Guest guest Posted June 13, 2002 Report Share Posted June 13, 2002 Any attemtpt to describe Silence must fail miserably. Silence is the attempt and is the failure. Who can see Silence? Who can smell Silence? Who can taste Silence? Who can hear Silence? Who can touch Silence? Silence is the seeing smelling tasting hearing touching. All this appears in Silence and vanishes into nothingness. Who can explain it? Why bother? :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 13, 2002 Report Share Posted June 13, 2002 there was a song for what its worth silence is golde golden but my eyes still see havent a clue what that means is exstension the name of the game here ,love exstending silence exstending hate exstending hate seems to be dont know just everything seems to do that in experience i am here was i extended and why bother? --- iamumai <mdjmjj wrote: <HR> <html><body> <tt> Any attemtpt to describe Silence<BR> must fail miserably.<BR> <BR> Silence is the attempt<BR> and is the failure.<BR> <BR> Who can see Silence?<BR> Who can smell Silence?<BR> Who can taste Silence?<BR> Who can hear Silence?<BR> Who can touch Silence?<BR> <BR> Silence is the<BR> <BR> seeing<BR> smelling<BR> tasting<BR> hearing<BR> touching.<BR> <BR> All this appears in Silence<BR> and vanishes into nothingness.<BR> <BR> Who can explain it?<BR> <BR> Why bother? <BR> <BR> :-)<BR> <BR> </tt> <br> <tt> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 14, 2002 Report Share Posted June 14, 2002 I remember the song: Talking is cheap, people follow like sheep, even though there is no where to go. And there is the Simon & Garfunkle toon: The Sound of Silence People talking without listening, people writing songs that voices never hear, no one dare, disturb the sound of Silence. No one can disturb Silence. Silence doesn't leave us. We leave It. There is no fear in Silence. There is only Love. Identification with body/mind is fear, is separation, is split mind. Drop identification with body/mind and fear vanishes into the imagination from whence it came, along with it's manifestations, hate, anger, blame, guilt, resentment, like, dislike, having, becoming, seeking pleasure, avoiding pain. It just IS what it IS. Silent observation is very powerful. It will burn up the illusory concepts and allow Life to be perceived moment by moment on it's terms, not the body/minds terms, and we all know we can't control Life and why bother? In Silence, :-) Michael At 09:03 PM 6/13/2002, you wrote: there was a song for what its worth silence is golde golden but my eyes still see havent a clue what that means is exstension the name of the game here ,love exstending silence exstending hate exstending hate seems to be dont know just everything seems to do that in experience i am here was i extended and why bother? --- iamumai <mdjmjj wrote: <HR> <html><body> <tt> Any attemtpt to describe Silence<BR> must fail miserably.<BR> <BR> Silence is the attempt<BR> and is the failure.<BR> <BR> Who can see Silence?<BR> Who can smell Silence?<BR> Who can taste Silence?<BR> Who can hear Silence?<BR> Who can touch Silence?<BR> <BR> Silence is the<BR> <BR> seeing<BR> smelling<BR> tasting<BR> hearing<BR> touching.<BR> <BR> All this appears in Silence<BR> and vanishes into nothingness.<BR> <BR> Who can explain it?<BR> <BR> Why bother? <BR> <BR> :-)<BR> <BR> </tt> <br> <tt> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 15, 2002 Report Share Posted June 15, 2002 Language is only a medium for communicating one's thoughts to another. It is called in only after thoughts arise ; other thoughts arise after the 'I' thought rises ; the 'I' - thought is the root of all conversation. When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of silence. Silence is ever speaking ; it is a perennial flow of language ; it is interrupted by speaking. These words obstruct that mute language. There is electricity flowing in a wire. With resistance to its passage, it glows as a lamp or revolves as a fan. In the wire it remains as electric energy. Similarly also, silence is the eternal flow of language, obstructed by words. What one fails to know by conversation extending to several years can be known in a trice in Silence, or in front of Silence - eg., Dakshinamurti and his four disciples. That is the highest and most effective language. From Talks with Ramana Maharshi 1935 Relive the FIFA World Cup goals with exclusive video highlights! http://fifaworldcup./fc/en Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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