The Seer

Whether you consider yourself a Christian or not, if you live in Western civilization you’re influenced by the teachings of Jesus. We listen to music celebrating his birth, we collectively hold values imparted from his teachings and even ‘non-believers’ draw inspiration and guidance from his words and actions.

He has, perhaps, influenced our lives more than any other person, yet very few people have really studied the history of Jesus or the sect that he joined called the Essenes. The story of how Jesus enlightened is fascinating, and gives us insight into his teachings. So let me take a moment to share with you a part of the story not often told or even known by most people.

You’ve all heard of the Dead Sea Scrolls that were discovered during World War II. The Dead Sea Scrolls are the oldest Bible ever discovered … by far, dating just prior to Jesus birth. The Dead Sea Scrolls were written by a sect of Jews called the Essenes who lived in Qumran, near the north end of the Dead Sea in Israel and the deep end of the Jordan River where John the Baptist baptized.

Whereas most Jews would wash themselves before entering the temple, only the Essene sect of Jews make a ritual baptism in water as a rite of initiation. John was an Essene, and Jesus taking baptism with John indicates Jesus’s affiliation with this Essene sect of Jews.

The Essenes believed we were spirit entrapped in a body and that we needed to discover or realize this Divine nature within. That’s why they lived away from the cities in the quiet of the desert; they spent their time in contemplation, meditation and prayer.

The Essene was seeking God-realization.

Moreover, there were many other gospels written and read in Israel in the first and second centuries that were not included in the New Testament. During the Council of Nicaea that took place in 325 AD, the Bishops of the Eastern churches decided not to include the writing being used by the Semitic Christians, since they had differing theologies. But those other gospels were the ones being used by the Apostles themselves and those who followed them.

If you read those other gospels, such as, Thomas, Mary, Philip and James, they all teach a similar message: to look within. In each of these forgotten gospels and in the Dead Sea Scrolls lies a message of looking within to find God.

Jesus was a Yogi. In Thomas, Jesus advises “come to know yourselves” and “the Kingdom of the father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it.” In the Book of Thomas, Jesus advises Thomas, “examine yourself and learn who you are, and in what way you exist.” In James, Jesus tells his Apostles, “I tell you this that you may know yourselves” and that those that listen will “be enlightened through me.”

In the Gospel of Philip Jesus says, “those who come to know themselves will enjoy their possessions (life)”, “know thy Self” and “we shall find the fruits of the truth within us.” In the Gospel of Mary Jesus says, “the Son of Man is within you. Follow after him! Those who seek him will find him.”

In the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Semitic Gospels and in the letters between the first churches that have been preserved we see, or hear, Jesus advising his followers to go within and realize the truth, the light or presence of God. As we launch out into 2012, let’s embark on an inner journey and discover this ’spark of Divinity’ within ourselves. Then we can celebrate enlightenment together.

~ Steven Sadlier SelfAwareness.com

It really isn’t an either/or choice, in fact, each can be enhanced by the other. However, one of these ‘tarians’ has a far greater impact than the other. You already know that a humanitarian is devoted to human welfare, certainly a noble and worthwhile pursuit. But what is a spiritarian? You may not have heard the word before; it’s not in the dictionary. We wanted a word that could be used to describe someone outside of religion, yet devoted to spiritual welfare.

In our world, the body and soul are divided in some areas of life, and are lobbed together in others. Science and religion have cleanly divided the two and each has claimed a piece, but many feel that when they are caring for human welfare they’re treating both body and soul. Some believe we have a soul/spirit within the body, others that we are a soul/spirit having a human experience.

A spiritarian takes a different view. The ancient pagan, Porphyry, realized through gnosis, “My true Self is remote from the body, without color and without shape, not to be touched by human hands.” The Bhagavad Gita agrees, saying, “The Self is everlasting and infinite, standing on the motionless foundations of eternity.”

To the spiritarian, the Self, the immortal child of Source, has never been, and will never be, a body. Quantum physics backs up this truth with research that demonstrates that material form is a virtual reality projected by consciousness that exists without form.

Buddha recognized this fact when he said, “Remembering that this body is like froth, of the nature of a mirage, break the flower-tipped arrows of Mara/illusion.” The result? “Freed from illusion … they have renounced the world of appearance to find reality. Thus have they reached the highest.”

