“Life”. We cling to it, we discuss it, we dictate to it, we try to reject it and struggle to accept it. ‘Life’ is one of the words indicating a phenomena that is not remotely understood by science and not remotely defined within spirituality.
What is the relationship between life and consciousness? What is the relationship between life and matter? Is it possible to divide life? Does the big life have a beginning and an end? If so, where does it begin and where does it end? Is life at the core of spirituality or at the core of materialism, or both?
Is life good? Is it purposeful? Is it accidental?
Can life be controlled?
How does life itself relate to the experience of living?
Life according to the Mind
The mind would like to make Life into a thing which can be studied by the mind.
Mind takes a distance from Life as if it were separate, transcendental, and able to judge it.
Mind assumes that Life can be controlled, and out of this assumption is compelled to try and control it.
For Mind, Life is a phenomena that it can live with, but also can’t live without.
Life’s disobedience to the Mind is such, that Mind actively creates illusions out of judgement in the name of Life. For this it recreates Life using the faculty of imagination.
Driven by an agenda to get pleasure and avoid pain, Mind believes it can condemn and redeem Life, through the composition of stories, and through projecting desired outcomes.
Taking consciousness as the magic ingredient of creation and recreation, Mind actively denies the unconscious, the unknown and the unexperienced aspects of Life. Yet Mind is utterly dependant on these dimensions for the expansion of its own power.
Mind spins around Life perpetually, swinging without accountability between aversion to Life and clinging to Life.
As such, Mind has a great distrust of Life.
At the same time, Mind is obsessed with Life.
Life according to the Heart
Life. You can either allow it or resist it.
Life is the palpable dimension of attraction and aversion.
Life is moving through the heart, but is not the heart.
The forms of the heart are caressed, stretched, fractured and broken by the movement of life.
Resistance to the feeling of life creates suffering. Allowance to the flow of life opens the windows of beauty.
To the heart, life is always perceived through love. When this loving perception is frozen, then this love feels more like agony.
The heart reflexively preserves sentient form as life flows through it, partly out of conformity to the collective heart of other humans at this stage of evolution. It does this so in order to avoid isolation and to find harmony. Such separation resists the laws of life and love.
The heart is destined to surrender by degrees to Life as the greatest healer.
Life according to the Body
The body is conceived, transforms, manifests and decomposes through the dimension of life.
Life is the continuum through which all form, transformation and disintegration takes place.
As such, Life is greater than a single body or a single form, as all forms arise out of and return to the perennial which is life.
The body surrenders to life, and as life moves through the body it expresses as a great passion through forms of heart and mind.
Yet life in the body can continue irrespective of the functioning of mind and unconditionally to the state of the heart.
As such, life is the deeper happening, able to exist (and independent of) consciousness, sentience and form.
The body is mentally instructed to reject life, out of fear of death (the death of it’s own separate form).
At the same time, the body will cling to life beyond all rationality. This is one of the paradoxes through which human suffering is perpetuated.
Suffering and many illnesses arise out of a collective resistance to Life engendered through the mind’s attempt to dictate to the heart a false methodology of survival through resistance to what “is”.
Most of the healing of the body takes place through the deepening surrender to the healing intelligence of life itself, unconditional to the maintenance and survival of separate form.
Of itself, the healing of the body supports the opening of the heart and the liberation of the mind.
