Month: August 2022

Silence

To be in Silence to be in the highest spiritual state. Meditation, yoga, prayers, chanting… Most spiritual practices across religions work with a simple purpose – To quieten the noisy mind. To find Silence, within. Listen to the silence. It has much to say.  – Rumi True Silence is not the absence of sound. It is the absence of thought.  There is relative Silence at the level of the mind. There is absolute Silence, above the mind. Wisdom is –  To be in Silence. To operate from Silence.

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Story / Reality

Humans are perhaps the only species that eat the stories they cook. Even our closest cousins – the chimps – live in the world “as they find it”. We humans are the only ones who – live in a world “as we make of it”. And we make of it through many stories – Religion, Nation, Money, Status, Happiness, Morality, Afterlife… We can go on… We made stories to make sense of the world. Now we are caged in them. Wisdom is – to separate the story from reality. Mind cooks stories. Mind can’t be the anchor of wisdom. Beyond

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