Attribution

Important note: All the posts on this blog were written by Bob Harwood (AKA 'zendancer') on the forum spiritualteachers.proboards.com. I have merely reposted a collection of them in blog format for the convenience of seekers. Some very small mods were made on occasion to make posts readable outside of the forum setting they were made in.

For most adults the mind (head-knowing) is dominant.

For young children direct sensory perception (body-knowing) is dominant. We practice shifting our attention from thoughts to what we can see or hear in order to re-learn how to do what we automatically and unconsciously did when we were young children. We want to subordinate the mind's intelligence to a far more powerful intelligence. The mind, or intellect, compared to what manifests through the body, is like a hand-held calculator compared to an IBM mainframe computer. We want to abandon the triviality of conceptualization long enough to become reunited with the power that runs the universe. Who we are is unimaginable, but as long as petty thoughts have the power to psychologically jerk us around and keep us distracted, we cannot discover the truth of our being.