I'm thinking about this body and its limitations.....I had to get a tooth extracted about a month ago, and yesterday got a tooth implant. I woke up today with a swollen cheek, my tooth was hurting, I had to sleep on one side all night to avoid any warm fermentation to the area and my nauseasness from taking all the antibiotics was killing me. I woke up a complete wreck if you ask me.....irritable, annoyed and just plain and simple whiney. Any questions posed at me, any comments made, everything was just feeling like a huge task. Urghhhh......and thats when I started thinking about how powerful the body is. It's our instrument for survival in this world and almost unconciously it plays such a powerful role in our life. In so many places we keep talking about how the body is not us, and I am experientially certain about that....yet its grip is so strong on our being that as soon as it feels vulnerable a tide of misery takes over our minds in an almost uncontrollable way. Our thinking becomes tunnelled, our energies blocked, all we can think of is just how, how can we get out of this suffering. That makes me see the importance of what they say - how can you talk to a hungry man about the ultimate? It is truly a stupid thing to do, all he wants is food at that moment.
It just makes me realize how very important all the 4 aspects of our life are - our body, mind, energy and emotions. The allignment of these an exceedingly difficult task to achieve....yet each one as important as the other.
As my pain starts receeding, I feel more and more peaceful.....my mind has again opened itself up, my energies once again feel more at ease.....yet I dwell in the thought of the body.....how fragile it is, how easily it can engulf us in its limitidness.
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