We spend our days looking, asking, being receptive, as it is a necessary feat. For there is a meeting point between the outer and the inner that joins together as one. We are encouraged in looking to deities, in willingness to accept what the universe is reflecting. We learn through surrendering to a greater force, to a greater something, and in honoring our spouses, our children, our friends and loved ones. But what would it feel like, to turn to ourselves as that sacred temple?
Finding ourselves thrown off course, overwhelmed by experience and flows of emotion, necessitates reason to pause, to retreat to an inner realm, or to go to a practitioner who can help orient the body/spirit enough to an inner, steady state of calm. A way to be here and be steady. Books, teaching, deities and other spiritual figures are integral to the journey. Part of the cultivation of inner strength, resiliency and resources, is leaning into the outer. No problem. It will shift, and we will move forward. Other times we have the opportunity to try such teachings on in real time. Sometimes we triumph, sometimes, we fall short. No problem, it will shift, and we will move forward. We learn to blend what appears to be two separate things, and behold, it is one-when the outer teachings meet the inner experiential understanding. It becomes a true organic outpouring as us. There isn’t reason to keep the light, love and healing separate, nothing to deny, nothing to hide. We are ‘that’. The temple we have been bowing to, is us. The deity we follow is us, our sacred bodies are the Buddha, the Krishna, and we treat our bodies as such-as sacred vessels that embody the truth and the light. There is no separation, we are the temple. And you are the temple, and life, and Love, is the temple. For Love, is the energy that sources. And we, are that. Take a moment, feel the breath, the width of the breath in the body, and as your body receives and exhales the breath. Conjure up an image of a figure that embodies a state we revere and bow to in admiration. As you look onto that image or figure, feel that in the body. And take a moment to recognize the quality as you, flowing inside and extending outwardly. Breath, allow. “Holy places, shrines and alters; I’ve been all over in my travels. But never have I seen a place of pilgrimage more blissful than the body.” —Sahara, Dokakośa
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AuthorAs a person who is highly interested in the inner landscape through interaction with the external, I find it invaluable to express these experiences. Here, a collection of musings; experiments, potential truths, and ultimately, my unique pathway of creative learning and growth. Blog and website edited by scholar, literary enthusiast, horticulturist and friend Peter Dryden.
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