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Two questions can be asked about
exploring one’s true nature. One is “Why would one want to explore
their true nature? Why do we have to explore it? Do we not live it
just by being? The second is “Why use meditation to explore that
nature?” The answer to these question lie in the nature of what it
means to be human
The nature of being human - our
true nature
It is true we do live our true
nature just by being. However, we cannot claim
our birthright as a conscious creator of our experiences until
we get some awareness as to the origins of our thoughts and where
they are leading us. Our thoughts are basic to how we create our
experiences. To have thoughts is the nature of the human being.
Thoughts are natural to a human being as leaves are to a tree. You
could say it is our thought and ability to think that sets apart
from other mammals. To suppress thought is to go against our nature.
However, to be ruled by our thoughts without understanding their
origins and why we think the way we do we lose creative control over
our life. In many ways our mind is like a garden. Without
understanding what we are growing in our mind, our minds become an
unruly jungle of overgrowth and intertwined vegetation. When this
occurs, only the hardiest thoughts natural to the environment in
which we live are able to survive.
This last comment is a very important realization, that is, the
environment in which you live encourages certain types and kinds of
thinking. You are lead and controlled by that thinking unless you
become aware of the thoughts you have and why you have them. To
create the reality of your choice, you must eventually go into mind,
clear the field from all the unwanted brush and vegetation and plant
the thoughts that you desire to have expressed, manifested and
fulfilled in your life.
Now whenever you do any meditation, you are going to be faced with
thoughts and you will need to decide what you are going to do with
the thoughts you get. There are a variety of different philosophies
and techniques on the subject, which takes us back to the question,
“Why are you meditating?” Additionally, If you are going to create
your own reality, ultimately, you will have to use the techniques
that work for you.
Why explore one’s true nature?
The simple answer to the question,
“Why explore one’s true nature,” is to access an internal bliss and
joy that never runs dry no matter what is happening in your external
world and that you can carry everywhere with you wherever you go.
This simple answer is what most seek in life.
The not so simple answer is to claim one’s birthright as a being of
unlimited creativity to create the experiences of their choice. It
is to become a conscious creator. Our true nature is the source of
our creative power and creative ability. It is the nature of the
human being to have thoughts. It is the nature of the human being to
act on those thoughts. Our creativity lies in the thoughts we have
and those that we choose to act upon. To suppress our thoughts is to
go against our nature.
However, what most fail to understand, even if they obtain such a
state of inner bliss through meditation is that they are ultimately
the creators of that state. It is the situation the early mystics
faced described in “The
Origins and occasion for creating Meditation Concepts and Principles
for Creativity.” Unless one understands how they have created
the state they experience, they will be unable to consciously create
that state or consciously create any state of being any where and
when ever they go. Rather, they will have developed a habit based on
their practice and it is that habit that they take wherever they go.
In the end they never really learn how they are creating their
experience.
The goal, if there is one, is to be able to live in alignment with
your true nature at every level of your being wherever you are and
whatever you are doing, doing what you are called to do within the
truth of your own being for the situation at hand. In doing so, you
will create the space for others to be true to themselves and not
deny their truth or their true nature.
Why use meditation?
Meditation can helps us to create
mindfulness and an awareness of our thought. Meditation when used to
suppress our thoughts is to go against our nature. To suppress our
thoughts is an attempt to be other than who and what we are. Rather,
we need to learn to use and harness our thoughts. Meditation used to
become mindful of our thoughts help us to become aware of what
thoughts serve our deepest most needs. These thoughts helps to
create the space to allows our creative spirit to grown and unfold
true to itself. This form of meditation allows us to manifest the
intention for our life and what we
incarnated to do.
To know what thoughts serve our deepest needs we will have become
aware of the feel of the thoughts we have. In actually we already
feel them. Unfortunately, for us, because life tends to have its
pains, we tend to suppress what we feel and raise the threshold
above the subtle feelings each thought carries that can guide us to
the free expression of our truth. With these thresholds in place, we
do not feel the thought but function on the programming we have been
given and/or what we have come to think and believe. As a result,
most of the thoughts that we have are not really our thoughts. To
become aware of our thoughts, those that come from our true nature,
we have to being to understand our truth and what arises form within
us and our true nature.
