On Breath
Andrew Wyeth, Wind from the Sea, 1947
Your breath is a bridge between you and your body. Constantly, breath is bridging you to your body, connecting you, relating you to your body.
Not only is the breath a bridge to your body, it is also a bridge between you and the universe. The body is just the universe which is nearer to you.
If the bridge is broken, you are no more in the body. You move into some unknown dimension; then you can not be found in space and time. So, breath is also the bridge between you and space and time.
Breath has two points.
One is where it touches the body and the universe, and another is where it touches you and that which transcends the universe. We know only one part of the breath. When it moves into the universe, into the body, we know it. But it is always moving from the body to the "no-body," from the "no-body" to the body.
There are certain points in breathing which you have never observed, and those points are the doors.
Man is trying to reach further, from earth into space, and man has not yet learned the nearest part of his life [...]
—Osho
The Book of Secrets
3 comments:
Breath is what gives us life and what takes it away. The Hindu goddess Kali is the giver and the taker. Perhaps she is breath.
I like that yoga teachers often start a practice with Prana Yama (maybe spelled incorrectly) which is breath work. I must remember to do alternate nostril breathing more...a simple and calming practice. Yes Kali is certainly a goddess who clears away obstructions. I've never heard that about breath.
Just an observation. We don't live after birth until we breathe and at the end, when we stop breathing, we begin to die. Both my yoga teachers begin with breath work as do I when I fill in for Abby.
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