We’ve all gotten sucked into a dream that felt absolutely real, yet no matter how convinced we were while the dream went on, we woke up and realized nothing real had happened. A spiritarian realizes that we’re all in a much deeper sleep having a dream that’s turned into a nightmare.

And this is where we see the difference between the humanitarian and the spiritarian. One wants to make the dream more comfortable, the other wants to assist you in waking up and escaping it. As Rumi’s teacher Shams-iTabrizi explained, “All the veils are one veil. Other than that one, there is no veil. That veil is this existence.”

Jesus was both humanitarian and spiritarian. His heart was pained by the misery he saw, so he fed the hungry, gave to the poor and healed the sick. But Jesus was no longer asleep. He woke up, and he became an example of what the waking state looks like. He was no longer fooled by material form and did his best to encourage his followers to see past illusion and “seek first the kingdom.” He made it clear that he was “no part of the world” nor was the kingdom that held his allegiance.

Unfortunately, the majority of Jesus’ followers were more interested in material solutions to their problems and followed him for the immediate aid that he gave. These followers distorted his message as they focused on the ‘doings’ of the body. They didn’t stop to realize if they were fed, they would get hungry again, if they were cured, they could easily succumb to another illness, and even if the body was raised from the dead, it would eventually die again.

Jesus recognized the problem he had inadvertently created when said that others would do “greater works than these.” It’s extremely difficult to think of anything greater than raising the dead, but a spiritarian knows that the greatest work lies in awakening minds caught in the dream of continuous birth and death.

Until we wake up and realize we are not the body or its personality, we will be unable to know our true immortal Self. As the Kena Upanishad explains, “The Self is realized … when you have broken through the wrong identification that you are the body, subject to birth and death.”

Humanitarian efforts are worthy because they awaken love and the realization of our innate oneness. But they also fail because they keep us in the prison of virtual reality. In effect, they are like a person who works to improve prison conditions but fails to tell the prisoners that the doors are unlocked and they can leave anytime they wish.

No matter how much conditions are improved, it is still a prison and can’t compare with freedom. And no matter how much humanitarian work is done in this world, it can never begin to rival or replace Reality. But Hafiz recognized the role of the spiritarian when he said, “the sage … keeps dropping keys … for the beautiful rowdy prisoners.” In actuality, we each have the key in our hand and the way out has always been available. Rumi explains:

“The second you stepped into this world of existence a ladder was placed before you to help you escape. When you pass beyond this human form … plunge into the vast ocean of consciousness. Let the drop of water that is you become a hundred mighty seas. But do not think that the drop alone becomes the ocean. The ocean, too, becomes the drop.”

If we’re humanitarians but not spiritarians, we’re prisoners who are sharing blankets with other prisoners, trying to create the illusion of freedom. If we’re spiritarians, we can put love into action by helping others on a material level, while always remembering that the best help we can give is to live in a way that clearly demonstrates the prison door is wide, wide open.

~ by Lee & Steven Hager TheBeginningofFearlessness.com Dec. 4, 2011

The life and deeds of the man Jesus triggered off the immense Christian religion nearly two millennia ago, but his most sublime and profound teachings were either largely disregarded or strongly reshaped by the practical needs of the early Christian Church.

This old religious package, which still survives today, no longer satisfies the current wave of practicing Christians and others seekers who are searching for clear answers to their pressing spiritual questions: What is the purpose of my life, and of all life? Where did I come from? What will happen to me after I die? Who am I? Why is there such suffering in the world, and why doesn’t “God” do something about it? And so on.

Only a small collection of mystics and saints over the ages since have touched this deeper wisdom through their individual devotional and intuitive efforts. It’s time now to release these original teachings of Jesus from their doctrinal, legendary and religious package.

Let it not be misunderstood: the Christian religion which emerged from the early Church has been a unique and unquestionably powerful, effective and worthy social factor in Western man’s evolutionary development over the last two thousand years. Just like other major world religions it has spawned valuable scholarship, unified social values and laws and generated a huge legacy of architecture, literature, music and art. It drew people together into cooperative and collective enterprises more than had ever occurred before in human history.

While its political policies varied from benevolence to treachery, it insisted that every human, even a heavy sinner, is worthy and loved. It provided hope in the form of an idyllic heaven, immortality and forgiveness for sins. It gave Western man a set of metaphors and positive symbols to sustain him through his miseries, even though they were embodied in a questionable legend. But this is what legends are for: to hold symbolically in the form of beliefs whatever of value cannot be maintained over time in the form of literal history, principles, customs and social laws.

