Blissful Silence Is The Ultimate Result of Spiritual Knowledge

Here’s what that means.

The Principle: You Are Consciousness

Underneath the veil of why we verbally think we do things, there is the intuition of our actual doing them. Therefore, to open one’s eyes to intuition, or to become one with the universe or God, one’s mind must be silent.

Think about a lake, tossed about by the wind. Its surface will be full of waves; mud will be disturbed and cloud the water. But if the wind becomes still, the lake becomes still, and the mud settles. The water is left to clear, and it’s easier to see what’s at the bottom.

It is similarly so with the spirit. Our mind is the water, boiling and churning with thoughts that obscure the center source of the mind — the Self, or the feeling of “I AM.” Consciousness.

The Journey: Getting To Know Consciousness

Usual knowledge is of-the-world. But why know the world unless you first know your purpose in it? Knowledge of Self is what makes worldly knowledge useful. Without self-knowledge, worldly-knowledge just causes anxiety, because you “know you could” or “know you have to” do so much, and you hate it.

Be still. Meditate. Go within.

These are the methods to get to know your spirit. The more you investigate your Self, the more certainty you will have about life. The more certainty you create, the quieter your mind will be.

The Result: A Peacefully Unified Mind

At some point in spiritual practice, you will realize: the peace which you have been pouring into yourself has become an ocean. An ocean is able to receive even a polluted stream, and yet retain its identity as an ocean of water.

In the same way, the flow of information from the senses can appear polluted with suffering. Yet your peace and clarity will remain. Suffering will dissolve away from your experience as a thing which was never really real to begin with.

To know yourself spiritually means to know that you are the assigner of meaning in your life. When you become aware of that process, you can choose to train your meaning-projector to project more and more empowering and blissful states.

After a while, that blissful expansion will be your new default state of mind.