Without my body
I am not.
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Zen-
Ok, I’ve been reading about it, a bit.
Also about Tao.
Came to logical resolution that there is only this life, nothing more.
Make best of it.
This chain of though is represented already in 2004 or 2005, not in final form though.
Uh, I notice that I’ve misplaced the orginal text of mine, I was sure it floated in the net but not anymore. I got it home.
But Simply said: without my body I am not.
Of course Christianity goes around/through this, believing the resurrection of the body.
Anyway.
To alter the mind, is to alter the perception of the body, thus, body shapes the mind.
However after not so long the mind starts to alter the perception, choose.
And making itself (meself, sense of self) stronger. Perceiving the things how they are and how they can be becomes harder and harder and more and more our perception is altered, chosen by the mind. “There is no such as things as angels, so this what I see before me can’t be one.”
Douglas Adams writes about this, so does Terry Pratchett, and somehow so does Luke Rhinehart.
(btw the value of dice man just rises in my mind day by day)
But I haven’t sen angels, but some quite beautiful people.
I’m having a hard time being in the present. Always feeling regret about the choises I made and fear about the choices I’ll make. Having hopes and dreams and illusions of the future.
So hard to be here now.
And I do not see clearly, I need convincing. Please use words for a while. Please tell me what is, what is this.
Patience, time, clarity.
Yeah, have to get that album just because the name of it: Come Clarity, In flames?
I would like to write more about this, but I have no time now, and no patience. And I feel that there’s is quite a few books which says it all already.
Take Care Now
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We don’t have a body…we are our body. We are like our movements, because movement is us living… Body doesn’t lie…
The connection between our mind and our body is stunning! But I think body is more authentic than mind. I feel often my mind stopping the freedom of my body… making it rigid and cold just because of fear or incertitude.
And after death? This eternal ask… Doubt is a good thing: it forces us to look for, it makes us grow-up. I think it is not important the answer we find, religious or spiritual or materialistic, but the important thing is looking for… inside…outside… in the wonderful trip that is life… Me, at the end, I will look at back and will see how much love I created around me…Then, I will have all the answers…
Be as you are… with your doubts, with your impatience…with your fears…Honest with yourself, even if it is not always easy…
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Yes. whole of the division of body and mind is artificial. But since words are not able to really represent our experience only give an vague picture of it, we easily make this division. Although it’s also a productof a “western” philosophy and “rational” thinking.
I’ll try to write more about this later on, mainly inspirated (at the moment) by “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” by Robert M. Pirsig
The whole text can be found here: http://virtualschool.edu/mon/Quality/PirsigZen/, but I do recommnd visiting library or a book store for much more pleasant reading
No regret.
I wonder why do people look back? What is the use of looking back?
We can’t change our past. Why people regret and torture themselves?
We are not machines to have program that is making convenient choice for us. We should make choice we should be mistaken we should have hopes and dreams, because all these things mean life.
And no regret!