Feel Your Body as Bare
Suppose your passive form to be an empty room with walls of
skin…but inside, everything empty. This is one of the most beautiful techniques.
Just sit in a meditation posture, relaxed, alone, your backbone straight and
the whole body relaxed ? As if the whole body is hanging on the backbone. Then
close your eyes. For a few moments go on feeling relaxed, more relaxed,
becoming calmer and calmer and calmer. Do this for a few moments, just to be in
tune. And then suddenly start feeling your body is just walls of skin and there
is nothing inside, there is no one inside, the house is vacant. Sometimes you
will feel thoughts passing, clouds of thoughts moving, but don't think that
they belong to you. You are not. Just think that they are roaming in a vacant
sky ? They don't belong to anyone, they don't have any roots.
Really this is the case: thoughts are just like clouds moving in the sky. They
don't have any roots and they don't belong to the sky, they simply roam in the
sky. They come and they go and the sky remains untouched, uninfluenced. Feel
that your body is just walls of skin and there is no one inside. Thoughts will
still continue ? Because of old habit, old momentum, old cooperation, thoughts
will go on coming. But just think that they are rootless clouds moving in space
? They don't belong to you, they don't belong to anybody else. There is no one
to whom they can belong ? you are bare.
Within a few days, a few weeks, thoughts will slow down, they will become less
and less. The clouds will start disappearing, or, even if they come, there will
be great gaps of cloudless sky when there will be no thought. One thought will
pass. Then another will not come for a period. Then another will come and then
there will again be an interval. In those intervals you will know for the first
time what emptiness is. And the very glimpse of it will fill you with such deep
bliss you cannot imagine.
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