Anyone can see how this creates tension. To experience ease in a non-efforting way, we must see what by nature is not confined. Once that is seen, the bottle or body-mind must be included not as what we are, but as a natural part of life, as something not separate from what we are. Not separate does not mean "identical."

The image that is used to describe waking up is a goose being out of the bottle. But, the goose doesn't struggle to get out of the bottle. It doesn't meditate to get out of the bottle. It doesn't need a future to get out of the bottle. The goose is out of the bottle. That's the awakening. That's the realization. The body is in you. You have never been in the body. like the goose, you have always been out. What has always been out, what has always been unconfined is "That" and you are "That."

The confusion comes when people want to get rid of the body or when they want to identify all as Oneness. The real wisdom is seeing that what you are, benevolently includes the body and mind but is not identified with the body and mind, You are not confined by the body or mind in any way, and this is a crucial distinction. Upon this distinction rests freedom, silence and peace. Without it, we cannot know what is meant by any of the spiritual jargon: Who am I, or I am That, or I am the space that contains this moment. None of it makes any sense.

When it is seen that the goose is out, that you are not confined and never have been, you are free. Conversely, if this "seeing" is misunderstood as an out-of-body experience caused by spiritual practice, the greatest of truths is missed. The truth is, you are not confined and never have been.The "never have been" is the part that is usually missed." The countless attempts to induce or prolong an expanded experience is evidence of this.

The truth is - waking up is waking up to what always was, always is and could not be otherwise. It is not waking up to sensations or psychology or to the circumstances of your life which are part of the fabric of change. It is waking up to the truth that you are not the one having all of these experience but the one that experiences all. That is the diamond and the pearl and the treasure hidden in the field.

It is best to say, not that oneness is the body, but that oneness embraces the body and all else.

"Do not fear those who can kill the body and do nothing more."