So the first thing is you watch your body. You are meditating and you watch your body, that is you are aware of your body. I think one who doesn’t know how to mediate, that’s the first thing one does is one is still body-conscious and one still imagines one’s body to be what one thinks it is, which is not what it is.

So, you watch, really what you watch, it’s not your body, you watch your representation of your body, what you think your body is. That is, you consider it, and you think to yourself, why do I think this is me? It’s a formation. The whole cosmos has contributed to the formation of this entity, whatever it is, this agglomeration of physical stuff, and why do you think it’s me? I haven’t been consulted in the formation of my body. I have to live with it. It may not be exactly the kind of body I like, but that’s the way it is. One might even be addicted to one’s body. Because somehow it has become part of one’s identity.

Well, the Sufi way would be, well let’s first do this: Just think that indeed my body, what I think is my body, started in the Big Bang, in the beginning of time of this cosmos, that as I’ve said before, being of the fabric of the stars and so on, and the galaxies. And it has been elaborated in the course of eons of time fantastically. And just imagine the sophistication that's gone into the apportioning of the different functions of the body, each playing a part in order to serve as a wonderful support system for one’s consciousness. And let’s say, for the emergence of the consciousness of the universe in the cosmos, in the form of my and your body.

Somehow now, not only are we destroying our faulty identity, but somehow we are linking our sense of bodiness to the whole cosmos, instead of just thinking of ourselves as a discreet identity.