- The Unnecessary Viewer -

          Our body does not have an “I”. - Uchiyama Roshi relates to this. - If we injure our leg our body will take care of it. - However there is no focusing for this purpose. - There is no central headquarters which apparently must head the healing elements. - What happens happens naturally.

          - The body is a whole in this sense. - it is not in need of a central point off which everything is to be handled. - In our conscious action and life things are different. - Obviously. - Most would imagine there is no other way. But there is. Actually our way is somewhat (or not just somewhat) distorted.

          - Those who believe life are merely an outcome of random occurrences of physical matter will naturally think the way they know is the only way. They might imagine stupidly advanced beings on other planets having arrived at this or that but will generally always maintain themselves altogether off course.

          - I wrote an earlier related post. - “10.2.22 – Free mentality in primitive organisms and divine beings”.

          - This one here will not necessarily add. - But still it doesn't mean it is worthless. - There is another way of being. - It may somewhat not be so much like what some would think of as “being”. - If you consider a sea anemone or a jellyfish - there is no brain, - therefore there is no self consciousness as we know, - if each part of the body acts independently than there could be no central consciousness as we know. As we are familiar with.

          How do these feel then? What is their mind like? Imagine. Try to.

          - Actually I am saying their state is fundamentally the better state. Just fundamentally. I don't mean it is better to be a sea anemone or a jellyfish. This would be obviously foolish. - But relating to the principle itself, eventually, - we better shed off one day our mental disability and let ourselves go. - “You say stop, - I say go, go, go”. - (- “You say goodbye, - I say hello”) I can not say I know what it is like. I don't know if it is like at all. - I might suppose it would have to do with consciousness fading away too. But it would obviously be wider, - we cannot imagine a wider consciousness really, - what would such a thing be like. Just don't be afraid of it. Like locking yourself inside of something tying your heart down thinking this is the best way. - It is not.