Body Awareness
Become aware of your body – walking, chopping wood or carrying water from the well. Be watchful; be alert, aware, conscious. Don’t go on doing things like a zombie, like a somnambulist, a sleepwalker.
When you become aware of your bodily processes, you will be surprised there too. You can move your hand mechanically, you can move it with full awareness. When you move it with full awareness, there is grace, there is beauty.
It is difficult to jump from ordinary, unconscious action into awareness. It is possible but arduous, so a step in between is helpful. If one begins by witnessing conscious activity, then the jump becomes easier – the jump into awareness without any conscious object, without any conscious subject, without any conscious activity at all. This doesn’t mean that awareness isn’t consciousness; it is pure consciousness, but no one is conscious about it.
