Okay, starting.
I feel confused.
Is it okay not to feel the body in meditation?
For example, often I can't tell where my eyes are looking.
Later bodily feelings seem to fade.
I only register the breath.
Is that okay?
Yeah, in fact, I'm probably just going to answer this.
I don't know if anyone else has anything to add, but it's actually considered to be one of the stages of, potentially one of the stages of knowledge.
The point being that the body doesn't exist.
The body was never there in the first place.
And there comes a point in your practice where you realize that, and as a result you say, oh, my body disappeared.
Well, the body wasn't there in the first place.
I mean, think about it.
Without experiencing it,
Where does the idea of the body exist at all?
It exists in the mind.
So our continued awareness of the body is totally mental.
It comes from an experience here, an experience there, that we put together in your mind and say, oh, my body.
But really, when you close your eyes, why should your body be there at all?
You don't see it anymore.
And if you're sitting quite still, you don't feel it anymore.
it only exists as a concept in the mind.
And there comes a point in your meditation where you break through that and you start to experience or observe only ultimate realities, at which point body has no place, in place no part.
So potentially what you're describing is actually a very good thing.
It's a realization of the nature of reality, giving up the observation of concepts.
like body.
I figured it would be kind of silent after that.
Anyone?
No.