How Does the Body Feel When We Strip Away All Concepts?

When doing this work, I feel sensations in my body and want to purge or release things. How do we work with the body when we feel we need to let go yet want to overcome the situation by staying in being? Rupert says: ‘Can we do an experiment? Close your eyes and go to the experience of your body, not the image or memory or idea of it, but just the raw experience. Imagine you’ve just been born. It’s the first experience you’ve ever had. You don’t have any memory. You are having an experience that you will later conceptualise as the body. But for the moment it’s just raw sensation. What is the sensation appearing in? It’s appearing in some kind of field, in your being or awareness. The experience of your body is not dense. It’s mostly empty space. You don’t really experience weight. You just experience a sensation of a certain intensity, and you interpret that intensity as weight. But without the interpretation, there’s no weight there. We were actually cleansing your body. We were removing all the concepts that you superimposed onto your body. Your body, how it is, is like a galaxy floating in the sky without a shape, without a size, without gender, without an age, without a density. That was a kind of experiential purification of your body.’

From event 30 August - 06 September, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Mandali, 30 August–6 September 2025

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