Your Center of Gravity
A human being bridges two worlds. We live in the visible world of things. We also live in the intangible world. It is in fact our nature to span both of them with our consciousness.
When we lose ourselves in the visible world, we become like it. We are subject to the laws and forces that act upon us, like a rock rolling down a hillside.
When we focus ourselves into our inner, intangible nature, we disassociate from those laws and forces, and enter the realm of the uncaused, the source of causation.
The more we center our gravity in the inner world, the more the seemingly iron-clad laws of nature which govern the visible world reveal themselves as illusory.
It’s not that the world of physical things ceases to impact the body. But the more you are seated in the realm which underpins that physical world, the more the play of activity becomes like a things witnessed, like a movie, rather than a thing you are within.
The main thing that keeps us in the position of causal subjects (victims, even) is our engagement with that world. Our engagement is a result of our hopes for victory, pleasure, whatever it may be, we agree to submit the consciousness to the visible, and so long as we do, we are entranced therein.
Usually, we either just accept this — after all, at least we get some enjoyment and we trust in our tactics to maximize that — or we play host to an kind of inner warfare, where we try to control our focus with force.
This inner battle only perpetuates the strength of the confused mind.
The way forward is to gently begin dissacotiating, or de-identifying with things. It becomes apparent that something, some One, still remains when the reality of the visible world falls away.
Gradually, the inherent beauty and joy of the inner something-which-remains helps to counter the allure of the world of things. Then the ego is less tormented by “renunciation”.
Pleasure and pain still come and go, but the awful clinging and scrambling fade.
The center of gravity which effortlessly witnesses all things as they are is the way.
