centredness

The spiritual journey is a journey to the centre of your being. Ordinarily we live rather on the periphery of our being: in our mind; in our thoughts; thinking of the future; dwelling in the past. But if we seek the truth, if we seek to find who we really are, we must go much deeper into ourselves, ultimately to the very centre of our being. For it is there we will become our essence once again.

You can think of yourself as a rather ill-defined energy. Normally this energy is located somewhere in the head, with our thoughts. Perhaps occasionally we get relief from that head space by the energy of our awareness moving into other parts of our body: into our sex; or into our skin. But even these are peripheral to our being.

When that energy begins to move further inwards, beneath the surface, then we begin to experience both ourself and the rest of existence from a new perspective. Here there is silence and stillness. The space begins to open up inside us. In this stillness, this silence, this spaciousness, there is a huge potential; a potential energy. And when we finally reach to the very centre of our being, then there is no boundary to this spaciousness, to this energy. It is the potential energy of the whole of existence, the whole of creation.

To become truly centred can take time. For example, the masculine and feminine aspects of the individual must be in complete balance. Indeed they must have become integrated into a single energy. Only then can that energy truly move to the centre and reside there.

This centredness allows one to see life in a different way, without being emotionally embroiled in it, and at the same time, being able to rejoice in all that is. Ultimately though, even this centred energy, which is no longer separate from the rest of existence, even this centre can disappear. Then truly, there is no ‘I’ left. But the route to that, that ultimate flowering of consciousness, is through your centre.