A Guided Meditation on Listening and Silence - Based on Selected Verses and Poems of Ilie Cioara

These poems/stanzas written by Ilie Cioara have been formatted
for the purpose of a guided meditation. Excerpts taken from the
book by Cioara, "The Silence of the Mind" - translated by Petrica
Verdes.  Ilie Cioara (1916 - 2004) was an enlightened mystic
who did not belong to any lineage. He is unique in a way, in the
sense that he lived in almost complete isolation, in Romania,
Eastern Europe in a communist country, completely oblivious of
nonduality, Zen, etc. Originally a Christian mystic, he practiced
a mantra for over 20 years. One day, he felt an intuitive impulse
to drop the mantra, and just practice the silence of the mind, by
listening to the noises on the street, in the now. After
following this practice for a few years, one morning, as he was
waking up from his sleep,  he realised the veils had
completely dropped. His description of meditation is fresh and
devoid of any tradition and jargon.


May whatever goodness arises from these readings/offerings be for
the benefit of all sentient beings.


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