Our true nature is expressed in feelings. Our true nature is that of
a creative spirit which is equally viewed as a flow of energy. It is
something that is felt. It is not something that is thought. We can
feel our true nature and what serves our true nature. But to do so
we must become aware of what we think and what we feel for our mind
processes both. It is our mind which determines that on what we
focus, the thought or the feeling. How to focus on our own truth is
discussed in the file “Focusing
on our own truth”
For the creative spirit within our being to truly express itself
creatively there must be a marriage at the deepest levels of our
being. A marriage between the inner masculine and the inner
feminine. The inner feminine must nurture the truth within ourselves
so that the inner masculine can thrust out into the world to express
that truth true to ourselves. That marriage results in what has been
called the charisma - wonderful gifts, talents and wisdom, and a
passion to express those talents that arise from the depth of the
individual not normally experienced unless one’s truth is accessed
and expressed. In learning to become mindful and aware of our
thoughts we can see which arise from the truth of our being. That
awareness in turn allows us to nurture our truth and create this
marriage.
Meditation and the mindfulness and awareness it helps to create,
provides a way to manage our thought and explore our nature.
Meditation is one way to do this but not the only way. In many ways
what meditation really provides is the discipline to sit and watch
the thought as opposed to creating the awareness of thoughts. If we
are already disciplined, to is not difficult to focus that
discipline into becoming mindful and aware.
In realizing it is our nature to think thoughts, the question is,
“Do the thoughts we have come from the truth of our being or do they
come from the programming we have received and/or what we have come
to believe about life?” We each carry an awareness about who and
what we are and what we are here in physical Creation to do. It lies
deep within our subconscious. It is normally not something we
consciously access. All we can normally do is feel it. Unless we are
open to our subtle feelings we will miss the feeling that direct us
toward the expression of our truth.
It is to be notes here that it is said a marriage needs to occur
between the inner masculine and inner feminine to allow our creative
spirit to freely express itself and our charisma. It is also said
that free expression includes the passion to express our truth in
the world. Many will interpret the feelings that go with this
process sexually and the desire to express oneself sexually in the
world. That is a man will look for a external nurturing feminine
presence to do what the inner feminine must do. Similarly the female
will look for a external masculine presence to do what the inner
masculine must do. Since there is an energy flowing outward to
express the truth of our being, many will interpret the expression
of this passion something to be met sexually.
In this regard, sexuality can be very enlightening as to the truth
of our being. Sexuality has the ability to open us to our feelings.
The opening of feelings coupled with the ability to be mindful and
aware that one can gain in meditation is one of the quickest ways to
access the truth of our being. How we are pushed to express
ourselves externally through sexuality will tell us something about
what needs to be occurring internally with our inner masculine and
inner feminine and what inner needs are not being met.
However, as a result of the mixing of energy that occurs in
sexuality at the energetic level, to attempt to use sexuality for
the purpose of accessing the truth within our being can be
difficult. The mixing of energy causes clarity to be lost. The
recommendation is to developed a clear insight as to one’s truth
nature before engaging in sexuality. The ability of sexuality to
open us to our feelings and gain access to the truth of our being is
noted here even if it is not recommended as a vehicle for such
purposes because it is such a powerful creative tool. If one is at
least aware of what occurs energetically in sexuality, they can
begin to see glimmers of their internal needs even if finding the
truth of their being is complicated by sexuality. Those glimmers can
be quite useful if one becomes aware of their presence.
The complexity of sexuality and mixing of one’s energy with another
is one reason why celibacy is often recommended when one enters a
path to explore their true nature. It is not because celibacy is
necessary. Rather it is because sexuality is not understood as the
creative tool that it is. But celibacy is not the solution. It also
needs to be noted here that because sexuality is part of our being,
to know the truth of our being, it is something each of us will
eventually have to explore. How we do so is an issue each of us will
have to face and the way we do it will be unique to ourselves. The
recommendation made here is that before you start to explore
sexuality you have some idea of the truth of your being so you don’t
get lost in the exploration. The creative aspects of sexuality and
some items that may be of help you in the area of sexuality are
discussed on the web site
Creative Sexuality and not addressed here.
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