Be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign
that you've died.
Your old life was a frantic running
from silence.
The speechless full moon
comes out now.
- Rumi
" The discovery of the truth is the discernment of the false. You can know what is not. What is - you can only be. Do you understand that the mind has its limits? To go beyond, you must consent to silence."
- Nisargadatta
We can't listen and receive if we're constantly creating and projecting. We can't observe or be aware of what's behind us: Unconscious motivations, habits, energy blocks, knots, drains, etc., if we are busily creating more of the same. We need to learn and value the art of listening and observing. We find this place of Silence through surrender, after perhaps years of struggle to dis-cover the false self.
- Bob Fergeson
" There is a way between voice and presence where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens. With wandering talk it closes.
- Rumi
"It is, moreover, only in the state of complete abandonment and loneliness that we experience the helpful powers of our own natures."
- C.G. Jung
By learning to observe our thoughts rather than mechanically react on them only, can lead to a new level of being, one in which everything is possible, even our own becoming.
- Bob Fergeson
Only through staying in the present, and Being, can we be free of our mind and its misery, and access the power of Now.
Now - that intensely alive state that is free of time, free of problems, free of thinking, free of the burden of the personality.
" The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor's edge of Now - to be so utterly, so completely present that no problem, no suffering, nothing that is not who you are in your essence, can survive in you. In the Now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve. Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the Now."
- Ekhart Tolle
Free thinkers are generally those who never think at all.''
- Laurence Sterne
A listening which is attentive yet not reactive, and unaffected by circumstance and the constant changes of thought and mind.
- Bob Fergeson
Knowing that all thought is reactive and one step behind the present moment, we may begin to just listen, to observe without reaction. In this quiet, listening mind, something Real has the possibility of entering.
-Bob Fergeson
" The mind won't allow you to be in the moment...ever."
- Vicki Woodyard
"Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is."
-Jorge Luis Borges
1 comment:
Nisargadatta's comment about how we 'must consent to silence' gives us a clue as to how the ego/mind holds us prisoner. We become convinced we will kill the ego(with the ego) and destroy our own mind through it's own love of rules and discipline. For most of us, only a trauma will 'stop' us, leaving us in silence, to finally consent to the help always offered by the higher power, not the ego. Thank you, Rupa. - Bob Fergeson
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