' Embodiment '...

“Embodiment starts with the realization that every manifest thing and non-thing constitutes your true body. Your humanness is simply a reflection of the depth of your realization…What’s most important is to perceive your entire body, which is everything…The entire cosmos is your body….

“Let your inner spiritual revelation become deep enough to include the whole world of time and space. If your spiritual revelation is only big enough to go beyond the relative world but not include it, then you will continue to experience a duality and therefore a struggle with the relative world. Do not become attached to the realm of the absolute. See the absolute and the relative as an undivided whole, as two expressions of the same supreme reality that you are. Go beyond all dualities to the source of duality, to that which is neither this nor that but expresses itself as this and that….

“For most people self-inquiry stops at the realization that I am formless consciousness. But when I am speaking of embodiment, I’m taking self-inquiry back into the world, the world that still remains whether it’s perceived as a dream or not. This is an inquiry into what that world is. The realization ‘I am formless consciousness’ is simply the opposite of ‘I am an individual somebody.’ Even with that realization, there is still going to remain the appearance of somebody. So embodiment is simply a reflection of the realization that every manifest thing that exists is the one body of the one consciousness. This is a return to wholeness, to a completeness that includes the unmanifest and the manifest alike. It is perceiving that both formless consciousness and the world of form are simply two aspects of an unnamable, mysterious whole.”



--Adyashanti, from The Impact of Awakening