“My Hara My Mother’s Womb”
Photograph by John Diamond, M.D.
Referring to the Hara, Zen Master Daiun Sogaku Harada:
“The center of the universe is your belly-cave.”
The Hara, the Xia Dantian – is it the second chakra, Swadhisthana?
The belly – the cave. I immediately think of the womb, and that certainly relates to Swadhisthana.
The center of my universe was my mother’s belly-cave, her womb. As it was for her when I was within.
And I am – always – as her.
The center of my universe, my Hara, my Xia Dantian is my mother’s Womb, her Love, ever within me, as I am ever within her.
