Meditating
on the bones of ourselves and of others ignoring the body and flesh at
perception is called skeleton meditation. Food is the original source of
bones in our body and the imprints in the body(especially in genes) give them shapes. The structure and design of the bones emerge from need, habits,
traditional usages - mostly from the way in which we use them.
The strength of the body is in
the hardness of the bones. Man is just a bag full of flesh to be carried
if not with bones. The bones you had yesterday and the ones you have now
are not entirely the same. Every second cells in the bones die away and
new cells occupy the place, thus everyday you have new bones until your death.
Bones, unlike other beautiful
parts of the body, take thousands of years to die away completely.
Boneless man is a heap of flesh, with no structure or shape, so ugly to think
of or look at. Flesh-less man with bone is a skeleton, an object of study
in the science lab or a piece of entertainment in ghost film or on magician's
stage.
The exercises given to bones
make them strong. Those who look only at the bones in everyone never
become a victim of the flesh. Whomsoever you see, just see the bones in
them, removing all flesh and skin that has covered over. Talk to them
with the same look, no temptation, no ego, no gender difference, no religious
difference, etc, will arise in the mind. Look at all people moving here
and there in the busy world around you, driving or working, or doing anything,
ripped of all their flesh and other parts, witnessing only their bones inside,
then the whole world is a world of skeleton, a new world that others miss to
see, a world of equality where no hierarchy exists.
The article on "How to do
skeleton meditation?" will be published soon in the second part.
