We have our physical body.
But we also have our Dharma body.
Our Dharma body is our understanding of the Dharma
and our practice of the Dharma.
And after the twenty-one day retreat, our Dharma body should be stronger,
more robust.
Because if we have a good practice, and then we are not afraid.
There will be obstacles, difficulties on our path.
But we are not afraid, because we have a practice,
we have a Dharma body.
And we can overcome, we can transform.
And that is why we have to nourish our body, every day,
for it to be solid.
I have a good Dharma body,
and I nourish it every day,
by walking, sitting, breathing, and so on.
And I have been transmitting that body to my friends, to my disciples,
to my friends,
to my disciples,
to my continuation body.
I want to transmit the best of me.
And I want to transmit my Dharma body.
My Dharma body has helped me so much.
I have gone through a lot of difficulties, sufferings, and despair.
We have gone through many wars,
many divisions, many discriminations, many hate, many despair.
And thanks to that Dharma body,
we have been able to survive, to transform, to overcome.
And the best thing I offer is my Dharma body.
And I want my friends, my disciples to receive them and nourish them.
And that is also for the sake of the future.
There will be future generations.
And if we practice well and if we continue to feed that Dharma body,
then the younger generation will profit from our Dharma body.
We all have our Dharma body.
And we have also our continuation body.
Our continuation body, we can see it right now.
You don't have to die in order to see our continuation body.
You have to recognize your continuation body now.
That continuation body is made of your thinking, your speech, and your action.
And your continuation body, whether it is beautiful, more beautiful, or less beautiful,
depends on the quality of your thought, of your speech, and of your actions.
So you want to live... to produce the best of your life.
Your action is your product,
in terms of thoughts, speech, and action.
And we know that our action is our continuation.
We cannot die.
We can never die.
Like a cloud. We continue with our action.
And our action will take forms, many kinds of forms.
It can take very beautiful forms.
Like the cloud, if it is not a cloud,
then it can be the rain or the snow, and can be very beautiful.
So don't worry about this actual physical body.
It will take other forms.
And we don't need to wait until this body disintegrates in order to have a new form,
new body.
It can be right there and right now, your continuation body.
We need to look.
So, we have the physical body that we take care.
We know how to practice total relaxation.
We know how to eat, how to consume so that we can have a body that is light,
that has freedom and so on.
And we have a Dharma body that we nourish every day,
that helps us to transform, to overcome difficulties,
to create joy, peace, and happiness for ourselves and for others.
Everyone needs a Dharma body.
That is our spiritual dimension,
the spiritual dimension of our life.
And [we] have to nourish it.
Then, we have our Sangha body.
We have to build a Sangha,
from elements in our family,
in our society.
We need a Sangha body to keep our practice alive.
The Buddha needs a Sangha body.
He knew that without a Sangha body, he cannot achieve,
realize his dream of helping the world.
So the Buddha spent a lot of time and energy to build a Sangha.
A Sangha is a wonderful instrument in order to realize the dream of a Buddha,
helping as many people as possible.
So all of us need a Sangha,
a Sangha that can help preserve our practice.
Without a Sangha we can lose our practice after a few months.
With a Sangha we can take refuge in,
we can nourish our practice
and we can help many other people.
So every one of us should have a Sangha.
And we do have a Sangha.
And we have to keep nourishing the Sangha.
We have our cosmic sangha…cosmic body.
We know now that when we look at the stars,
we know the stars are the object of our consciousness.
And we know already that the object of consciousness cannot be taken out of the subject of consciousness.
When we look at a mountain, we know that the mountain is the object of our consciousness.
And we cannot remove our consciousness from the mountain.
We should not say that whether our consciousness is there or is not there the mountain continues to be.
That's not correct.
The fact is that the mountain, the river, they are the object of our consciousness.
And as we have learned, you cannot take the subject out of the object.
So that river is you.
That mountain is you.
You have a cosmic body.
It's like the wave on the ocean, she has her ocean body.
Every wave has her ocean body.
And she doesn't have to go and look for her ocean body.
Her ocean body is right in her.
And the cosmic body is our cosmic awareness,
the cosmic consciousness.
Cosmic consciousness is God,
and therefore every one of us has our God body.
Every one of us has our God body,
our cosmic body,
dharmadhatu body.
It's like every cloud has its ocean body.
We know that every cloud comes from the ocean,
and every cloud carries the ocean within her.
So, every cloud, every wave has their ocean body.
So every one of us has our God body, our cosmic body.
Don't think that you only have this body.
As far as [As long as] the cosmic body is there,
you don't worry anymore about the being or the non being of this body.
As [long as] the ocean continue to be there, well,
the waves and the clouds don't have to worry.
They go back and they go forth again.
And each time, it's new, it's more beautiful.
So why do we have to be afraid of nonbeing, of death?
And we don't have to go and search for our
God body.
You don't have to go and search for God, because God is your body, your cosmic body.
And you cannot remove the ocean from the wave.
You cannot remove God from you.
You cannot remove the cosmos from you.
And that is why we have to practice meditation.
To meditate means to have the time and look deeply.
And when you look deeply,
the wave knows that she has an ocean body.
And she doesn't have to go and look for the ocean body.
She is the ocean.
And that is the meaning of the third door of liberation,
aimlessness.
You do not run and search for anything anymore.
You do not need to run and look for anything anymore.
You are already what
you want to be…
you want to become.
And that is the meaning of the third door of liberation. Apranihita means aimlessness.
You don't long for anything anymore, because
you are already everything.
You have the God body, the cosmic body with you.