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THE CENTRE

THE TRUTH ABOUTEVERYTHING

Brian Taylor

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PREVIEWPrologue, 8 Chapters

& Epilogue


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Also published:

Basic Buddhism for a World in TroubleDependent OriginationWhat is Buddhism?The Living Waters of BuddhismBuddhism and DrugsBasic Buddhist MeditationThe Five Buddhist PreceptsSayojana (The Ten Fetters)

Blindness-KindnessWorms Eye ViewGoing Out there is No OtherComing Back there is No TraceBlondin and Other PoemsOxford PoemsBamboo LeavesVienna

COPYRIGHT 2009-2011 Brian F Taylor

ISBN 978-1-4709-7145-8


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The Truth about Everything. How to accessthe Centre. How to understand it. How to useit. How to enter it forever.

"A marvellous and truly stunning book!! Atreasure indeed. A way to complete happinessis here. It is ALL UP TO US. Read chapter 37and find out WHY things are the way they arefor YOU."Pisamorn Chulsrikaival, Thailand

"I liked 'CENTRE', it is different and well done. The author is sharing something real, quiteZen, that he experienced on the bridge... andthe book is an opportunity for a possibletransmission to another. That's what I'm inthe esoteric book business for - to supplybooks to help do just that... I wish the bookevery success." Anthony Cheke, The InnerBookshop, Oxford, England

"A marvellous book! In the light of its wisdom,all one's fragments of knowledge andexperience suddenly make sense. Read

"CENTRE" and discover who you are!" TimOrmonde, England

"The most remarkable new book in the worldtoday Ariya Books, UK

"BRIAN TAYLOR, who lives in Cornwall, isconfident that his latest book, 'CENTRE THETRUTH ABOUT EVERYTHING', is a work that

can change your life.Brian, a practising Buddhist, describes how aprocess of Centering Meditation, whenpractised correctly and over time, will allow us


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to discover hidden depths to ourselves that wedid not know existed.On occasions the book is a challenging readbut if the benefits are as described, the effortin reading and attempting to understand whatBrian is trying to tell us, will certainly beworthwhile."Rorie Smith, Writer & Journalist,England

"May all beings

use the CENTRE to beONE forever,free from hatred, difficulties and pain,completely free from Dukkha."Martin Juchem, Germany


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PROLOGUE

I discovered the Centre one night on a bridgeover the River Chao Phya. I was thirty.

I was thinking about Prince Siddhartha. Attwenty-nine, the Prince, going out from hispalace, had seen an old man, a sick man, adead man and a wandering ascetic.

He realised that sickness, old age and deathhappened to men whether they had palaces ornot. He came to the conclusion that,

This world has fallen on hard times.

He left his family and home to seek the Truth.

Six years later, he had become the Buddhaand proclaimed that the solution to theproblem of suffering lay in giving up thisworld*and all attachment to it.

During the Buddhas lifetime, some monks, onattaining the stage of Arahant (the final stageof perfection), did not wait for their lives tocome to a natural end, but took the knife.That is, they killed themselves. This really didseem an uncompromising way of giving up

the world.

The Buddha did not condemn them for this.He said it was a decision they were entitled totake and did not in any way affect their level of

*and any other world.


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attainment. He did, however, discourage othermonks from doing it, as it was getting theOrder of Monks undesirable publicity amongthose who did not understand.

I walked across the river on one side of thebridge and back again on the other side.Several times. I stopped in the middle andlooked down at the muddy water. It seemedthat if life was in fact undesirable and the very

source of suffering, and that death at sometime was in any case inevitable, then it wasperfectly reasonable to put an end to it soonerrather than later. I could find no attraction orattachment in myself at that moment foranything in the world. My hand rested on thehandrail.

I realised that, for all its reasonableness, it was nevertheless a jump in the dark. Unlikethe Buddha and his Arahants, I had notalready discovered where I would be heading.

Furthermore, if they had discovered somethingbeyond the world how had they discovered itwhile still in the world?

