Being an optimum mode of consciousness, it is evident that the body is primarily the result of wisdom, as opposed to method. As such it is the peak experience, the goal and the focal point towards which wisdom, in union with concentration, is constantly aiming.

Through the realization of the body the hope that constitutes the essential dynamic of taking refuge is fulfilled, and thereby meaningful being-for-oneself is achieved. This comes about through the resolution of the conflict between the world as it is and the world as it is imagined to be in ignorance. Once ignorance has been purified through wisdom, the mood of anxiety that was felt in the deepest recesses of the conflict is dissolved. Thus the body is grounded in the immediate experience of oneself and the world as they are. Instead of anxiety, joy becomes the underlying mood of one’s being-in-the-world. In this way the body stands as the culminating point of the process of actualizing authentic being-alone. The anxiety, which was the cause for taking refuge, is overcome through the wisdom that dispels ignorance and, thereby, the hope of finding meaningful being for oneself is fulfilled.

Love

Bill Martuge