Losing the Body
Already Here: Seeing Through What Is in the Way
June 11, 2025
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Losing the Body

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A student describes the strange new experience of no longer feeling like they have a body, and asks the teacher whether this is familiar.

Losing the Body

A student describes the strange new experience of no longer feeling like they have a body, and asks the teacher whether this is familiar.

I suddenly have a question. Sometimes I feel like I'm losing the body. Did you have a similar feeling before? I don't feel the body the same way I used to.

Yes. It comes and goes, because what felt like "the body" that drops away was actually the overlay image of the body. The body itself is just a mystery of intermittent sensations that can never actually make a "body," as such.

It is very weird, because I don't feel like I have a body. It's the first time I've felt this way.

In a sense, really, truly, you don't.

It feels really weird. But I'm not too worried. It all feels good. I was just curious if you had felt the same way.

Enjoy and explore the weirdness, the wonderful weirdness of experience and sensation.

Yes. Thank you.