Buddhism symbolically compares the human body to the universe just to prove that the individual is a microcosm of life. The head is round, as are the heavens above us. Our eyes are the Sun and the Moon. Close them and open them as day and night. Our hair shine like the seven stars of Ursa Major. The breath is like the wind and the quiet breathing through the nostrils is like the gentle breeze of the valleys.
There are about 360 joints in the human body and represent the day of the year. The twelve major joints representing the twelve months. The front and the heat of the body (abdomen and stomach) is the spring and summer. The rear and cooler (back) is the fall and winter. The blood vessels and arteries are streams and rivers. When there is bleeding as if a dam had burst. Our bones are the stones, skin and muscles of the earth, hair of the forest. Various Buddhist texts expose these correspondences in detail, including in each internal organ, and thus showing that our bodies are no doubt the universe in miniature. A large amount of metals and minerals - gold, silver, copper, potassium, Calcium - found in the depths of the earth. Even the features and qualities of all these materials are contained in our body. The infinite number of particles of the cosmos, atoms, protons, photons, electrons, neutrons, etc.., Small animals such as bacteria, the law of gravity, conservation of mass and energy, and all other laws of the universe refer more or less the Similarly to our microcosm. A look at the functioning of the body reminds us that it is like a big pharmacy: it has the ability to produce the medicines we need to keep us healthy. Taken through the food they are transformed into food and energy. The human brain has the potential of a huge computer (Although we are not always able to use it). The sixty billion cells in our body work together in perfect biorhythm.
This is the royal succession of things.
Daisaku Ikeda
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