Being in a Body is Deeply Spiritual
In this period where people are compelled to deepen their search for meaning and self, we see that spiritual teachings are becoming more intertwined with everyday life. People who have embraced being “spiritual” as a value often seem to search for this spirituality in distant, far-off places, as if spirituality is something disconnected from the world and far removed from the present moment.
People aren’t satisfied with the world.
I understand this dissatisfaction with the world, of course. The world, like everything else in the universe, operates within its own system, and we are part of that system. This system doesn’t just function through governments or societies; it also follows principles like yin-yang balance, duality, and polarity—concepts I often talk about. So, in this world, there isn’t always joy or pleasure. Along with these experiences come their inevitable counterparts.
This is the place where we’ve come to experience it all.
When we start forming ideas about how we should be, we begin to constrain our feminine (yin) energy. The inner conflict between the ideal world we create in our minds and the reality we live in keeps us from the courage to be ourselves. As these inner struggles grow, resistance builds, and a malfunctioning system starts to shake our masculine energy too. Feminine energy, as a source, nourishes our masculine energy. It is from our feminine side that our masculine side takes the emotions and impulses necessary to create action and movement in the world, to build structures, to create order, to categorize. If, within our feminine energy, there are aspects we believe *should* be, or things we are trying to force into being, then our inner ocean—the source of our actions—is disrupted, and nothing flows smoothly.
We seek moments to be amazed, moments to be happy, something that will make us say “wow” from within, push us to the extremes, and make us feel truly alive. As our sensitivity to ordinary sensations decreases, the experiences we turn to in order to feel alive must become more extreme to make us feel something.
But these extremes are not always positive. Extreme pain, loss, heartbreak, disappointments—they’re all part of the same pursuit of feeling something.
Welcome to the world of extremes.
But you don’t need extremes to being able to feel.
As human beings, our very presence in the world means that there is something here for us to learn or to complete. We could call this our “mission,” though the word shouldn’t overwhelm us—it’s more like a path. Clearly, if we’re here, living on Earth and not on Sirius, there’s meaning to be found or created here. We need to understand that matter is more than what we see, but that our human side must, for now, see this matter as it is.
Whether there are superpowers, magic, sorcery, conspiracy theories in the world—or whether the world is an illusion or not—right now, you are *here*.
You have a mind that constantly thinks, a body that you’re likely not paying much attention to, and a part of you that you refer to as “I” but can’t quite define. That “I” could be your soul, your spirit, your genetic code, or even your subconscious. The name you give it is less important than understanding it.
You can’t grasp your mind physically, and you can’t always trust it. The mind creates stories and then plays in its own electric field. But you can connect with that part of you that you call “I,” and you can feel it—how?
You’ve been given a tool. A magnificent tool: your body.
You can touch it, you can feel it clearly.
You’ve been given this body so you can experience this place, root yourself in the place you were born, and take your place in the world. So you can form connections and live your humanity.
Who knows? Maybe one day you’ll travel to other realms, but if you’re still here, experiencing this world, know this:
Being in a body is deeply spiritual.