THE BODY THE SENSES IS MARVELOUS . IT IS THE GREATEST OF MYSTERIES

Be loving towards your body, befriend your body, revere your body, respect your body, take care of your body..... It is "GOD'S GIFT". Treat it well, and it will reveal great mysteries to you. Remember!...

"All growth depends on how you are related to your body."

Don't make enemies with your body, you will destroying the wisdom of the body.

How to attain to this vision?

This is the map to turn you on, and to turn you in, and to turn you beyond.
The first thing is your body. The body is your base, it is your ground, it is where you are grounded. Remember!...

To make you antagonistic towards the body is to destroy you, is to make you schizophrenic, is to make you miserable, is to create hell.

Yes, you are the body... Of course, you are more than the body. That 'more' will follow later on.

"First You Are The Body."

The body is your basic truth, so never against the body. Whenever you are against the body, you are going "against God." Whenever you are disrespectful to your body, "you are losing contact with reality, because your body is your contact. Your body is your bridge."

I teaches reverence for the body, love, respect for the body, gratitude for the body. The body is marvelous... It is the greatest of mysteries. But you have been taught to be against the body. So, sometimes you are over - mystified by the tree, by the green tree - Sometimes mystified by a flower. But never mystified by your own body.

And please note!...

"Your body is the most complex phenomenon in existence."

No flower, no tree has such a beautiful has you have, no moon, no sun, no star has such an evolved mechanism as you have.

But you have been taught to appreciate the flower, which is a simple thing. You have been taught to appreciate a tree, which is a simple thing. You have been taught to appreciate stones, rocks, mountains, rivers, but you have never been taught to respect your own body, never to be mystified by it.

"Yes! It is very close, so it is very easy to forget about it. It is very obvious, so it is easy to neglect it. But this is the most beautiful phenomenon."

If you look at a flower, people will say, "How aesthetic!"
And if you look at a woman's beautiful face or a man's beautiful face, people will say, "This is the lust."

If you go to the tree, and stand there, and look in a dazed state at the flower... Your eyes wide open, your senses wide open to allow the beauty of the flower to enter you - People will think you are a poet or a painter or a mystic.

But if you go to a woman or a man and just stand there with great reverence and respect, and look at the woman with your eyes wide open and your senses drinking the beauty of the woman, the police will catch hold of you. Nobody will say that you are a mystic, a poet, nobody will appreciate what you are doing. Something has gone wrong.

If you go to a stranger on the street and you say, "What beautiful eyes you have?" You will feel embarrassed, he will feel embarrassed. He will not be able to say, "thank you" to you. In fact he will feel offended. He will feel offended, because who are you to interfere in his private life? Who are you to dare?

If you go and touch the tree, the tree feels happy. But if you go and touch a man, he will feel offended. What has gone wrong? Something has been tremendously and very deeply.

I am teaching you to reclaim respect for the body, love for the body, to look at "the body as the greatest creation of God".

Please imbibe! It is really juicy, very alive.
The first thing is to learn respect for the body, to unlearn all the nonsense that has been taught to you about the body. Otherwise you will never turn on, and you will never turn in, and you will never turn beyond.

"Start from the beginning - The body is your beginning".

The body has to be purified of many repressions. The body has become poisoned because you have been against it; You have repressed it in many ways. Your body is existing at the minimum, that's you are miserable.

Please remember! Bliss is possible only when you exist at the optimum - never before it. Bliss is possible only when you live intensely. How can you live intensely if you are against the body?

You are always lukewarm. The fire has cooled down. Down the centuries, the fire has been destroyed. The fire has to be rekindled.

I tell you, first purify the body - purify it of all repressions.
"Allow the body energy to flow, remove the blocks".

It is very difficult to come across a person who has no blocks. It is very difficult to come across a person whose body is not tight... Loosen this tightness... This tension is blocking your energy; The flow cannot be possible with this tension.

Why is everybody so uptight? Why can't you relax? Have you seen a 'cat' sleeping, dozing in the afternoon? How simply and how beautifully the cat relaxes. Can't you relax the same way? You loss and turn in your bed, you can't relax, and the beauty of the cat's relaxation is that it relaxes utterly and yet is perfectly alert. A slight movement in the room and it will open its eyes, it will jump and be ready. It is not that, it is just asleep. The cat's sleep is something to be learnt - Men has forgotten.

I advise you; "Learn from the cats.... How they sleep, how they relax, how they live in a non-tense way. And the whole animal world lives in that non-tense way". Man has to learn this, because man has been conditioned wrongly, man has been programmed wrongly.

"The body has to be befriended".

"Do you ever touch your own body sometimes?"

Do you ever feel your own body or do you remain as if you were encased in a dead thing?

That's what is happening. People are almost frozen; They are carrying the body like a casket. It is heavy, it obstructs, "it does not help you to communicate with reality".

If you allow the electricity of the body flow to move from the toe to the head, if you allow total freedom for its energy... The bioenergy... You will come a river, and you will not feel the body at all. You will feel almost bodiless. Not fighting with the body, you become bodiless.
Please remember!... Fighting with the body, the body becomes a burden. And "carrying your body as a burden," "you can never arrive to 'GOD'."

Your body has a head - But you are in your head too much. Come down to your senses, become more sensitive. When you become more sensitive, you are bridged with reality, you start dancing with reality, a great benediction arises in you. And only then can you say a thank you to GOD, never before it. Only then do you feel how grateful you are, "how much has been given to you and has not even been appreciated by you".

This existence is fantastic, it is marvelous, it is increadibly beautiful. The existence of the body has to be carefully and tenderly fostered, it is a precious gift, a very complicated but well - coordinated machine, given for achieving a laudable task.

I want to tell you that, in fact... Body is solidified mind, and then goes on to say, "To think that somehow we got this human body more as an accident than for a purpose and to think we should feed it with all the pleasures and then let it wither away and die is a great mistake. It is not proper to spend our life in such a thoughtless manner."

Senses can be very dangerous; "They can be like horses running wild".
If you do not use the reins to control them, they will run away with the chariot and go wherever they like.

Take my advice:

"Rein the senses in with the help of your mind." Let your taste, your smell, your sight, your listening, your touch, all the various sense impressions come under control. You must control the outgoing senses. Therefore, "sense-control is an integral part of the path of wisdom."

Please remember!:

"Once your gain full control of the senses, you will easily be able to master the spiritual path".

"Those bound by the senses are destroyed by the senses."

"If you wish to understand your true nature",

You have to do 'three' things:

1. Bend the Body
2. Mend the Senses
3. End the Mind

The 'first step' is to "Bend the Body":

That means, "you should not allow the 'ego' to develop within your body." Cultivate humility, and do your duties sincerely. This is, what is implied in "Bend your Body."

"Mend the Senses" - Calls for "examining how the senses behave," whether they are tending to go astray, and correcting and restraining them when necessary.

"End the Mind" - Calls for "'quietening' the vagaries of the mind" in a different direction.

For example:

There is "a lock and key". "When 'the key' is turned towards the left, the lock gets locked". "If 'the key' is turned towards the right, the lock is opened." Thus 'the key' performs "both function" of "locking and unlocking".

"Thus both detachment and attachment result from the way the mind functions."


From Empty Hands,
A.Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
016-6020321

19 OGOS 2010 (Ramadhan)

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