Ezekiel 37:9 · World English Bible
Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.” ’ ”
Breath and spirit are one movement. The same word names both, for the breath that fills your body is the visible face of the formless life that animates all things.
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EGO & BEING
Breath and spirit are one movement. The same word names both, for the breath that fills your body is the visible face of the formless life that animates all things. Feel your own breathing, and you touch that life directly.
Those who lie as if slain are not corpses. They are the many numbed by thought, cut off from the aliveness within them. What revives them is not a new belief but breath itself, the return of presence, the formless life flowing back into a body that had forgotten it was alive. Turn your attention to the breath moving in you now, and that same life begins to stir.
Ego v. Being lens
What changes in me when I remember I am breathing?
The Buddha taught watching the breath as the plainest door to waking up. Breathing in, know you are breathing in. Nothing else is needed.
The Tao moves like a bellows, empty yet inexhaustible, filling everything that lives. Breathing softly, you move with it instead of against it.
The word for breath and the word for life force are the same. To steady the breath is to steady the mind, because they were never two things.
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Ego v. Being