The Perfect Body

Lester Levenson talks about how the body is your creation, and how you can create the perfect body.

[@PureBelovedParsley]

Lester says, “If you can’t have the perfect body, then make your body perfect.” This means we do what is necessary to have a perfect body, starting with the mind/beliefs, of which would be the fastest way (according to Lester), which would allow releasing all thoughts against that ideal, including beliefs, thoughts and feelings which keep us in common subtle addictions or in more overt addictions and habits. If we are efforting a lot, this means we need to release more to get to a point that caring for the body is more effortless: choosing the cucumber over the chips; the apple over the chocolate eclair, the water over the sugar-laden drink or processed fruit juice; the herbal tea over the coffee (stimulant). Lester, having the ability to heal his body (make it perfect?), due to sidhis (“supernatural” powers), instantly, made a conscious intention to stop doing that, SINCE HE COULD MAKE THE BODY PERFECT, in an effort to emphasize that he/we are not the body, thus he stopped caring for it (did very little to care for it and died of stomach cancer ... but didn’t experience pain because he was not identified with it. If the Jesus story is true, I have no doubt Jesus was able to be-not-the-body as he was hammered to a cross; or experiencing the pain of it was a teaching lesson-either way he was at Peace, IMO.) Most people who stop caring for their body, or partake in addictions, or not doing the work to release thoughts and feelings and beliefs causing ill habits, EVEN UNDER THE GUISE of “being not the body,” are usually not able to heal their body from the Self/allowing perfection to come, thus they are just acting dysfunctionally, or commonly, typically. Lester NEGLECTED his body to prove a point, so to speak, and to be an example, that we are not the body. But he only did this AFTER, he could make the body perfect (is how it seems to me). This doesn’t seem to be the same as one doing it as a spiritual by-pass. There are Spiritual Teachers, who teach how to have an embodied life (“come down off the mountain”), where the Awake aspect/Consciousness/Enlightenment is in the Background while the human is LIVED. This embodied teaching is due to the challenges presented to most people (those who have children, are engaged in jobs, some of what feels like just a means of surviving/necessity, or engaged in work for the betterment of humanity, and want to live caring, compassionate and psychologically functional lives, and are not being an isolated guru). Their example is of great significance in this time (2020; not 1965 when Lester was speaking here -55 years ago). Both, types of teacher, are an example of Truth. But often seekers neglect their bodies as a form of spiritual by-pass, usually because the pain/suffering of their circumstances keeps them from looking at the fear, from feeling the feelings, seeing their false need of control, approval, security, separation&connection, and from diving into vulnerability to release their pain, instead of acting it out on “others.” Compassion must be given to the human caught in spiritual-by pass, or body neglect (before they are able to heal it-thus making a truly conscious choice, not an unconscious one), out of fear of feeling apathy, grief, fear, lust, anger, pride. But feeling these unconscious feelings, identifying the thought and belief, and releasing them will allow for more spaciousness, and True Love, in an embodied life.

[@soofitnsexy]

good stuff! thank you! how do you actually release? you personaly? do you let all the thoughts and feelings come up and bathe them in love like I do? what do you do? Thanks for the great comment!

[@PureBelovedParsley]

@@soofitnsexy You’re welcome. Thank you. yes, welcoming and embracing them, even the thoughts too.... but I do my best not to act on them unless it’s coming from a calm place. Heard a Teacher saying that anxiety was just natural caution that doesn’t know it’s true Self.... so we can be thankful for the “survival” thought or feeling and soothe it back into the Presence which is. 🙏

[@costcoexecutivemember]

Would agree with that except for calling those other teachers examples of truth. From an absolute perspective - sure. But they’re preaching delusion disguised as truth as anything short of full realization is still some form of bondage. ❤

[@PureBelovedParsley]

@@costcoexecutivemember After Realization, I think it’s important to integrate the body and the psychology of the human. Unless one has the luxury to sit in a cave in a loin cloth. Then the state of the body or a healthy psychology matters little. But yeah… I don’t think of Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, or Ram Dass as Spiritual Teachers or Masters. If those were who you are thinking of. I think of them as a type of teacher… writers… philosophers… other humans on the spiritual journey themselves and who want to help people. Authors, who strive to live a spiritual life and help others. They are not Masters. Ramana Maharshi, I would call a Master… but he did not have a need to integrate his body or his psychology.

[@Noumenon4Idolatry]

Well said. 👍

[@sugarlife485]

....so clear so level headed..love his 1950s delivery! wonderful rocco nyc

[@pbhushanbsb]

Thank you , please keep uploading more

[@lzorrila01]

Oh I just found Lester by watching another video and some woman mentioned him. I listened to this video and realized that this man KNOWS. He said that time is variable- anything that changes is not real and that TRUTH does not change therefore TRUTH is the only reality- now what is truth? Go and discover what is truth. Let go of trying to be the doer of anything in your life and just ask “Who am I?” This is the path of self inquiry is all about. Like he said once you realize and you wake up you will laugh at yourself for ever trying to become anything. You already are THAT which you seek to become. How can you become what you already are? 🙏🏽❤️🙏🏽❤️🙏🏽

[@illuminate50]

Лестер прав на все 100! Что такое время? Был ли ты когда-нибудь не сейчас? Время - это ментальная концепция. Есть только настоящее время и мы всегда живём только в настоящем, сейчас, в вечности! ))

[@angelfire1987]

Amazing. Thank you so much.

[@LaLaCurlyWorld]

XD when he talked about time and his voice warped at 20:20 convinced me for a split second that time was actually morphing XD

[@matiastao831]

His monster like voice scared me.

[@costcoexecutivemember]

I laughed so hard

[@pbea7185]

Lovely. Uplifting. Thank you so much for posting

[@sheilakirwan6900]

Love💙💙💙 everything I have heard Lester say

[@sarah0]

Beautiful

[@maxncathy44]

Thank you, Lester and Friends

[@onyxb294]

1 person has an imperfect body.

[@kronker]

haha

[@matiastao831]

What's lester's definition of 'perfect'?

[@costcoexecutivemember]

Nonseparation, beingness…ultimately all words point back to this

[@bossywossy111]

Messed up how many adds are in here, 4 adds in 5 min. Cmon mate

[@sunhan1964]

❤🙏