The Zen of Advaita - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

The answer rests in thepossibility that not only does thebody not breathe, the body doesnot see, the body does not hear,the body does not feel, the bodydoes not know.Enquiry Koan: “Who knows andunderstands these words?”If we turn our attention aroundand look for the knower that knowsor has this information, there isonly nothingness. And as we stayin the nothingness, we realizethat the body does not hear, thebody does not see, the body doesnot feel, the body does not speakor listen or understand or read.Do not fall into the trap ofbelieving that somehow there is alocation or a breather out there.There is breathing with nobody,the body has no volition.To appreciate this in another way,due to the automatic abstractionprocess, the body too is not. Thebelief in its existence is anabstraction.131