Silence on silence

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A dialogue elsewhere in cyber-space, on Silence, which might be of some interest.

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As you go into the silence, it has a very powerful spiritual value. Adopting

the outwardly mauna silence is paying homage to the silence within. Once years

ago during a session of yoga when I was trying to meditate, there was so much

stuff zooming through my mind I could not concentrate and find stillness. Then

I noticed that within all the mental stuff there seemed to be a few empty

pockets like bubbles. I tried putting my awareness into one of those empty

spaces. I found there pure stillness and silence. I reposed my attention

there and was able to meditate once I had found the silence. I didn't need to

enforce it or make it happen -- it just was. All I had to do was just to let

it be, to do nothing really. That was when I first learned how to enter deep

meditation, and that experience still works for me today. I turn my attention

to the ajña cakra and don't try to make inner silence happen. I just recognize

that the inner silence is always there and always has been there. As I

consciously but passively slip deep into that inner silence, I come to

understand: It is silent and undisturbed, therefore unchanging. Therefore it

has always been like this from eternity. This is the eternal unchanging

perfection. It is within me, and thus part of me, eternal, conscious, and

blissful. It is my true nature that has always been underlying all the

phenomena. When you pay attention to the inner silence.A quote from Robert

Fripp:Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but

empty. Noise is that cup, broken.

 

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Silence is not absence of speech, or thoughts.

Silence is absence of self.........the self which looks to be still, through

some means, some activity, some action.

 

Stillness cannot be achieved, no matter what methodology is pursued.

 

For the very attempt to achieve stillness,.........is the apriori assumption

that such is not already the case.

 

And thus the very attempt to attain stillness, is the perpetuation of that apriori assumption.

 

Thereby making the attempt, any attempt,......... a round and round the mulberry bush.

 

It's like trying to lift yourself by your bootstraps.

 

You are the very weight you are trying to lift.

 

Can you ever succeed?

 

Yes, depending on the investment into the attempt, into that path, into the Guru

who gave you the technique, which are all the play of the

conditioning-in-the-moment, ......you can convince yourself, that you have

succeeded in attaining silence, in achieving stillness.

 

And thus the various proclaimations about the achievement, .............not

knowing that silence finds no one or nothing apart from silence, in order to

have the need to proclaim,....... the fact of silence.

 

 

That,........ which remains, unaffected, unaltered, unchanged, irrespective of

inaction or frenzy happening in the moment THROUGH a psycho-somatic conditioned

apparatus,.....

 

....to that,..............even the terms silence and stillness are not applicable.

 

 

If there is an interest, invite you to have a look at http://www.the-covenant.net/pou22.htm