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The body, with its identity, is not merely a spiritual springboard to leap to spirit. "Flesh" and "spirit" or a whole together, so holy, and responsive to each other; we are unable to identify them as the same, unable to separate them into opposites.
Tai Sheridan well articulates this body of flesh and Body of Sprit using Buddhist terminology, showing they are different but not separate.
Your birth body
is the locus of experience
the existential reality
of your existence
Embodiment in daily life
is being one
with your body
living within your
felt senses and perceptions
...
Your Buddha Body
isn’t limited by skin muscle bone
it’s porous and pervades everything
includes everything
all time space
the human-cosmic ground
*Living in Buddha's Three Bodies.
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By going into the body, in full acceptance, we find we are embodied spirit, though we name that "spirit" in many diverse ways. And, in spirit, all our words, anyway, burn to ashes in the presence of Mystery. Yet, in all the burning, here we are with a body, with a name. While we are of the Heavens, we are born of the dirt. And that place, the place of birth, is the place we are, to love.
If you return to the very first stage of the expression of your life, you touch that all-embracing love. Immediately love penetrates you. That is real love. Real love is very deep, profound, and sublime. We don't know what it is intellectually, but we can experience it because we are already there.
*Dainin Katagiri. The Light That Shines through Infinity: Zen and the Energy of Life.
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(C) Brian K. Wilcox, 2020
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