Become totally empty
Quiet the restlessness of the mind
Only then will you witness everything unfolding from
emptiness
See all things flourish and dance in endless variation
And once again merge back into perfect emptiness –
Their true repose
Their true nature Emerging
Flourishing, dissolving back again
This is the eternal process of return
To know this process brings enlightenment
To miss this process brings disaster
Be still
Stillness reveals the secret of eternity.
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SILENT ILLUMINATION
“Quiescence refers to the practice of silencing the mind,
and clarity refers to contemplation, illuminating the mind
with the light of awareness.
Hongzhi himself described the “silent sitting” as
thus: ‘Your body sits silently; your mind is quiescent,
unmoving. This is genuine effort in practice. Body and
mind are at complete rest. The mouth is so still that
moss grows around it. Grass sprouts from the tongue.
Do this without ceasing, cleansing the mind until it
gains the clarity of an autumn pool, bright as the moon
illuminating the evening sky.’
In this state, the mind is without form or feature. Power is
present, but its function is to fill the mind with illumination,
like the sun shining everywhere. Hence, Silent llumination
is the practice in which there is nothing moving, but
the mind is bright and illuminating.”
-Ven. Sheng Yen
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AM I SEEING THIS MOMENT THROUGH THE MIND’S IMAGES, BELIEFS AND FEARS OR IN SILENCE? (aka, YOU CAN’T DANCE AT TWO WEDDINGS.)
“Your mind has to be truly silent, empty of thoughts and concepts. It has to become a state of receptivity. Complete silence. While you are looking out into whatever happens to be your current scenery with a false ‘knowing’ that you are ‘short of money’ or ‘lacking in health’ or ‘lonely’ or ‘limited’ in some way your mind is busy entertaining belief-images of its own making.
While it’s doing so Spiritual Allness cannot penetrate. It forever wants to. It is forever ready to. It is forever pushing at your consciousness trying to burst through. But your mind is busy with images, fears and schemes of its own making, thereby shutting Spirit out.”
-Paul F. Gorman
(from, The Miracle Self)
MICHAEL: What does Silence FEEL like? ❤
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Has what’s Silently Observing THIS moment ever moved?
Michael Jeffreys
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If I’m not listening from Silence then I’m not listening.
Michael Jeffreys
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The Soul has taken so many imaginary journeys… apparent lifetime after lifetime, that it has forgotten how not to journey.
❤
Michael Jeffreys
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Silently meditating/reflecting on a Koan (a question without a definitive answer) stills/quiets the mind…
How old is NOW?
Where does NOW begin and end?
Michael Jeffreys
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The question is not whether or not my character/action figure/persona/sense-of-me has ups and downs throughout its day. Of course it does.
All “human beings” experience the + and – of duality. There is no escaping this. The ocean can be calm one moment and stormy the next… and it doesn’t require “a reason” to change!
So, the only question, ever, is:
Is that one, this imagined persona/character/idea of a separate entity actually, literally, ME??
Or, am I always, come what may, the observer of that one?
This is what must be looked into deeply in one’s own Heart.
Michael Jeffreys
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When it comes to SILENCE, I sell out too soon. I never get to her deeper secrets because as soon as ANY thought shows up, I forget all about her. ❤
Michael Jeffreys
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