In Total Silence the Mind Comes Upon the Eternal

"The mind now has this quality of great stability. And that which is stable is silent. Are you following all this? Have you gone into this? The mind needs to have the clarity to examine any problem. That clarity is stability. Do you understand?
It is only the mind that is confused, contradictory, and broken-up that is unstable, neurotic, seeking, striving, and 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 immovable in the sense that it is so completely... It has no problem. Therefore, it is extraordinarily stable and thus 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 of an evening in the woods... there is a great silence: all the birds have gone to bed, the wind, the whisper of the leaves has ended, and there is great outward stillness. People observe that stillness and say, 'I must have that stillness', and therefore depend on the stillness of being alone, being in solitude. That is not stillness.
And there is the stillness created by thought. Which is, thought says, 'I must be still, I must be quiet, I mustn't chatter,' and gradually it produces a stillness. But that is not it, because it is the result of thought operating on noise. Right? So we are talking of a stillness that is not dependent on anything. And it is only that quality of stillness, that absolute silence of the mind that can see that which is eternal, timeless, nameless. This is meditation."

– J. Krishnamurti

Jaap Sluijter
Executive Director