Deeper Than Mind And Body
Our real nature is prior to and deeper than our thoughts and feelings, indeed, prior to and deeper than our mind and body.
Rupert Spira spent more than twenty years as a working potter before he began teaching, shaping clay every day and studying the relationship between form and the material it comes from. That craft became the seed of his teaching under Francis Lucille, where he turned the same question on the body itself, asking what it is once we stop assuming it is solid, separate, and permanent. In The Nature of Consciousness, he applies decades of watching form rise and dissolve in clay to the form we call a body, suggesting it is known the same way any shape is known, temporary and secondary to what perceives it. For anyone starting a day inside a body that feels urgent and solid, it is worth remembering he found the same clay-like impermanence there too.
Reflection
Spira's practice starts with noticing sensation instead of thought. What sensation in my body can I notice right now?