The Coolest Body

Alienated in the body, this is the important trait of suffering human being in this age. There is always the feeling of being incomplete both in the office and also at home. There is always restless feeling both in working time and also rest time. Consequently, body is like a dry and hot room for the soul. For that reason, it is understandable when WHO (world health organization) predicted, one of the world heavy weight in the year 2020 is the high rate of depression. This raise a curious question, is there any alternative body that can become a cool shelter for the soul?

Personal Body

When talking about body, people always refer to personal body. This physical body is full of blessing and suffering as well. It is the source of blessing when eating delicious food, seeing the panoramic panorama, till peaceful spiritual attainment. At the same time, it is also the source of suffering from pain, illness, stress to depression.

Suffering occurs when personal body is full of darkness. From the darkness of ignorance, attachment until aversion. The main characteristic of the body with many darkness, it is full of attachment to pleasure, and full of rejection to the pain. As a result, life continuously swing from one extreme to the other extreme without having any rest. This is the root of many diseases such as stress and depression.

Meditation heals because it makes  the pendulum motion of thoughts, feelings, perceptions more and more refined. Until one day the pendulum rest at the midpoint of the so-called concentration. Any one who rest deeply in concentration, one day will give birth to a larger body that is interpersonal body.

Interpersonal Body

Every mind that often rest at the midpoint, will smile sympathetically with the inner discovery of Shantideva: "Happiness is the fruit of a deep concern for the others". This concern is not born out of fear of hell and greed of heaven, but it is the natural nature of mind who rest at the midpoint of the concentration then having a sense of connections.

Physicist Fritjof Capra in The Hidden Connections, social anthropologist Gregory Bateson in Steps Into An Ecology of Mind, or Thich Nhat Hanh with the concept of "interbeing", are inner inquiries who have been arrived here. Cool, calm, gentle are the signs of life at the interpersonal level.

When one arrives here, love, kindness, compassion are no longer become religious orders, but the nutrition that make soul well-nourished. It cools not only the inner garden of heart but also the outer garden of society as well.

Cosmic Body

Zen people like gardening. Through gardening one does not only take good care of personal body, but also caring the interpersonal body with beauty and freshness of oxygen. Above all, gardening is a bridge of connection with the largest cosmic body.

In the garden, there is the sun, moon, clouds, stars, earthworms, insects, rocks, trees, grass, human fingerprints, flowers to waste. Garden brings insight,  all flows perfectly following the same law of perfection. Flowers today will become rubbish few days later. Garbage in these days will become flowers later.

All of this softly whisper, flow with the flow of life, that is the perfect way to be well-connected with the cosmic body. That's why, two thousand and six hundred years ago when a perfectly enlightened Master attained perfect enlightenment, earth moved with small earthquake. At that point, this Master touched the earth with his right hand. The message is simple, be in touch with all, that is the coolest body ever born. This is the enlightened body, the most beautiful body ever heard.