You said that identification with our physical form is part of the
illusion, so how can the body, the physical form, bring you to a
realization of Being?
The body that you can see and touch cannot take you into Being. But
that visible and tangible body is only an outer shell, or rather a limited
and distorted perception of a deeper reality. In your natural state of
connectedness with Being, this deeper reality can be felt every
moment as the invisible inner body, the animating presence within
you. So to “inhabit the body” is to feel the body from within, to feel
the life inside the body and thereby come to know that you are
beyond the outer form.
But that is only the beginning of an inward journey that will take you
ever more deeply into a realm of great stillness and peace, yet also of
great power and vibrant life. At first, you may only get fleeting
glimpses of it, but through them you will begin to realize that you are
not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly
suspended between birth and death, allowed a few short-lived
pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation. Underneath your
outer form, you are connected with something so vast, so
immeasurable and sacred, that it cannot be conceived or spoken of —
yet I am speaking of it now. I am speaking of it not to give you
something to believe in but to show you how you can know it for
yourself.
You are cut off from Being as long as your mind takes up all your
attention. When this happens — and it happens continuously for most
people — you are not in your body. The mind absorbs all your
consciousness and transforms it into mind stuff. You cannot stop
thinking. Compulsive thinking has become a collective disease. Your
whole sense of who you are is then derived from mind activity. Your
identity, as it is no longer rooted in Being, becomes a vulnerable and
ever-needy mental construct, which creates fear as the predominant
underlying emotion. The one thing that truly matters is then missing
from your life: awareness of your deeper self — your invisible and
indestructible reality.
To become conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness
from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual
journey. It will free vast amounts of consciousness that previously had
been trapped in useless and compulsive thinking. A very effective way
of doing this is simply to take the focus of your attention away from
thinking and direct it into the body, where Being can be felt in the first
instance as the invisible energy field that gives life to what you
perceive as the physical body.