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Through the centuries people have developped
numerous methods and techniques
that would bring us
to internal expansion of awareness.
The purpose of this quest, using these methods,
is to reduce distraction.
In this mental state
we try to reach deeper
from what we generally consider to be "me".
In a way we lay down the body.
The body is still there, however,
we strive to eliminate our identification with it.
We observe all that is,
without judgment.
When we are biased, there are thoughts.
Therefore, we only observe
what there is -
inside
and outside
as both are the same.
In this process, our identity actually wears off
While being in this role, while following this path
you forget about yourself, that is what happens.
Practice with a partner
enables us to develop
at the level of ordinary consciousness
a perception reaching beyond the borders of our own body.
This means that
we try to perceive not only what we feel in our own body
but we expand our perception onto the other person,
the other body with which we are in contact, in motion,
connected.
This type of practice has
an embedded meaningful concept
if it does not tend
only towards physical duelling
or simulating self-defence.
Therefore, it has a potential
to expand the awareness and the consciousness
but this depends on the environment in which we practise.
During this practice, the perception is tuned to be compassionate
with the other person.
With the other body,
we tend to treat it just as our own.
There exist different disciplines that encourage
development of an altered state of consciousness.
So, one of ancient methods
is this practice with a sword
during which
the practitioner is alone,
alone with his own perception,
with his mind and body
and what he does
is very precisely defined coordination.
What we see,
is just a reflection on a physical level.
What is really being practised, is inside.
Somehow we are all obliged
to find compassion on a global scale,
not only inside our family or inside our own nation.
After all,
all the people on Earth
are above all humans.
Beings with the same internal essence.
In this sense, we are all the same,
all identical.
But different on the outside.