Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
Venables Valley, B.C.
The Body
“These bodies are embarrassing,” I said to these young guys, Jacob, Hari and Nikunja. It was hard to sell, their average age being 10 and trying to convince them of this concept. It sounded foreign to them when I made the statement as they sat, restful, for a moment on the couch across the room from me.
“Alright then, how about you wake up in the morning and you have white things in the corners of your eyes, you’re groggy and your hair is all over the place? Isn’t it embarrassing?”
That didn’t seem to register with them.
“How about when you have to deal with the call of nature? Isn’t that embarrassing, during the process?”
Hari shrugged his shoulders. Jacob nodded. Nikunja was just blank. Maybe they didn’t understand the phrase.
“How about when you pass gas?”
Now the responses came. Smiles. Laughter.
“Don’t you find that embarrassing?” This clicked.
“Now, wouldn’t it be nice to not have a body, but to be liberated?”
That, they also had to think about. In any event, we agreed to join other residents for a swim in Venables Lake. That, the body will like. So there we swam, amidst the birds known as coots.
One thing that the body doesn’t like is getting bit by a rattle snake. One of our women accidentally stepped on one here in the village of Saranagati. Her name is Mahatma and she was rushed to the hospital, immediately. Rattlesnakes reside in the valley, but this was the first time ever that one of the villagers got stung.
As long as you have a body you will be stung by something. I wish Mahatma well.
May the Source be with you!
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