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able to answer him. Don't remain blind any more Do something: open your eyes!"
Sanai listened and was transformed.
Listen to me: you can also be transformed.
Unio Mystica, Vol 1
Chapter #2
Chapter title: On the Altar of the Real
2 November 1978 am in Buddha Hall
Archive code: 7811020
ShortTitle: UNIO102
Audio: Yes
Video: No
Length: 95 mins
The first question:
Question 1
TODAY IN LECTURE I LOOKED AT YOU AND I FELT MYSELF SO SHALLOW AND PHONEY AND FALSE. THERE DOESN'T SEEM TO BE ANYTHING DEEPER INSIDE OF ME. DO THESE FEELINGS SHOW THAT I DON'T HAVE A CENTER YET? IT ALSO SHOCKS ME THAT THIS SEEMS TO BE MY FACE AT THE MOMENT.
Bhagavato, nobody can exist without a center. Life is impossible without a center -- you may not be aware of it, that's another matter. It has not to be created but only rediscovered. And remember, I am not saying `discovered', I am saying `rediscovered'.
The child in the mother's womb remains perfectly aware of the center. The child in the mother's womb is at the center, vibrates at the center, pulsates at the center. The child is the center in the mother's womb, he has no circumference yet. He is only essence, he has no personality yet.
Essence is the center, that which is your nature, that which is God-given. Personality is the circumference, that which is cultivated by society; it is not God-given. It is by nurture, not by nature.
As the child comes out of the womb, he comes for the first time in contact with something outside of himself. And that contact creates the circumference. Slowly slowly, the society initiates the child into its own way. The Christian society will make the child a Christian, and the Hindu, a Hindu, and so on and so forth. Then layer upon layer of conditioning is imposed on the child.
Basically, if you enter into a well-developed personality you will find these three things. First, a very thin positive layer -- positive but phoney. That is the layer which goes on pretending; that is the layer where all your masks are contained. Fritz Perls used to call that layer the "Eric Berne
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