The Quiet Mind

Have you ever been consciously aware of the movement of your mind in the moment?  That is, do you realize how the mind seems to require occupation and incursion?  The mind seems to be always preoccupied with concerns whether real or imagined.  When the mind is still, not moving, quiet, there is the possibility of something new.  You may realize the relationship that exist between the mind and its self created illusions. The content of the mind is its past, its very limited understanding based on experience.  That experience is always incomplete and biased.  It is the product of outside influences. Those influences result in our believing in and projecting the minds content no matter what the moment may actually dictate.  Its hard to "see" reality when we are looking through the past and trying to reconcile it with the actual reality of the moment.  The mind and its thought processes are seeking continuity with the past.  To continue with the old or its modification.  This is how the organism avoids fear of the unknown.  To try to make the unknown the known. Such activity only leads to more fear and in turn more conflict.  Where there is conflict there is violence.

The quiet mind exist in the unknown.  It accepts what is without the angst of what should be. What is can never be fully realized when the mind is battling the conflict and contradiction of its beliefs. It is the neurosis of thought, to believe that a conditioned consciousness can lead to anything but illusion.

You cannot "acquire" a quiet mind.  It cannot be practiced into existence.  No amount of meditation will bring you a quiet mind.  All these things are but the folly of the "one" who is seeking.  The "one" who seeks can only bring about what it recognizes.  It cannot "see" or "be" what it is not already.

A quiet mind comes uninvited.  When the organism has realized its own duality as the illusion of the known, then the totally new is possible.  The totally new and original is not the product of thought.  It is "wholeness" that is realized by an unconditioned consciousness. It is freedom from knowing and projecting the illusion of what was.

The quiet mind is not the product of any kind of spiritualism or secret practices.  It is simply and directly the realization of the defined self as the agent of all that is seeking to expand, influence, and dominate.