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How should one deal with physicalness?

from “Morya Wisdom 2: Simplicity”
(Geert Crevits) © Mayil.com

Physicalness calls for coming together with others

As you approach this Earth you must always keep this awareness that you live upon the Earth with a certain purpose: namely, to carry this physicalness with you from one life to another, to allow it to evolve, develop and become more beautiful and better. 

On the Earth there are numerous conditions trying to weaken and attack the physical body and a person should learn to look at these conditions, perhaps together with others. People should be able to be occupied with the physical body in careful deliberation with others, learning to refine their corporal qualities so they can live with it better: healthy foods, clean air, healthy relaxation – all these aspects of existence have their own significance and a very great significance for the individual. But people should do this together; a person shouldn’t do it on their own. This is very peculiar: while a person is confined to his body he should, in association with others, actively seek for a way to relax his body, in order they might, together, gain a better understanding of the physical body.

Healthy foods, clean air, healthy relaxation – all these aspects of existence have their own significance and a very great significance for the individual. But people should do this together; a person shouldn’t do it on their own.

Things go wrong when a person stays alone with his body. If he shuts himself off from others he chooses for the heavenly polarity and not for the physical. This is what always happened with hermits: they chose another polarity and, because they went to live alone, they paid no attention to their bodies. But this isn’t the intention because the Earth should leave you with an impression of never being alone. This is the reason you should associate with others if you want to achieve positive results when involved in physical pursuits.

As far as physicalness is concerned, you should come together with others to do exercises, to discuss things, to generally be busy with these things in a way that allows you to develop, to relax; in a way that brings you peace, power and beauty. This is something for a group, pertaining to the meaning of humankind. 

You can work together with children, you can work together with older people, you can work together with people your own age, it all doesn’t matter, but physicalness calls for solidarity and cooperation. This is what I would like to bring over to you.

You should come together with others to do exercises, to discuss things, to generally be busy with these things in a way that allows you to develop, to relax.

Physicalness calls for solidarity and cooperation.

It’s important to understand this, for often a person busy with bodily pursuits has shut himself up in his own self-interest, in a sort of egoism. He wants to care for his body apart from others and when he fails to succeed he then finds himself in a hopeless, dated pattern of, “I’m busy doing something useless.” Yet, when you look at your body you spontaneously look at it in the way others look at it.

There’s something in the body always referring to the other and yet people don’t understand it. This is important: people should learn to see that when they are busy with physicality, they will constantly find them­selves standing in relation to the other. One should dare to take this step, one should be able and dare to do it. It’s very important to see this. Whenever you choose to be busy with beauty, do this in a group; involve others who are also occupied with physical beauty.

When you sit with your body to meditate and focus on the centre between the eyebrows, then do this in a group. It’s very important for you to do this. 

It’s different when you are busy with spirituality; but at the moment this is not what I want to talk about.

When you sit with your body to meditate and focus on the centre between the eyebrows, then do this in a group.

The body has its own needs

The physical body gives evidence of itself; meaning: the body has its own needs, its own questions and will also continually call for people’s attention. Many people deal with physical matters in the wrong way, waiting until they fall ill before paying attention to their body and this shouldn’t happen.

People should be busy with their physicality in a relaxed, sober, familiar manner. They should be able to enjoy all forms of their physicalness, and in all circumstances. Not that one should live only for his physicalness, but one should dare to look at it, to pay it attention and to live with it, to work with it and derive pleasure from it. This is very important.

Many people deal with physical matters in the wrong way, waiting until they fall ill before paying attention to their body.

The body's rhythm

The body not only needs attention, it also needs a particular kind of care. It needs to be made to follow a certain rhythm; it must be educated.

The body itself has a tendency to be lazy and to always be either tensed or relaxed, and you should try to analyse this rhythm. You should get to know, “When does my body become tense and when is it relaxed? What is this body’s natural rhythm and how can I best deal with it?”

If it goes too far in one direction or the other you have to be very strict with it. You must be the one to set the rules and say, “Look, this is my experience” – but with your experience in mind and not the idea of a needed discipline – therefore, “This is my experience, this is my rhythm.” Once you know your rhythm, your body needs time to adjust so it can keep up with it. 

You should get to know, “When does my body become tense and when is it relaxed? What is this body’s natural rhythm and how can I best deal with it?”

Of course, you can bend the rules a little by, for instance, sleeping less and relaxing more or relaxing less and working more: but you should carefully consider what is best for your body. Try to be alert; noticing, “At my age, in my present condition, I can demand this and that from my body;” and then you must go ahead and do it.

Because if you can maintain its rhythm your body will function better. If you conclude, “Going to bed earlier is better for me,” then you’ll find you must train your body to get into the habit of becoming tired and wanting to sleep at a certain time; in this way it will function optimally.

Training your body to cope with exceptional circumstances

But don’t let it become a timepiece, saying, “Now is the time to sleep,” and then rushing home to bed from wherever you might be at the time. No, that would be going to extremes; you have to be flexible enough to also be able to handle exceptional circumstances, so that your body stays fit and functions well.

Your relationship to your body should include both discipline and suppleness. You need to train yourself to deal with exceptional circumstances and retain the upper hand, saying, “I’m maintaining the condition of my body and keeping it going.” If you do this – go through this exceptional circumstance, which is even good for the body to go through every now and then – then afterwards you have to be able to say, “And now back to your rhythm, now go back to doing this and that.” 

You should neither be too strict nor too lax, the true way is the middle way, caring for your body well, enjoying it, but at the same time incorporating a kind of discipline into your life, allowing your body to function in a good manner.

In this you should neither be too strict nor too lax, the true way is the middle way, caring for your body well, enjoying it, but at the same time incorporating a kind of discipline into your life, allowing your body to function in a good manner. For the body needs exercises, small exercises to keep it fit and supple and able to follow your instructions well."

