The Cosmic Body

In this beautifully poetic and touching meditation, Sharon Landrith guides us into the oneness of all of nature, the earth and the cosmos as reflected in our own body. "This human body contains the wisdom of the earth... sense that love, that brilliant intelligence that creates itself in a myriad of forms... the wisdom, the intelligence flows through the blood of the body... the earth and all of its wisdom is contained in this miraculous expression called the body."

Transcript

This body,

This human body,

Both contains the wisdom of the earth,

The extraordinary wisdom that sun rises,

Sun sets,

Moon,

The phases of the moon change.

Temperatures begin to shift into a season of spring or fall or summer or winter.

And the birds and the insects and all of the species of all of life responds through the wisdom,

The intelligence flowing through the earth.

And we are all a part of that.

And just sense that love and that brilliant intelligence that creates itself in the myriad of forms.

And it's infinite.

Just even when the bodies drop,

The forms drop and that's happening constantly,

Of course,

The dissolving and the arising and the dissolving and the arising.

That echo and that intelligence still moves even though it's become just a wavelet in the invisible body.

As you sense that wavelet,

That intelligence,

It's sort of like a wavelet but it also feels like a spiral kind of a quality that arises and expresses and it becomes mature and fruits and then it dies and it falls back into itself over and over and over into infinity.

And the aliveness of that,

The vibrancy of that,

You know,

We tend to look outside for that or in some kind of abstract kind of magical way.

But what's arising and birthing and expressing and dying and falling back into the,

From where it came from continuously,

Then it all becomes awake and alive.

It's not some kind of an abstract spiritual concept,

This interconnectedness that all find when one looks at oneself.

It's an alive expression.

It flows through the body and all the beautiful currents and channels.

It flows through the body with in the bones.

The bones sing,

The bones resound,

Sound comes through the bones and then they create themselves by this resounding expression of itself.

And the blood that flows through the body,

The wisdom,

The intelligence flows through the blood of the body,

All those currents and waterways.

And as the intelligence is received from the organs,

The cells,

The creations of the body,

There's a nourishment.

And so that experience,

Not an ideal or a sort of a wanting something,

But the actuality of being nourished.

Every cell is being nourished.

You know,

We talk about these not enough and yet the reality and we can turn the attention back into the body and it's constantly nourishing and freeing and dying and birthing and the channels of wisdom informing continually the fullness of life.

Constantly trying to change the body,

Make it thinner and more curvy and more new and stronger and more acceptable.

And yet there's this,

The earth and all of her wisdom,

The eternal and all of its wisdom is contained within this miraculous expression called the body.

One can simply just sit and open up to the whole universe expressing itself within the body.

That aliveness,

Love made visible.

And then what surrounds the body,

The space,

The air,

It also has that intelligence,

That vibrancy and it informs and it as well nourishes and sort of activates,

It brings forth life.

It is life itself.

And so all life becomes awake.

It's awake.

It's alive.

When that is just simply realized,

All of your life as an individual and all of the totality totally changes.

It's like walking around in your head and the thoughts in your head,

Good thoughts,

Not good thoughts.

It's a kind of a deadness.

It's like a talking head.

And then something wakes up within it and the whole body becomes awake and alive and all around the body is awake and alive and vibrant and singing and celebrating itself in life.

And informing and unfolding and liberating and clarifying and whole,

Full.

The beauty road.

And then since the awareness,

The life is experienced as sort of this contracted point of perception that is somewhere in the head.

And with this great celebration,

This great realization of what we are,

Then it kind of bursts forth and one can no longer sort of live in this little kind of pinpoint of perception,

Our point of view.

It breaks open into the great view.

And then all is included and the joy that's released,

The joy without cause,

Good day,

Bad day,

Good thoughts,

Bad thoughts,

All of that.

It's like weather.

It just sort of comes and goes and rises and falls.

But the vibrancy of this awake life that begins to live itself but now it's recognized,

Realized.

And since that,

It's like before you,

That air that seems to be nothing but the actuality,

It's full of this vibrant intelligence.

And sensing it in the other,

The apparent other,

There is no other,

But sense it in that beautiful form that's right next to you.

And as it moves outside,

There's that sense,

It's like a subtle shift of attention where it's like this body is experiencing this and then it becomes the body begins to experience itself.

It's that very subtle but it's the difference between night and day.

And so as this body expands unto itself,

The earth body literally lives within it.

Sometimes we think that we're limited by the earth body and that's just another dream as well.

The earth body lives within this sacred body.

It's the true body,

Not relative but the actuality.

And so sensing the earth body within this body,

So there's the individuation,

There's the earth herself and then there's that that surrounds and permeates everything.

And the same root,

The same central channel,

The same axis munde,

That's the channel that it all pours forth and creates itself and then comes back from which it came from.

And in that earth body,

Rather than there's a person expanding its awareness to reach some earth body,

What would it be like if the awareness both surrounds the earth and infuses the earth?

And so when you sense the mountain,

And the mountains are the great elements here,

If it be an ocean somewhere else or the prairie somewhere else,

But here it's the mountain.

And so sense the mountain within the physical body and then the earth body and the cosmic body.

It's in it.

And within this vast body of life and the mountains are in it since enter then into the mountain itself,

You know,

The trails and the birds and the different animals and insects and microbes and the flowers that just bloom.

