Silence comes when thought has understood its own beginning

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="zemanta-img" style="text-align: left;"> <div class="zemanta-img"> </div> </div> <h1 style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, Verdanasans-serif; font-size: 1.7em; font-weight: 100; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </h1> <blockquote class="quote" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-shadow: white 0px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpVxXwTkiUSbkp8IGerkC2IbyahzNzwQ-o0lvVpKN8EjQZuQPjcKfyRqNhowmUppEx5RJgwGiFfBdNFqT0qKO9v3oMgaBgd2ewFl2W_UfN2As7-Iaek19ihVRDQQOIO1MulTM2HBmaV-8/s1600/campfires2k.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpVxXwTkiUSbkp8IGerkC2IbyahzNzwQ-o0lvVpKN8EjQZuQPjcKfyRqNhowmUppEx5RJgwGiFfBdNFqT0qKO9v3oMgaBgd2ewFl2W_UfN2As7-Iaek19ihVRDQQOIO1MulTM2HBmaV-8/s1600/campfires2k.jpg" width="200" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Meditation is to be aware of thought, of feeling, never to correct it, never to say it is right or wrong, never to justify it, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching and moving with that thought, with that feeling, you begin to understand and to be aware of the whole nature of thought and feeling. Silence comes when thought has understood its own beginning, the nature of itself, how all thought is never free but always old. To see all this, to see the movement of every thought, to understand it, to be aware of it, is to come to that silence which is meditation, in which the `observer' never is.</span></div> </blockquote> </div> <div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"> <h4 class="zemanta-related-title"> Related articles</h4> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/you-are-awareness-awareness-is-another.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/339197490_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/you-are-awareness-awareness-is-another.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/04/you-are-awareness-awareness-is-another.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/339197225_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/04/you-are-awareness-awareness-is-another.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">You are awareness. 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Silence comes when thought has understood its own beginning

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learn to take stock of what is influencing your mind in the moment

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display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/04/lesson-2-like-all-bad-decisions-we-make.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/335589192_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/04/lesson-2-like-all-bad-decisions-we-make.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">LESSON 2: like all bad decisions we make, even our reenactments/dissociation offer us a chance to learn.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; 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True meditation has no direction or goal.

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpVxXwTkiUSbkp8IGerkC2IbyahzNzwQ-o0lvVpKN8EjQZuQPjcKfyRqNhowmUppEx5RJgwGiFfBdNFqT0qKO9v3oMgaBgd2ewFl2W_UfN2As7-Iaek19ihVRDQQOIO1MulTM2HBmaV-8/s1600/campfires2k.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpVxXwTkiUSbkp8IGerkC2IbyahzNzwQ-o0lvVpKN8EjQZuQPjcKfyRqNhowmUppEx5RJgwGiFfBdNFqT0qKO9v3oMgaBgd2ewFl2W_UfN2As7-Iaek19ihVRDQQOIO1MulTM2HBmaV-8/s320/campfires2k.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /><br />True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer. All methods aiming at achieving a certain state of mind are limited, impermanent, and conditioned. Fascination with states leads only to bondage and dependency. True meditation is abidance as primordial awareness.<br /></span><div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;"> <h4 class="zemanta-related-title"> Related articles</h4> <ul class="zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image" style="margin: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0;"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/you-are-awareness-awareness-is-another.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/339197490_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/you-are-awareness-awareness-is-another.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/04/you-are-awareness-awareness-is-another.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/339197225_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://intuitivevoices.blogspot.com/2015/04/you-are-awareness-awareness-is-another.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you.</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/awareness-is-primordial-it-is-original.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/337865288_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagesevents.blogspot.com/2015/04/awareness-is-primordial-it-is-original.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Awareness is primordial; it is the original state, beginningless, endless, uncaused, unsupported, without parts, without change</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/05/when-child-within-was-banished-from-our.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/341140596_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://socialpsychologists.blogspot.com/2015/05/when-child-within-was-banished-from-our.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">When the child within was banished from our consciousness we started constantly seeking approval</a></li> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li" style="background: none; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 84px;"><a href="http://stagescommunity.blogspot.com/2015/04/as-you-grow-stronger-our-self-doubt.html" style="border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; display: block; padding: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img src="//i.zemanta.com/336854322_80_80.jpg" style="border: 0; display: block; margin: 0; max-width: 100%; padding: 0; width: 80px;" /></a><a href="http://stagescommunity.blogspot.com/2015/04/as-you-grow-stronger-our-self-doubt.html" style="background-image: none; display: block; height: 83px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">As you grow stronger our self-doubt will weaken.</a></li> </ul> </div>

True meditation has no direction or goal.

True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer. All methods aiming at achieving a certain stat...

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