Reading Archive (Being Silent)
Pronounce a Silent Blessing
"It is forbidden to taste of the pleasures of this world without a blessing." --The Talmud I think that the best way to...
Silence
Silence is our real nature. What we are fundamentally is only silence. Silence is free from beginning and end. It was before the...
Opposite Of Meditation Is Not Action, It's Reaction
It seems like our society is at a low point in terms of how we talk about challenging, controversial topics within our political...
You Cannot Capture Silence, It Captures You
For me, the two correctives of all spirituality are silence and service. If either of those is missing, it is not true, healthy...
The Mystery of Silence
Silence cannot really be described. It is not the absence of sound. It makes it possible to notice sound. It is still, but its stillness...
Unconditioned Stillness
Stillness, a sense of the unchanging, is all around. For example, it’s not the ultimate stillness, but there is that...
Embarrassed by Silence
He enters the classroom, sits down, doesn't say anything. He looks at us, we look at him. At first, there are a few giggles, but...
Art of Awareness
Thoreau wrote: "Only that day dawns to which we are awake." The art of awareness is the art of learning how to wake up to the eternal...
Creativity of Silence
We can discover a new beauty of life in silence. When once you see that beauty, you will not be interested in the agitated cravings of...
Living Inward
To be and to be fully is Nature's aim in us; but to be fully is to be wholly conscious of one's being. This movement of going inward and...
Seeds of Real Action
Why is it that the mind cannot be in the present? The mind moves on and on because it just cannot be quiet. We do not really need...
Dinner in Silence
[ Five or six weeks ago, we started to eat the post-meditation dinner in silence. Here is a related thought on mindful eating ... ]...
Nowness Connects Everything
[Meditation] is what I do to start every day. It's a discipline and a setting of priorities. I'm not going to allow my mind to create...
A Human Society
A self-centered person can never look at anything in life, a self-centered person cannot get related with other human beings. He is so...
Wherever you are Be there
One of the major reasons why we fail to find happiness or to create unique lifestyle is because we have not yet mastered the art of...