Through silence, the mind in its totality can become an immense mirror in which the outside world is reflected. Deep reflection will reveal that the world you are perceiving directly through your senses reveals its own reality to you. Your fellow beings, close friends, or complete strangers will be regarded indiscriminately, with a feeling of love you may have never felt before.
This State of pure bliss is, of course, difficult to describe, but not impossible to experience by someone who authentically practices awareness. In order to communicate it, a simple and direct language is used, which is not filtered through reason, because the “ego”, with its subjective perception, is no longer there. To put it this way: the psychological emptiness is the one who lives the present moment, expresses this encounter into words and still remains present and available to the next moment.
Life cannot be encountered and understood objectively unless we are in a state of complete freedom and serenity of the mind. Life is newness, moment by moment, and it demands, even forces us to encounter it with a new mind, with a new brain and with new brain cells, which have not been used previously.
It is a well-known fact: scientists claim that human beings, during the whole span of his or her life, uses no more than 10-15% of his brain cells and memory potential. As you can see, your psychological possibilities are almost unlimited.
~ From: The Silence of the Mind, by Ilie Cioara pp 131-134
Ilie Cioara was an enlightened mystic who did not belong to any lineage. He is unique in a way, in the sense that he lived in almost complete isolation, in Eastern Europe in a communist country, completely oblivious of nonduality, Zen, etc. Originally a Christian mystic, he practiced a mantra for over 20 years. One day, he felt an intuitive impulse to drop the mantra, and just practice the silence of the mind, by listening to the noises on the street, in the now. After following this practice for a few years, one morning, as he was waking up from his sleep, he suddenly experienced Enlightenment. His description of meditation is fresh and devoid of any tradition and jargon.
His writings in 16 books describe the experience of meditation and enlightenment, as well as the practice of “Self-knowing” using all-encompassing Attention. Like Ramana Maharshi, Krishnamurti, Ekhart Tolle, his is a simple message of discovering our inner divine nature through the silence of the mind.
Enjoy this guided meditation based on the teachings of Ilie Cioara.
