There is a way to be with another that goes deeper than hearing with the ears and seeing with the eyes.  There is the listening with the ears and the seeing through the eyes, yes. But there is also a possibility of feeling into ones own cells.  Breathing awareness into and through one's own entire physical and subtle body/mind/emotion/energy field.  And through that openness, the "other" can be sensed or felt, especially if that "other" is also open.  Then there is a feeling of what it is like to be that person.  How it feels to be and walk in the world as that person.  Where the physical holding is in the musculature of the other, how that holding shifts the skeletal structure, how the holding stops the breath from circulating to expand, contract and take up space.  How all of this holding stops various emotions or freedom of expression and how these various blockages lead to a cluster of psychological processes (including chakra imbalances) and behavioral interactions that interfere with relationships and life effectiveness in general.

In being with someone like this (with their permission), it is then possible to begin reflecting awareness back to help this person see the contractions as well as the amazing qualities of who they are. How relaxing the contractions, actually liberates the self system to allow for greater versatility and fullness.  

With practice, another learns how to empty the mind and breathe awareness down into the body, drop into the body and sense or feel their own cellular body/emotion/mind/energy so their own awareness can be brought to their own holdings and released consciously as they wish. They are able to feel/receive much subtler communication, achieve greater responsivness,  greater aliveness and connection within themselves, to others and to Life. 

In being with another where they are, it is possible to walk together into releasing the blockages that prevent their most potent, authentic and exuberant expression of this precious human body that only they inhabit.  And if they are open, it is an honor to open together and to surrender to immersion in the most Brilliant One that we share.  

Even Formlessness is formless
And Emptiness is empty
And Big mind has no substance
And love is just an illusion

Yet Here I Am

Writing these words
With no self at the helmless helm
And self holding the pen that is no pen
Smiling at the beauty that doesn't exist
And loving without loving

Now
This body moves
as it moves
No one else like this
Formlessness defined through each thought, word and deed
Every movement ordinary.
Every movement divine.


And Tantra - Splashing in the Ecstatic Miracle of the Human Heart

One of 10 million relics in this sea of beauty and death, i sparkle as only i can. Unscathed in spirit and demolished in bone, I walk out of the immersion, onto the shores of this imaginary dream to offer the fruits of my human remains before i am gone again.    

My Beloved. Your Beauty and Grace astound me. I bow to your Greatness.  I bathe in your Glory. I fall to the ground and kiss the earth upon which you walk. I stand tall into the heavens, arms wide open, raised to the sky, rejoicing in your everpresent existence.