Essence of Breema: February 09
excerpts from classes at the Breema Center
Practicing Breema, there’s no need for description of what my hand is touching. No part of me needs to hold itself separate to describe from the sidelines the sensations of warmth or cold, softness or hardness. They are, whatever they are. In Full Participation, there is no need for description. Description neither adds nor subtracts. It only confuses us, and shifts the emphasis away from knowing ourselves.
Every movement of Breema is an expression of the desire to be present. That desire is inherent in Breema. If it isn’t there, what you’re doing isn’t Breema, no matter how similar it may appear visually. The knowledge of body breathing supports it. When you get connected to it, you don’t necessarily have to formulate it in words or in thoughts. It’s the only reason to do Breema. That desire comes from a different source—not from our habitual, mechanical upbringing.
There is one whole, unified Existence, and the simple activity of doing Breema is an expression of that one whole, unified Existence. You don’t need identification with yourself, with your hands, with how “good” you are at doing Breema. Breema is a simple activity, like a bird singing in the morning, or a flower opening up, or water flowing in a stream. All natural processes are expressions of one whole, unified Existence. You are a part without thinking of yourself as separate from the totality. Breema supports you to relate to yourself as Being-existence, part of one whole, unified Existence, without thought, without philosophy. That could become your posture towards life. You could take that posture with you and go visit your family. In the atmosphere of that posture, there is harmony. You go to the coffee shop, to a restaurant, to a friend’s, you wash your dishes, clean your kitchen—that atmosphere always emanates harmony. You support life, and your life is supported.