rain

Nasty, rainy weather today. I started to go outside for a walk at one point, but didn't even get to the end of the walkway before turning back and coming inside.

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Where is the dividing line between the body and the mind? In examining cases of spontaneous remission of cancers and other diseases, Robert Anton Wilson points out that such phenomena only remain inexplicable as long as we reside under the sway of the mind-body dichotomy. This bafflement persists because of what Wilson calls "our habit of thinking that anything we have split verbally must reflect a similar Iron Curtain in the non-verbal existential world.* This is similar, he points out, to what's happened in the physical sciences, where post-Einstein scientists no longer deal with space and time, but space-time. Similar considerations led the Buddha to conclude, contrary to Hindu orthodoxy, that there is no immortal self housed within the mortal body-mind, that such a concept is "an illusion, a dream," and that a "self" (or human being) is a heap of undifferentiated characteristics.

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As I went through daily practice today I was mentally in the breath as it united with the physical process. Effortless mindfulness, free of distraction, can be learned along with learning the habit of not differentiating.

*Quantum Psychology, p. 134.

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