SESSION 15 - THE BODY .......... 41 - By Lester Levenson

SESSION 15 - THE BODY .......... 41 - By Lester Levenson

セッション15 - 身体..........41 - 最終自由の鍵 (究極の自由への鍵)

SESSION 15

THE BODY

Why should we have need for this body? If we are infinite beings, why need we a body? The fact that we
were born into a body shows that we are ignorant of our
infinite Being. It's an indictment right in its own de facto
situation.
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The body is the greatest shackle, imprisonment that we
have, the greatest obstacle we have placed in our way.
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The only way out of all difficulties is to know that you are
not the body.
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We came into this world to be a body in order to learn
that we are not a body.
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The worst habit we have gotten into over the millenniums is that we are this body.
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The body is a slow action machine, that's all it is.
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The desire to survive as a body is the basis for all our
present aberrated behavior. Everyone wants approval
(love), struggles hard for it, and spends almost all his
effort in life to attain it. As an infant, as a child, in our
formative years we believed our parents would not take
care of us if they did not approve of us and we would
therefore die! So we developed perverted aberrated
behavior patterns through suppressing our own wishes
and desires in order to get that approval from our
parents, which meant survival. The patterns are so
deeply subconscious because of being formed in the
very first days and years of our life and with so much
suppression, that it is extremely difficult to reopen and
consciously examine them now. However, once we
know that we are not the body, all this behavior is gone.
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You fear that if the body isn't you are not.
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All fear is either directly or indirectly the fear of the body
dying.
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You're infinite and there's nothing complicated about
that, but the habit of being a body is so strong it
complicates and overwhelms your abiding as your Self.
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The entire body of misery relates to the physical body..
The entire body of happiness is being what you are, the
Self. Happiness is exactly what you are. Misery is
exactly what you are not. The natural state is happiness.
The artificially self-imposed state is misery. That is the
choice, to say that the body is real or the Self is real.
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How attached are you to the body? That's how attached
you are to misery.
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The body is life conditioned. You are life unconditioned.
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This body is nothing but a dying mechanism, from birth
till death.
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If you have a car you do not say that you are the car.
Why then, if you have a body, do you say you are the
body?
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Sleep is the pleasure of non-bodily existence.
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You actually drop your body when you are in deep sleep
and recreate it in the morning when you wake up.
There's no difference between sleep and death except
that after death you pick up a different body while after
sleep you pick up the same body. The time between
sleep-bodies is short and the time between death-bodies
is long.
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Wrong belief that one is a body is the basic cause of
desire and aversion.
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We shouldn't pay too much attention to the body. Give it
what it needs and no more. Do it without attachment.
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Because of the extreme limitation of the human body,
the incentive to get free is great. It affords the greatest
prod for growth.
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To make your body perfect and to live in a consciousness of the body is not as high as to live with an
imperfect body in a consciousness of your Self.
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It's a higher state to have a sick body and not identify
with it. And that's why certain Masters do that. They will
go through life with a weak or sick body, all the time
maintaining their peace and equanimity. And they
welcome it because it is an opportunity to be constantly
reminded that they are not the body.
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The body is the disease, not the sickness of it.
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A perfect body can keep one in bondage as well as an
imperfect one can.
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If you know that you are not the body, you are not the
mind, so what if they hurt?
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The body is just a thought. Everything about the body is
a thought.
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All functions of the body at one time had to be done
consciously before they became unconscious.
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People are not aware that they run their bodies entirely.
Subconsciously we know more chemistry than all
chemists today know consciously.
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The mind is the switchboard for the nervous system of
the body.
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The body is nothing but a robot, controlled by us. We
create it and then say, “That's I. “
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It makes just as much sense to identify with this body as
it does to identify with a body on a movie screen.
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“Me” and “mine” are binders to this body and to pos
sessions.
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Some people who take no care of the body are very attached to the body. It is our attitude toward the body that
counts.
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When you think of the body as God that is conceit.
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If you think you are the body, then make it perfect. If you
think you are the Self, - then it doesn't matter.
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Body equals pain and Self equals infinite joy.
