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"One heard the roar of the wind as the car sped along, yet this stillness
was inseparable from the noise of the wind, from the sounds of the car,
and from the spoken word. The mind had no recollection of previous
stillnesses, of those silences it had known; it did not say, 'This is
tranquillity.' There was no verbalization, which is only the
recognition and the affirmation of a somewhat similar experience.
Because there was no verbalization, thought was absent. There was no
recording, and therefore thought was not able to pick up the silence
or to think about it; for the word 'stillness' is not stillness.
When the word is not, the mind cannot operate, and so the experiencer
cannot store up as a means of further pleasure. There was no gathering
process at work, nor was there approximation or assimilation. The movement of the
mind was totally absent."
Commentaries on Living, First Series, p.57-58 |