Despite its shortcomings and terrible misuses the Christian religion has driven and nourished the spiritual lives of hundreds of millions of people. It has inspired the thought and work of countless contributors to society in many lands and callings. Highly successful in overall human terms, it is today the most salient religious influence in the lives of more than a billion people, and a strong underlying force in modern secular society throughout the planet.

Our position here is not to tear down Christianity but rather to encourage its enhancement and enrichment through a better understanding of what Jesus was actually teaching. In this way its adherents can choose to apply this deeper understanding in their individuaI lives, group endeavors and large-scale societal activities.

This is not unlike the process we follow when we raise a child. We do not continually criticize and judge it for being immature, or discard it for its frequent learning mistakes. Rather, we value it, nurture il and support it as it maliures. We take pleasure in participating in its creative growth so it may someday become responsible, self-fulfilled and a positive force in the world.

This is the same charge before each one of us as he tries to work out his personal relationship with the behemoth of Christianity, and find his peace with it whether he be Christian or not.

Many saints, prophets and devoted practitioners over the ages have experienced the Christian life very deeply. Their contemplative devotions generated insightful interpretations, novel insights and the resolution of some of the shortcomings in the Biblical account of Jesus.

A few of these practitioners found “hidden” truths within the Gospels and were able to write about them for later generations. The Christian contribution to the Perennial Philosophy arose in just this way…. Thanks in large part to this small minority of

Christian explorers we are better enabled today to experience for ourselves Jesus’ finer teachings and his grander vision. They have given us a head start, so to speak. We may dig even more deeply on our own now by building upon this background.

Perhaps most important, we may come to accept Jesus’ master-claim that God is not to be found external to man — which has been tacitly assumed by most Christians for one hundred generations — but lies rather within every one of us. While he said this very clearly, this central message has been largely disregarded, obscured or ritualized in Christianity.

To reclaim it one need only recognize this grand presence within himself, relate to it and then draw upon it. Could there be a simpler path to greater compassion, higher wisdom and a new awakening? ….

What is hardest to understand is why so little has been done in the long evolution of Christianity to correct the large divergence between it and the central principles Jesus taught. Apparently the same human needs have persisted for a symbolic, dogmatized and ritualized religious institution, a personified God-man as figurehead, a personalized savior from sin and a lingering hope for salvation in an indefinite future. Indeed, these needs are still widespread in the Christian world today. They are even built into the Christian creed.

Individuals who no longer find this Church offering supportive tend to step out of Christianity and seek their own way in another religion, or as agnostics or atheists entirely outside of the domain of organized religion. Many have followed a solitary spiritual path and discovered all by themselves their inner God-nature and all it has to reveal to them.

We may conclude that Christianity has only partially followed the track Jesus originally offered. Its base of knowledge and practice is only weakly related to Jesus’ teachings. As an organized religious institution it is rooted instead on a manufactured and persuasive legend, not on the reliable historic facts and the central teachings of the man for whom it is named.

Even though the Jesus movement grew obliquely out of Jesus’ exemplary life and sayings twenty centuries ago, Christianity is not the only, and not necessarily the preferred and universal gateway to a deeper understanding of the deeper message Jesus taught. It is this deeper understanding that we seek in this book (and E-pistle).

~ From: A New Jesus: Rediscovering His Deeper Teachings Through Intuitive Inquiry pp 14-16, by William Kautz, iUniverse 2011. ISBN: 978-1-4502-6344-3 (pbk)

Douglas Harding’s new sense-perception based approach to spiritual awakening or ‘enlightenment’, although relatively little known in the mainstream, has been studied, shared and lived, by a small but steadily increasing number of people around the world, over the past seventy years.

Harding was born in 1909, in Lowestoft, on the east coast of England. His parents belonged to the Exclusive Plymouth Brethren, a fundamentalist Christian sect notorious for its ultra-Puritanism and intolerance of other denominations and, of course, all other religions.

At 21, while studying architecture at University College, London, Harding apostatized from the Brethren much to his parent’s horror. To justify this step, he sent to the elders of the Brethren a thesis explaining that he saw the great religions as complementary rather competing, and as having, at their common core, the Beatific Vision.

From age 21, Harding was remarkably successful in leading a double life. Without knowing quite how he did it, he managed to earn a respectable living as an architect in private practice, while devoting most of his time and energy to “the discovery of What and Who he really is”, to piecing together an elaborate but credible cosmology-cum-epistemology, and increasing to work out its application to everyday life.

