When I am feeling stressed, whether it be a result of guilt, worry, sadness, anger or fear, I feel like I need to do something to make things better. When weighed down by this pressure, I tell myself very directly that doing something is a physical act that requires the use and availability of my body. If my body is […]
Category: mental health
Why We Don’t Make Decisions
I can see what I am doing next, as next is already here now. My body is sturdily in its activity, its weight on a particular surface and the rest of my parts in their specific movements, while the clock moves automatically (Earth rotating on its own accord). This is our only action, ever, our […]
The Issue of Fragmentation: The Mind-Body Connection
Notwithstanding the innate harmonization of the body, many of us still perceive ourself to be fragmented. The mind, for one, is commonly thought of as other than the body, and it is this misperception I would like to address here. The universal phrase “mind-body connection” reflects the impression that the mind and the body are […]
Action
Excerpt from “The Myth of Doing” I define action as the body’s existence in space, in any moment, in the configuration it is in, in relationship to its environment. Action is simply a person’s natural state of being; it is not something other or additional to that status, as our mind imagines. So even if […]
How Can It Be?
How can it be that this activity I am physically engaged in, sitting on the couch writing in my notebook, is the only thing I am supposed to be doing right now? That feels so wrong. What about all the other things I feel like I’m supposed to be attending to? Where would those actions […]
Time, Action and the Illusion of Effort
In my work I talk a lot about the clock, and the fact that it moves by itself, by virtue of the fact that our planet naturally rotates around itself and the sun, which is how we track time. If we stare at the clock, or our watch, we can have proof of this by […]
“Next”
We are concerned with what is coming next, what someone will do next, what will happen to us next. It appears to our mind that this is something we need to figure out. Is it true that we need to figure it out? No. Before we can even blink, next is already here, next is […]
Don’t Worship Your Ideas
If you want to worship something, worship the truth. What do I mean by the truth? I mean the things you do, not think about doing. The things we do are the only things we are supposed to do, as hard as that is to believe. How can we know this is true? Because anything […]
The Mind Can’t Know
We all have plans and things on our mind, even the most basic, that we assume will occur or that we will do. All the recent victims in Texas, Florida, The Virgin Islands, The US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Las Vegas had no reason to believe otherwise about their next days, weeks, months, years, […]
This
Why this? It’s all there is. This is such a basic realization. Meanwhile, we spend our life negating it, doubting it, looking elsewhere. I have no choice but to be where my body is. I watch. Touch your face to see that you are here. You can see your face with your eyes, parts of […]
Jill Eng 