The Circle Within (Khotani List #16)

Traditionally we look at life as a continuous circle.  Actually, we see circles within circles.  The drum, ceremonial circles as well as any other circle are representative of our life on earth.  Elohi, the earth mother’s symbol is a circle, while that of the universe is a square.  Yet, most people never see beyond that of the gross physical or physical/physical.
  
The circle is the symbol of our being.  We are children of the earth and therefore are created in circular fashion.  For instance, we have an outer circle, middle circle and inner circle.  Each of these circles has a physical aspect, mental aspect and vital aspect.  The deeper you go within yourself the more that is revealed along the lines of the circle/s.
  
Many of our elders used to refer to the five streams as having a circular action.  These five streams or elders are the beginnings of the sense energies.  They are fed from the inner most circle of our being.  This inner most circle of our being is sometimes referred to as the center, it is perfect and without flaw.  Here, within the center, is the original circle.  It is from this center that the other circles – inner, middle and outer find life.  The center is a microcosm of the Grand Center and in actuality is one and the same with it.
  
It is from this place of absoluteness that we discover our True Self or how to be a True Human Being.  Only within the center can we find truth, everything else is ‘Shadow land’, mere distortions of reality.  Through the understanding of the circle we see that all life is one.
  
Elders would take a rope and stretch it out so that you would see it as linear with distinct left, middle and right aspects.  The left represented the past the middle represented the present and the right represented the future.  However, when they connected the left with the right a circle was formed, joining the past with the future and becoming the present within the great circle of life.  Furthermore, it taught us that all things are one in the present.  It is only when we see life as linear that we live within the illusion of reality.
  
The original sacred White Fire is the Grand Center.  All fire originates from the fiery center.  ‘The Way’ is the center.  However, illusion tells us that man is separate from his fellow man, animal, plant and mineral.  This distorted view is the circle cut in two.  The rope has now become linear, showing all things as separate and distinct beings.  Furthermore, our own self becomes a distortion of ‘the circle’, taking the shape of a flat line, this is considered a disconnection.  It is no wonder that most people feel disconnected, lost, confused, angry, delusional, unhappy, unsatisfied and needing some kind of fix.
  
Within the center or Grand Center life is not as we know it on the other circles.  The goal of all traditional cultures is and was to get you to discover the center.  Once you discovered the center, greater truth would transform your life.  This is a God-Truth that cannot be found any place else.  It is the place where the Immortals or Gods reside and is ultimately our abode.
  
The circle is you, whether it is recognized or not.  It is not only the place of your True Self, but is the True Self.  There is no Truth ceremony that does not know and furthermore have the Great Circle as its center.  There is a reason for the fire of ceremony.  However, it is rarely understood beyond the outer or middle circle.  The rare individual that knows the circle from the inner or center circle is the Illumined One of Light.  It is this person that walks the road of Enlightened Being.  This is ‘The Way’.
  
‘The Way’ is also referred to as ‘The Way of The Circle’ or “The Circular Way’.  The Vortex is ‘The Way’; its movement is that of the Grand Center.  All life is ‘The Way’; people just do not know it.  The center or Grand Center is the rhythm of ‘The Way’, the more that one becomes observant to the rhythms of ‘The Way’, the more Truth is revealed.  Through the teachings of the elders we have a more direct line to ‘The Way of The Center’.
  
Every aspect of life is Truth and illusion, both finding their source in the circle.  The outer circle acts as a point of communication between the illusion and Truth.  Everything is ‘The Way’.  Even illusion cannot exist without ‘The Way’. 

Yona Unega