Saturday, January 29, 2022

Mind, Body, Spirit.

Mind, body, spirit, so the argument rages, which has the importance on this evolving stage ?  Some say, "mind superior."  Its an accumulation of total directing mass, computerized for life's tasks. Think in an impulse or two, and that heavy bear acts the fool, like a puppet on a string, the mind controls how and where the brute sings. In a world of abstract dimension what need ye of lumbering intervention?

The spirit hypocritically apes the body, whatever alias or delight the swollen oft, vibrates the soul's song. Valuation then should follow, the mind surpasses the other two classes. 

Others contend, that spirit's the end.  Its the source that drives the body to a friend, That compels the mind to bend.  Spirit sores with the Muses, sponges their art, and drips its nectar out like juices.  Marvel the painter's form sublime.  Marvel the minister's words touch time. Marvel the scientist's un-complicated find.  Spirit's the current than, that turns the head of the limbering river to its final bed.

A great many agree, the soma affects instantly.  Mind and spirit focus in when the belly cries out hun-gr-y.  There is no soaring nor abstraction until panging satisfaction.  Mouth dry, and coughs cry, "thris-ty."  Mind and spirit zero in until quenching moistens parched skin.  Heart in pain, mind and spirit leave attraction, and attend to the infarction. Body then significant of all.  The argument has ended the other must fall.

Three arguments well founded, but I am still confounded; which priority should be?  Which has superiority?  The three it seems from vintage view, with equal weight when involved in the interaction with man.  Take the act of love, _when shuddering in your lovers shadow does mind alone pronounce the quack?  Does separate spirit, alone feel the fire?  Does body singly transpire the desire? 

One it seems acts on the other, developing a union as a son with his mother, combining parts to more than their sum, like blending strings, and reeds, and a big kettle drum, then hearing the mix in a symphonic, symposium.  

Mind, body, spirit, severely thought gives vague significance as hot water without tea.  However, grouping the three produces dynamic compression, releasing meaning in combining sympathy. 

Which is superior, the argument absurd, who could find a naked king, amid a naked herd?


                                 One truth, many paths.  Be, good, do good.

                                                             Louis DiVirgilio



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