"This body is not me"
I read these great lines in a Buddhist chanting book today:
This body is not me.
I am not limited by this body.
I am life without boundaries.
I have never been born,
and I have never died.
I wonder how many people read those lines and really believe them? I don't know why most people become Buddhists, but I consider myself very fortunate to have had many experiences where I can read these lines and at least feel like I know what they mean.
Dream without sleep, ringing phone
(Continuation from another dream recording)
What I mean by a non-dream is that I wasn't asleep, I was laying here, and I was thinking a little bit about the euphoria that Zen people are said to go through, that you go through something like three days or euphoria and insanity before you recover from the experience. Tonight was a little like that, where I've been thinking about different places, and once I'm able to relax my body it's like my thoughts totally quit.
