Following the Birds from the Mundane World into the Otherworld

Blackbirds and Mulberries, by Angela Harding (also have a look at her Bird Alphabet)

In her article, Following the Birds, Terri Windling quotes H.E. Bates´s book, Through the Woods, the Story of a Year in an English Woodland. Bates is describing the busy, beautiful, bird-filled months of the passage from winter to summer.

The superficial mind can never see the awakeness in silence

Mystical Light by Point-Blank-Silence

The silent mind becomes extremely awake. 

It is only the silent mind, which is seeing

When you realize the fact, that it is only the silent mind, which is seeing, yes, then the mind strangely enough becomes silent.

It is as seeing a danger and avoiding it.

Because when it is seen, that the mind must be completely silent, then the mind actually becomes silent.

And if it then can listen without interpretations, without that prejudices intervene in order to distort – listens as you perhaps listen to a bird, which sings, without commenting and giving a name.

Since silence isn´t saleable it has a quality of purity and alonebeing

The mind, which is silent, and not made silent, always experiences silence.

Then the thought, the word, is within the silence and not outside it.

The mind is in this silence completely in peace, and it is a silence, which isn´t shaped.

Since silence isn´t saleable, doesn´t have any value on the market, and isn´t usable, it has a quality of purity and alonebeing.

This being alone is not the unhappy loneliness.

The flower itself is the movement of the experience when there no inner observer is

The tree, the flowers and the stars can't be experienced by an inner observer; they are the actual movement of the experience when there no inner observer is, when you in self-forgetful way are open for, and engaged by the observed, when the experience is characterised by fulfilment and middle.

Then there doesn´t exist any discrepancy, any displacement and reflections between the observer and the observed; there is no time, no emptiness and loss, in which the thought can give rise to itself.

The thought is there never, but there is being.

This condition of being can't be made into an object of thinking; it is nothing you can achieve. The inner thinker and calculator must stop evaluating.

Only when this happens, there is being. And in this movement of silence, the timeless exists.

A mind which is silent can see the problems much more directly and simple

How can the mind be completely empty? 

The intellectual would probably claim, in order to defend his theories, that an empty mind is the same as being in a condition of apathy, idiocy, or what he might call it, and he would probably react instinctively by disclaiming this condition.

But a mind which is extraordinary silent, a mind which isn´t being distracted by its own thought, a mind which is open, can see the problems much more directly and simple. It is in other words immensely reasonable. And it is this ability to see our problems - without in any way letting yourself be distracted - which is the only solution for the Life Artist.

A silent mind, a mind in peace, is a requirement.

All of the thought´s activities strengthen the ego

All of the thought´s activities, whether they are positive or negative, are usually experiences that actually strengthen the ego, because they suck life out of the present, out of the Now and timeless, and into time´s self-producing movement from past towards future.

Is it therefore possible for the mind to let life flow back to the present, to allow a total existential presence in the Now?

As the Stoics and the Taoists say, then it can only happen when there is completely silence.

In the deep, deep silence of the forest

When you walk in the forest you are alone.

But the one who is alone is flexible and therefore persistent.

Only those who are alone can co-operate with that which is without cause, the immense.

In the one who is alone, life is timeless; in the one who is alone, there is no death.

The one who is alone can never cease with being, be cause alonebeing is life itself, the eternal flowing alonebeing of life itself.

When it is seen, that the mind must be silent, then the mind actually becomes silent

When it is seen, that the mind must be silent, then the mind actually becomes silent

When you realize the truth that it is only the silent mind, which can see clearly, yes, then your mind strangely enough becomes silent.

It is as seeing a danger and avoiding it.

Because when it is seen, that the mind must be completely silent, then the mind actually becomes silent.

And if it then can listen without interpretations, without that your prejudices intervene in order to distort – listens as you perhaps listen to a bird, which sings, without commenting and giving a name.

Dreams are a sign of that there is disturbance, discord between the thought and the conduct of life

When there no dreams are, then the consciousness can enter deeper and deeper down into itself; that is to say: into life itself.

