Vimala Thakar

Equipoise.

You live in the clarity of knowing who you are.

When we see the wholeness of life, of being born, living and dying, there is a joy in living and grace in dying.

As we deepen in understanding, the arbitrary divisions between inner and outer disappear.

The essence of life, the beauty and grandeur of life, is its wholeness.

Life is a mystery that contains silence which is free of movement.

Silence is the total negation of movement.

Life contains that silence, that stillness,

that state of unconditional freedom from movement or motion.

And it also contains mind, which is constantly moving.

There is not the duality of the known and the unknown, but it is the unknowable.

But silence is a realm where knowing and experiencing

become irrelevant.

So one may gather all the physical and psychological outgoing activities and sit down in a room.

It does not mean that one is sitting in silence.

One may close one's eyes, sit down in a corner, but maybe the center, the eye consciousness,

is waiting very eagerly to experience something in the invisible world.

To see, to recognize, to acquire something according to Christ, to Buddha, to Lao Tzu, to Confucius.

The center may be quiet, waiting patiently, decently, but this does not imply elimination of tensions.

You still carry the tension of acquiring something.