27. January 2019 – original text & photo by Diana

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Let’s begin today with a little experiment!
Choose a comfortable position and close your eyes. Try not paying attention to what happens around you. Instead, pay attention to yourself! What can you see, how do you feel?

What do you feel regarding your age, race, hair and eyes colour, body size? What about your religion, political ideas, nationality or any other thing that constructs yourself? What importance have those identifications for YOU? Do you feel something different when your eyes are closed, or not?

I do this exercise quite often, and I am always amazed how by only closing the eyes I disconnect myself from the outside world. When I am resting like this for a few minutes, I cannot tell anymore where my body ends, as it’s boundaries begin to melt, to disappear. If I direct my awareness further inside, I see no more age, race, nationality, religion, boundaries; it’s just me!

When I look in the mirror, usually I think; I see me! But is it true? Strange feelings occur me sometimes. For a second, I am doubting: I see someone which I don’t feel it is me! Further on, a similar thing happens now and then, when I am walking on streets full of people; for an instant, it is like I am in a movie and yet I am not part of it.

We perceive the exterior world through our receptors by hearing, seeing, touching, tasting, smelling. It is an avalanche of chemical reactions and electrical impulses which allows us to build an image about us and the world around us to be able to survive in this world!

Who am I would be the question? It is just rhetoric! I’ m not asking you!
Well, I was born and grown up from the material of this planet. Therefore my body is an assembly of atoms that I gathered over the years. Is then possible that what I have accumulated over the years to be ME? Logical …, what I have gathered, what I have accumulated is MINE, it belongs to ME!
But the mind? Isn’t the mind too an accumulation; of ideas, impressions and learned things? So, this must also be MINE, it also belongs to ME!

If the mind and the body are properties of MINE, who is that, that possesses them? What is MINE can in the same time be ME? Can a possession be the owner himself? No, it can’t! It would be a Paradox! I, for example, can not be my home, they can not be my clothes or my chair. Of course, I can invest attention, time and energy in these things, but they are still outside me!
So my body and my mind cannot be ME! The ME is definitely on top of them!

We humans, are all children of this planet and the of the universe. We are bundles of energy expressed in a physical form, the physical creation of nature. Mother Nature is very creative and never gets bored! That’s why she has created a wide variety of living creatures and unliving structures. Everthing was created differentely, but they all share the same essence!

Body and Mind are just accumulations, we own them we cannot be them.

ancient wisdom

Some years ago I created a little poem. I do not know if I have poetic valences or not. I didn’t respect any poetic principles, but it came like an emanation from within, and I wrote it down! I tried to adapt the little poem to English. I do not know to what extent I have succeeded …

Illusions
(original in romanian)

A solitary, playful snowflake,
stood once on my cheek.
I closed my eyes
trying to see it
and feel it from within.

Is it so small and cold …
Or is it big?
It’s cold or in truth hot?
What colour does it have?
In truth; none!

It’s stone or water or just wind?

It’s difficult to put a label
When the landmarks are not present.
You realise in just a second;
It’s fume the whole world that surrounds you.
A distorted image of a thing that lives only through you

Munich, 2010

Next week I will write in my article about: “Seeking the treasure”. Stay tuned!