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The Cosmic Body

The human body has no definite beginning or end. 

It is constantly creating itself, again and again, every day.

This means that every minute is a kind of genesis and at the same time

an ending inwhich we give up a bit of dust unto dust.

If we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we want instead of the ones we mistakenly assume we are stuck with.

Every breath you take is a creative act. The molecules in the air are
random and chaotic. If they happen to enter your body, they magically
acquire a purpose and an identity. Could any act be more creative? Consider
what happens to a single oxygen atom as you breathe it in. Within a few
thousandths of a second it passes through the moist, nearly transparent
membranes of the lungs. It immediately attaches itself to the hemoglobin
inside one of your red blood cells. In an instant, a remarkable
transformation occurs. The blood cell changes color, from the dark
blue-black of oxygen-starved hemoglobin to the bright red of oxygen-rich
hemoglobin, and a stray atom of air suddenly becomes YOU. It has crossed
the invisible boundary dividing the lifeless from the living.

This is how the river of life-- the river of the body-- moves along, with
utmost fluidity, intelligence, and creativity. We are placed here in this
world to manage a project that is equivalent to building a new universe
every day. Creating yourself is not just a full-time job, it is a
staggering one.

Why is it that we are all not perfectly healthy today? Ultimately it is a
matter of awareness, of how we see ourselves. If you look closely at your
own life, you will realize that you send signals to your body that repeat
the same old beliefs, the same old fears and wishes, the same old habits of
yesterday and the day before. That is why you are stuck with the same old
body.

It takes breakthrough thinking to change this kind of awareness. How can
you achieve this? The answer is surprisingly simple. The gigantically
complex project of creating yourself can be broken down into just a few
processes that come under your control every day: eating, digestion and
assimilation, elimination, and breathing. In addition to these, the most
important routine to follow is transcending-- the act of getting in touch
with the quantum level of your self. Practicing a form of meditation is the
key to achieving this. According to Ayurveda, this is the way to boost
ordinary existence to a higher plane.

I often gather all these processes together under one heading-- living in
tune with your quantum mechanical body. This is the total created act of
life. If you live in tune with your body in this way, all of your daily
activities-- no matter what they are at whatever time of year-- will
proceed as smoothly as the processes of eating, digestion and assimilation,
elimination, breathing, and meditation.

The truth is that every person expects to get sick at some time in his or
her life; to expect otherwise seems almost illegal. Yet the Ayurvedic sages
looked at life through different eyes. A famous Vedic verse says, "It is
our duty to the rest of mankind to be perfectly healthy, because we are
ripples in the ocean of consciousness, and when we are sick, even a little,
we disrupt cosmic harmony."

Can you see the basis for this extraordinary saying? It is not correct to
see yourself as an isolated organism in time and space, occupying six cubic
feet of volume and lasting seven or eight decades. Rather, you are one cell
in the cosmic body, entitled to all the privileges of your cosmic status,
including perfect health. Nature made us thinkers so that we could realize
this truth. As another Vedic verse declares, "The inner intelligence of the
body is the ultimate genius in nature. It mirrors the wisdom of the
cosmos." This genius is inside you, a part of your inner blueprint that
cannot be erased.

I believe that there is no sharp boundary dividing you from the rest of the
universe. Each of us is balanced between the infinite and the
infinitesimal. The same protons found in the hearts of stars, which have
lived at least five billion years, take up residence inside us. The
neutrinos that streak through Earth in a few billionths of a second are
part of us for a brief instant, too.

In the midst of the distractions and possible stress you may feel in the
next couple of months, remember that you are a flowing river of atoms and
molecules collected from every corner of the cosmos. You are an outcropping
of energy whose waves extend to the edges of the unified field. You are a
reservoir of intelligence that cannot be exhausted, because Nature as a
whole is inexhaustible.


From Deepak Chopra's monthly newsletter:
'Infinite Possibilities for Body, Mind and Soul'
P.O. Box 420051, Palm Coast, FL 32142-0051
November '98

Spirit Life

Each of us is here to discover our true Self…

that essentially we are spiritual beings who have taken manifestation in physical form

…that…we‘re not human beings that have occasional spiritual experiences…

[rather that] we’re spiritual beings that have occasional human experiences.

Cosmic Journey

 

We are travelers on a cosmic journey ~

stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity.

 

Life is eternal.

But the expressions of life are ephemeral, momentary, transient.

 

Gautauma Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, once said,

this existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds.

 

To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance.

 

A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky.

Rushing by like a torrent down a steep mountain.

 

We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other,

to meet, to love, to share.

 

This is a precious moment, but it is transient.

It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

 

If we share with caring, lightheartedness, and love,

we will create abundance and joy for each other.

 

And then this moment will have been worthwhile.

 

~ Deepak Chopra

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Bibliography

Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success