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…]

Tuesday 23 August 2011

Meditation

right and left
front and back
centre and circumference
crown to pelvic floor to toe
this body
breathing
i am alive
i have arrived
there is nowhere else