The Body as a Small Universe

Sit upright, eyes gently closed. Place attention at the chest and feel its open inner space. Compare it, gently, to the wide sky outside the window. Notice they have the same quality of openness, only different sizes. Now feel the breath moving in the chest, and remember the wind moving in the sky outside. Same motion, different scale. Sit with the felt-correspondence between the inner spaces of the body and the larger spaces of the world. The same one space holds both. The body is not separate from the universe. It is the universe, condensed for a while into a small visiting form.