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Daily Inspirations - May 2008

Stepping Back Into Self-realignment

May 21st 2008 13:26

Plotinus says:

Let the body think of the spirit as streaming, pouring, rushing and shining into it from all sides.

I say:

I don't see the body and the spirit as two separate things - why would you choose to be at odds with yourself? Your body dictates spirit, in a sense - it could be argued that your bodily experience creates, sustains and reinvents whatever experiences you have with your spirit.

However, I do like the multiplicity of verbs summoned up to represent the dynamic of the spirit interacting with the body - it evokes vital images of vigorous wrangling with your internal processes in a creative fashion.

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Comment by Priyanka

May 21st 2008 17:40

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Plotinus might not have implied the body and spirit as distinctly separate.

Comment by postmoderncritic

May 22nd 2008 00:13

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Hi Priyanka,

Actually, you might be right... it all depends on your interpretation, doesn't it? How do you interpret his treatment of the two?

Comment by Priyanka

May 22nd 2008 05:57

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Well! I have been involved with Yoga for quite some time. What I have heard there is that the physical body is the grossest of our bodies then it starts getting subtler and subtler.
So the Spirit whatever it is, would be a subtler counterpart of our body. Like the mental body, there would be a spirit body.
Anyway so the Spirit and Body are not distinct really.

Comment by postmoderncritic

May 22nd 2008 07:09

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I'm not sure how your instructor(s) use the words 'gross' and 'subtle' in this context, so what you just said went over my head.

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