The Fourth Component:

The Tree

The Tree is a standing contemplation, using the tree as a metaphor of tranquility, surrender, and our human condition of dependent on the life-giving forces of Heaven and Earth.

This is a pagan exercise I learned from an old hermit while on retreat in the mountains of Central Java. This is a simple practice which demonstrates, at the most profound levels, the transmutational cycle of our vital energy, as the ebb and flow of the cosmic sap of life.

The Tree is a perfect preamble to the Heart Radiance Meditation, relying as it does on the sacred geometrical form of Dynamic Mandorla, the overlap of expanding circles, like ripples on a pond. This overlap creates a “fish” pattern called Vesica Pisces. In the ancient wisdom traditions Vesica Pisces symbolised the vulva, mysterious feminine gateway to the womb, primal cauldron of life. In sacred geometry this shape is regarded as being the metaphysical structure behind light, and the beginning of all creation, containing within it all the sacred information of the universe.

NOTE: We hope to audio-stream The Tree by the end of the year, which time we shall provide you with written instructions.