Inner Silence

An initial study in the technique of meditation is the antechamber of that divine peace that surpasses all knowledge. The most elevated form of thinking is non-thinking. When one achieves the stillness and silence of the mind, the ‘I’, with all its passions, desires, appetites, fears, affections, etc. becomes absent. It is only in the absence of the ‘I’, in the absence of the mind, that the Buddhata can awaken to unite with the Inner Self and take us to ecstasy.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Awakening, The Essence, The Science of Meditation

The mind has 300,000 receptive clans or centers, all of which should vibrate at the same tone without any effort. The mind is feminine in nature and is therefore accustomed to receive, assimilate, and comprehend. The natural state of the mind is receptive silent, and quiet like a deep, tranquil ocean. The thinking process is an abnormal accident, whose original cause is the pluralized I.

The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in The Mind

When the mind is free from all thoughts and is silent, the 300,000 clans then vibrate at the same tone, without any effort. When the mind is silent, the new, that which is real, comes to us.

The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in The Science of Meditation

The highest way of thinking is not thinking. When the mind is quiet and silent — free of daily routine and mundane anxiety — it is then in a state that is one hundred percent favourable for the Dream Yoga practice.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974 also in The Keys of Astral Travel, The Language of Dreams

The stillness of the ocean of the mind is not a result, it is a natural state. The swollen waves of thoughts are only an accident produced by the monster of the ‘I’.

The Revolution of the Dialectic also in The Mind

The fatuous mind, the stubborn mind, the mind which says: “With time I will achieve serenity, one day I will get there”, is condemned to failure because the serenity of the mind does not belong to time. Everything that belongs to time is of the ‘I’. The ‘I’ itself is of time.

The Revolution of the Dialectic also in The Mind

Those who want to assemble the serenity of the mind, to assemble it like someone who assembles a machine by intelligently joining all of its parts, are in fact, failures because the serenity of the mind is not constituted by several parts which can be assembled and disassembled, organized or disorganized, joined or separated.

The Revolution of the Dialectic also in The Mind

The esoteric exercise of internal silence exists in Gnosis. Our disciples in “Third Chamber” know of it.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in Internal Chatter

It is not irrelevant to state with complete clarity that internal silence must specifically refer to something precise and definite.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in Internal Chatter

“To empty the mind” or “to make it blank” in order to achieve internal silence is not what we want to explain in these paragraphs either.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in Internal Chatter

The practice of internal silence to which we are referring does not mean to impede something from penetrating into the mind either.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in Internal Chatter

Indeed, right now we are talking about something very different, a different kind of internal silence. This is not something vague and ordinary...

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in Internal Chatter

Normally, by “mental silence” is understood when one empties the mind of all kinds of thoughts, when one achieves the stillness and silence of the mind through meditation, etc. But there is another kind of silence. Suppose that a case of critical judgment comes before us in relation to a fellow man, and however, mentally, we remain silent, we do not judge, we do not condemn; we keep quiet both externally and internally. In this case, there is inner silence.

The Fifth Gospel The Rescue of our Inner Light also in Internal Chatter, The Science of Meditation

We first need to solve the causes of the contradiction to finish with the conflicts; only in this manner will peace arrive and, with it, the solutions of the problems. It is important to discover the cause of contradictions; it is necessary to analyze them in detail. Only in this manner is it possible to do away with the mental conflict. It is not correct to blame others for our internal contradictions; the causes of these contradictions are within us. Mental conflict exists between what we are and what we want to be, between what a problem is and what we want it to be. When we have a problem of any type: be it moral, economic, religious, family-related, marital, etc., our first reaction is to think about it, resist it, deny it, accept it, explain it, etc. It is necessary to comprehend that with mental anguish, contradiction, worry, conflict, it is not possible to solve any problem. The best way to react before a problem is silence. I am referring to the silence of the mind. This silence comes by not thinking about the problem. The silence comes when we comprehend that nothing is solved with conflict and contradictions. This silence is not anyone’s special gift, nor a certain type of ability. No one can cultivate this silence; it arrives by itself. It arrives when we comprehend that no problem is solved by resisting it, accepting it, denying it, affirming it, or explaining it, etc.