I continued to walk to and fro across thebridge. I noted the odd fact that, although itwas not particularly late and it carried a mainroad out of Bangkok, no traffic or pedestrianshad appeared on it since I arrived.

I resumed my train of thought. How do youfind out what lies beyond the world beforeactually leaving it? This did not seem to be

something that thinking could resolve.


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At this point, various names given to theBuddha began to arise spontaneously in mymind as a kind of list. The Perfect One, theFully Enlightened One, the All Knowing One,the Blissful One, the Blessed One Whatcaught my attention was the repetition of theword One.

Of course these titles are English translations.The original Pali does not have (nor need) an

equivalent of our one. Nevertheless, the titlescontinued to present themselves in this wayand I found myself quietly murmuring:-

One and not two,Thats all you have to do.

One and not twoThats all you have to do.

My thinking petered out and came to an end.

But I did not jump.

To my surprise, a feeling of good humourarose. Where from? It came from deep in the

centre of my stomach where something,unexpectedly, became bright and smiled.

I didnt quite feel as though I had foundsomething. I didnt quite feel that somethinghad found me. I felt a sense of boundlessintegration.

I saw that the whole world, together with thesenses that contacted the world, were, andhad always been, outside and were and had


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always been the source of every conceivableform of suffering and inconvenience.

Later I came to see that all beings had thisluminous Centre at the centre of their beingand were, for the most part, unaware of itssignificance or even its existence.

This book contains the results of some of myresearches into the Centre. Some may find it

interesting.

However, in these matters as in others, theonly experience that is of any use to you is your own. People can eulogise a particularbrand of tea, but until you have tasted ityourself, it is second-hand experience. It mayeven be coffee.

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When the buffalo comes to the edge of the

enclosure, horns, head and body pass throughthe bars quite easily. But not the tail!


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CONTENTSPROLOGUENOTES ON TERMINOLOGY

PART ONEA SHORT HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE1. IN THE BEGINNING2. A LITTLE LATER3. I AM!4. AWAKENING

5. ANOTHER?6. FRIENDLINESS7. SUSPICION & HOSTILITY8. THE UNIVERSAL OCTOPUS9. INCARNATION10 DEVELOPMENT IN THE WOMB11. BIRTH

12. STAIRCASE TO OTHER WORLDS

PART TWO

THE CENTRE13. CREATION AND COLONISATION14. GETTING STARTED

15. LOCATING THE CENTRE16. EXPLORATION17. THE CENTRE AS SOURCE18. HEALING19. HEALING OTHERS20. HOSTILITY AND FEAR21. HOSTILITY FROM OTHERS

22. UPSTREAMING

PART THREE

HOW EVERYTHING WORKS AND WHATIT CAN ACHIEVE23. CHAKRAS

24. EXPLORING OTHER CENTRES


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25. CHART A26. CHART B27. THE THREE CHANNELS28. ASTRALS AND ASTRAL TRAVEL29. ASTRALS, DEVAS AND BRAHMAS30. MORE BODIES31. KUNDALINI32. LONGEVITY33. THE PHILOSOPHERS STONE34. CREATIVITY AND THE CENTRE

35. OTHER METHODS36. REMEMBERING PAST LIVES37. BLOWING THE FUSEEPILOGUE


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PART ONE

A SHORT HISTORY OF THE

UNIVERSE


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1. IN THE BEGINNING

HOW IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING,IS NOW

AND EVER WILL BE.

COMPLETE PERFECT PEACE.THIS IS THE BEGINNING,

THE BEGINNINGLESS BEGINNING,THE CENTRE AND CIRCUMFERENCE

OF ALL LIVING BEINGS IN ALL UNIVERSES,EVERYWHERE, ALWAYS, WITHOUT END.


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2. A LITTLE LATER

THE STIRRING OF AN

OUTWARD AWARENESS,A BARELY PERCEPTIBLE CURIOSITY.


