Ruben Feldman Gonzalez: "If you want to bring the Silence to the world , it's already gone" WHY? 

Purpose.. effort.. the illusion of the split of Reality (into subject-object) produced by thought, the horizontal conflict. It's a distortion of perception. But it's necessary to perform any action, to do something. That's why it (this mechanism of the horizontal split) evolved in the brain (by/with thought). 

So work/action has to be BALANCED with complete non-action in complete unobstructed Freedom/Peace, silence and stillness without any choice or effort. If not, the META Process with its horizontal split can drive one "crazy" bit by bit (e.g. fear, obsessions, stress, lack of sleep, desires, addictions, etc).

All of this, the very simple mechanism how the META process of thought produces this illusion of the horizontal conflict/split (so has to multiply division), is re-learned, re-discovered, has to be re-discovered in the brain, from the ground up. NOT in the books (only). Re-discovered over and over again, maybe from different points of view. But it happens all by itself for a monk (some one vitally interested in this) and this is correct, the best what can happen to any one.

WHO cares? The Universe in all those brains that have awakened is the same one intelligence, because there is no division.. And the intelligence wants intelligent solutions (not like wars and the rat race).

So that is also the "Will of God".. So the whole issue if the world will be destroyed by the fools is not yet completely determined. Yes there are wars, bc of thought and it's imaginary products. BUT thought has also created magnificent technology.. It is limited and it creates deadly problems but it wasn't ALL bad from the Universe to allow for the mechanism of the horizontal conflict to develop in the brain...

.. Not only intelligent solutions for "problems" but they already are living in the undivided way so they don't create the problems in the first place.

Stillness and Silence is the Ground of that living, it's being one with the Void, Nothingness, complete boundless Peace, complete Ecstasy that is the Universe, the kernel of the Universe.

UP/Yoga/Zazen/Dhjana, etc. = letting everything go as the Universe wants (so called "God's will" :). Let  everything go completely as It wants!

Complete denial/ negation of the Self (everything that it wants). The negation includes "UP" (the idea of it)!

That means it is best "done" by silence and stillness. 

In (functional or non-functional) work it may not be possible. It's because the horizontal conflict  (the illusory product of thought that is the split into the subject and object) may be necessary  to perform it (operate on the so called objects of the "environment"). That is why whatever "we" "do" is so often the cause of so much stress, fear, effort, conflict, anguish, etc. The horizontal conflict is the root of it, the root of stress.

Meister Eckhart was a great Giant! (you can substitute "The Universe", "Void" or "Sunya" for "God" and "the world of the human society - all products of thought" for "creatures" in the passage):

"If therefore you want to have and find full joy and consolation in God, see to it that you are stripped of all creatures, of all consolation from creatures. For certainly, as long as creatures comfort you, you will never find true comfort. But if nothing can comfort you save God, truly God will console you, and with him and in him all that is delight. If you are consoled by what is not God, you will have comfort neither here nor there. If however creatures do not console you and you don't enjoy them, you will find comfort both here and there"

Regarding the so called "Will of God" :), the so called "religious" people might have not understood that war is also "the will of God" (the will of the Universe). Very simply because war is obviously currently happening, that is all the "reason" behind it why it's the "Will of God" currently. The thought of the people has obviously always have thought that "God" is some "being" somewhere (in "Heavens" :) who can choose and control what's going on in the world (what a funtastic product of thought! :) because of their catholic upbringing and all the conditioning in the society. But "God" (The Universe, Sunyata, Void, etc.) is simply THAT what IS (all of It, the whole unitary movement) that is happening. It does not mean that we - the monks.. should participate in war, it's an activity of the fools.. The task of the monks is stillness and silence. 

Suffering is the expression of the imaginary product of thought called the Self. Stillness and silence is the expression of understanding.

 Let me ask you a question, OK?

If there is only one unitary undivided movement ("THAT"), what can be tried or attempted? Who attempts it? What can be achieved?

Attempt is a rather unfortunate word to use in this context, of B.

UP is not a positive thing! It's a negation (negative!) of all illusions, including the "UP" (the Idol).

An "attempt" can only be made in C, where there is an ILLUSION of a limited movement (the me/ the Self/ the horizontal conflict). So ALL attempts are things of C, can only "take place" in the illusion of C (sometimes functional, like work, etc.)

 UP/Yoga/Dhjana/Zazen/the Universe fills an empty brain immediately, without time. It's seamless, so to speak, it can be said that it's the same, one movement..

In fact the energy of the Universe IS already in the brain, in the Posterior brain. But thought in the Anterior brain blocks it when it invents the horizontal conflict, so the purpose, direction, and the self.

UP cannot be initiated, tried, attempted bc to initiate it, there would have to be knowledge and image (a definition) of what to pursue, so.. a purpose/ a goal, so we're in the same old circle of thought..

 

UP/The Universe CANNOT be SUSTAINED (by thought).

It comes all of itself when one is at COMPLETE leisure (empty brain), when there is void in the brain, no effort at all, no purpose, no knowledge of anything, no expectation. 

Complete void in the brain = complete UP/the Universe.

It's bc the void in the brain IS the same void that is the Universe..

Any PURPOSE/goal = the split into subject-object/ horizontal conflict. It's actually a lapse in observation, incorrect observation, so thought can than "insert" this illusion (sometimes functional). To operate on the "environment" thought invents the division into subject-object (something in the "environment", like a forest to cut). The subject (thinks that it) acts on the object/ environment. Without a purpose it's not possible.

That is the only "problem". The subject/the self is not there in trance/hypnosis. Therefore the perpetrator can say: "I didn't know what I was doing when I was killing my wife" in a crime of passion (I'm not saying it's OK to kill somebody or it should or shouldn't be punished). The illusion of the Self is not there in the pure observation of the UP either. But it's there in the horizontal conflict, when there is some purpose, so struggle to achieve, to get somewhere else than here (to get that "what should be"). It is "work" too (C). That's why work can be stressful.

UP/Yoga/Zen/Dhjana/the Universe comes to the emptiness in the brain, when the brain is completely unfocused, without a direction, without a purpose, expectation, knowledge, desire, etc. But it's not the other way round, that thought goes to UP. There must be the emptiness of the brain, not-knowing anything at all, so not trying anything, not attempting anything (because how can you attempt anything when you don't know anything, right?)

UP/Yoga/Zen/Dhjana is a negative thing, a complete psychological negation of everything, that means basically not to want anything, not to know anything and not to have anything at all (psychologically). Or in other words not to be attached to anything at all.

There IS such a state of the brain and it's the greatest thing in the world, the greatest Freedom, all burden is gone. And it is the absolute NECESSITY, i.e. it's the essence. Otherwise what you think is your "life" is a little phony tragedy only :) You think you know something but you don't know anything for real.. You only think so.

It's nothingness, void that is the same void that is the Universe.

What does it mean if we are holding something (psychologically), something so precious to us that we don't want to lose it (including "God" and all such funny ideas :)?

Find out! Do not believe me. Carry the burden, until it drops all of itself.

All that we're holding is suffering, fear, anguish and misfortune :) And it clogs the brain, the worry, the groping, the busy-ness. A yoke for a beast of burden.. :)