Dissolve the center of being!

 A psychologist wants us to develop a sane, healed center.

 

A life coach wants us to embrace a productive, self-affirming one.

 

A priest wants us to become a loving member of the church of Christ.

 

Do you spot the irony? We are without a center of being, just One with mankind, creation and the higher energies of being, but have developed a center of perceptions based on our thoughts and conditioning, and then instead of dropping these interferences we let this center reach out to an authority to make it a “better”—more sane, more whole, more life affirming, more self-loving, more productive, more spiritual, more faithful, … Oh, the irony. We are all that once we just let go of the illusionary, though persistent, notion that we are someone.

 

How can we let go of this illusionary self without making the absence of a center a new intellectual calling? It’s actually quite simple. When we truly love someone, no center operates. When we truly see, there is only seeing and no person who sees, or to put it in J. Krishnamurti’s famous phrase, the seer and the seen are one. When we truly grasp something there is only oneness, and no center from which something is understood. These spiritual experiences are everywhere for we are without a center, and on these occasions when conditioning prevails ask, “who is conditioned?”