Redo of Sensual awareness also can be paragraph number 1

Our first test to the journey of becoming "enlightened" was to learn about our sences and become aware of them. In class we had done many exercises to try and become aware of the physical feeling being felt while doing common things we do all day. One thing that i remember most was called the stand. The stand was when the whole class would stand in a circle and stay still and quiet for 5 minutes. Starting this exercise you think "5 minutes, wow this is easy". In the end i was really wrong. standing there not moving and just standing isnt very fun at all. In actuallity it was more funny. At first i remember trying to take it serious, but about 30 seconds in i looked around and saw some people standing with ttheire eyes closed like they were standing and sleeping at the same time. Sadly i distracted myself with lauphter and i made eye contact with my friends, and ended up lauphing with them also. It wasnt till the second time itried when i actually noticed something about myself and my friends, and i guess this cann also go for alot of other people too. I noticed that people have to constantly distract themselves with things just to keep them entertained. In the end people just want more. As humans we can never be eentertained with just oone thing it needs to get better and bigger to just kkeep distracting us. But why? Why must we allways need a distraction? It me be in part that on the inside we do not like our selves so we garnish ourselves with 300 dollar sneakers and 4oo dollar clothes just to make us look like we are something important on the outside. A great example is an ipod. Peopl first had an ipod just for music but now it had evolved into something more. People wanted more out of an ipod so companies made ipods smaller, and sleeker and also added videos so we dont only entertain out ears now but we distract our eyes also.

I understood from this exercise that R.D Liang is trying to say we distract ourselves from whats going on inside. When i understood this I connected it strait to me. I agree but I personally dissagree. I know i have many electronic devices and other things to distract me, but i dont think that takes away any part of me as a person. I wont become some kind of "zombie", or "robot" just because i use something to distract me. In essence what i am really trying to point out is that its pretty much impossible to not be at least a little bit distracted with ourselves. As people we might not feel every little feeling in our body but we do as R.D Liang states recognize at least the important ones that directly affect our life. The difference between the way i think about it is that i dot think its a horrible thing. Yeah, its kind of screwed up that everyone was raised to be this way, but what can we do? Sadly in our world people arent accepted if they walk around barefoot trying to feel the world under theire feet. Those people in our society are perceived as crazy people.

Durrig another sence awareness exercise we went up to the roof and tryed the five minute stand. It was a very different expirience because we felt what we allways feel while outside, but we actually payed attention to it. First before we even started we had named our five sences. We loked at each one and discussed what and how we knew what they were. The main sences (in case for some reason you dont know) are smell, taste, touch, hear, and see. While looking at each sence we questioned the thought of which each actually was and how we know what it is. For instance we took the sence of seeing. We had discussed how do we know what we are seeing looks the way it does. As the stubborn kid i am i reacted like this is dumb and started trying to say all these scientific terms that i had learned in the grades before. But how do we know if we are learning the right things? just because someone says this is all the right stuff and everything else is wrong, doesnt mean its allways correct. While doing the actual stand i felt the sun actually hitting me and arming up everypart of my body that was directly pointing at it. I had also felt a cool breeze blowing and giving me goosebumbs while it was hitting my arms. I most likely feel these things everyday but as Liang says i dont pay attention to them. In conclusion from the sencory part of the semester i feel like i learned alot about physical feelings. I learned and felt the feeling i have all the time just while doing this i payed a little more attention. Just because i am now imformed i dont think in whole i can change this aspect of my daily life. But ever since i have felt as if i am more aware. An example is sometimes ill just be sitting in a car with my family thinking, and ill just start thinking of Liangs theory of physical feelings, and i start actually paying attention to all the little feelings in my body that usually dont get that much attention.