SPIRITUALITY
Healing
From Within
The Buddha talked about the
“impermanence of all
things.” To use a metaphor,
life is like the flow of a river.
Although it may be the same
river geographically, the
water flowing through it is
most certainly not the same
from moment to moment.
Thus the river is always
changing. The same is true of
the human body.
A
lmost all parts of our bodies
are rebuilt over time.
Stomach cells are renewed
every two days. Skin cells
last about two week before they are
replaced. Red blood cells live for around
four months. Your liver is restored in
about a year and a half, and your bones
are completely regrown over the course
of a decade. Some brain cells and
certain cells in the eye are never
replaced over the course of a lifetime.
Which means if a disease exists in an
internal organ over a long period of
time, it’s not the body’s fault.
Something besides the body is forcing it
to recreate that disease over and over
again. It is as if, spiritually speaking,
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