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=== The Mind ===
<div style="color: #000000;">For the mystic's experience of mind, especially when it falls still, is not that of an abstract condition or impalpable activity of the consciousness; it is rather an experience of a substance—an extended subtle substance in which there can be and are waves, currents, vibrations not physically material but still as definite, as perceptible, as tangible and controllable by an inner sense as any movement of material energy or substance by the physical senses. </div>
=== Mental Silence ===
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">The stillness of the mind means, first, the falling to rest of the habitual thought movements, thought formations, thought currents which agitate this mind-substance. That repose, vacancy of movement, is for many a sufficient </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">mental</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">silence.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/philosophical-thought-and-yoga#p21</ref> </span>
=== The Experience of Mental Silence ===
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">But it is possible also to pass to that through a certain experience of Nirvana, an absolute silence of mind and cessation of its activities, constructions, representations which can be so complete that not only to the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">silent</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">mind</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">but also to the passive senses the whole world is emptied of its solidity and reality and things appear only as unsubstantial forms without any real habitations or else floating in something that is a nameless Infinite: this Infinite or else something still beyond is That which alone is real; an absolute calm, peace, liberation would be the resulting state. Action would continue, but no initiation or participation in it by the silent liberated consciousness; a nameless Power would do all until there began the descent from above which would transform the consciousness, making its silence and freedom a basis for a luminous knowledge, action, Ananda. </span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-supermind-or-supramental#p22</ref>
=== Observing Thoughts, Not Throwing Them Back ===
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