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Like A Child
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.
― Rumi
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A meditative mind is silent. It is not the silence which thought can conceive of; it is not the silence of a still evening; it is the silence when thought — with all its images, its words and perceptions — has entirely ceased. This meditative mind is the religious mind — the religion that is not touched by the church, the temples, or by chants.
The religious mind is the explosion of love. It is this love that knows no separation. To it, far is near. It is not the one or the many, but rather that state of love in which all division ceases. Like beauty, it is not of the measure of words. From this silence alone the meditative mind acts.
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Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence. Silence put together by thought is stagnation, is dead, but the silence that comes when thought has understood its own beginning, the nature of itself, understood how all thought is never free but always old — this silence is meditation in which the meditator is entirely absent, for the mind has emptied itself of the past.