Introduction to Gnosis also in The Secret Weapon of the Ego

From mental silence intelligent action is born, the intuitive and wise action that will solve the problem no matter how difficult it might be. This intelligent action is not the result of any reaction. When we perceive the event, the problem, when we notice the fact without affirming it, denying it, or explaining it, when we do not accept the fact, or reject it, then the silence of the mind arrives. Intuition flourishes in silence. From silence the intelligent action that totally solves the problem bursts forth.

Introduction to Gnosis also in Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition

Only in mental silence and quietude is there freedom and wisdom.

Introduction to Gnosis also in The Science of Meditation

Life is an absurd succession of fleeting and vain desires. When we profoundly comprehend that all the desires in life are fleeting and vain, when we understand that the physical body is engendered in sin and that its destiny is the putrefaction of the sepulcher, then, from that profound comprehension, true peace of mind is born and contradiction and conflict disappear.

Introduction to Gnosis

Only the mind that is in peace can solve problems. Peace lies in the silence of the mind. Contradiction surges from stubbornness; when the mind clings to one single desire, when it wants its desire to be realized at any cost, it carries out its desire; in this way it is logical that there has to be conflict. If we carefully observe two people who are discussing a problem, we will be able to confirm that each person clings to his desire, each person wants to see his desire satisfied and this, naturally, creates mental conflict.

Introduction to Gnosis also in The Mind

The disillusioned, the disenchanted, those who no longer even want to think those who were not able to solve a vital problem, find the solution when their mind is serene and tranquil, when they had no hope whatsoever.

The Revolution of the Dialectic

We need the battle to pass and for the mind to remain still and serene; this is only possible by comprehending in depth the entire mechanism of the subjective and miserable mind.

The Revolution of the Dialectic

In the serenity of the mind, a new faculty is born in us, the name of said faculty is intuition. Only intuition can resolve problems.

The Revolution of the Dialectic also in Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition

Disciple: For example, if one does not identify with a scene, what effect does it have then to say: “I should have done this, I should have done that”?

The Fifth Gospel The Exercise of SELF-KNOWLEDGE

Master: Well, by saying “I should have done this or I should have done that”, it indicates that he did identify with the scene. When one does not identify with that scene, the mind remains still, calm, and in silence, as if nothing had happened. That is all. Any other question?

The Fifth Gospel The Exercise of SELF-KNOWLEDGE also in Identification

The reasoning person believes that he can attain the truth through the struggle of antithesis, but this only divides the mind and incapacitates it to comprehend the truth. The intuitive person only knows how to listen to the voice of the silence. Thus, within his serene mind, the eternal truths of life are reflected with splendid beauty.

The Revolution of Beelzebub, 1950 also in Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition, The Law of Opposites, The Law of the Pendulum, The Mind

The reasoning person converts his mind into a battlefield filled with prejudices, fears, anxieties, fanaticism, theories and his conclusions are always favorable to him. Yet, such a turbulent lake can never reflect the sun of truth.

The Revolution of Beelzebub, 1950 also in The Mind

The problems of life are nothing but mental forms with two poles: one positive and the other negative. Problems are sustained by the mind and are created by the mind. When we stop thinking about a problem, the latter inevitably ends. Happiness and sadness, pleasure and pain, good and evil, victory and defeat, constitute the battle of the opposites on which the ‘I’ is founded. The entire miserable life that we live goes from one opposite to another: victory, defeat; like, dislike; pleasure, pain; failure, success; this, that, etc.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Law of Opposites, The Law of the Pendulum, The Mind

Every antithetical battle, as insignificant and unconscious as it might appear, indicates, accuses, aims to obscure points which are ignored, unknown within the atomic infernos of the human being.

