The Balance of Inner Expansion

In truth there is only one home that humans reside in during their time on Earth.
and this is a home that many, if not all humans have a large degree of latitude in creating a preferred level of comfort.
Much like any form of interior design, there is a required level of interior dynamics as a prerequisite to any intentional manipulation to achieve a desired configuration of any given space.
Yet, as in any form or art, there are those who intrinsically, or naturally find peace and a level of adeptness in their understanding of interior space.

There is a festival in India which occurs at 14 year intervals.
it is known as the kumb mela
it occurs over 45 days every 6 years at two sites and every 12 years at two other sites. at any given site, there can be upwards of 70 million participants including yogi's and guru's.

I heard a Yogi speak there and he said that in the west people say they don't have time to meditate, yet, if they were to meditate for an hour a day, they would get more out of that hour, than in the entire rest of the day.

This is the space that I am referring to.
it is not a spiritual space, or a state of mind, or even a meditative space.
it is the body in which we dwell in, regardless of our state of mind, or level of awareness.

This body is the only home, we will ever have.
We enter it once, and we leave it once
and inbetween we inhabit it.

If we come to realize this, then we should surely regard our comfort within this space as paramount.

In the west we are concerned, almost wholly with the exterior.
Even in how we care for our bodies, it is in a selfish, possessive way at most times, with little regard for the comfort we feel within our bodies.

We take pills, we exercise, to feel better, to look better, to be stronger.. all of which effect our level of comfort.
but in many ways, we miss.

If we were to look inward and achieve comfort within this space, then we would not have the desire to engage so heartily and readily in attaining other forms of indirect and peripheral comfort(s).

And there are other valuable lessons and insights to be gained through achieving not only comfort, but knowledge of how to attain comfort within this space.

If we were to explore our inner space, we would find that it holds more answers than does outer space.
and through the reflection of our inner space and outer space, and the relationship between the two, there would be even more answers made available.

and one of the many truths we would discover, is that as we gaze upon the heavens and see it's infinite expanse, and become aware of the shortness of our lives within the duration of existence, we would realize that for "us" as a people and race to be able to be afforded the opportunity to continue to build upon knowledge from one generation to the next, we are compelled to pull inward and become comfortable within our bodies primarily in place of our "homes", our cars, our finances, our appetites, our locations, our work... then we would stand a good better chance of extending our relationship with the life sustaining properties of this earth, thereby achieving a harmonious balance, as the basis to continued contemplation and reflection upon ourselves, the heavens, the earth, existence and the truths and answers to the great questions posed to humanity.

this is but one potential, small, fractional benefit of recognizing our bodies as our homes and to contemplate a deepening relationship with our inner spaces.