VBT – Week’s Meditation 17
Any Center
Do not be puzzled, because in so many methods, in one hundred and twelve methods, many centers will be used. Do not become puzzled over which center is more important or which is real, any center will do. You can choose according to your own liking.
If your mind is very sexual, it is good to choose the sex center. Use it, because your consciousness is naturally flowing toward it – then it is better to choose it. But it has become difficult to choose the sex center. That is one of the most natural centers; your consciousness is attracted toward it biologically. Why not use this biological force toward inner transformation? Make it the point of your centering.
But social conditioning, sexually repressive teachings, moralizing, they have done a deep harm.
You are disjoined from your sex center. Really, our image of our real selves excludes the sex center.
Imagine your body: you will leave your sex organs out of it; that is why many people feel as if their sex organs are something different from them, that they are not part of them. This is why there is so much hiding, so much becoming unconscious.
If someone should come from space, from some other planet, and he should see you, he will not be able to conceive that you have any sex center. If he should listen to your talk, he will not be able to understand that there exists anything like sex. If he moves in your society, in the formal world, he will not know that anything like sex is happening.
We have created a division. A barrier is there, and we have cut off the sex center from ourselves.
Really, because of sex we have divided the body into two. The upper means “higher” in our minds and the lower means “lower” – it is condemned. So “lower” is not just some information about the location of the bottom half, it is an evaluation also. You yourself do not think that the lower body is you.
If someone asks you, “Where are you in your body?” you will point to your head, because that is the highest. That is why brahmins in India will say, “We are the head and the sudras, the untouchables, they are the feet.” The feet are lower than the head. Really, you are the head, and the feet and the other parts only belong to you, they are not you. To make this division we have made clothes in two parts – some for the upper body and some for the lower body. This is only to divide the body in two.
There is a subtle division.
The lower body is not part of you. It hangs on you – that is another thing. That is why it is difficult to use the sex center for centering. But if you can use it, that is the best, because biologically your energy is flowing toward that center. Concentrate on it. Whenever you feel any sexual urge, close your eyes and feel your energy flowing toward the sex center.
Make it a meditation; feel yourself centered in the sex center. Then suddenly you will feel a change of quality in the energy. Sexuality will disappear, and the sex center will become illumined, full of energy, dynamic. You will feel life at its peak at this center. And if you are centered, sex will really be forgotten completely at that moment. From the sex center you will feel energy flowing all over the body, even transcending the body and going into the cosmos. If you are totally centered at the sex center, suddenly you will be thrown to your basic root, at the navel.
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