Inhale, exhale, rejoice, repeat

Language pits man against nature.

Preconceptual mind is nondual, yet when recognized ("re-cognized") the cognitive function must categorize, differentiate, and memorize, leading to concepts and their consequent dualities.

The nondual state may be perceived as a nonspatial state, or a nonlinguistic state, or a non-ego  state.  Good luck describing it, I sure can't.  It is orderless, uncategorical, evolving, and empty.

The subject/object dualism inherent within linguistic syntax is recapitulated in cognitive thought.  This dualism  predisposes man's interpretations of sense data as bipolar phenomena with either a subjective or objective bias.  I am 'in here' and nature is 'out there'.   'I' therefore necessarily exists. This is ignorance, and suffering.

The sensory phenomena is interpreted cognitively and cognition is dualistic.  This means that sensory phenomena tends to be experienced by a distinct, separate 'me' which is consequently doomed to suffer a paranoid and putative existence.  We believe ourselves to exist, which gets in the way of being.

Language is a map.  The actual territory is inexpressible.

Dualism is the split of self into self and other, and language is syntactically dualistic.  So the very act of thinking is suffering!   Language itself led man's evolving thought patterns into a negative feedback loop - a closed loop - in which he was trapped, syntactically separated from his own inherent infinity by his perpetually evaluating mind.

This is the wasteland of the 20th century cogito:  I think therefore I am, so my very being is trapped in the prison of my own thoughts.  In order to be, we must follow the demands of our thoughts, unstable as they are.  Such a perspective has nearly destroyed the world.

The modern western meditation - surfing, skiing, climbing, biking, running, paragliding, kitesurfing, skateboarding, dancing, takes man out of his thoughts into his body, suspending the dualistic, discursive, and ultimately insatiable mind.  It is here man finds peace from his demons, for all thoughts beget unanswerable questions regarding assumptions behind the geometry and syntax of thinking, as well as the existence of the thinker.  And if you could follow that one your head probably hurts and you need to talk a walk in the woods now.

So take a deep breath and let it out and keep doing that for the rest of your life, and pay more attention to your breathing than your thoughts, because Descartes was dead wrong and yoga scientifically proves it.  Even when you are paying attention to your thoughts, pay attention to your breath even more.  You will notice that better breathing leads to better thoughts.  This is the revelation of somato-psychology, wherein the cogito is turned on its head: I think therefore I am is out of date.

I think because I am.

keep breathing