The True Silence Of Mind

From The Giving Self by Paul F. Gorman


In order to BE the spiritual demonstration we ARE in pure Truth of Being, we must be a CONSTANT state of RECEPTIVITY, 100% of the time. Are you? Of course not! That, dear friend, is why you lack spiritual evidence.

We must NEVER, EVER, judge the scene or situation that seems to be before us. Do you? Of course! That, dear friend, is why you lack spiritual evidence.

We must NEVER see an "I" AND a "he", an "I" AND a "her", an "I" AND an "it", an "I" AND a "situation" or "condition".

That personal sense of "I" IS the illusion that binds one’s experience to limitation and discord. Yet how many HUNDREDS of times throughout each twenty-four hours do you recognize a "he", "she", "it", "situation" or "condition" SEPARATE from your Self, and less than Utter Perfection Itself in the clothes of materiality? MANY hundreds of times! That, dear friend, is why you lack spiritual evidence.

So let’s see how this false SENSE of materiality, personal self, and separation from all Good is turned around, revealing rich demonstration in all areas of life.

I AM THE ONE.

I AM IT.

I AM THE VERY "DEMONSTRATION" OF INFINITE SELF

Your Real Being - which is this very being you are, here, but without the material sense - IS the Silence, or True Meditation, of Life Itself, for there is truly only One. Therefore, your WHOLE DAY must truly BE the One - the meditation of Silence towards the "outer" appearing scene - not just a few hours of “formal” meditation scattered throughout the day.

And what is "truly being the One", the "True Meditation"? It is a CONSTANT state of RECEPTIVITY, LISTENING to the Perfect Creation all about, with ABSOLUTELY NO JUDGMENT towards the "outer" appearing material world and everything that seems to be happening within it.

It is being a complete EMPTINESS of personal sense, so that the Real Creation, the Kingdom of God, is revealed - the TRUTH of ALL is revealed.

Realize, you and I - as a personal sense of "I" - cannot demonstrate a single grain of Truth - not one grain! Not one single grain of health, supply, home, success, relationship, love, or happiness.

Do you think for one moment "you" have demonstrated some spiritual health? You are WRONG! Do you think "you" have ever demonstrated a single penny of spiritual supply? You are WRONG! Do you think "you" have ever demonstrated even a single grain of compassion, generosity, charity, love, givingness, kindness, or understanding? You are WRONG!

And here’s a big one: do you think "you" have ever meditated, or been silent, spiritually? Of course "you" haven’t and "I" haven’t! Do you think Buddha did, Jesus did, Shankara did? Of course not! "If you bear witness to me (the personal sense of "I"), you bear witness to a lie." "Do not look to me; it is the Father within me that does the works."

So our attitude becomes, "Creation, 'I' cannot demonstrate, nor even meditate or be silent, so YOU be my Allness... YOU be my Health, YOU be my Supply, YOU be my Home, Business, Career, Success, Love, Joy, Relationship... YOU be my Meditation, my Silence... YOU be my All in All."

"The whole of me desires ONLY to see what God, Spirit, Creation sees here. Show me, Creation, what is TRULY present here, because I know for sure it isn’t what any personal sense of ‘I’ sees and experiences."

Do you see? We reach the true SILENCE of mind - the personal judging and desiring mind - where what IS - God Fullness and Perfection and Abundance - can become revealed, reveal Itself, become a RECEIVED, REVEALED clarity to the mind, as the mind is being NOTHING but an AVENUE OF AWARENESS - like a still or movie camera which RECEIVES images, rather than makes them, or creates its own concepts of the scene in front of it.

As you become empty, nothing but a RECEIVING awareness, you are released from the interpretation and concepts the mind has "held". The perfect Finished Kingdom then becomes evident. Yes, as soon as the concept-insistent mind is not present the only Presence is the Perfect Creation.

THAT’S WHAT THE PERFECTLY SILENT MIND - the completely IMpersonal mind - "sees".

Everything everywhere is the Perfect Presence, the finished, glorious Kingdom of utter Completeness, Life, Abundance and Joy. You are looking at It this minute. But you’re not seeing It. You are seeing the mind’s concepts of It, and that looks to be lacking, discordant, limited, separate, ill, diseased, unfriendly, insufficient, demanding.

The mind, left to its own devices, sees a world full of images that are nothing more than concepts ENTIRELY OF ITS OWN MAKING! The mind is, or embodies, CONCEPTS ONLY. You see the concepts of the conceptual mind - the collective mind. That is why the MIND can never, and will never, "see" the kingdom that ACTUALLY is the ONLY Presence it’s looking at, and being!

