The Awakening of Silence
It is a serene and tender night as I sit before a quiet lake that is without movement. It is so still, quiet and unmoved that it reflects all that is around both near and far. There is such great beauty in seeing the grass, the trees, the open skies and the full moon. Watching this is a remarkable sight. The mind is quiet and without a single thought. There is no noise within to cloud this phenomenon. There is just the clarity, which brings a complete serenity. It is breathtaking. What words could capture this? Why do we fail to see such beauty? How vain and blind we are as human beings because we do not see such perfection. In our inattentiveness to our surroundings, no wonder we are miserable and discontented. We do not see the beauty of life. Yet, we want to know what is God. Is there such a thing called God? Why do we ask when we do not see the wonders in our everyday lives? Our arrogant pursuit of the Unknown is nothing more than an escape from the blindness we live each day. So I ask you to find out for yourself, is there such a thing as the living waters within? Is there something truly sacred? If you are never quiet, if you are never as still as a reflective, tranquil lake, you will never know.
Spiritual perception awakens in the ending of noise.
If you are seriously interested in awakening to such a perception of total clarity that is full of beauty and wonder, you will need to have a mind that is free and unclouded. A mind that understands the correlation, if there is any, of thought and perception. What is the relationship between thought and perception? I am using the word 'perception' as all the senses working harmoniously together and not just visual, total 'seeing.' Is there a relationship at all? Can thought and clear perception exist at the same time, simultaneously? In the observation of your thoughts, is there perception without dissection? Can a mind, clouded by thoughts, perceive completely? Obviously, it cannot. The very movement of thought is the distortion of perception, is it not? As long as my mind is moving, running away, making clamor, I cannot 'see' clearly. All thought is history, for each thought is a movement of your memory. I think, therefore I am memory. This 'self' is nothing more than a solidification of thoughts. Do you see the fact of this? Seeing that the 'self' is limited by knowledge, and so it is the wrong mechanism to use in ones search for truth.
Spiritual silence is the end of man.
Truth, if there is such a thing, cannot be of time. If it is of time then it is bound by time. What I want to see and actually discover is whether there is something beyond the limitations of this life, as we know it. Is there something truly sacred, which the 'self' cannot touch? As long as the mind is limited and held by the 'self,' it can never be free. Free to discover something beyond its boundaries, the unknown. The 'self' is the known. Truth is not of the known. When I see this clearly, I no longer look for the 'self' to respond to the question of rather or not there is the Sacred. The 'self' cannot respond to this. It must end to see beyond its own limits. In the very ending of the 'self,' there is the awakening of silence. A silence within that thought did not create. Your whole being, becomes completely still without a single movement, no thoughts to cloud perception. There is total clarity of perception both inwardly and outwardly. You are free, untouched by the idea of a formulated 'self.' Being empty there is complete void, total emptiness. When you are empty, something comes that is untouchable by the mind and the intellect. That which is beyond the scope of the psyche and all understanding is open to you. Only then will you realize that state of being whole, total and free. It is here and now; love, beauty and happiness may enter your very being and awaken an extraordinary joy of life.
Spiritual Master Adonis Alexander
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