Truth As Living Presence

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Truth as Living Presence — Reflections on Truth Centred Meditation

In a world saturated with opinions, images, and endless information streams, truth has become one of the most elusive qualities of all. Yet truth isn’t something we invent — it’s something we uncover. Just as light reveals what was already there, truth is the quiet unveiling of the real beneath illusion. This is the essence of truth centred meditation — a return to truth not merely as an idea, but as a direct, living experience.

Truth is not a possession of the mind but an orientation of the being. When philosophers from ancient Greece to the East spoke of aligning with truth, they weren’t referring to collecting facts; they meant uncovering the harmony between the inner and the cosmic order. In that alignment, we move from self-deception to authenticity, from fragmentation to wholeness. Through meditation, truth ceases to be abstract — it becomes an atmosphere we breathe, a gentle gravity that pulls us back to what is real.

In practice, truth centred meditation is not about silencing thought but about seeing through it. Each thought, emotion, or image that surfaces in meditation is not an enemy of truth; it is a messenger, revealing the layers of conditioning that obscure our inner clarity. Something that keeps us trapped in form when the greater life is in fact formless. The act of seeing without judgment dissolves the distortions, allowing awareness itself to become transparent. In that transparency, truth dawns naturally. Indeed, were you able to attain this state and hold it permanently, you would have attained Atman, the true Self—the innermost essence of a being in Indian spiritual philosophy.

Philosophically, truth has always been the meeting point of being and knowing — the moment where reality and consciousness recognize each other. Spiritually, that recognition is liberation. In Jungian Depth Psychology, this is where the ego is perfectly aligned, in harmony, with the Self. When we live truthfully, we no longer need to construct or defend identities; our actions flow from authenticity, creativity, and compassion. Truth becomes the still point around which life harmonizes. That stillness comes with a fullness, the ancient Greeks called ‘Pleroma’, a metaphysical and contemplative term pointing to the totality of divine reality (i.e., Atman, Self, a state of non-dual awareness, non-differentiation, fullness) before fragmentation, differentiation, or manifestation (being in the world).

The challenge, of course, is that truth asks everything of us. It demands that we cease clinging to the false. It calls for courage — to see clearly, to feel deeply, and to remain open even when it dismantles our cherished illusions.

So if this appeals to you in some way, you can investigate my book called ‘Truth Centred Meditation’ and explores meditation from the standpoint of the Western Esoteric Tradition. If you want to try sitting quietly and saying silently to youself: ‘Not me, but Truth in me’. Try that for 10 minutes. Observe what happens to your mind and thoughts, the space inside yourself and around you. Share you experiences in the comments below.

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