{"id":727,"date":"2013-03-26T12:47:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T18:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manyvoices.soundstrue.com\/manyvoices\/?p=727"},"modified":"2020-04-07T20:24:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T20:24:39","slug":"here-in-this-body-are-the-sacred-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/blog\/here-in-this-body-are-the-sacred-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Here in this body are the sacred rivers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The commitment to our immediate embodied experience is the most radical commitment we could ever make. To commit to this life \u2013 right here, right now, as it is \u2013 is the unbearable and direct path&nbsp;into the love and freedom that we all so long for. When sadness comes calling, grief appears, shame arrives, anxiety comes for tea, do not mistake them for ordinary visitors, for they have been sent from beyond. Inside every feeling, each sensation, and every flow of emotion is a secret doorway into the center of the heart. Let us allow these guests to reveal to us their gifts, turning toward them, for they have come to show us the way home.<\/p>\n<p>In the words of the great tantric sage Saraha, \u201cHere in this body are the sacred rivers: here are the sun and moon as well as all the pilgrimage places&#8230; I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body.\u201d Whatever we are offered in this day \u2013 the beautiful, the challenging, the heartbreaking, the painful, the difficult \u2013 let us allow this life to touch us in the most unprotected way. Let us somehow be willing to risk everything for this one and only rare experience, allowing each and every person we meet to matter deeply.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-728\" alt=\"Snowy River\" src=\"https:\/\/manyvoices.soundstrue.com\/manyvoices\/wp-content\/uploads\/snowyriver-740x462.jpg\" width=\"740\" height=\"462\"><\/p>\n<p>Let us make this pilgrimage into and through the cells of our heart, learning its secrets; and through the strands of our DNA, sailing down the sacred rivers which make up this precious human body. 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