Slug >> Liberating experience - Meditation - Life
You know, when you
just start to begin something or start taking responsibilities, it tricks you into becoming something unknown. The person who you really are is not the person
who you would want to become. And it takes a lot of things from you. But in reality,
you’re just not getting away from something, you’re getting away with
something. Take life as a maze that gets you nowhere, but leads you somewhere.
One way in, no way
out.
Such is the labyrinth
that is the life which takes you through many twists and turns. Yet it is in deep
belief, with inherent meaning of life that will steadily inform and inspire,
leading you deeper into the life path, deeper into authentic meaning. When we
explore our lives as labyrinths of meaning, we deepen our experience of life.
Question is, what’s
at the end of the path?
Like a labyrinth, life has only one path. It
is unicursal. The way in is the only way out. There are no blind alleys. The
path leads you on a circuitous path to the centre and out again, realising that
you are the same person you began the change with. That’s who you really are,
the one who you were trying to transform. There is no necessity to change
whatsoever. It isn’t going anywhere. Life is a journey, not a destination that
you ought to arrive at.
A labyrinth is a
right brain task. It involves intuition, creativity, and imagery. With a maze, many choices must be made and an active mind is needed to solve the problem of
finding the centre. With a labyrinth, there is only one choice to be made. The
choice is to enter or not. A more passive, receptive mindset is needed. The
choice is whether or not to walk a spiritual path.
At its rudimentary
level, the labyrinth is a metaphor for the journey to the centre of your
self-actualisation and reflecting back to the world with a broader
understanding of who you are. Not what that you know, but what you don’t.
As Proust wrote,
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in
having new eyes.” Stop now, right now, and look around you. This is your place
in the labyrinth. There is no place else you need to be. See with eyes that
aren’t fixed on goals, or focused on flaws. You are part of the endless,
winding beauty. And as you learn to see the dappled loveliness of your life, as
your new eyes help you begin loving the labyrinth, you’ll slowly come to
realize that the labyrinth was made solely for the purpose you would rather
have been oblivion to.
When we walk the
path, we go around short curves and long curves; sometimes we are out on the edge,
sometimes we circle around the centre. We are never really lost, but we can
never quite see where we are going.
Along the path we
sometimes move forward with ease and confidence: sometimes we creep ahead
cautiously, sometimes we find the need to stop and reflect, and sometimes we
even feel the urge to retreat. The centre is there but our path takes us
through countless twists and turns. Sometimes we are at the heart of our life
experiences, and yet lost to even realise, sometimes we are at a playful turn;
sometimes we share our path with others. No matter what, we are still in the
labyrinth of life. It holds all our experiences, in life and in work. And to
draw upon the wisdom of the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus, we need to be
aware that what looks like an endpoint can also be a beginning point. Indeed,
in so many ways, the labyrinth is like life.
The effects of
walking the labyrinth vary from person to person and even with the same person
on different occasions. Each time you move through the labyrinth it may be for
a different reason. You may be seeking:
- Balance of good & evil
- Healing out of a tragedy
- Self-actualisation
- Being aware of your surrounding
- Experiencing the energies
And once you reach
the centre of the labyrinth you can:
- Relax
- Meditate
- Seek Answers to your own questions
“Your life is a sacred journey. And it is about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible, stretching your soul, learning to see clearly and deeply, listening to your intuition, taking courageous challenges at every step along the way. You are on the path... exactly where you are meant to be right now... And from here, you can only go forward, shaping your life story into a magnificent tale of triumph, of healing of courage, of beauty, of wisdom, of power, of dignity, and of love.”
- Caroline Adams
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