I Am Not this Body

Oh I’ve done the Presence Process more than once. I know that feelings start to loose their labels, and you are just vibrating in different ways. In the similar manner, feeling like a whole body instead of any type of division, the verbiage starts to not make much sense. I understand on a mental level from previous experience, but with the experience now, I just won’t be able to agree.

What is it that you don’t agree with?
What is it that you are not able to experience?
Also I have found that experiences come and go like the tide. Somedays are better than others :slight_smile:

Hi Lalow
Your perspective is very interesting, but a little confusing. Is it possible you could expand on the above, or share your experience with TPP (perhaps in the thread on TPP)?
love
parvati

I am not the body comes from buddhist religion, therefore, they can sit and meditate for hours. Also, they believe that they don’t need much food and that in this life we don’t need any “physical pleasure” because it is not necessary

It has more to do with we are awareness. When you realize oneness you are one with that. All form is empty. The form is just that and you can be that.
Prana is like that. We first notice the energy inside of us. Then we notice the ecstatic nature of the energy. Then we notice that we are that energy, one can focus on a leg and feel that it is just energy. The same with a plant or a dog or any “Thing”.
That is what Ramana calls Kundalini which is really universal consciousness. We are that, not just awareness within this body.

that just means your a karma yogi material. Do work with all your dedication and feeling and you’ll see the effects.
you are merely body dominant, When you actually start working hard you’ll have to utilize help of mind, heart and perhaps will. Only then one realizes the true power and joy within in the union of all those

Think about it…the body that you called “me”, is just the food that has been processed…the food has been turned into flesh and bones…so who are you? The mind, your intelligence is just permutation and combination of things that you have collected over time! what you have collected can be yours not you! who are you?
Here is a beautiful story of a young man and a monk where they talk about the same thingWho are you?

Hey atma, where did you hear all that from? I’ve “transcended” the body during meditation many times, but the truth is I still ain’t saying “I am not this body”.

I wouldn’t say that I am this body but I would say that this body is also me. :grin:
Sey

Om Shanti Here is my take, until I sit in Nirvikalpa Samadhi meditation without seed I always aware that I have a body which I carried away whichever drama that I perform within and in this body.
As an audio engineer I carried away those tasks within this body, As a meditator, I carried away the drama the role I’m playing as a spiritual being. If I have had a partner to live with, I would have carried the task of being a family member within this body.
After the experience of Nirvikalpa Samhadi and having to shrink the whole universe within a glance, I absolutely confirmed that this body is for planet earth as my soul is for beyond.
It is ok to accept that you are this body. Nothing wrong with it. It is just that means that you experience sorrow through this body.
I will just say this, It is an honor to be within this body and yet experiences the power of meditation.
When you realize that you are not this body, sorrow will never touch you since all sadness come from body consciousness. Om Shanti
Even though I have written what I have written while I’m in meditation I don’t do mantra I sit still and not this, not this. Even the experience whatever samadhi is not this, not this as I said to the body.