FINDING YOUR INVISIBLE AND INDESTRUCTIBLE REALITY

 

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.