Body as a process

Yesterday I mentioned that we can always treat pain as a teacher, to teach us a way to release ourselves from it; it's the body telling us something needs attention, and we need to find out.

Let me take it a bit further. Let's say that we hurt ourselves and that we have a little wound. One day, we take notice of the wound while sitting on the couch and, if we are attentive enough, we remember what caused the would, and hopefully we can learn something from it; we can use the wound as a teacher.

What if, the whole body is a wound? What if our higher self should stop at some point and realize what happened, and ponder that God is trying to tell us something when he gave us this body? The body is the means to tell our self how to go beyond itself. It's the karmic side-effect that will help us set ourselves free.

By noticing and being aware of the body, we are helping ourselves. The body is a temple and a process at the same time. We are in the body to heal ourselves, and to live the process through. Just think of the opportunities that arise! Just think of the God's love that is hiding >>in<< here. The body sacrifices itself, through time, to set us free. God sacrifices himself to let us get close to him.

Let's treat our body wisely, then.

There is the concept of initiation in religions. Getting baptised in the church, or getting diksha in mantra process. What if birth itself is an initiation? What if our body is the yantra of our own personal process? Contemplation on our form, and self rises out of the form (if we let our hearts open, of course).

Look around you at all the people you see every day, and consider for a moment that every single one of them is in a process similar to yours. Every single one has the undivided attention of God, through the manifestation of the body, and every single one is different, in just the right way.

Does that shift your perspective a little bit? Aren't you more likely to treat every person you meet like your brother, like a comrade stuck in the same boat you are?

God bless us all.