When you’re silent, there is one mind. When you’re thinking, you are many. Jun 10, 1984

Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, explains how a mirror reflects everything before it. It reflects young you when you’re young. It reflects old you when you’re old. But the mirror isn’t old or young. It is uncontaminated. The same consciousness is watching from inside you when you’re young, when you’re middle aged and when you’re old. But that Witness isn’t young or middle aged or old. Just like the mirror, your consciousness doesn’t change. Just the content is different. We all have heard teachings about being good. Buddha said “if you cleanse your heart, your conduct will be unimpeachable. Feeling good about yourself should be a natural thing. A child instinctively wants freedom. The child thinks freedom is good. But then Mother restricts freedom, which says it’s wrong. The child then thinks “I must be wrong.” To be truly good means to be conscious in everything you do. Gurdjieff’s stop method worked to help his students be conscious in everything they did. When you’re silent, there is one mind. When you’re thinking, you are many. And in tumult. Thinking disturbs the silent mind. And he rejects himself. As a human you have a rare opportunity to wake up. Don’t squander that opportunity. Jun 10, 1984