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Okay, starting.

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I feel confused.

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Is it okay not to feel the body in meditation?

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For example, often I can't tell where my eyes are looking.

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Later bodily feelings seem to fade.

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I only register the breath.

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Is that okay?

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Yeah, in fact, I'm probably just going to answer this.

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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.

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The point being that the body doesn't exist.

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The body was never there in the first place.

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And there comes a point in your practice where you realize that, and as a result you say, oh, my body disappeared.

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Well, the body wasn't there in the first place.

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I mean, think about it.

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Without experiencing it,

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Where does the idea of the body exist at all?

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It exists in the mind.

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So our continued awareness of the body is totally mental.

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It comes from an experience here, an experience there, that we put together in your mind and say, oh, my body.

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But really, when you close your eyes, why should your body be there at all?

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You don't see it anymore.

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And if you're sitting quite still, you don't feel it anymore.

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it only exists as a concept in the mind.

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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.

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So potentially what you're describing is actually a very good thing.

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It's a realization of the nature of reality, giving up the observation of concepts.

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like body.

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I figured it would be kind of silent after that.

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Anyone?

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No.