The body giving way: falling, unable to stand, lying on the floor
The body simply gives way, falling, being unable to stand, lying on the floor. Several accounts describe profound shifts arriving as the body collapsed, as if the physical posture of ordinary self-maintenance could no longer be held.
This appears most dramatically in transmission contexts, where people fall when they meet certain teachers, but also during intensive practice and spontaneous openings.
And I was there was an energetic expansion, and I literally fell to the ground.
"I fell to the ground, and it was a kind of surrender, a deep deep surrender, a letting go of everything, and a kind of death. I experienced it like a psychological death."
And I fell to the ground, and it was a kind of surrender, a deep deep surrender, a letting go of everything, and a kind of death.
I had to it was in an old Georgian building and I remember going down into the basement that just sitting by myself on the floor trying to ground myself.