(12) You Have A Cosmic Body | by Thich Nhat Hanh, 2014 07 20, (LH, Plum Village Summer Retreat)

I have arrived

I am home

in the here

in the now

I am solid

I am free

In the ultimate I dwell

"In the ultimate"

means that

you see that

this physical body of yours

is not the only body you have

You have a cosmic body

And you have to recognize your cosmic body

If you look into your physical body

you see your cosmic body--

the air, the water, the heat, the soil

And you are made of stars

We know very well that without

the sunshine

there would be no life on Earth.

So you are made of sunshine

And the sun is a star

is one of the biggest

stars in the whole galaxy

And that star is very close

And because the sun is there

life on Earth is possible

So you are a son of the sun

you are a daughter of the sun

You can call that star "Father Sun"

And you are

a daughter of Mother Earth

a son of Mother Earth

You are made of stars

And you have…

if you look deeply, you know that

this physical body

is not the only body you have:

You still have a cosmic body

Suppose you contemplate a wave

that is born on the ocean

That wave has come from the ocean

and she will go home to the ocean

in order to be reborn again

as another wave

So the wave has a wave body

her wave body

and also her ocean body

And

the moment when the wave realizes that she has

her ocean body

she will lose all her fear--

fear of birth and of death

Look at the....

look at the clouds in the sky.

They also come from the ocean.

And if they meditate well enough

they see that

although they have a cloud body

but they have also an ocean body

And it's very important for the cloud to realize

that he has an ocean body

So when he is no longer a cloud

he still has his ocean body

So the ultimate is that

God is the ultimate

Nirvana is the ultimate

Nirvana is

the true nature of reality

the nature of no-birth and no-death

no-coming and no-going

God is the ultimate

God is nirvana

So we have a

nirvana body

we have a God body

we have a cosmic body

And if we walk

deeply in mindfulness

we can touch our cosmic body

we can touch the ultimate

and we touch our nature

of no-birth and no-death.

So, walking meditation

can bring very deep insight

and dissipate all kinds of fear

It's a simple practice

And practicing walking

not only you can get in touch

with the wonders of life

that can be nourishing and healing

but you can touch also the ultimate

in order

to be liberated

from all fear and anxiety