Spiritual satisfactions will often be communicated to us in material, embodied, and ecstatic forms, however. Embodiment is good and necessary, so don’t dismiss it too quickly as “the flesh.” The difference is in how we encounter these forms. If we can be satisfied to enjoy them, observe them, participate in them, they give us ongoing joy. They are fingers pointing at the moon. But once we try to possess, capture, or “own” the moon, or any material thing, pulling it inside our own ego control, it is somehow polluted.
