I am a sleepy beast. I've felt fatigued since that moment at the gym, like... not take a nap tired, but I had a fight with an energy vampire and lost kind of tired.
if your body were a horse you're riding, and it looked at you like you feel, wouldn't you give it a rest and take care of it with food and water?
i am bothered by the metaphor of the body as a "meat sack" that is somehow to blame for whatever.
our bodies are living creatures with needs, sentient beings.
the taoist image of riding a large bovine doesn't suggest beating it to make it obey.
discipline is important, but body is not our enemy: a bad religious trope needs to go.
@holon42 Exactly. This body may be my cage, but it is alive and never asked to be saddled with me. Though I do not like it, and I don't understand it, I try to take good care of it. Being a living thing, it is sacred and deserving of compassion.
@NiveusLepus @holon42
My body has never been a cage to me, even when it is broken and infirm.
It has always been a vehicle and tool and window into the world of matter, where one can _live_.
@AskTheDevil @holon42 It's the earliest thing that I have memory of, and its persitent. This very real sense of distance and separation, like you say, like a vehicle, but it comes with it this sense of being locked in this dark room that I can't get out of, hence, cage.
It is so freaky and disconcerting sometimes that I can make this thing move.