Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Observe your own body


Observe your own body. It breathes.

You breathe when you are asleep, when you are no longer conscious
of your own ideas of self-identity.

Who, then, is breathing?

The collection of information that you mistakenly think is you is not
the protagonist in this drama called the breath.

In fact, you are not breathing; breath is naturally happening to you.

You can purposely end your own life, but you cannot purposely
keep your own life going.

The expression, ‘my life’ is actually an oxymoron,
a result of ignorance and mistaken assumption.

You don’t possess life; life expresses itself through you.

Your body is a flower that life let bloom,
a phenomenon created by life.



 Ilchi Lee