Touch – Laughing Man Magazine – Adi Da Samraj

Touch
is precisely the dimension in which you must become awake.
You must transcend the intellectualizable senses of sight
and hearing and so forth. Samadhi is simply a matter of
passing through all the internal lights and sounds and
visions associated with the intellectual senses into the
domain of the sense of touch where all the intellectual
senses are suspended. At the level of touch we read the very
condition of the nervous system in space. But, as touch,
that condition is blind, it is prior to the usual body
sense, prior to all the intellectually organized complexity
of inwardness. Inwardness vanishes, and what is seen is at
the skin level. Our contraction from infinity can possibly
even be measured in terms of electrical activity at the skin
level. It is only when the sense of touch becomes
Enlightened that the subtle activity at the level of the
skin achieves the Native State and permits bodily
intercourse with the Infinite Radiance.  

The ultimate dimension or mode of
the nervous system is cognized at the level of touch, not
via the intellectual senses-which include all the senses
except touch. You propose, in your egoic fashion, to go
about exploiting the intellectual senses, the receptor
senses, which can be associated with higher person
contemplation, in separation from the physical. Yet,
separation from the physical is basically separation from
the sense of touch. You tend to exploit these other senses
because the surface of your being is not entirely released
though touch into infinite Radiance. Your neurosis is
reflected at the level of touch, in your avoidance of
relationship, your contraction of the sense of touch. You
recoil, you turn upon yourself toward the inward part.
Therefore, you principally violate the organization of the
being relative to the sense of touch, or simple,
whole-bodily surrender.

You are least conscious of the
dimension of touch. You think information comes first
through these intellectual senses such as vision-and all the
games you play with these senses which are associated with
higher imagination. But long before you see, the very
surface of the eye balls is contracted by fear. The very
surface of the brain is contracted. The extremity as well as
the root of the nervous system is contracted. The very
presentation of the whole/bodily being is fundamentally
contracted. Thus, the media of the body/mind all provide
information qualified by a fundamental error of the whole
bodily being at the level of its most basic presentation.
 

The Way is founded on touch. Only
when the whole body, or the total surface of the body is
Enlightened, rather that when some isolated part is
stimulated, can you fully involve yourself in the sense of
touch. The whole body is associated with touch. All the
other organs of sensation are creepy little internal senses
and yogis always exploit these sensors. They do not take up
the Way of touch, which is founded in whole-body sense of
touch.  

Thus, the liberation, the
Enlightenment, of the sense of touch and not its
inversion-is the vehicle of the Way. Touch transcends all
the other dimensions of sensation and awareness. Touch
transcends sight and sound and all the mystical experiences
that can be realized through the inversion of any of the
other senses. You can experience all kinds of visions of the
Great Being by inverting the sense of sight, but an entirely
other dimension is revealed when the dimension of touch is
liberated, freed from the subtle effort of contraction that
separates the body at the skin level. The whole-body being
resumes its fundamental presentation of itself prior to
inwardness and recoil from the universal design and from its
own Being and Radiance, its Condition in Truth.