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Full Idea
Feel your substance, bones, flesh, blood, saturated with cosmic essence.
Gist of Idea
Feel your whole body saturated with cosmic essence
Source
Anon (Cent) (Centring [c.500 BCE], 23)
Book Ref
'Zen Flesh, Zen Bones', ed/tr. Reps,Paul [Penguin 1971], p.155
A Reaction
I find this unsatisfactory. Being a sad victim of materialistic western scientific culture, I don't think 'cosmic essence' exists. I could imagine myself full of the stuff, and that might feel good, but I could also imagine I had won the lottery.