What is the relationship between the body and the concept of Buddha?
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"Honor your body as the temple of the Buddha, for it is through this very form that you will discover the vast, silent emptiness within."
According to Osho, the body and Buddha are not opposites but sequential insights: first, honor 'this very body, the Buddha' to anchor awareness here and now; then look within to see you are not the body but the spacious, silent emptiness it contains. The body is the doorway-temple; Buddha is the inner nothingness realized through entering it.
Treat your body like a doorway and look inside to find the quiet space that is the Buddha.
Why this matters practically
- Stops the search outside and grounds practice in present sensations.
- Encourages caring for the body as a temple without mistaking it for your identity.
- Guides meditation: feel the body, then rest in the empty awareness within.
- Encourages caring for the body as a temple without mistaking it for your identity.
- Guides meditation: feel the body, then rest in the empty awareness within.
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