Evolution of Love 2

Mind

So, the mind has this quality of intelligence and, naturally, with that intelligence goes compassion, love.

Love is something other than mere sensation; it is totally unrelated to our demands and fulfilments and all the rest of it. So the mind now has this quality, this stability. It is like a rock in the midst of a stream, in the midst of a river, immovable. And that which is stable is silent. Do be absolutely clear about this. That clarity is stability; that clarity can then examine any problem. Without this clarity the mind is confused, contradictory, broken up; it is unstable, neurotic, seeking, striving, struggling.

So we come to a point where the mind is totally clear and therefore completely immovable. Immovable, not in the sense of a mountain, but in the sense that it is completely without problems; therefore it is extraordinarily stable and yet pliable.

Now, such a mind is quiet. And you need to have a mind that is absolutely silent—absolutely, not relatively. There is the silence when you go of an evening into the woods; all the birds are still, the wind and the whisper of the leaves have ended; there is great outward stillness. And people observe this stillness and say, ‘I must have that stillness,’ and they depend on the stillness of being alone, being in solitude. But that is not stillness. Nor is the stillness created by thought which says, ‘I must be still, I must be quiet, I mustn’t chatter’.

But that is not it, because that is the result of thought operating on noise. We are talking of a stillness which is not dependent on anything. It is only this quality of stillness, this absolute silence of the mind, that can see that which is eternal, timeless, nameless—which is meditation.