Tree of light (Antahkarana) meditation

Allow your awareness to come into your spinal cord, column/trunk, from your root to your crown.

Imagine your spine as a glowing tree of light. Connect the base of this tree to the core of the earth.

Now imagine the top of this tree reaching to the sun.

As you inhale, pull/absorb the energy of the sun (the solar logos) into the trunk of your tree.

Each inhale brings brilliant white light into the tree, allowing it to grow brighter with each breath.

Now upon your exhale, allow the energy to enter the earth, like leaves in autumn (having spent their energy) falling to the earth,

knowing these spent parts of the tree will find their way to dissolution and feed the new growth. 

Now imagine yourself, your life, as the tree, but within the human kingdom. 

As you inhale the light emanating from the sun, see this as your seed, your true self at birth.

When you were born, you had no words to describe this pure light. You need no words to describe it now.

Simply allow it to fully imbue your spine, your trunk, from top to bottom as you inhale.

Now imagine as you exhale, all of your desires, longings, relationships on the material plane absorbing back into the earth, knowing that the nature of your earthly desires and experiences have come about on the earth and shall return to the earth. In this knowing, let go of all attachments as you exhale.

See your life AS this process. 

Allow yourself to become more and more in tune with this cyclic process, knowing that the desires you had yesterday are now born anew each day. And know that as these desires are related to earthly things, they will remain within the earthly realm. 

Allow the light within you to penetrate and transform the desire within the physical to reach towards the light of the spiritual sun, this ever renewing cosmic seed at the center of your being.

REPEAT THE MEDITATION.

As you repeat this meditation, you will become more and more aware that your sense of self, your identification on the physical plane is very much a moving target, it is eternally in motion, and this movement corresponds with and interweaves with all other beings on the planet, but more specifically for you, those beings who are karmically entwined with you. (for “better” or “worse”)

When you awaken to this reality, you can begin to understand and appreciate why the people in your life are in your life. You realize that you are brought together spiritually to transform desire through the relationship you have with each other and with yourself, the two are cosmically interwoven.