In fact, Harding’s crowning achievement has been to devise a toolkit of exercises or experiments for getting behind words and concepts to direct seeing into our True Nature. In all the great spiritual traditions, the true mystics — the Seers — have, hitherto, been limited to words or silence in their attempts to share their vision. No wonder they rarely succeeded.

But now at last, thanks to his toolkit, the essential vision is entirely shareable, indeed obvious and natural. It’s also revolutionary, and therefore resisted in traditional circles — decreasingly, it seems.

The first book that Harding wrote was his magnum opus, The Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth: A New Diagram of Man in The Universe. He wrote this book, of 650 huge pages, over eight years to 1950. His main purpose in writing this book was to answer his two questions: ‘What am I?’ and ‘What do I amount to in the universe?’ A shorter edition and a number of other books followed from time to time throughout his long life.

It’s been widely acknowledged that the greatest aspect of Harding’s spiritual teaching work has been his devising of thirty or so sense-based workshop ‘experiments’. These ‘awareness exercises’ are designed to enable people to see or recognize Who they really are beyond outward appearances. In the 35 years prior to his death in 2007, Harding travelled to more than 20 countries across 5 continents, offering ‘Look for Yourself’, or ‘Seeing Who We Really Are’ workshops, based around these experiments.

One of the simplest and most effective of Harding’s exercises can be done just by sitting down opposite a friend. Point to your friend’s feet, then yours; to his torso, then yours; to his head, then back to where others see yours. What, on present evidence, is your finger pointing at? (Warning: it’s no good just reading about this, you have actually to carry out the experiment for yourself.)

What you see by carrying this exercise in basic attention, is what it is to be 1st-Person Singular — the noumenous No-thing that is nevertheless keenly aware of Itself as the Container or Ground of the whole display. This seeing is believing. Altogether unmystical (in the popular sense), it is a precise, total, and all-or-nothing experience admitting of no degrees — so long as it lasts.

Now your task is to go on seeing your Absence/Presence in all situations, till the seeing becomes quite natural and continuous. This is neither to lose yourself in your Emptiness nor in what fills it, but simultaneously to view the thing you are looking out at and the No-thing you are looking out of. There will be found to be no times when this two-way-attention is out of place or can safely be dispensed with.

The initial seeing into your Nature is simplicity itself: once noticed, Nothing is so obvious! But it is operative only in so far as it is practised. The results — freedom from greed and hate and fear and delusion — are assured only while the One they belong to isn’t overlooked.

I’ll let Harding himself conclude this all too brief overview. In his Religions of the World: A handbook for the open-minded. he writes:

“Arrived at his goal, the truly Awakened one is, in fact, not Christian in any ordinary sense. He has broken loose from his parent tradition and become universal, above all distinctions whatever. But on his way there he has had a hard time of it. It’s no easy task to reconcile his direct vision with his inherited faith.

His intuition of the One, his dawning identification with the One, his clear sight of that One as the Light or Emptiness within, his resulting freedom from all desire and emotion and even love for man or God, his inability to meditate in the prescribed fashion (visualising, for instance, the Passion of Christ), or to pray, or to think good thoughts, or even to think at all — these sure evidences of his Enlightenment must at first seem to him grave spiritual defects.

To his spiritual counsellors or former co-religionists they may seem downright sinful. All the same, it is his direct experience, his original contact with the Real — ignored by the majority, condemned by the orthodox — which is the heart of this religion, as of all other religions. It is what makes Christianity true.

Because she gets to the Root, becomes that nourishing Root, she becomes also the whole tree with all its leaves and fruits. Ultimately, the (Radical), Mystic or Realised Christian has no preferences, no personal opinions. She doesn’t pick and choose among the innumerable sects and doctrines of Christianity.

Because she rests in their common Source, she is free of it all, and it is all very good indeed.”

~ For more info on Douglas Harding and current activities of the Headless Way, check out: www.headless.org. You can also try out many of Harding’s ‘experiments’ from links on the home page. This is an extensive resource and highly recommended. Ed.

You aren’t what you look like!

An extract from talk by the mystic and philosopher, Douglas Harding, in Melbourne, Australia, 20 years ago when he was 82.