And you know,

The winds and the scents,

There's like a scent,

A mountain scent.

And then also within this vast earth body that the individual body is within as well.

It's like,

You know,

The clouds,

The sky,

The clouds also are within this vast body.

And since that,

This intelligence then is containing the clouds and the sun.

You know,

We all eat the sun.

It's our food source.

We eat color coming from the sun.

And just since that,

You know,

The individual body,

The earth body,

And then this that contains all of that.

They're all in one being.

And then this,

The earth is contained within this being,

The great being.

Also since,

You know,

Like the birds coming through it,

And the great,

Great birds,

The eagles,

The hawks.

You can enter that mind,

The eagle mind,

The hawk mind,

The raven mind.

And you can sense,

You know,

Like the bluebirds and the mountain bluebirds that come through and the hummingbirds.

That as it moves through,

There's like a receiving or resonating of that particular unique expression.

So it's admiring the beauty,

But it's also actually experiencing itself as that.

And though,

You know,

Here we don't have the great redwoods,

We do have very old,

Old,

Old,

Old cedars.

And just since within you that cedar that,

You know,

500,

600 years and they're very,

They're very small,

And very strong.

If you've ever taken cedar in your bath or in your body,

You can sense,

You know,

It's strong.

It's concentrated.

It's old.

And you also can sense the dying of the trees.

There's miles and acres and acres and acres and acres and acres in this country alone that the trees are dying.

And you can sense that in this beingness.

It doesn't have to break your heart.

It's just now this is happening in this earth body.

And yet there's something that the earth body arises from as the individual body as the cosmic body arises from.

And it's untouched.

It's infinite.

It just holds it all.

And the human heart can break over and over and over with what it is holding within its own body,

Is the body of the individual,

The earth and the cosmic body.

It's all one great body.

But it doesn't have to break apart.

It just opens further and it's loving.

And then one can hold in this great,

Vast being,

The great body,

The night skies,

The stars within,

Within you.

It's intimately,

It's the most intimately or intimate way of being.

It can hold these sky,

Star,

Planet and beyond.

It can hold and experience it all.

And because the individual body and the earth body and the cosmic body are all one root and one fabric,

Substance,

Then that's how you can,

As this individual,

Listen to the earth.

Really listen,

Not in some idealistic or tragic way,

But really hear it without distortion and how it can be experienced of this resonance through the physicality of the individual body.

Go here,

Step up and speak for this.

Contribute to this and on and on.

It moves the body according to its own resonance of what it uniquely has to offer.

One can actually hear the winds.

You know,

The winds carry communication.

The winds carry what's happening in our brothers and our sisters in Africa or what's happening in the weather systems in the islands.

And again,

It need not be full of sorrow and despair.

It's just simply whispering,

Speaking from its vast travels,

The winds.

Or perhaps one can receive communication from the birds or the animals.

This is not some airy-fairy spiritual idealism.

It's the actuality.

It's just simply been broken by the dream of separation.

This is our birthright.

This is who we are.

We're not limited to the individual body.

We're not even limited to the earth body.

We are all of the great body.

There are those who have perhaps developed,

They can receive information more from the cosmic realms,

The light realms,

And they become the translators.

So just simply be what we are.

And then all of this can communicate and give of itself and receive and respond.

And then the dream of separation and my little agenda that is all about taking care and protecting and controlling,

So I'm okay,

Just falls away.

It isn't like one needs to do anything.

It just is seen from the reality that it is.

The earth is calling,

Make no mistake about that.

But it's calling for you to remember and to respond and to step up to what you are and the cosmos as well.

And then the whole being sings with this life.

And rather than being over here and looking up in the sky away from you and seeing this beautiful bird go by,

It's the actuality of experiencing it with your own beingness within you.

That's what we're speaking of here.

That's some little personal accomplishment.

It has to include the unique individual of course.

How could that be excluded?

But it's so much greater and more infinite,

More alive,

More beautiful,

More awesome,

More the great mystery.

And so just for a moment,

Just for a few moments,

Just sense in your own beautiful,

Unique way,

What would it be like if the earth was actually,

If the body,

The individual body was inside of you,

This cosmic being,

And the earth was inside of this cosmic being and inside of this individuation and this cosmic body was also inside of something that is so infinite it never really can be experienced.

It's beyond.

The mountains within you,

The streams within you,

The great oceans,

And all the way through it all is the intelligence that runs everything,

That directs and enlivens everything.

And you are that.

And that's how thatili.

And perhaps in this open listening,

It can come through to this individuation and perhaps it has a certain message,

An image,

A feeling,

A verbal directive.

And it's not looking for it,

It's receiving it.

Here I am.

Here I am.

Here I am.

I am your creation,

Not separate from all of the other creation.

I am your creation,

Not separate from all of the other creation.

I am your creation,

Not separate from all of the other creation.

What do you want to say,

Mother?

I'm here.

I'm here within you,

All around you,

As you.

I am here within you,

All around you,

As you.

I am here within you,

All around you,

As you.

I am here within you,

All around you,

As you.

I am here within you,

All around you,

As you.

I love you.

I love you.

I love you.

I love you.

I love you.

I love you.

I love you.

I love you.

I love you.

I love you.

Reviews

Thank you. The silence and stillness connected to peace

This is amazing. Came out feeling so connected, and rooted within the universe. Loved it. Listed to it twice in a row.
Namaste 🙏