Runic Magic, 1969 also in Runic Magic

The awakening of consciousness is only possible through liberation and emancipation from mental dualism, from the battle of the antitheses, from intellectual waves. Any subconscious, infraconscious or unconscious struggle becomes an impediment to the liberation of the essence.

The Revolution of the Dialectic also in Awakening, The Law of the Pendulum

When we practice meditation our mind is assaulted by many memories, desires, passions, preoccupations, etc. We should avoid the conflict between attention and distraction. A conflict exists between distraction and attention when we combat those assailants of the mind. The ‘I’ is the projector of said mental assailants. Where there is conflict, stillness and silence do not exist.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Science of Meditation

There are two types of concentration: the first is an exclusive type and the second is a full, total, non-exclusive type. True concentration is not the result of options with all its battles, nor is it to choose these or those thoughts.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Science of Meditation

That which I have an opinion about; that this thought is good or that that one is bad, and vice versa; that I should not think about this and that it is better to think about that, etc., in fact forms conflicts between attention and distraction, and where there are conflicts, the stillness and silence of the mind cannot exist.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Mind

When the mind divides itself between intellect and subconscious, analyser and analysed, etc., there are antagonisms and battles, and where there are antagonisms and battles, therefore there does not exist stillness and silence of the mind.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Subconscious

When the mind is silenced violently it is really not in silence and deep within, it clamors, shouts and despairs.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66

When we comprehend the uselessness of thinking during this practice, which will take us to inspirational knowledge, then the mind will naturally remain quiet and in silence. There is the need to distinguish between a mind which is quiet and a mind which has to be forced to be quiet. There is the need to distinguish between a mind which is in silence and a mind which is silenced by force.

The Aquarian Message, 1960 also in Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition, The Keys of Astral Travel, The Mind, The Science of Meditation

When the mind is quiet and silenced with violence, a secret struggle exists, and this mind is therefore not quiet, neither is it in silence.

The Aquarian Message, 1960 also in The Keys of Astral Travel, The Science of Meditation

When the mind is calm, in deep silence, the student can inevitably listen o the SOUND OF THE CRICKET: a subtle, sharp, penetrating sound. Even more than that — if the Soul is absorbed in that mystical sound, the Doors of Mystery open up for the student. Therefore, in those instants, rise from the bed, instinctively, and leave the room to head for the Temples of the White Lodge, or to any place of the Universe.

Logos, Mantram, Theurgy, 1959 also in Clairaudience, The Keys of Astral Travel

When the mind is really still, not violently stilled, but spontaneously and naturally still; when the mind is in silence, not silenced by force, gagged –because then it would be screaming inside–; no –I repeat–, in silence in a natural way, then the new comes.

The Fifth Gospel The Ephemeral Mechanisms of the Mind Lecture given to the brothers from El Salvador – Mexico City – 1970 also in The Science of Meditation

Intimate, reality, without having arrived at being true technical and scientific masters of that mysterious science called meditation. It is completely impossible to experience the Being, the Intimate, reality, without having arrived at true mastery of the quietude and silence of the mind. However, we should not deceive ourselves and confuse the cat with the hare.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Lying, The Science of Meditation

The ‘I’ also strives for and covets those silences and even artificially fabricates them. During profound meditation, we need total quietude and silence of the mind, but we do not need that false quietude and silence fabricated by the ‘I’. We should not forget that the devil saying Mass often deceives even the most astute people.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Greed, Lying, The Science of Meditation

It is logical to say that if we want to silence the mind by force, by storm, and if we want to calm it down by torturing it and tying it up, moved by the covetousness to experience the Being, we will only obtain artificial silences and arbitrary tranquility produced by the ‘I’.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Greed

When we try to unite all of those fragments during meditation, with the sound purpose of being integral, then all those fragments form another great fragment that we have to battle with, therefore, making the quietude and silence of the mind impossible.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Science of Meditation