Meester Morya

Master Morya

Geert Crevits © Mayil.com
Source: “Morya Wisdom 2: Simplicity”
from chapter 7: 'The Earth,: body and third eye'

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What about addiction?

from “Morya Wisdom 2: Simplicity”
(Geert Crevits) © Mayil.com

Don’t allow your body to dominate you, you should be the master of your body. In the case of an addiction a reversal has taken place, the body protests and sets its own rhythms, and says, “Look here, I want this and that.”

If you are too weak in dealing with your body you will always be enticed to give in, and so you become the slave of your own physicalness. This is meaningless for then you are not living but are letting yourself be lived. The physical element will then take hold of the wrong things because it’s reacting to a memory, and the memory contains a kind of history of what you have allowed to happen.

In the case of an addiction you have become the slave of your own physicalness. This is meaningless for then you are not living but are letting yourself be lived.

All of a sudden, then, this history starts to determine your life and it is absolutely unnecessary for you to experience this; it will only bring you trouble. Realise the body is incapable of reasoning about its condition, as well as not being able to indicate what it actually wants. The body is a kind of machine you can direct. If you let it run by itself, it will do so out of habit, but it doesn’t know its own rhythm. Be very attentive to this."

Meester Morya

Master Morya

Geert Crevits © Mayil.com
Source: “Morya Wisdom 2: Simplicity”
from chapter 7: 'The Earth,: body and third eye'

Morya Wisdom 2: Simplicity

And when you are getting old or ill?

from “Morya Wisdom 2: Simplicity”
(Geert Crevits) © Mayil.com

When you dare to live with joy

(...) It doesn’t mean you always have to want to become younger, but you will find – however old you are – your face appearing younger when you dare to live with joy. Even your whole body will feel younger and suppler, whatever illness you may have, whatever your troubles may be. 

Illness as transformation

An illness can cause you to live in despair but if you would look at life from the perspective of infinity, then there would never be a reason to despair. Then you can live with any illness and even be happy because you know, “This is perhaps a chance for me to do something important for my body.”

The most difficult and distressing situation allows you to progress in the most efficient manner. When it really gets difficult in your life, when you are going through a trial with your body, this is then your chance to do incredible things for your body. Because if you can derive joy from it, this will be a true transformation.

If you would look at life from the perspective of infinity, you can live with any illness and even be happy because you know, “This is perhaps a chance for me to do something important for my body.”

You won’t be able to see the result in this one lifetime but you will have fought such a battle that when you enter your next life you’ll suddenly be able to handle this organism in a totally new way. You’ll be born with a mechanism within you that has the ability to develop and you’ll feel your body changing, and especially feel the contact with your body changing. Therefore, it can happen that in another life you are born with beautiful limbs or beautiful eyes or a very beautiful body. Physically, that is, because you lived with your body with an enthusiastic presence and it was able to gradually transform itself. This can’t be done in one lifetime but be aware these powers exist, that you can use these powers and can achieve marvellous things with them each moment of the day.

Happy with your body right up until the minute before your death

You shouldn’t have the impression your body is completed, you shouldn’t have the feeling of being satisfied with it, but you should have the feeling you can be happy with it, happy to be living in a body. Whatever happens you should feel like this. 

Whatever the condition of your body may be – an illness or something unpleasant – you should still be happy with your body, curious as this may seem.

The ideal would be if you could be happy with your body right up until the minute before your death, for that would mean you were going about with your body in a totally different way, you would be doing incredibly beautiful things, and this is the whole point. Sometimes a person doesn’t dare to accept this body he has actually been given. He claims it as his own and some people even declare themselves to be the body and think when it disappears they will also disappear. They are so at one with the body they think they are the body. They are greatly mistaken in this and it’s because they can’t see the reality of the physical condition they are in. 

If a person would be contented with his body a completely different energy would enter into it.

If a person would be contented with his body a completely different energy would enter into it, producing a kind of current flowing from the crown to the feet enabling him to experience his body as a unity, and afterwards he could again experience this same unity from all different facets in his body. He would then be able to go with his thoughts to any part of his body and, from there, experience a feeling of unity.

In regard to any physical experience you might have, it’s very important for you to be able to go to a certain point in your body with your consciousness and still have a feeling of unity.

The point between the eyebrows

The wonder of the physical body is that you can be can be totally present in one single point of it and feel the whole structure and all the body’s energy in this one point. This is a fantastic experience. 

It’s always a temptation to go to that place in the body where something is not right, where it hurts, where there is a pressure, where a cause lies of something in a state of change. If you go to this point and keep your attention there, you will be in the pain and not in the feeling of unity, and then you’ll have something that is broken. You shouldn’t do this, or at least not do it too much, because this pain signal you are receiving should merely be there for a moment, in order to see if there is something you can do at this place, and then you should let it go again. Don’t live in the pain but rather in some other point where you can feel really good.

It’s always a temptation to go to that place in the body where something is not right, where it hurts, where there is a pressure.

The most important point of the body where you should dare to live is the point between the eyebrows. You should be able to go there regularly because there you can receive another openness for the universal happening that goes together with your body. This point, called the third eye, has an opening to the divine cosmic experience within this Earth. 

The third eye is the point where the reality of this Earth can be seen, but on another level. You should learn to do this. You should be able to stay at this point without looking there, but from a feeling of unity."

The third eye has an opening to the divine cosmic experience within this Earth. 

Master Morya

Master Morya

Geert Crevits © Mayil.com
Source: “Morya Wisdom 2: Simplicity”
from chapter 7: 'The Earth,: body and third eye'

Morya Wisdom 2: Simplicity