A Harmonically Distributed Sensation—Part III

Moissac, France

Cultivating stillness of mind is helpful. 

But it's the stillness of Being itself, the stillness that resides within and arises from our physical presence, that becomes most essential. 

We need to listen, not with our ears or with our minds, but with our sensation, to invest ourselves in it and come from within it. It's necessary to penetrate past the stillness of the mind alone in order to discover this place.

The inward attention of Being which preserves this stillness begins as a very subtle and delicate, yet very powerful and insistent, sense of vibration within the molecules. 

It exists as a completely separated entity from the realm of thought experience; yet it arises as an equal to the thinking part when it is allowed to manifest itself at a harmonic rate of vibration compatible with Being.

The question, then, is one of how to go past the mind, as though one walked right by it, acknowledging it and knowing that it is there, but going directly to a different part of Being. Not rudely, as though the mind wasn't deserving of respect, but with intention and resolve, so that the mind understands there is business to be done here that doesn't concern it. 

After all, it’s the interference of the energy of the mind with the energy of the moving center, the body, that causes the difficulty in the first place: the mind is constantly using the energy of other parts in order to work, and it has to be put in a different place. There has to be a clear separation between the mind and the body.

I suppose this will sound puzzling to those who have spent years studying the idea of the mind – body connection, the need to bring the mind and body together, and so on. Yet actually — and I speak from directly within the experience as I write this — it's a separation of the mind and the body that we need to understand. 

They should be clearly separated in such a way that each one manifests within the complete and honest sphere of its own existence, with respect for one another, and in such a way that each one can be clearly seen for what it is.

The mind and the body don’t blend together like some kind of mush. They're to be appreciated as separate intelligences whose actions are so clearly distinguished and individual that it's impossible to confuse them. 

For as long as one confuses mind and body, or thinks of attention as some type of mind-over-matter action, or believes that one could be superior to the other, one has failed to understand the separation of the centers.

Wishing the best for you on this day,

Lee

Lee van Laer is a Senior Editor at Parabola Magazine.