When we truly comprehend that such a superior ‘I’ and inferior ‘I’, in such a way as my thoughts and ‘I’ etc. are entirely the ego, the myself, it is clear that through deep comprehension we free ourselves from the dualistic thought, and the mind then remains truly quiet and in profound silence.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Mind

Only when the mind is really quiet, only when the mind is in true silence can we experience that which is reality, that which is the authentic Being, the Intimate.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66

These days, the poor intellectual animal falsely called man, only has one useful element within, the aforementioned element is the Buddhata, the essence of the mind, with which we can experience the Being, the Intimate, what is real. This precious element is placed within the bottle of the animal intellect. When during interior profound meditation the mind remains completely quiet and in absolute silence within and without, not only in the superficial level, but also in all the different subconscious corridors, layers, zones, and spheres, then the essence, the precious element, escapes from the bottle and fuses with the Being, with the Intimate, in order to experience reality.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Essence, The Science of Meditation

Only with mental stillness and silence can we extract out from the black subconscious tomb all of the rottenness of the past, in order to reduce it to ashes with the marvelous fire of profound comprehension.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Science of Meditation, The Subconscious

By giving form to phrases, memories, images, ideas, desires, etc., mental associations constitute the fundamental cause of the incessant chattering of the mind and the entire battle of antitheses. If with comprehension we disassociate from the mind, if with comprehension we dissociate from all subconscious memories, if with comprehension we eliminate the subjective elements of our perceptions, then, it is clear that the mind remains quiet and silent: not only on the surface, but also in the deepest levels of the subconscious.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Internal Chatter, The Law of Opposites, The Law of the Pendulum, The Mind, The Science of Meditation

By all means, it becomes luminous to deeply comprehend that when this tempest in the ocean of the mind ceases and the struggle between the opposites finishes, the Essence escapes and submerges itself within that which is the Reality.

Runic Magic, 1969 also in The Human Soul, The Law of Opposites, The Law of the Pendulum, The Science of Meditation

What is very difficult, labourious, arduous and strenuous is the achieving of the absolute mental silence in all and each one of the 49 subconscious departments of the mind.

Runic Magic, 1969 also in The Science of Meditation, The Subconscious

To reach, to obtain quietude and silence in the mere superficial intellectual level, or in some subconscious departments of the mind is not enough, because the Essence continues bottled up within the submerged infraconscious and unconscious dualism. A blank mind is something extremely superficial, hollow and intellectual. What we need is serene reflection if what we truly want is to achieve the quietude and absolute silence of the mind.

Runic Magic, 1969 also in The Essence, The Law of Opposites, The Science of Meditation, The Subconscious

The Chinese word ‘MO’ signifies silence or serenity, and the word ‘CHAO’ signifies to reflect or to observe.

Runic Magic, 1969

Therefore, serenity signifies the serenity of no thought, and reflection signifies intense and clear consciousness.

Runic Magic, 1969

Serene reflection is the clear consciousness within the tranquility of no thought. When the perfect serenity reigns, the true profound Illumination is achieved.

Runic Magic, 1969 also in The Science of Meditation

In the final instance, it is obvious, evident and clear that the study of oneself, and serene reflection conclude in the quietude and in the silence of the mind.

Runic Magic, 1969 also in Runic Magic, The Science of Meditation

When the mind is quiet and in silence, not only in the intellectual level, but in all and each one of the forty-nine subconscious departments, then the Newness emerges. The Essence, the consciousness is unbottled, and the awakening of the soul, that is to say, the Ecstasy, the Samadhi, the Satori of the Saints occurs.

Runic Magic, 1969 also in Awakening, Runic Magic, The Science of Meditation, The Subconscious

In the Oriental World one speaks with much synthesis. For example, in Zen or Chan Buddhism we are told that we have to reach stillness, silence of the mind with the purpose of one day achieving the irruption of the Illuminating Void; we are told that in Satori there is true happiness. One wants, in the meditation rooms, to achieve the stillness of the mind –inside, outside and in the middle–; we are told that the mind must remain like a wall, absolutely still.

