Why ‘THIS BODY’? (excerpt)

My contention is that through kindly attention to the sensations of this body we can connect into a process of ever-deepening immersion into the reality of God at our centre and at the centre of life. I use the couplet ‘this body’ to try to indicate that there is not an ‘I’ that is in or that has a body, but rather that this body is me and is distinct but not separate from God. [more…]

Thursday 3 July 2008

Movements

There are two movements:

  1. outwards to the world — opening the pores of this body to sounds, sensations, the other, the Other — moving to an opening in and to love;
  2. inwards to this body and attending to this body's voice, in tenderness and interest.
    "Breathing in I go back to the island within myself." (Thich Nhat Hanh)

Both are about being present in the present. Both tend towards love and compassion.

(See this blog post and this research paper on Open Monitoring and Focussed Attention.)

Posted by Julian Maddock at 21:29

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