The highest goal is to bring the body-mind back together as one, which allows us to experience Spirit in the body. It gets tricky talking about this and using the mind to try to grasp this stuff, cause depending on how deep down the rabbit hole we wanna go, we eventually end up at the place other than pure spirit is real, everything else is a game and an illusion to play with. That can be super fun to realize (as spirit that then knows its total freedom), or absolutely terrorizing (as ego that craves so much to be real)!
Body scan is done to create the "great divide." It is beneficial, yet not compulsory for Mindfulness. In proper Zazen guided meditation isn't performed... :)
Yes.... Scanning is beneficial... for a time only and very practical for the 'western mind' that has been trained to segment and separate everything into parts! Then the idea is to fully go into complete consciousness and experience it all at once. No parts, just wholeness. :)
Well yeah, you've got the loveliest garden out there. Congrats :)
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I would assume it facilitates meditation, because body/spirit are separated somehow. Also called the Silva method.
The highest goal is to bring the body-mind back together as one, which allows us to experience Spirit in the body. It gets tricky talking about this and using the mind to try to grasp this stuff, cause depending on how deep down the rabbit hole we wanna go, we eventually end up at the place other than pure spirit is real, everything else is a game and an illusion to play with. That can be super fun to realize (as spirit that then knows its total freedom), or absolutely terrorizing (as ego that craves so much to be real)!
Body scan is done to create the "great divide." It is beneficial, yet not compulsory for Mindfulness. In proper Zazen guided meditation isn't performed... :)
Yes.... Scanning is beneficial... for a time only and very practical for the 'western mind' that has been trained to segment and separate everything into parts! Then the idea is to fully go into complete consciousness and experience it all at once. No parts, just wholeness. :)