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~ The complete talk is available on DVD from headless.org

How can you imagine that something else veils Him
when He is the One who is manifest by everything?
How can you imagine that something else veils Him
when He is the One who is made manifest in everything?
How can you imagine that something else veils Him
when He is the One who is manifest to everything?
How can you imagine that something else veils Him
when He was the One who was Manifest before there was anything?
How can you imagine that something else veils Him
when He is more manifest than anything?
How can you imagine that something else veils Him
when He is the One with whom there is nothing else?
How can you imagine that something else veils Him
when He is the One who is nearer to you than anything?
How can you imagine that something else veils Him
when if it had not been for Him, there would not have been anything?

A marvel!
See how existence becomes manifest in non-existence!
How the in-time holds firm alongside Him whose attribute is eternal!

~ Ibn Ata’ Illah (1250 – 1309), From: Ibn ‘Ata’ Illah: The Book of Wisdom / Kwaja Abdullah Ansari: Intimate Conversations. Trans. Victor Danner & Wheeler Thackston

An inter-faith students conference was about to be held in the summer holidays. On the train to the conference, there were parties of both Quakers and Baptists.

Each of the Quakers had his or her own train ticket. But the Baptists boasted that they needed only one ticket for all of them. The Quakers felt this was very dishonest and murmured their disapproval. The Baptists ignored their mutterings.

Then, one of the Baptists said, “Here comes the conductor.” All of the Baptist students piled into an adjacent bathroom. The Quakers were puzzled.

The conductor came aboard and collected tickets from all the Quakers. He then went to the bathroom, knocked on the door, and said, “Ticket please”. One of the Baptists inside stuck their only ticket under the door. The conductor took the ticket and left. A

few minutes later, the Baptist students emerged from the bathroom. The Quaker students felt really stupid.

On the way back from the conference, the group of Quakers decided to buy only one ticket for the journey home. They sat quietly and smiled knowingly at the Baptists, who seemed unconcerned that they had no ticket at all!

When the Baptist lookout shouted, “Conductor coming!”, all the Baptist students again piled into a bathroom. All of the Quakers crammed into another bathroom.

Then, before the conductor came along, one of the Baptists left the bathroom, knocked on the other bathroom, and said, “Ticket please.”

When I look back over 2011, I feel that one of the most significant things to happen in my spiritual journey has been the ‘discovery’ of a newly published little book by the awakened Romanian mystic, Ilie Cioara, who was born in 1916, and died in 2004. I am deeply moved as I read and reread it and have the strong impression that Cioara’s writings are going to have the same kind of impact as Nisargadatta Maharaj’s spiritual classic, I Am That.

The book is entitled: The Silence of the Mind and is the first in a tetralogy (1 of 4) to be published by Obooks. The other titles out in 2012 will be: The Wondrous Journey into the Depth of Our Being, Life is Eternal Newness and I Am Boundlessness.

Like, I Am That, this rare work has been made available to readers throughout the English-speaking world through a perceptive and awakened translator — in this case, Petrica Verdes. For the past few years, Verdes has been practicing meditation and living in various meditation communes in Italy, Germany and the UK. Translating Ilie Cioara’s work has been for him a labour of love and a process of spiritual growth.

Verdes said: “In 2002, I came across one of Ilie Cioara’s books in a bookshop, and I wrote the publisher straight away, asking if they could pass me the address of the author. The book just mesmerized me, I felt an energy around the text and I used to meditate with it and carry it with me.

We just “see” something and understand it profoundly, intuitively, without needing to filter any knowledge through the mind. This practice has become part of my life. It is a great gift to understand that truth is very simple. Applying it is more difficult, but this apparent difficulty is easily overcome with a little persistence and thirst for the divine.”

Ilie (rhymes with lily) is unique in a way, in the sense that he lived in almost complete isolation in Romania. Early in his life, he was hunted by the secret police and finally gaoled for six years because he did not support the communist regime. He seemed to be just an ordinary man, with a deep longing for the divine, living in very adverse circumstances. He belonged to no tradition of enlightenment, he wasn’t part of a lineage, he had no master, he never travelled to India.

Originally a Christian mystic, he repeated a mantra-like prayer frequently each day for over 20 years. One day, he felt an intuitive impulse to drop the mantra, and just practice ’silence of the mind’, by listening to the noises on the street etc, in the now. After following this practice for a few years, one morning, as he was waking up from his sleep, ‘he’ suddenly experienced what some have called, ‘liberation’ or ‘enlightenment’.

