Silence and Anger

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SILENCE - Ignored Companion of a Busy Life

 

If you can stop occasionally, and fine tune your

perception a little, you will find silence is all

around you everywhere. It's in the soundless valley

in the early morning mists. It's in the stillness of

the evening of a long hot summers day. It's in the

calm of the ocean before the coming of the storm. It's

in the café conversation in the pause between

opinions. It's in the deafening, noiseless vastness

of the desert. And it's in that awesome panorama

from the mountain peak.

 

There is the remembered silence of the past, in

childhood memories of hide and seek. There is the

projected silence of the future in the possibility of

the end of suffering. There is the silence of the

present moment when the history of yesterday and the

mystery of tomorrow are dissolved in the practice of

being fully present here and now. There is the

silence of a city overcome by sleep. And there is

the silence of the countryside, when only vines and

foxes creep. And if you can rest your attention, on

the last peel of the village bell, you can ride the

sound as it fades to silence, and you may come to know

the deepest inner peace, of which all meditators do

tell!

 

Sweet silence, the ignored companion of a busy life.

 

There is the dead silence in the passing of the soul

from yet another body. There is the muffled silence

at the heart of the forest as trees stand tall and

thick in a conspiracy to absorb any foreign sound.

There is a joyful silence when the mind takes a break

from its illusions called 'I know' and sees everything

exactly as it is, and not by it's label. Look beyond

the form and colour in a painting and you may see the

silence of the canvas that holds the artists creative

noise together. Listen closely to the symphony and

you will hear pure silence between the notes without

which the beauty of such music would be lost. Become

aware of the space between your thoughts, go through

that space, and you will emerge into the silence of

your being, and be reunited with your power as a

master creator. All creation emerges from silence,

is shaped by the power of silence and is moved by the

silent power of 'being'.

 

Why do all the mystics and yogis talk so much about

silence? Why do they make so much sound about the

soundless? Because they discover that only in

silence can everything that has true and eternal value

be known. In silence they see the original and

singular cause of all action, and how the root of all

things comes from 'no thing'. In silence they are

reunited with the consciousness of the unity of all

things, in all time, and in all space. In silence

they can float any question out into the ocean of

their inner silent emptiness and know, with absolute

unwavering faith, that the answer will return to find

them, no matter what may pe-occupy their mind. And

they remind us that only when our whole being is 'in

silence' can our spiritual heart receive and absorb

the light and love of the Source - the power of the

silent One. In that same profoundly silent state,

they tell us, we may rediscover and be moved by your

own latent benevolence towards all creatures great and

small.

 

Sweet silence. Do you know silence? Have you felt

its sweetness? Do you know your own silent self

beyond noisy thinking patterns, beyond the crashing

waves of emotion, beyond the invading forces of a

world that is addicted to sound? Are you addicted to

sound?

 

So few have been into their silence and returned with

it's power and its fragrance to hush a noisy world.

Would you value the ability to enter such an inner

space where all is available to the searching soul,

where all that you yearn for can be found in full, in

an instant? In the silence of the heart of you ,

everything that you are, and everything that you have,

is known and felt to be pure and incorruptible. That

'everything' is love, it is light and it is power.

All that you have been taught to identify with and

pursue in the world is then seen for what it is -

illusion and delusion.

 

Step away from the world 'out there', step away from

the world that is 'on your mind', step away from the

world that has shaped the story of your life, step

away from your story, step away from all worldly

desire, your day-to-day cleverness and every urge to

judge another, and you step through the doorway into

the deepest peace and the place where all becomes

clear. Silence is pure peace. Silence sees with

pure vision.

 

Step into your self, into your eternal silent self,

and know your self … again. Step into the light of

your heart, your silent heart, and know the light that

can never be extinguished … again. Let go and step

into the boundariless, infinite space that exists

forever behind your busy mind, and know what it is to

just 'be' … again.

 

Question: Why do you think the awareness of silence

and the feeling of stillness are so empowering?

 

Reflection: If you cannot hear my silence you will

not hear my words – what does this mean?

 

Action: Create Space and Time - In your home create

a space, a corner, perhaps a room, that will be your

silent space. Then create a regular time you will

'go to' and 'be in' that space and practice stilling

your mind without force.

 

 

 

 

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