feelings, we are moving through an energetic plane, where my body doesn’t appear as separate from the situation or the whirld.
What would it look like if your life was entirely guided by your feeling?
I don’t mean feelings of overwhelming passion and emotion.
I mean the feeling of your Inner Power and Knowing.
What small change can you commit to?
Take the risk? Of trusting yourself.
Our bodies aren’t just nuisances and conveniences and appearances that we bring with us throughout our lives.
Our bodies aren’t something to be tamed. Or numbed. Or disregarded. Or conditioned.
Our bodies are source/god. Our bodies are doorways, portals, crystals. Our bodies are crystal antennae. Mirrors for closed eyes.
It might take some time and intention to get back into your body, so to speak.
You can start by doing small things before making big changes.
It’s the same thing as listening to your inner child. Children don’t hesitate. They have tantrums when they’re upset. They know what they want and don’t want. They’ll just dance cuz it feels good. They resist scheduling because they’re guided by their body’s wisdom.
WHAT IF YOU TREATED YOUR BODY LIKE IT IS YOUR OWN PERSONAL GOD? Your own personal guidance. Your body is here to guide you.
This might take some discernment because at first you might indulge. You might follow your inner child to the candy store. You might follow your inner child to pleasure in ways that aren’t wholesome. In a way this seems like following your body,
but very quickly, your body will direct you away from it. and when you really are open to your body as God, you’ll lose your taste for all that takes you away from how good health feels.
A healthy body is in bliss. A healthy body in nature is bliss. It’s not complicated.
Connecting with god.
The word “connection” is misleading because it makes it seem as though thing A is connected to thing B, but really, I mean union, I mean singularity, I mean one in the same. Sensation IS “Source”/”God”/our True Nature!
Achievements through meditation. It’s really just opening to your body’s subtlety, which means purifying any things which will leave you feeling a hangover, because that doesn’t really feel good. That’s not really honoring your personal portal.
So, what is a body?
It is sensation. And our sensations are like portals. Subtler and subtler sensations as we give them more attention. They realign us with the intrinsic purpose of the enjoyment of life in its simplicity, in its nature, and our True Nature. Let’s uncomplicated the world and its detachment from simple pleasure. Let’s decondition all of the clothing that we wear over our bodies appearance. Open to ourselves because our sensations are the Truth that we seek. ​