The Fifth Gospel The Serious Damages of Mental Representations Third Chamber – Mexico City – June 1977 also in The Science of Meditation

Well, I realize that in the meditation rooms in Japan it may be possible to reach Satori, but it lasts only a few minutes or, in the best case, one or more hours, after which, the mind again becomes as agitated as ever. One comes out of that state of happiness to appear before the group, blissful, inebriated on Samadhi. Surely, the guru intervenes by giving him a few slaps to get him out of that state and bring him back to balance. Otherwise –it is said in pure Zen– one would fall into the Satori disease. Of course, in a state of extraordinary mystical exaltation –at all times, day and night– one forgets that one exists and loses balance in relation to the things of existence, but that is when the guru, with some good slaps, takes one out of that state and balances him.

The Fifth Gospel The Serious Damages of Mental Representations Third Chamber – Mexico City – June 1977 also in The Science of Meditation

That phrase of Blavatsky, in her wonderful work entitled The Voice of Silence, is formidable, extraordinary. Only thus, –I say– would it be truly possible for the mind to remain still and in silence, inside, outside and in the middle, not for a while or within a meditation room, but continuously.

The Fifth Gospel The Serious Damages of Mental Representations Third Chamber – Mexico City – June 1977 also in The Science of Meditation

Who is a Master of Samadhi? It is someone who enjoys a continuous Consciousness, someone who achieved the stillness and silence of his mind in a perennial way.

The Fifth Gospel The Serious Damages of Mental Representations Third Chamber – Mexico City – June 1977 also in Awakening, The Science of Meditation

As one studies the different folds of the mind, one also understands that the stillness and total silence of understanding is not possible as long as the mind is occupied by psychic aggregates and by representations.

The Fifth Gospel The Serious Damages of Mental Representations Third Chamber – Mexico City – June 1977

Illumination and ecstasy come when the mind is silent, when the mind is quiet.

The Aquarian Message, 1960 also in The Science of Meditation

When the mind is quiet and in silence, then the Divine Mother delights in us. That is beatitude.

The Yellow Book, 1959 also in The Science of Meditation, The Yellow Book

When the mind is quiet, empty of thoughts, desires, opinions, etc., when the mind is silent the Truth comes to us.

Fundamental Education, 1970 also in The Science of Meditation

When the mind is quiet and in a profound silence, then the soul escapes in order to immerse itself within the Great Alaya of the Universe.

My Return to Tibet, 1969 also in The Science of Meditation

This disconnection between consciousness and intellect is precisely the one that can transfigure the delightful coitus into something supernatural, spiritual and terribly divine. The ultimate goal of mystical practices, like that of Zen or that of Christian quietism of Fray Miguel de Molinos, is that they can lead us to the stillness and silence of the mind, The new arrives only when the mind is still, when the mind is in silence.

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970 also in The Science of Meditation

In those moments of indescribable delights, the consciousness escapes from within the mortifying mind in order to experience the reality.

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970

Unusual moments exist in life when our mind rests without worries of any kind, when the mind is calm, when the mind is in silence. Then, the new arrives.

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in The Science of Meditation

In such instants, it is possible to see the bases, the foundations we depend upon. When the mind is in profound interior restfulness, we can verify for ourselves the crude reality of the sand of life, upon which we built our house. (Read Matthew 7, Verses 2429; the parable that talks about the two foundations).

Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in The Science of Meditation

The stillness and silence of the mind has a single objective: liberate the essence from the mind so that it may be fused with the Monad or Inner Being. The essence can experience that which we call the Truth. During ecstasy and in the absence of the ‘I’, the essence can live freely in the world of the Mist of Fire, experiencing the Truth When the mind is in a passive and receptive state, absolutely still and in silence, the essence or Buddhata is liberated from the mind and ecstasy arrives. The essence is always bottled up in the battle of the opposites, but when the battling ends and the silence is absolute, the essence remains free and the bottle broken into pieces.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Being Is the Being, The Essence, The Law of Opposites, The Law of the Pendulum

The stillness and absolute silence of the mind that ensues after grand practices brings about the breaking of the bag, our entrance into the Illuminating Void; we then enter into ecstasy, because our consciousness awakens.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66

When the Mind is still, within and without, when the Mind is in Silence within and without, when the mind has freed itself from dualism, then the novel comes to us. It is necessary to empty the mind of all kinds of thoughts, desires, passions, appetites, fears, etc. in order for the experience of what is Real to come to us.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Fear, The Science of Meditation

The eruption of the Void, the Experience in the illuminating Void, are only possible when the Essence, the Soul, the Buddhata frees itself from the intellectual bottle.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Essence, The Human Soul

The Essence is engrossed within the tremendous battle of the opposites: heat and cold, like and dislike, yes and no, good and evil, pleasant and unpleasant.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Human Soul, The Law of Opposites, The Law of the Pendulum

When the Mind is still, when the Mind is in silence, then the Essence remains free and the Experience of what is Real in the illuminating Void comes.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Essence, The Human Soul, The Law of the Pendulum, The Science of Meditation

It is not superfluous to affirm in this chapter that the aspirants of the Mahayana School in truth long and have an infinite yearning for direct experience of Illuminating Emptiness. In no way do we exaggerate judgements if we assert with a certain fervour that disciples of the Hinayana School labour tenaciously in the "Forge of Cyclops" (Sex) with the intelligent objective of achieving inner Self-Realization of Illuminating Emptiness. When the mind is still, when the mind is in silence from within and without and in the centre, the mystic experience of Emptiness comes; however, it is obvious that SelfRealization is something very different. Emptiness is not very easy to explain. Certainly I can tell you that it is not definable or describable.

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971 also in The Science of Meditation

The Bodhisattva of the Avatar Ashiata Shiemash suffered the unutterable, and fasting for forty days, mortifying himself horribly, sunk in profound inner meditation, he achieved the disassociation of the mental mechanics and his mind remained solemnly still and in imposing silence. The result was ecstasy with the incarnation of his real Being.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Science of Meditation

Han Shan attained stillness and silence of mind. He converted himself, in fact, into an illuminated Master of Perfection. The sages of old have said, “If one does not allow his mind to stir when he hears the sound of flowing water for thirty years, he will come to the realisation of the Miraculous Understanding of Avalokiteshvara.” Han Shan converted himself into an athlete of internal meditation and nothing could disturb him. His daily food consisted of a gruel of bran, weeds, and rice water, in a quantity that was sufficient in order to live.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66

Supreme Christmas Message 1965-1966: “The Science of Music” clairaudience, telepathy, royal intuition, etc, etc, were completely awakened in Han Shan thanks to mental stillness and silence. As a result of his illumination Han Shan composed this precious poem transcribed by Chang Chen Chi: When perfect stillness reigns, True illumination is reached.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66

With a lot of meditation and with supreme mental quietude and silence, Han Shan attained the awakening of the Buddhata, the essence, the consciousness. During the hours of sleep Han Shan ceased to dream and lived completely awake in the superior worlds. Upon returning to his physical body after a period of sleep, he brought to his physical brain all the memories of his experience in the superior worlds, everything that happened to him. He accomplished this with mental stillness and silence.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Awakening, Memory, The Science of Meditation

At the time of having concluded the whole film on the screen, all that procession of the “I”, all that succession of desires, cravings, fears, memories, hatreds, etc., the mind obviously remains still and in the deepest silence; and then it is natural that the Essence, the Consciousness that we carry within becomes unbottled from within the mind, frees itself, and so we come to experience the real, that which is the truth, understood?