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If you think you are the body. you are distracted by it. If
you know you are not the body, the body doesn't distract
you no matter how sick it is.
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The basic motivational force in physical life is the desire
to survive as a body. (And it is impossible!)
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One of the basic troubles today is that people are much
too interested in the body. Most people live 99% of the
time for the body.
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The body is a real jail. There's nothing about this body
that needs glorification.
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If you want to know how attached you are to your body,
consider throwing it off a cliff.
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There's no mind in the physical body. It's the mind of the
astral body that operates the physical body.
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“I am the body,” is ignorance. “The body is not apart
from the Self,” is Knowledge.
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The body is one of the least things that we can have.
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All trouble starts with wanting to be a body.
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The body operates on the law of cause and effect, and
is an effect of the mind.
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There is always a decision to leave the body when we
do.
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Misery is caused only by identifying with the body.
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Give the body its due. Keep the body healthy etc., and
then forget it.
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The healthiest foods are fruits and vegetables from the
flower of the plant. The unhealthiest foods are flesh.
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Cooking kills the vitality. We should eat fruits and vegetables uncooked.
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Exercise is good if one believes it is good.
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Best method of exercise is seeing cosmic energy moving in and out of the muscles and body as they are
tensed and relaxed.
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We should see every body as our body.
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It's all right to be that body if you'll be every other body.
Then you see every body as your Self.
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You are so convinced you are the body that you don't
want to look away from it and therefore you look away
from your Self.
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You feel yourself as you no matter what body you have
on you.
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You're only free when you know that you're not the
body.
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If you want immortality, stop holding onto the body.
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Once you know you are not the body, it doesn’t matter
what happens to the body.
***.
Be a body and be forever submerged in misery. Be your
Self and be forever at peace.
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The body is like a strait-jacket when you see the Truth.
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You have the concept that you are only that body and
only through that body can you be somewhere. That's
not true. If you would see the Truth you would see
everything going on anywhere right now.
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When you see you are not a separate individual, you
transcend the physical, astral and causal bodies.
Separate individuality is the cause of body form. You
should see your individuality as the one Being.
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In the process of realizing what you are you will see all
bodies as your bodies.
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An unusual thing happens, you become all beings. You
give up being one body and become all bodies. But the
bodies appear different from the way they look to you
now. They become a flimsy, dream-like substance.
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Nothing that the body does should shake you from abiding as your Self.
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We should live our way of life so that we are not identifying with this extremely limited, garbage producing
vehicle called the body. It only cuts off joy because we
attach joy to it when really the joy is nothing but the
experiencing of our real Self. Our way of life should be
to be not the body, but be the witness of it.
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It's impossible to find God if we're accepting the body
and the world as real. When you are the Infinite Self you
don't see bodies, you see only the Beingness in them.
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To be not the body is a beginning step. As long as you
are trying to be the body you haven't got a chance of
seeing the Truth because the Truth is you're infinite and
the body is at the opposite end of infinity, it's the most
limited thing you can be unless you want to be a stone.
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Saying “I am a body,” is tantamount to saying, “I, the
limitless Self, am a limited body.”
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Identify with your body and the extreme limitations of a
body are yours. Identify with your Self and you are all
bodies, all things, all knowledge and power, with no
limits, and totally free!
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Be not the body and the world is a dream, a beautiful
and perfect dream.
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There is a physical, astral and causal body. When you
know what you are, you let go of all bodies. When you
let go of the concept of being a body, you go all the way
to the top. This physical plane is the greatest because in
it we can transcend all planes and be Free!
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We have free will to identify with the body or to identify
with our unlimited Self.
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If you think the body is so great, after realizing your Self
you can make a thousand of them, all alike, all perfect!
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Die to the body and you die to death!
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