Silence brings you to yourself.
In the midst of a rushed day, try
being silent. Don’t try to silence the environment. You just be silent. Peel off
the sounds around you. Remind your mind that you cannot hear the sound that’s
coming to you. As you peel off each sound you will attain the point of ‘shunya’
or nothingness. It is like peeling off layer after layer of an onion. What you
are left with is nothing. Similarly silence can take you to nothingness. When
there’s no worry, no grief, no anxiety, no guilt, no great, visible high-energy
fist-thumping joy, when there’s no exulting, when there’s no unwanted thought,
there’s simply you, floating in nothingness.
It is in this sphere of silence,
in nothingness that you will find the reason for your creation, the meaning to
your Life. You will see how beautiful Life can be without all the mental
chatter that goes on in your mind. You will then see the oneness is all
creation and find that all your suffering is about things so transient, so
impermanent.
The mind, like the body, can be trained.
But the mind, like the body, will resist the training. It will fight you. But
you have to be dogged. When you anchor in silence, having silenced and
overpowered your mind, you will see that Life is really lived ONLY in the
present. No matter what your circumstance, you will be blissful living in the
now!
I chose the practice of silence
during the most anguishing period of my Life. 10 years ago, I had no clue what
was hitting us. Our business was falling apart. So were our lives. When I was
advised to be silent, I laughed at the suggestion. I thought it was an act of cowardice.
How can you be inactive and pretend to be unaffected by your crisis? But after a
myriad attempts to fix things I chose to grudgingly accept our reality and
began to practice daily silence periods. The effect was magical. It took me
several attempts and over 90 days to perfect the art of remaining silent. But
eventually I managed to conquer all the hurdles that came my way. Today, our
problems remain aplenty. But my ability to deal with them has increased
phenomenally.
You too can benefit immensely.
Just start with being silent. For some time daily __ maybe an hour. Investing
an hour daily can help you get on top of the remaining 23 hours! Makes good
business sense, doesn’t it? If you think it does, try it! Feel the magic of
silence in your own unique, special way!
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