Different Languages of the Body, Mind, and Intelligence
The body speaks through sensations: pain in the knees, thirst in the throat, hunger in the stomach, tiredness in the whole body, and so on.
The mind speaks through symbols — words and images — along with their effects on the body: “I feel knee pain,” “I’m hungry; I want a hamburger.” Instantly, an image of the hamburger appears in the mind, along with the remembered feeling of satisfaction the body once experienced.
The language of intelligence is silence — listening, seeing, and knowing. It knows how to relieve knee pain or fulfill the mind’s desire in the most intelligent way.
When you act from this silent seeing-knowing, action becomes harmony itself — effortless, complete, and self-sustaining. You’re free from the need to rethink or defend your choice. Such action needs no external motivation; it arises spontaneously from a state of full awareness or seeing the truth of a situation in the moment, without the interference of memory. This is why J. Krishnamurti said: seeing is doing.
Such action is fresh and carries a quiet blessing. As you act more from knowing rather than reasoning, your life aligns naturally with truth.
But when action arises from reaction — from the body’s craving or the mind’s chatter (memory, fear, pleasure) — it’s incomplete, fragmented, contradictory. It lacks the awareness that sees the whole, the truth of the situation. Such action binds you to its consequences — what we call karma — because it was born from separation, from “me.” You then have to protect, justify, or revisit your action, which disturbs the mind-body further and leads to more missteps.
When intelligence leads, body and mind serve. Each action is complete in full seeing — This is Freedom-Peace.
When body or mind lead, more karma and suffering follows.
The art of life is therefore to listen deeply — to feel the sensations, hear the thoughts, and yet remain centered in the silent seeing behind them. From there, decisions blossom naturally, and the whole existence supports them.