This Body
Within this fathomlong body is found all of the teachings, is found suffering, the cause of suffering and the end of suffering.
-Buddha
It’s also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that’s sitting right here right now….with its aches and its pleasures…is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.
-Pema Chodron
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In reading these growthful words the knowingness that popped into my mind is the word “WITHIN”. To me this represents the great faith that lives inside me with all things I have come here to know and do this lifetime. I am learning to listen to my emotional guidance system I came here with daily. WITHIN….just think about this word for a minute in stillness!!! I have been and still can be the most noisest part of my own day when I do not allow myself the gift of knowing this secret gift of WITHIN. I came here knowing it’s all about that STILL SMALL VOICE THAT LIVES INSIDE OF ME THAT KNOWS ALL I NEED AND WANT TO KNOW THIS LIFETIME if I just take the time to be still and listen. Is not listening within something we did not learn as a child from our parents or other mentors? Is it something we KNOW THAT IS PART OF OUR TRUTH and just don’t do it because we may have a FEAR of what we will hear? Or are we just to lazy to practice this wonderful place of stillness and just listen because we think we have more important things to do with our life than be kind to our soul and go WITHIN?