Silence! A potent word! How many types of
silences do we know of?
I am reading a very informative book:
"Silence" by Thich Nhat Hanh, a Buddhist monk. Such books increase
our awareness manifold.
We don't know how to face silence. When we
are not doing anything, we try to engage our mind in other activities. Anything
to get away from silence! We are consumed....
We consume food to avoid emptiness. We let
our senses consume us. Feelings! Intense ones! Hatred. Anger. Even love
consumes us.
Our desires, choices consume us. Passion
consumes us.
And our conscience can consume us. Guilt,
repentance for our actions, speech, words.
All these are enemies of silence, of
silence that should ideally pervade all these and destroy them.
So, meditate, meditate and meditate. Deep
breathe, deep breathe, deep breathe. Our breath is more powerful than we know.
Breath cleanses negative feelings and
negative karma apart from bad habits and addictions. Meditation helps to
achieve and maintain silence. And one day, this silence becomes golden. This is
a state of joy.
But we need to start our journey to get
there.
Surekha
Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
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