The Fifth Gospel The Ephemeral Mechanisms of the Mind Lecture given to the brothers from El Salvador – Mexico City – 1970 also in The Essence

Once it is still and in the deepest silence, then my Consciousness is unbottled, this is obvious. It goes out of the mind and I am going to live in Lemuria, and see the facts in Lemuria, and relive the existences that I had in Lemuria. Thus, I come out of meditation with all the information, I write it down and give it to you in printed books. How is this? What do you think about my system, my dear brothers?

The Fifth Gospel The Ephemeral Mechanisms of the Mind Lecture given to the brothers from El Salvador – Mexico City – 1970 also in The Retrospective Exercise, The Root Races, The Science of Meditation

It is crystal clear and beyond all doubt that after establishing the fundamental cornerstone of meditation, the mind remains quiet and in profound and transcendent silence.

Fundamental Education, 1970 also in The Science of Meditation

We should experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real manner; this is only possible in the stillness and silence of the mind, and this is achieved by means of meditation.

The Revolution of the Dialectic also in The Science of Meditation

It is only by truly comprehending in depth what the useless battles of the mind are, it is only by comprehending the internal and external actions and reactions, the secret answers, the hidden motives, the concealed impulses, etc. that we can then attain the imposing stillness and silence of the mind.

The Revolution of the Dialectic

It is only in the serenity of the mind that we see the ‘I’ just as it is and not as it apparently is. To see the ‘I’ and comprehend it becomes an integral whole. The ‘I’ has failed after we have comprehended it because it inevitably becomes dust.

The Revolution of the Dialectic

When the mind is in absolute repose, we see the multitude of elements and sub elements, actions and reactions, desires, passions, etc. as something foreign to us but which awaits the precise instant to be able to exercise its control over ourselves, over our personality. That is the reason why the silence and stillness of the mind is worthwhile. Obviously, the relaxation of the mind is beneficial in the most complete sense of the word for it leads us to individual self-knowledge.

The Revolution of the Dialectic

Stillness and silence, that is what is wanted during meditation, precisely that, because when the mind is still, when the mind is in silence, the new comes.

The Fifth Gospel The Ephemeral Mechanisms of the Mind Lecture given to the brothers from El Salvador – Mexico City – 1970 also in The Science of Meditation

It may happen that it has terrible fights there, in the submerged depths, in very deep folds, unknown to you. Yes, don’t let it be strange to you: the inner submerged or infra-conscious profundities of the mind. In such profundities or intellectual abysses, there also are fights that we often do not know about in the merely superficial region of reasoning; fights, fights that hold you back and do not allow the Consciousness to escape, fights that bottle up the Essence.

The Fifth Gospel The Ephemeral Mechanisms of the Mind Lecture given to the brothers from El Salvador – Mexico City – 1970 also in The Subconscious

Thus, subduing the mind, taming it like a wild colt, in the end, the moment comes when it learns to be still and in silence, until the liberation of the Essence comes, the liberation of the Consciousness.

The Fifth Gospel The Ephemeral Mechanisms of the Mind Lecture given to the brothers from El Salvador – Mexico City – 1970 also in The Essence, The Mind

Then, upon reaching those heights, the mind is still and in silence, it is no longer a projecting mind, it is no longer a mind that is offended, it no longer reacts to anything, it receives the messages that come from the superior parts of the Being. It is a mind full of plenitude.

The Fifth Gospel The Serious Damages of Mental Representations Third Chamber – Mexico City – June 1977 also in Anger, The Mind, The Science of Meditation

To say that this path is very beautiful and everything, but what do we do with the worries? What do we do with the suffering that others cause us? It is impossible to have a still and silent mind when we live in a world full of problems and difficulties. It is absurd, because by disintegrating the inhuman aggregates that we carry inside, the problems and difficulties will end.

The Fifth Gospel The Serious Damages of Mental Representations Third Chamber – Mexico City – June 1977 also in Suffering

Disciple: Master, I would like you to clarify the difference between the stillness of the mind and the quieted mind.

