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The Good | Who Says Meditation Doesn’t Cut Grease?

A thought occurred to me today while dishwashing. If I were to ask you which is the most powerful part of us, the mind or the body, which would you pick? You’d probably pick the mind, right? With the brain as its filter, it is the processor and it sends commands.

Consider this: For all but our most essential functions, the mind is dependent on something else to actually use any of that power. What is the something else? The body, of course. You mind needs stimulation, and it is the input of the body that provides it.

I could have a giant collection of knives and swords, but if I have nothing to cut, it’s just something cool to look at. I need something to cut to be able to cut, and knowing what I have to cut allows me to determine which blade to choose. Anyone witnessing the cut would surely say the object with the sharp edges is the dominant one, the villain of the situation, with the recipient as the victim.

The form defines the object in the sense that we know what it is. The severing defines the object so that we know its purpose. There is no severing without the thing severed.

It allows it to be what it is.
Taking this one step further, the thing severed can allow itself to be severed and in turn becomes a new thing. This new thing isn’t the old thing - it has properties all its own, and it too can become more new things. On top of all that, these all have different ways they react to being cut, and in turn have new ways of helping to define or even choose new blades simply out of necessity.

The dishes are done!

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