Dreams are a sign of that there is disturbance, discord between the thought and the conduct of life, that there is displacement between the thinker and life itself.

But when there no disturbances and displacement are, and the body during the sleep is very calm, when the mind is quiet, you will, when you wake up, find, that you haven´t dreamt, but that a renewal has taken place, a renewal, which constantly takes place, because there all the time is ending.

This renewal is the creation, the source of life, because you in the silence rest in the middle of life itself.

The mind is completely silent when truth is seen

When you realize the truth, then it is only the silent mind, which is seeing, yes, then the mind strangely enough becomes silent.

It is as seeing a danger and avoiding it.

Because when it is seen, that the mind must be completely silent, then the mind actually becomes silent.

And if it then can listen without interpretations, without that your prejudices intervene in order to distort – listens as you perhaps listen to a bird, which sings, without commenting and giving a name.

Only in silence you can begin to discover deeper layers of yourself

Awareness consists in, that you observe neutral as in a mirror, without saying yes and no.

Passion consists in feeling deeply and incisively, without seeking to achieve anything with it.

In the passive listening presence you are letting the thinking be in calmness in longer periods, you are letting the space between the thoughts expand more and more.

Only in this silence you can begin to discover deeper layers of yourself, layers which have to do with the images of time - your perspective on yourself and the world – and which, through this voyage of discovery, open themselves from the personal, to the more collective and universal, and finally, to reality and truth.

The mind, which is silent, and not made silent, always experiences this silence

The mind, which is silent, and not made silent, always experiences this silence.

Then the thought, the word, is within the silence and not outside it.

The mind is in this silence completely in peace, and it is a silence, which isn´t shaped.

Since silence isn´t saleable, doesn´t have any value on the market, and isn´t saleable, it has a quality of purity and alonebeing.

This being alone is not the unhappy loneliness.

Silence is not something which can be chosen and self-produced through the will

The awakened silence in the mind is something, which the separated superficial mind never can see.

Silence is therefore not something which can be chosen and self-produced through the will.

Silence comes when you understand the whole structure and beginning of life, and know what it is to be alive.

Silence has with life-feeling, spontaneity and self-forgetfulness to do.

Only when the mind is new, creative empty, it can meet the new

The space between the old and the new is the same as the space between the thoughts, the passive listening presence.

In this space of silence there is renewal; here the new creation happens.

Only when the mind is new, creative empty, it can meet the new.

It is first when the mind no longer is tied to the old, to its images of life, that it can meet everything in a new way.

And therein is lying the joy of life, the source, which rises from life itself.

Only in silence you can begin to discover deeper layers of yourself

Awareness consists in, that you observe neutral as in a mirror, without saying yes and no. Passion consists in feeling deeply and incisively, without seeking to achieve anything with it.

When practiced together they develop into passive listening presence, or silence.

In the passive listening presence you are letting the thinking be in calmness in longer periods, you are letting the space between the thoughts expand more and more.

Only in this silence you can begin to discover deeper layers of yourself, layers which have to do with the images of time - your perspective on yourself and the world – and which, through this voyage of discovery, open themselves from the personal, to the more collective and universal, and finally, to reality and truth.

If your conscious mind is aware, the subconscious mind is much more receptive and can find an answer

We can reach to clarity over the underlying conscious and subconscious activity, if we give the subconscious mind a chance, because it is much faster in reacting than the conscious mind.

If your conscious mind is aware, and in silence is thinking and observing, the subconscious mind is much more actively awake and much more receptive; therefore it can find an answer.

The ability to see our problems - without in any way being distracted - is the only solution

How can the mind be completely empty?

The intellectual would probably claim, in order to defend his theories, that an empty mind is the same as being in a condition of apathy, idiocy, or what he might call it, and he would probably react instinctively by disclaiming this condition.

But a mind which is extraordinary silent, a mind which isn´t being distracted by its own thought, a mind which is open, can see the problems much more directly and simple.

It is in other words immensely reasonable.

And it is this ability to see our problems - without in any way letting yourself be distracted - which is the only solution for the Life Artist.

A silent mind, a mind in peace, is a requirement.