The Fifth Gospel The Serious Damages of Mental Representations Third Chamber – Mexico City – June 1977

In the name of truth, we must emphatically say that true stillness and silence of the mind come when the Ego and the representations of the understanding have died. Then comes the absolute stillness and silence of the mind; the mind becomes receptive, it remains in the hands of the Being, and only the Being can do. Any other question?

The Fifth Gospel The Serious Damages of Mental Representations Third Chamber – Mexico City – June 1977 also in The Being Is the Being

Disciple: Master, please excuse me. So, the representations that come to us when we are trying to do a meditation, even very sacred characters for us, what about them?

The Fifth Gospel The Serious Damages of Mental Representations Third Chamber – Mexico City – June 1977 also in The Science of Meditation

Disciple: Can a still mind perceive images that are not of this world?

The Fifth Gospel The Serious Damages of Mental Representations Third Chamber – Mexico City – June 1977

Master: Sure, it is obvious that a clean, pure mind can perceive the archetypes of Nature, the spiritual archetypes of a mountain, or a valley, a hill, or the ocean, or a flower, but those archetypes that reach the mind, flooding the mind, are no longer mere representations, nor have they ever been extracted from the world of the senses. These types of representations, in the sense that I am telling you, come directly from the world of the Spirit; for someone who has entered completely into the temple of the mind.

The Fifth Gospel The Serious Damages of Mental Representations Third Chamber – Mexico City – June 1977

Wu Wen replied, “Everyday, I have the impression that there is nothing in my mind.” This was a wise response. Already, Wu Wen had the impression that there was nothing in his mind. His mind began to remain empty; the battle of thoughts was coming to an end. Wu Wen advanced remarkably well, but something was missing. Chin, therefore, said to him, “You can practice in stillness, but you lose the practice in the midst of activity.” This remark disturbed Wu Wen a lot, since it pinpointed his weak area.

The Buddha's Necklace, 1967

To be able to have the mind quiet and in silence, empty of all kinds of thoughts, even when hungry or thirsty, even when bitten by mosquitoes or when people are very noisy nearby: this is very difficult and Wu Wen couldn’t do this. He was able to meditate in quiet but not in the midst of activity, that is to say, with all those inconveniences. “What must I do?” Wu Wen asked Chin. He answered, “Have you never heard what Chung Lao Tze says? If you want to understand this, face south and contemplate Ursa Minor.” Enigmatic words. ..exotic words...mysterious.. difficult to understand, and, most important, no explanation was given. Having said this, Chin left.

The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in The Science of Meditation

Master Wu Wen felt himself to be neither a god nor a deva, in the manner of mythomaniacs, but a wretched pluralized “I” who was prepared to die in himself more each time. Master Wu Wen did not divide himself into “I” and “my thoughts” for he understood that “my thoughts” and “I” are the whole “I” and that it is necessary to have integrity to achieve perfect meditation.

The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in The Science of Meditation

Under these conditions, all 300,000 centers of Master Wu Wen’s mental body vibrated intensely with the same tone, without any effort obtaining and receiving love and wisdom.

The Buddha's Necklace, 1967

It is unquestionable that the mind will never be able to solve a Zen problem. It is ostensible that our understanding will never be able to comprehend the deep significance of a Koan. By all means it is easy to foresee that when the mind tries to integrally comprehend any Koan, it fails and becomes defeated. Then, the mind remains in a profound stillness and in silence. Thus, when the mind is still, when the mind is in silence, the new arrives.

My Return to Tibet, 1969 also in The Mind, The Science of Meditation

In those moments, the Essence, the Buddhata escapes from within the intellect. Then, while in the absence of the ‘I’ it experiences ‘That’, which does not belong to time…

My Return to Tibet, 1969 also in The Science of Meditation

The experience of the ‘Illuminated Void’ allows us to experience an element that radically transforms.

My Return to Tibet, 1969