Thanks for your comments Troy. I’m glad the article resonates with where you are at right now!

No doubt, much experience is to be had, but I found this piece incredibly resonant. Really hope to study with you one day. My teacher, Brinson Leigh Kresge, was studying with Rolf and Marci a few times that you were there.

Didn’t mean to judge, let me rephrase, I wish I could feel you from reading your blog. It’s an interesting one to research if and how you can transmit that energy of embodied truth in written word.

Yes, well paraphrased. Working at the embodied sensation level in asana is how one can experientially understand what is healthy and appropriate on any given day. This makes asana practice sustainable and empowering in the long term and makes it a tool for deepening the understanding of the self. A good teacher will help us in this process.

Embodiment certainly doesn’t preclude thought or articulation of thought. In many instances, embodiment will contribute to greater clarity and concentration in thought and articulation thereof.

In all fairness, I feel that you would have to know me and be engaged in a personal relationship with me, in order to judge whether I “walk the talk” or not.

With love,
Mouni

Well, I’m glad if that perspective works for you!

It is clear what you are saying about the flaws in Buddhist thinking (the dogma) and the relationship we have with our environment (the science), but to say that embodiment does not suffer from these dualistic pitfalls is to simply choose one ‘Way’ over an other.

You could say that embodiment IS the ultimate in dualistic endeavours, as it is that embodied energy of being an alive, sensing ‘thing’ that gives rise to the many symptoms of separation.

It is just another concept; another bandwagon to jump on, equal in weight to dogma or science.

One may find that one jumps from one sinking ship to another, from one concept to another philosophy, from one scientific explanation to another ‘way to live and think’…. until all ‘ways’ are seen through.

This seeing-through happens, not as if through this dualistic mind-body ‘thing’, but via the unfathomable absence-of-the-absence; from nowhere; nondual; in which all paths and ways, embodiments, sciences and dogmas are not cast-aside and chastised, but seen as the sweet and gorgeous attempts by so-called individuals to come ‘home’; an essentially futile effort to gain that Love that has never left, never arrived, never moved and that is more familiar than familiar – what “i” really is.

I like your definition of embodiment very much: “Feeling so at home in yourself, so grounded in this living world that you don’t need another concept than just that.”

I also wonder sometimes why so many people give it all away, all their life’s power wasted for an easy path to follow. To me it seems, a central reason for this tendency is the fear of the unknown. Not many people can endure a state of uncertainty, the enduring mystery of our existence. That’s ultimately what you avoid to face when you blindly turn to a guru or any ideology.
And what could be a remedy for this human foolishness? Embodiment. Feeling so at home in yourself, so grounded in this living world that you don’t need another concept than just that.

And one more quote that fits well to the topic of objectivity, it’s by Terence McKenna:

“Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.”