A consequence of meditating, of self-reflection, of really starting to observe our sensory impressions and our impulses. To do nothing with them but to let them fulfill their own intentions and deposit their energy content and then subside and disappear, is that we relieve our body from constantly having to absorb it. When that happens and the tension we have accustomed our bodies with releases, we experience a deeply relaxed calm in our bodies, and a deep peaceful balance of mind. A kind of perfect equanimity. The absolutely fundamental function it has for our coherent experience of belonging and connection. Instead of using it as a dumping ground for the tensions we don’t follow up on until they reveal what it is we need to pay attention to or gain insight into, and using the body to accumulate the psychic intensity, and then compulsively act it out for us. Because we have often been conditioned to experience the mind as something separate from our bodies, which has separated mind from matter. The two are one but still separate from each other. They create a union of opposites in our consciousness, and a source of insight beyond it that assists us in a fundamental way in the self-observation we are called to listen to within ourselves whenever we feel distracted or diverted from the flow that governs our everyday conscious life. Here we also encounter the balance of mind that we experience as morality in its purest form. Our wickedness as it appears when our undeveloped mind remains naive and one-sided, and our relationship to life rest exclusively on conceptual acceptances. Not that our inner balance is part of it, and something we express and promote in everything around us. Just as nature promotes itself within us through its expression of this balance everywhere around us. Evil as a personal act and the absolute malevolence it gives rise to in the sense that the psychic connection between our and others’ inner person and the source of insight and life that surrounds it has been so violated and wounded, when it is suppressed by our conditioning that this balance of mind has become damaged and deformed. Such a distorted relationship between the body and the mind, when they are so far apart, cannot have any genuine participation with the nature that both surrounds it and it is in. I suppose this is precisely what lies behind much of the anxiety and concerns, our stress, and our mental and physical confusion that we have to face within ourselves, because they affect each other and give rise to so much suffering that we then incite in people around us in our lack of this balancing function that nature itself has provided us with.