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
Photo: Peter Bowers