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Nature & our bodies, deeply experienced

Being in nature seems always, since our beginnings, to have been profoundly relaxing and regenerating.  When we look into this, do we
feel we are spectators, standing just outside nature, looking at it?  Or are we an aspect of nature, aware of itself?  

And what about the experience of the body? Am I located in my head, aware of the rest of me below?  Or is the body self-aware?  

The more we explore these questions experientially, the more we may come to see our body as a dimension of nature, which may not exactly answer the questions, but can deepen them.

Using an excerpt from a talk by Tara Brach, Jackie led us in exploring these questions in our own experience.

A link to the talk is here: https://dharmaseed.org/talks/player/86325.html