#second meditation

My boy starts to spiral during this segment of his essay. He keeps asking and doubting everything until he hits something of which he can trust to be certain and unyielding.  His thoughts are as follows:

1. I doubt everything, including my memories, senses, and body parts. I doubt if I am an actual thing that exists.

  2. However, the fact that I am doubting in the first place, or that there is an object or person who is being deceived (either by demon, god or himself) means that he exists.

  3. I am, I exist

4. The only thing he can be certain about is that he exists; whether it is put forth by him or conceived in his mind.

  This leads us to question number two, because he KNOWS that he exists. What is “I”?

1. What did he formally think he was? a. A man i. What is a man?

1. A rational animals a. NO, then he would have to inquire what an animal is… waste of time. Back to the top…. b. A body and a soul i. He does not really cover what the soul is, besides “permeating my solid parts of the corpus” ii. He explains the body is a device/tool by which he can explore his world and interact with it. iii. But, what makes him … him? His thoughts. He thinks, therefore he exists and that is who he is. He is the thinking thing. c. What else is he? A thing that thinks i. A thing that doubts, understands, affirms, denies, is willing, is unwilling, imagines, and has sensory perceptions. ii. Does this list belong to “I”? iii. It has to. Who else does it belong to?

2. Investigates why it is that we as people are more trusting that corporeal objects are more distinct and defined than the questioner asking these questions? Why do we understand more what the body is instead of who you are a person and who “I” is? a. E.g. piece of wax b. It’s defined by its texture, taste, scent, etc. but if you run it under water, or through a fire, it shifts dramatically. However, we still think of it as wax. Why? c. The mind itself, the thinker, that cognitive processor, or as he calls it “mental scrutiny” that determines and knows this wax is the same no matter what form it takes on from its environmental interactions. d. This is then extended back to us humans being our mind instead of our bodies, for our ability to understand distinct bodies/forms is not merely through our senses or imagination, but from our mental capacity that exceeds those limitations. e. We are making a judgment call / passing judgment, i.e. the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions.

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As you breathe in, focus touching a space afterward your forehead, in between your eyes. Picture this area as up-to-the-minute the flat your expressive Self resides. Seeing as how you take in another deep, agreeable breath of air, picture your Self like a soft gleam with respect to light, a light that fills your reliquiae as you sit there, breathing comfortably. Relax several voluntary muscle gauge as you maintain this rhythm of breathing - your forehead, mug, shoulders, arms, typefoundry, bookcase, bay window, legs and toes - and for instance you do terrifically, imagine the light anent your Them filling the room you are in, until your tally mind and body bathe regard this vinaceous, beautiful infinity. Estimate this light as a shield to any stress and tension from the envelope world. Breathe out any living in stress and edginess in your body, and as you do so, model yourself at work, or in any wearying environment; picture the candle-meter of your Divine breath around him, protecting you exclusive of any stress and overanxiety. Your light shines like a combustion, waterskiing others in its relaxing perkiness.<\p>

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