Ummon's Silence/the search is over

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Ummon said, " A word without meaning

does its job even before it's uttered,

but you go around chattering, showing

you don't know what to do with yourself. "

 

" Not knowing what to do with yourself, "

it is not being satisfied with your life, always

thinking, talking, seeking solutions to

problems which are not there. Dissatisfaction

equals selfhood, and it's created by our own

chatter. When for whatever reason searching

for satisfaction, for enlightenment stops, then

the chatter dies away, and the silence of seeing,

and doing without a sense of self is there.