The Obstacle to Silence
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
- A musing on why we humans struggle to experience silence in our daily lives.
Shiv Sengupta is the author of the Advaitaholics Anonymous trilogy (published by New Sarum Press):
Book 1: Sobering Insights for Spiritual Addicts
Book 2: A Manifesto for Spiritual Anarchy
Book 3: An Antidote to Spiritual Enlightenment
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Thanks fellow Being for sharing awareness and insights with us out loud
So true, I've always had a sensitive physiology and the stimulation in the world was too much for it. I found workarounds and balancing tricks to keep functioning in a world that didntreally suit me. I so wanted to fit in especially in my teens, 20's and thirty's. The ways of the world resemble a self sustaining machine feeding on itself and yet I can still access the peace of just Being by sitting silently and watching the world pass by. A good lesson for all and for me currently.
Thank you so much Shiv❤
That's exactly what I needed to hear today! How often do we forget the essentials when we are swept away by the everyday madness of modern society.
You very thoroughly describe and analyse why all animals are so very lovable and loving and why all children and most of us adults feel very much related to animals, not because they do not respond to the environment (they do) but because they observe their environment and only react when a need has to be fulfilled. The rest of the time is spent in the blissfulness of silence, falling back into their innermost deeper Self. It is a lesson for us humans to live more in what the Greeks called 'theorein' . the root of our word 'theory': to subspend our judgment and simply look at the way the world is developing. The animal does not put its self between himself and the world. It only looks and responds in the moment.
good stuff Shiv. When I look back even 50 years ago, we used to go outside in the evening after dinner or on the weekends and just sit outdoors, or on the porch. Sometimes with a cup of coffee or a glass of ice tea, and just watch nature. Watch the sun start to set and the chickens walk to their hooch, getting ready roost for the night. It's not that we didn't speak, but it was a more relaxed time when everything was just as it is. In today's world it seems that we have been socially conditioned to only look at technology. At artificial "things" and when we talk we talk about things created in other minds. unreal things. When I sit in the morning I never time it because that would be oxymoronic. I look forward to my time in nature, just watching without any purpose or expectations. no enlightened fireworks. To steal a quote from the Christian bible. "the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding," resonates.
Wonderful Shiv. Totally YES! I dont know what else is there. 👌 Thank you for the clarity and preciseness. 🙏🏻