BODY/MIND
'There
is a natural flow of energy in our bodies and our lives
that is stifled by the ego' - Reginald Ray
In western culture, we
tend to make a distinction between the body and the mind.
From the Buddhist perspective, however, this is a false
distinction which critically undermines our ability to be
and feel fully alive. The body and the mind do not have an
existence separate from each other. Rather, they are
co-emergent.
The Buddha's teaching of rebirth suggests that we
are karma
incarnated into form, impersonal energy
returning to the world again and again until insight into
the nature of the subjective self ends this cycle. Our core
beliefs about ourselves and the world are embodied, and it
is these that shape our posture and our personality.
Our
knots are our karma.
The Buddha taught that there is no eternal soul. This does
not mean, however, that there is no place for
soulfulness
in life, by
which is meant the sense in a person of being part of a
larger universal order. Craniosacral therapy can
produce a state of contentment and openness in which our
consciousness can expand and connect with this more
open
dimension of being.
