Not the Body; Not the Illness

Who am I?  Not the body because it is decaying....

Ramana Mahrashi

I am sitting here with an experience of feeling quite ill.  The body is a remarkable thing...I was exposed to this bug weeks ago and started to experience the  signs and symptoms of it...even missed one day of work because of it...but being that it was not a time for me to get sick and stay sick...there were too many things out there needing me to function...I seemed to snap out of it quite quickly. It didn't go away but it moved to the back burner and started to incubate there, waiting for an opportunity to express itself.  On Friday one of the little viruses said to the army that was now tripled in size behind it, "Okay boys!  Its time...lets divide and conquer."It hit me like a ton of bricks lol. 

I was going to start by saying, "I am sick!" and then I caught myself.  "Am I forgetting all I learned...again??" 

I am not sick...I am perfect wellness....this body that I am in is experiencing a viral infection.  I am not this body.  I cannot reduce the "I am" down to a physical illness. I can not reduce the " I am" down into the body I am in.  The "I am" is experiencing a body that temporarily "has"an illness...I am not an illness.

We say "I have a flat tire" or "I ran out of gas"...when our vehichles have a flat tire or an empty tank...yet once again is this correct?  We identify with this tiny little "me" experience of being in a vehichle with a flat tire or an empty tank. You don't have a flat tire...you don't have tires.  You are not empty of gas...or well you should be empty of gas. lol This car is not you nor is this body...so what is going on in the car is not yours; and what is going on in the body is not you either. 

Illness, is just one of the trillion experiences a person can experience as the body decays.  Wow!

Quite amazing really. 

All is well