Life begets life. And it all seems to point back to a singular ecstatic event 13.7 billion years ago, when a phenomenal explosion created our universe and set it on its evolutionary trajectory. Within it, sits our planet, the Earth, within our galaxy, the Milky Way, which sits amongst at least 200 billion other constellations, each one housing billions of solar systems, which each of those housing a slew of planets.
And upon this planet, YOU seem to point back to an ecstatic explosion that created a single cell that would divide and evolve into some 30 trillion cells that constitute your body. And these are constantly evolving and rotating in and out of existence… cells that constitute organs and systems that maintain inner balance and order through feedback loops between each and all of its various parts, allowing you to interact with your environment as an integrated whole, which allows for more evolution and growth and creativity.
Growth, cycles, creation, self-organization… it’s all included in the energetic mechanism called the torus. Or, we might say that it’s all the result of the torus and it’s appearance as toroidal flow, which is the theme of this week’s practice.
Toroidal Flow is completely mystifying, yet it is happening all around you… microcosmically and macrocosmically. It is the ever-present cyclical flow of energy that produces and sustains the atom, the human heart, the earth, a solar system, a galaxy, and so on.
We are immersed in its signature flow in ways great and small. As the day cycle begins, we are immersed in its flow; a particular meditation begins, and we are immersed in its flow… breath to breath, moment to moment… each arising from this single ecstatic point of unity called NOW.
Let’s meditate!
Toroidal Flow Meditation – Day 1