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3. I AM !

..WHAT I AM!


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4. AWAKENING

A SURPRISE. THE UNEXPECTED SEEINGOF ONES FACE IN A MIRROR

BEFORE THERE ARE ANY MIRRORS!HALF RECOGNITION, HALF DOUBT.


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5. ANOTHER?

ONE CREATES THE APPEARANCE

OF ANOTHER.


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6. FRIENDLINESS

YOUANDME

COMPASSIONLOVE

SYMPATHETIC JOYRECOGNITION OF SAMENESS/DIFFERENCE

HAPPINESSTOGETHERNESS.


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7. SUSPICION & HOSTILITY

YOU ORME

THE RIVALSTHE COMPETITION, THE ENEMY, FEAR,

ENVY, DISTRUST, SUSPICION, DISLIKE,ANGER, HATE.


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8. THE UNIVERSAL OCTOPUS

Each tentacle that used to be anonymous

Is now by mutual consent autonomous.At first they may behave a bit like fools

But theyll do better when they know the rules.

As the tentacles reach out they take on

material form. They are manifestations of theCentre and therefore not identical to it. Butnot separate from it either.

A whole world of beings! Friends and enemies.Allies and foes. Mine and theirs. All struggling with each other to survive. Competing with

each other for the same goals, the sameterritory, the same possessions.

Alone and afraid in a world I never made.

The Centre is the centre and circumference of

everything.


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The tentacles reach out from it and subsideback into it. Like waves in the ocean. Theenergy that keeps this going is Desire. Desireto experience Other. There is no Other. Only

other appearances of the same thing. TheCentre. If a tentacle strikes a tentacle, it is notstriking another. It is striking the One. It isstriking itself. This is why karma works as itdoes.

What you do to another, you do to you.

It is done to you by you.


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The tentacles look out at each other. The

outward-looking senses make it appear thatthat tentacle is over there. Whereas I am here.

The computer/brain immediately calculatesand comes up with: based on the evidence,since these two things are not connected, theyare separate. Thats you. This is me.

The computer is not malfunctioning.

Based on the evidence presented to it, itsconclusion is valid.


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With the diagram we can see that the tentaclesare all joined at the base and in no wayseparated from the content of the Centre. Butthe tentacles are the product of an outwardlooking sense represented by their eyes. Their

eyes can only see tentacles. To see where theyare joined together needs another sense that isnot outward-looking. The tentacles, you, meand the others, are not really joined at thefeet. We would soon see it if they were. We arejoined at the Centre. The Centre is not outside

the tentacle, not outside our bodies. It isinside. Right at the centre of our bodies. Right

at the centre of the tentacle, which in thediagram is represented by its base, beyondwhich it just merges into the undifferentiatedOne.


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The tentacles can reach out as far as they likeand develop as many eyes (or other senses) asthey wish. They only ever see more and moretentacles.

If they want to find the origin of everything,including tentacles, they have to look backinside, withdraw back inside and travel backinside. So it is with you and me.

Riding backwards on an ox,I enter the Buddha Hall.


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CHAPTERS 9 - 37 GIVE DETAILS OF THEDISCOVERIES. SEE CONTENTS.


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EPILOGUE

A great deal has been written about thecentres. Usually they are called chakras. This

is a Sanskrit word which means wheel or disc.A Sanskrit word is used because much of theresearch has been done, or at least writtenabout, in India.

Books that contain information about the

chakras have not necessarily been written byauthors who have actually experienced all orany of what they write about. Often they writeabout what they have read in other books. These other books may have been written byauthors who found the information in stillother books, which may have been written by

authors.. This is the literary version ofChinese Whispers.

Somebody, sometime, probably, experiencedsomething. Certainly, many somebodies haveexercised the imaginations of those who read

their books and perhaps gave them pleasure.

Giving pleasure to people by writing is not tobe derided. People read to be entertained andit is by no means necessary for a book to befactual for it to entertain. Quite the reverse.

