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There are two parts of life. Motion and motionlessness.
Movement is one part of life but to be in a state of no movement
is also a substantial part of our life. Speech is one aspect, one
part of life, unconditional silence is also a substance of life.
Form and formlessness, sound and silence, motion and
motionlessness, light and darkness, birth and death, the two
together constitute the wholeness of life. Man has created a
contradiction between the two, man looks upon them as an
opposition to life. Is there a contradiction between birth and
death or is life a continuity, an eternal ocean of ISNESS on which
there are bubbles of birth and death?
Silence is as much a substantial part of our lives to which we are
not introduced. Motionlessness is a state of our being to which we
are not introduced, The way we live, we go on collecting things on
the material level, knowledge on the intellectual level,
experience on the sensual and psychological level. We go on
acquiring and the I, the Me, the Ego that goes on acquiring
becomes stronger by every experience, with every achievement and
we create an enclosure around us by our own knowledge, experience,
possessions. In that enclosure we live and we feel secure in that,
We live secluded, isolated from the Whole, because of the sense of
possessions.
Meditation is a way of living that introduces us to that other
part of our life. The silence, the motionlessness, it introduces
us to our pure ISNESS which have never been conditioned and shall
never be conditioned. […]
Meditation is coming home, to relax, to rest. If that takes place
and one finds that though one has withdrawn and retired from
activity, the inner movement goes on, thoughts come up, memories
come up, then you begin to observe them. Till now you were busy
carrying out functional roles, you were either the doer or the
experience. From these two roles you have set yourself free
voluntarily. You are now the observer. The inner movements come
up, the involuntary movement comes up though the voluntary has
been discontinued. You sit there quietly, you do not prepare to
see, but if thoughts appear, then they are seen by you. It is a
lovely state, the state of observation.
--Vimala Thakar, from "Meditation In Daily Life"
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