Where do you place your centre of identity? Many people place it right in the human body they experience. In other words their identity is with the body. They identify as human. Many believe they are human beings, going about their human lives whilst they can. Even those who believe they are a soul still identify as human for much of that human experience.

It's a slightly complicated but important thing to recognise. If your centre of identity is in the human body, you will be engrossed in the activities of the body. But if you believe you are a soul, why on earth would you place your centre of identity in the body? Well, that's just the way it is sometimes. We can have knowledge, understanding and beliefs that we are not the body, but our centre of identity is still right there in the body, making things confusing.

If I believe I am a soul and I've placed my centre of identity in the body then I need to do something about that to reclaim my centre, so to speak. If, following the Non Duality teaching, I believe I am neither the body nor the soul, but I am the Beingness, Presence, Awareness, What Is, then I also need to reclaim my centre.

We need to start recognising the errors that we routinely accept. We talk of 'I' as if I'm the body. We talk of 'mine' as if something belongs to this body. We talk of 'we' as if we are doing the talking. You see, that's the problem - are we really identifying with the body? It's the body that talks about being the body. But it's the mind that coordinates this talk based on the mind's beliefs.

Are we the mind then? Should we place our centre of identity in the mind? If we withdraw our centre of identity from the body, the next stop is the mind. It is indeed in the mind that the sense of identity is found to be constructed, although its focus is in the body. We can withdraw the centre of identity to the mind, but the mind still identifies with the body somewhat. The mind still thinks, "I'm going to do this or that. I don't like this. I don't like that." And it's all attached to the body, as if the mind is the body.

We need to go deeper still. We need to ask: who is it that witnesses this centre of identity? This sense of identity is observed or witnessed. These thoughts and thought forms that focus around identifying as a human being are witnessed by someone. So we look deeper into the centre of this identity. We withdraw identity from being a human and recognise that we witness this human experience. We withdraw identity deeper still and recognise that we witness the sense of identity and thoughts in the mind. We withdraw deeper still, to where we are looking from, to the witnessing of the sense of separate individuality. Then we let it go.

This is akin to returning to the heart of the universe. We turn inwards to where everything came from. We go back to the centre. We turn from the world of separate things and go back to the singularity, the oneness of being. It is not too dissimilar to finding the heart of a storm. It is a hollow centre. A centre of the Infinite Singularity.

For those who understand and accept Non Duality, we know that there is not truly a centre. There's not a true identity, but we still need to root it out, by searching for it. Intellectual knowledge of it is not enough. If there is some illusory identity then we need to look for its centre. We look for its core or heart. And in looking we find that there is a hollow centre, or indeed no centre. There is a centre of infiniteness. Our true identity is infinite, without limit or form. Our true identity is no-identity. We are not this or that. We are Pure Beingness. The full emptiness.