PEACEFUL AWARENESS: THE WATCHING OF THE MIND.
{ today’s delight }
~ I drove to Victoria to see the harbour yesterday. It was a wane, dove-grey rainy day; as I walked about the harbour, the sun appeared and splashed the bright white seagulls and boats bobbing on the crinkled silver-foiled water. There was a soft brilliance and clarity in simply being; a presence that was both fresh and familiar and mildly astonishing; that light lingered long and long as I drove back over the heavily treed, autumn-draped Malahat highway to my home. This morning I happened upon and was touched deeply by the below; perhaps you’ll enjoy it too. 🙂
PEACEFUL AWARENESS: THE WATCHING OF THE MIND.
“Order in the whole of consciousness, not merely at the conscious level, takes place when division between the observer and the observed ceases completely. What is, is transcended when the observer who is the past, who is time, comes to an end. The active present, the what is, is not in the bondage of time as the observer is. Only when the mind the brain and the organism during sleep has this total order, is there an awareness of that wordless state, that timeless movement.
“This is not some fanciful dream, an abstraction of escape. It is the very summation of meditation. That is, the brain is active, waking or sleeping, but the constant conflict between order and disorder wears down the brain. Order is the highest form of virtue, sensitivity, intelligence. When there is this great beauty of order, harmony, the brain is not endlessly active; certain parts of it have to carry the burden of memory but that is a very small part; the rest of the brain is free from the noise of experience. That freedom is the order, the harmony, of silence. This freedom and the noise of memory move together, intelligence is the action of this movement. Meditation is freedom from the known and yet operating in the field of the known. There is no “me’` as the operator. In sleep or awake this meditation goes on.”
~ J Krishnamurti