You have to STILL the conceptual mind, bring it to a quietness, where it has stopped its judging, where it is totally IGNORING what "it" sees. THEN, as the mind is utilized as it always should have been - as an AVENUE OF AWARENESS, like a camera RECEIVING images, not judging them to be this or that itself, THE TRUE KINGDOM, THE TRUE PRESENCE, IS REVEALED... or "comes" into clarity, "comes" into visibility.

So-called "healing" of any and every nature is simply the experience of being released from the "concepts" of the mind. There is nothing, ever, in the whole of the Infinite Creation, that needs healing or improving or prospering. You are never released from lack, limitation, discord, disease, hate, injustice or demand because these "conditions" never were present or real.

There were only, and just, CONCEPTS of the Perfect Kingdom "imaged" by the human mind, which is entirely CONCEPTUAL. Tell me, how can a "conceptual" device see the pure no-concepts kingdom? How can a red filter "see" pure, un-red light? How can a reel of film, full of frames and images, "see" the pure, no-images light of the projector?

As soon as - and I mean the MINUTE - we take the mind out of the equation, literally so that it is no longer "there", no longer being the presence that is seeing a conceptual creation, the TRUE CREATION becomes evident. Now that the "concept-device" is not present, the finished kingdom - the REAL, TRUE, ONLY Creation is revealed right in front of your eyes, AS you, AS your body, AS your occupation, AS your business, AS your health, wealth and relationships, AS your neighbors, friends, colleagues, customers, AS everything everywhere in Its perfect glory and pure Completeness of fulfillment.

It has always, always been the ONLY world, the ONLY body, the ONLY supply, the ONLY form, the ONLY activity.

But only NOW, as the conceptual mind is made nothingness, made to quieten its concept-imagery, and turned into an avenue of awareness, does the TRUE KINGDOM pr perfect Creation become visible to it. You are simply RELEASED from being "attached" to the concepts of the mind. What is REALLY present as everything everywhere is revealed.

The Unconditioned Mind is God’s Pure Mind, Substance and Omnipresence. The "conditioned" mind is the "human" mind. Yet Mind is mind! Mind is your mind! It is just that "your" mind, the collective human mind, is conceptual.

Revealing the fullness of the kingdom that is the ONLY creation right here at your feet, everything you are looking at and experiencing this very moment, is SIMPLY a matter of "rising" up to the UNCONDITIONED ONE MIND THAT IS GOD, SPIRIT, CONSCIOUSNESS, and is achieved simply by STOPPING, or "taking away" the conditioned "human" mind - in other words, taking away from the scene the "you" that is your mind, and just being the Creation sitting there, the Creation walking around, the Creation being active... which all means that "you" are now being RECEPTIVE TO THE PRESENCE OF THE ONE PERFECT CREATION instead of accepting of the conceptualized images the mind sees and experiences.

You are TOTALLY a "receiving awareness" not a judging mind. You are like the camera, completely and utterly not "making" its own images, but RECEIVING the images that are REVEALED to it.

"Stand still, and see the salvation of the lord" really means "Stand still, make no judgments, criticisms, beliefs; rise ‘above’ the conditioned mind, be the UNconditioned RECEPTIVE Mind, then you will see the kingdom revealed."

While the human mind is continuing its activity of "knowing" Truth, or "thinking" about Truth, or trying to "see" harmony, life, and supply - which it IS doing when it desires ITS CONCEPTS of the healing of the body, mind, salary, bank account, business, relationship, home, happiness or situation - that is like a clear sky without sunshine.

The mind cannot make Truth appear anymore than it can make sunshine shine. Only what IS can shine through, become visible, BE present. When God, Spirit, Creation is the only One sitting there, standing there, active there, observing there - when there is NO mind, NO "you" sitting there, impressing the scene in front of you with a billion mind-formed concepts - does the SHINING become visible... does the sky suddenly become evident as being filled-full of glorious sunshine.

It was only EVER the mind "blocking" the visibility of the kingdom - the conditioned, concept-filled mind. Lift "up" into the Pure, UNconditioned, absolutely-no-“you”-sitting-there Mind, and All is instantly revealed.

The perfect Creation of One Existence, One Life, One Presence, One Abundance, One Form, One Universe of Love and Joy is revealed to be right here, now, this instant, and eternally. There is a subtle but critical difference between "you" or "I" TRYING to BE the perfect creation all around, by THINKING It, MEDITATING It, trying "our self" to be the silence of It - "telling" It what It is, or should be, which, of course, can only ever be more CONCEPTS ABOUT the Kingdom, a clear sky without sunshine, and, instead, STILLING the mind, making an emptiness of the conditioned mind, an opening for the UNconditioned Mind that is a pure, think-less, concept-less, judgment-less... making it NOTHING more than an avenue or vehicle of AWARENESS ONLY, RECEPTIVITY ONLY - a complete openness into which glows the visible kingdom, the One True Presence, the True One Creation at your feet.