There Really is Only One: Many Paths, One Simple Truth
By Linden Brough
We are living in a very auspicious era: so many paths, healing methods, meditations, channelers wonderful spiritual writers, so much information to dip into, choose from, try out, and experiment with – we can be like ‘butterflies’ with no clear goal. Or we can miss the magic opportunity and be put off by trigger words like “religion”, “God”, “Christianity”, “karma”, “Buddhism”, “reincarnation” and so on.
All genuine paths are based on the same simple Truth: “There really is only One”. This is our evolutionary intelligence test for the understanding to arise that will guide us safely through the labyrinth of choice and multiplicity.
The guiding thread is present in five personal insights (upstream of religion) which enable YOU — on whatever path you travel — to check out where you are now, how far you have got, and how to progress towards your goal:
CENTRE There really is only One. Call IT God, Source, Tao, One, Nirvana, Emptiness… whatever – it’s not the name. Every living and non-living thing is part of the One. There is no “Other”. Every thing arises out of the Centre of this One and subsides back into it. Just like waves rise and fall but are never separate from the sea. The Centre of the One has a physical location in the centre of every living being. In the case of a human being, this is the centre of gravity. Just above the navel and in front of the spine. Locating it, as an experience, makes possible the escape from physical existence and entry into our spiritual home and origin. In deep sleep, you subside into it quite naturally. But, because you lose consciousness, you are unaware of it. Through meditation you can enter it knowingly. Once inside it you can verify things for yourself and gain understanding of yourself.
ETHICS The fundamental, easily understood ethic is: Don’t do to others what you would not like done to yourself. Since all is One, what you do to another – you do to you. Ethics is the natural result of this understanding. In practice this means you would stop killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, false speech and taking drugs and intoxicating drinks which lead to carelessness and mistakes which affect others (and yourself). Ethics becomes your lifetime’s training for perfecting behaviour as your thoughts, speech and actions align with the truth of Oneness.
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