Do you agree with the teaching that we are not the body?
Yes and no.
In other words,
It depends on how you look at it.
You are not the body in the sense that you existed before the body and you will exist after the body.
Your beingness is not dependent on the body.
Its beingness is dependent on yours,
However.
When you move on,
It loses its energy and fades away.
You are the body in the sense that it is a very personal expression of who you are and that no matter where you are in the universe,
No matter which plane you happen to be on,
You will always have some kind of form that identifies your identity and makes visible your presence.
You will never be bodiless in the sense that you have nothing which identifies your presence.
You will always have some kind of form.
Your body is simply the visible portion of who you specifically are.
Your identification tag,
So to speak.
It's not the totality of who you are.
Form,
Therefore,
Or body,
Or identification tag,
Is not something to rise above or transcend.
It's something to experience and understand for what it is.
Here,
The way your body is,
Is a product of your thought processes and it displays perfectly all your beliefs,
Opinions,
Fears,
Feelings,
And attitudes.
It gets sick when you are depressed and it glows when you are happy.
The primary understanding,
Therefore,
Is that you and I are spiritual beings.
Your body,
In a sense,
Is simply the vehicle you need in order to be here on earth.
Just like you need scuba gear to go deep sea diving or space suit to go to the moon,
You are spirit.
And the body is you made flesh,
Like a living garment.
While you are here on earth,
Therefore,
You should understand that you are the body and you are not the body,
Both,
At the same time.
If you identify who you are with the body only and base your conclusions about life on the data you're receiving from the five physical senses only,
You will probably come to the conclusion that life after death,
For example,
Is impossible and that death is real because that's what you're seeing.
And that's what the universe looks like when you are looking at it from the body identification stance,
Which means you won't experience the relaxation that comes with the knowledge of your true identity and the realization that death is not real.
But if you think of yourself as a spiritual being only and judge the body as being unreal or temporary or illusory,
Then you will never feel fully alive here in the flesh.
You'll never feel really here because you've never quite allowed yourself to really be here.
And you will,
Therefore,
Feel separate from your deep biological nature.
Neither one of these extremes feels right or good.
Therefore,
Think of yourself as a non-physical spiritual being temporarily being physical and human,
Who will always have a form of one sort or another identifying your identity.
Know that when your time here is up,
You will go on to your new adventures and learnings and that you will be just as alive then as you are now.
Know also that you came here to be here in order to learn from the experiences that are possible in this particular environment.
You came here for the prize of experience,
Wisdom.
What is the essence of that wisdom?
That there really is only creative energy grounded in love and goodness.
Fear and violence come from the ignorance of goodness.
And therefore,
From a limited understanding of who you and I are and of what's going on.
That's why I say Earth is school and why the main thing to learn is who you are.
You do this by experiencing who you are.
You experience the energy you're made of,
The consciousness or mind that you are,
The spirit that you are,
The love that you are.
The goodness,
Fairness and rightness of life is one of those things you intuitively know is right.
And yet your mind argues with it and finds it unacceptable because there are so many blatant examples of atrocity and horror.
So you end up not trusting what you know to be the truth.
You end up being suspicious of yourself and others.
And distrustful and fearful of the universe.
And God becomes scary because he is bigger than all of this.
He can zap you in a split second if you don't watch out.
He can punish you with an excruciating illness so you can never relax.
You can never safely let down your defenses.
You can never be fearless or happy.
But this is one of those things that everyone will eventually learn and gladly accept.
It is where learning leads.
It is the truth.
I would like to answer and soothe those minds that cannot yet accept goodness as the underlying fundamental truth.
You see,
There's something very soothing about all this.
It is soothing because it now makes perfect sense to let go of fear and relax.
It makes sense because your understanding is different.
You are interpreting what's going on differently than you used to.
And you're doing this because you're seeing things differently.
You're beginning to see the God in all.
And as this happens,
The world literally begins to look different.
How so?
Things glow more.
There's more presence,
More dimensionality to the everyday things you see.
The main thing to understand,
Though,
Is that you will interpret what's happening to you as well as what's going on in the world differently when you begin to glimpse the benign face in all creation.
When you begin to see the deepest truth within every specific thing,
Seeing the benign face within every specific manifestation is what inspires love for that thing.
This is healing both to you and that thing,
Whatever it is.
And it happens when you wash your mind clean of everything you think you know about that person,
Event,
Or thing,
And look at it anew with a clean,
Clear,
Empty,
And unknowing mind,
An unbiased mind.
You will then start loving what you see,
And others will love you for having been seen.
And when you start experiencing the world in this new way,
You make it easier for everyone to experience it.
You strengthen that understanding in the world.
You help change people's minds about what's going on.
And that's what changes and heals the world.
The world will then literally take on a friendly and non-threatening glow.
Are there any final things you would like to say?
There are two things I am being prompted to say right now.
The first is to emphasize the fact that yoga can promote an energized sense of relaxation.
This will encourage the very alive experience of stillness and deep,
Strong,
Powerful peace.
This is more than pleasurable.
It is joy,
But it takes a certain maturity of mind to appreciate this full emptiness.
More people would be after this if they only knew about it.
The second thing is that stillness teaches you to listen and be aware inwardly.
You become more intuitive.
You learn to ask for and receive guidance from the universe,
From Infinite Mind,
God.
This is like a wave communing with the ocean.
It is in the wave's best interest to be doing this.
Likewise,
It is in our best interest to voluntarily seek the guidance of God and to actively listen deeply for our deepest impulses to action.
Because remember,
We are inside God,
Just like the cell in your hand is inside you.
You will leap at this when you see it.
I like that you said prompted.
This is how I always feel.
You go into the energy,
Then you wait to see what wants to come out.
That is when the most powerful channeling comes through.
Correct.
And you won't know in advance what is going to be said.
You will know what you need to know when you need to know it.
