Creation is constant movement, eternal newness
and absolute freshness. It never repeats itself, it is never static and it is
never caught in the trap of time and space.
The individual mind, no
matter how cultured, has no access to the phenomenon of creation and cannot
understand it, because the mind is always old and outdated. Each movement of
this particular mind separates and limits. Thus, with such a mind, we will
never, in any circumstances, be able to discover the mysteries of the movement
of creation.
Therefore, this ordinary
mind must be silent! But how can we make it become silent? Only in one way:
when we encounter it simply and directly, with the flame of Attention, without
having any motives or ideals to accomplish.
If the meeting happens in
the right way, the mind becomes quiet - it becomes completely silent - and in
that moment our whole being is detached from the known. From then on, the
vessel of consciousness, thus emptied, is able to encompass and understand the
newness brought forth by the movement of life.
Therefore, a new mind,
without limits and without knowledge; in its stillness, it is creative and
through it, the person is always new and active. Such a mind, in a state of
Pure Consciousness, creates radical changes in the structure of the ordinary
man by its simple presence.
Ilie Cioara
Excerpt from The Silence of the Mind
Can anyone tell me who this man was? And how did his book come into being?
ReplyDeleteI see on a couple of places his name was "Elijah Crow", a pseudonym, or a real name?
The name is Ilie Cioara, more details here
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nondualitymagazine.org/nonduality_magazine.5.petrica_verdes