The Body is like a Temple

Your body is like a temple where you can do renovation in the top cubicle. You can set up an astronomy center on the top of your head. You can spend a lot of time on the top floor. You can concentrate on your entity that is eternal. You can setup an antenna. You could put the pipe organ up there. It could be the meeting room with your Guru. You could manufacture your own personal Headspace. It could be mostly experiential. It is striking when you realize the availability. It could feel like a health spa where you are undergoing treatment when you realize you are not doing it. Four hours is a sweet long time which you can spend up there, especially given that later in the day you can return there. You could be like a transfer student who has completely left the earth. You could think of detachment then literally have it which then only increases it. Long sitting correlates directly with advancement. One day you will realize you are the Tai Chi Master and it is not some other. The way you break through your personal fog is by concentration and simplification. Dharma talks leading to understanding is like having a solid foundation. You can reject just being an independent processors and insist in being joined to the mainframe. That way you can have a bigger brain. An accomplished mystic has a different view on how to manufacture the good. He has a very different no-how. It is very important to penetrate to the center before you go out. You can become a human thereafter instead of a wild elephant. A Poem of David Smith Poems of Annihilation, Book Two February 11, 2019