Until the age of 55, when Ilie awakened spiritually, he hadn’t written a single page, and never tried to be a teacher. Because he lived in almost complete isolation, his words have a freshness and a direct simplicity, devoid of any spiritual jargon. Ilie felt the impulse to share his experience and insights using short verses which could give the reader a taste of no-mind. The verses were followed by prose explanations (see example below).

Most of these writings had to be hidden in the apartment of a friend, until 1990, when the iron curtain fell, so as not to be confiscated by the communist authorities. They describe the practice of ‘Self-knowing’ using all-encompassing Attention. Like Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Eckhart Tolle and Adyashanti etc, his is a simple message of discovering our inner divine nature through the silence of the mind.

~ Resourced by Pete from: The Silence of the Mind blog, Non-Duality Magazine and Yogi Times

~ Book details: The Silence of the Mind, by Ilie Cioara. Trans. Petrica Verdes. Softcover: 145 pp. Obooks, John Hunt (Oct, 2011) ISBN:10: 1846948290 & 13: 978-1846948299

~ You can get good used copies Here

The Poetry

Eternal youth is a natural phenomenon,
It is each person’s destiny — as a mature, realized individual;
It ensues spontaneously, as an authentic experience,
An energy without support, bound by nothing.

Physically, youth depends oh the number of our years,
On the body’s progress towards maturity.
There are no contradictions. People consider themselves
As old as their physical age, according to their life expectancy.

Whereas psychologically it is a-different matter,
Youth is directly connected with Life’s constant newness;
Life itself demands that we encounter it,
The same way She is, as absolute newness in each movement.

Without this eternal, ever-renewing youth,
We will not understand the newness of the Universal movement.
We need to have a fresh, lucid and clear mind,
Completely detached from time, from the wandering memory.

Such a state is attained naturally,
When we understand the “ego” and its powerless nature,
Unable to embrace and really comprehend
The innocence of the naked moment.

The moment makes us young, if we encounter it constantly,
Without the old “self” — based on old residues;
Youth is unrelated to time, years do not define it,
In eternal youth, everyone and everything becomes integrated.

The Prose

Eternal youth is a natural phenomenon; it is the destiny of every human being who has reached a stage of spiritual maturity. This spiritual attainment appears spontaneously — as a true experience — when man discovers the Reality of his being, as immortal Divinity. In this fortunate circumstance, he has a Pure Energy and Consciousness without dimensions or cause.

On a physical plane, youth is determined by the age of our body, by its progress towards maturity. From this point of view, there are no contradictions. People consider themselves as old as their years, according to the climate or the geographical location they live in.

On a psychological level, it is a different matter. In this circumstance, youth is closely connected to the way we integrate and welcome Life’s eternal freshness. >•

Practically, Life itself requests us to encounter it in the same way She is — as absolute newness, with each movement. Without this Eternal Youth, we will never be able to encounter or understand the newness of the Universal movement. Only by being detached from time and space — from the wandering memory — we are able to understand that which is new and real, brought “here and now” by the constant mobility of Life.

How can we reach this eternal Youth within us? Only in one manner, that is: when we understand the “ego” and its powerless nature, unable to embrace and comprehend the purity of the present moment. When understanding occurs — as a direct experience — this fiction becomes silent, in humbleness, because it has understood its fundamental incapacity. In the psychological void thus created, we expand to Infinity and we acquire a new mind, perfectly functional and without limits.

Encountering the moment correctly leads us to a state of eternal Youth — without the senility based on mental accumulations. Youth is not a prisoner of time and it is not influenced by how many years old our physical body is.

In a state of complete inner freedom, on the threshold of the incoming moment – we remain untouched and just as free after the moment has passed, without recording any memory residues. We die psychologically to what has been and, simultaneously, we are reborn just as alive, fresh and always young in each second of Life in Its perpetual movement.

~ From: The Silence of the Mind, by Ilie Cioara pp 59.

There are now some videos up on the Net based on the writings of Ilie Cioara. To me, the background music runs somewhat contrary to the spirit and intention of what he’s pointing to, but nevertheless they are there and you may like to view them.

The longest is entitled: The Silence of the Mind (11.39)

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Others in the series are:

1. Perfectly Conscious (1.54)
2. How Can We Free Ourselves? (3.26)
3. Creation is Eternal Freshness (3.55)
4. The Power of Emptiness (1.39)
5. Listening and Watching (3.20)