Not all those who enjoy Alice in Wonderland

believe that a ten year old girl really did falldown a rabbit hole into a world peopled byanthropomorphic characters, including acaterpillar three inches high that smokes ahookah and offers Alice what seems to be a

kind of magic mushroom.


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There are books whose main claim to ourattention is not that they entertain but thatthey are true. Quite rightly, we often avoid thiskind of book because we dont wanttoo much

truth to put a dampener on our enjoyment oflife. We dont want to read about the horrors offactory farming or the force-feeding of geese toproduce pt de foie gras or the conditions inwhich coalminers and sewage workers have towork to earn a living.

We will (may) put up with the truth if it makesus live a little longer (health tips or horrorstories about lung cancer) or makes us moreattractive to women (how to get rid of head liceand B.O.).

However, there is a kind of truth that appearsoccasionally in print about things that weought to know because they directly affect ourwell-being and long-term happiness.

This is such a book.

But this book contains details of things that we may not have experienced. Like all thosebooks about chakras invisible wheelsspinning around in key areas of our bodies.

How do we know whether to believe any of it?

Well we dont, so we shouldnt. We shouldntbelieve things which dont correspond to ourown experience. Not important things anyway.We need not disbelieve them. We should

suspend judgement until we have experienced

them for ourselves.


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Take unicorns. Unicorns caused a bit of a stirin the Middle Ages. They had been mentionedin the Bible but had always proved elusive.Invariably, when they were seen it wassomewhere else (such as India). And bysomeone else.

This did not deter artists in the Middle Agespainting them with considerable consistency.In Europe the definitive image became a rather

elegant, usually white horse with a horngrowing straight out of the centre of itsforehead.

They fascinated those people in the MiddleAges who had the means and the leisure to befascinated by such things and had neveractually seen one. These were a minority. Theydid not fascinate the majority who were mostlyfascinated by how to find their next meal andlive until tomorrow and avoid the Plague andconscription and the stocks and a goodflogging.

The image became standard. Those whoorganised fayres and entertainments, seeingthat there was money in it, fitted fake hornsto the heads of docile horses and exhibitedthem along with Bearded Women, Fire Eaters,Bear Baiters, Cornish Wrestlers and otherforerunners of modern Association Football.

And people believedit. Even those who, when

they were not attending fayres, spent theirtime trying to find their next meal or livinguntil tomorrow, rather than poring over


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illuminated manuscripts at pictures of horseswith barbers poles stuck on their noses.

Yet, indeed, someone had originally seensomething, somewhere, sometime.

Anyone who has ever had any experience ofhorses and rhinoceroses will be keenly awareof important differences between them. This is where experiencing something for yourself

comes in.

It is not unpleasant to stroll through anEnglish meadow, where horses are grazing,collecting buttercups. (You are collecting the

buttercups, not the horses.)

If while you were doing this you were toencounter a rhinoceros, you would noticethree things. One, it looks very little like ahorse. Two, it has already killed all the realhorses using a particularly vicious bonestructure at the front of its head. Three, unlike

any real horse, it will charge the farmers LandRover in which you have taken refuge, whetherit is moving or not, and try to demolish it.

The unicorn whose picture you admired whenyou were a medieval courtier is one thing. Therhino chasing your safari Land Rover is yourexperience.

So it is with this book. The first eight chaptersare simple statements of the Truth. Some willrecognise this immediately (where has thisbeen all my life?). Others will reach for

something else to read.


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After chapter 8 it is unicorns, unicorns all the way. You may not believe it. You should notdisbelieve it. You suspend judgement.

BUT, the book does provide a method, a set ofinstructions and a map. If you can use them, you will experience these things, or some ofthem. Yourself.

When the clouds disappearthe sun is already there.

When the voices stopit is already silent.

(Gnomic Verses)


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One and not two.

Wherever you go,Thats all you have to know.


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CENTRE The Truth about Everythingby Brian Taylor

Out September 2011

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