...........The battle continues.And eventually I've found my place of existence.Some call it the "state of emptiness" and some call it "the world that doesn't exist"...I call it the world that nobody has given a second thought to think about...Silence is golden.Sometimes its better to travel. And travel alone.Only then you realise what is the best part you've been missing so far...My journey still continues and each day I seek some new stuff..May be the reality can be otherwise,but now you get free from all bondage. So with no talking with friends,no mobile phone and no external partying I decide now to travel along my way.And as saying goes "The road has always lead to the west"...Now the so far journey in precise...
The one common thing about any true revelation is that it will stun our mind, because at that moment, we comprehend something that’s not just in thought. Revelation and insight come from somewhere else, from some other space. They come from a place that we as a culture seem to have so little respect for—a place called “silence.” What’s more neglected in our lives than silence? What do we run away from more than silence? Many of us would rather cling to our ideas, our beliefs, and our opinions—the very things that distance us from truth and reality and life—than to experience this silence. We spend so much energy running away from silence, but silence is the ground from which awakening springs. It’s the ground from which we shift out of this egoic state of consciousness, out of this belief in separation. After all, separation is ultimately just a belief. It’s a story made up in our minds.
I’m not saying that we have to try to become quiet, that we have to practice stillness. If you really want to become quiet and still, simply allow yourself to see that all of the thoughts in your head are just stories. They’re not good or bad stories. They’re not right or wrong. Our mind is a storyteller—and it keeps us removed from the silence, the quiet, that is always present. Often, our minds are really good storytellers—and other times really poor storytellers—but ultimately, the mind just tells stories. And a story isn’t real; it isn’t actually true.
Silence is something that disarms us, which is why we move away from it so often. Our society is one in which we’re more and more preoccupied with noise. Last week, I was driving down the highway, and I looked over and saw a group of high school kids walking home from school. They all had cell phones. There were seven or eight of them, and every single one of them was either talking on their phone or texting. No one was interacting with the people or the environment around them. I thought, “This is crazy! Here’s this group of people walking home together, but not actually connecting.”
We’ve gotten to a point where we’re so intimidated by silence and the present moment before us that even when we’re together we try our best to make sure that we’re very busy. We’re physically together without actually being together! We’ll walk home together, but we’ll talk to somebody else. We’re doubly occupied, just to make sure there’s no real silence, no real communion. This isn’t a bad thing. I’m not even saying it shouldn’t happen. I’m just saying that if we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn’t that what silence is? It’s a listening. It’s a deep, wordless listening. As one wise Christian mystic said, “Stop telling God what you want, and instead listen to what God has to say to you.” That’s a very wise thing to say, and it comes from a basic insight into how our minds incessantly assert themselves, which ultimately is just another form of struggle.
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