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17-03-2021, 09:55 PM
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Who here has attained complete meditative silence?
In daily life.
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17-03-2021, 11:33 PM
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Originally Posted by pixiedust
In daily life.
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Complete silence? Never.
And I wouldn't want there to be. :)
Why? There's never silence because of Divine harmonies.
You can go to the highest mountain in the winter ...or to the depths of the ocean alone with ear plugs...
there will always be the Music of the Spheres, Celestial Harmonies. 
Now, ask me about stillness and I could write a chapter on that.
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Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception.
Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles.
Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. ~Paramahansa's Guru's Guru.
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17-03-2021, 11:50 PM
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Only when my wife yells SHUT UP ALREADY!!!!  |
18-03-2021, 06:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Scholarly Tarot
Only when my wife yells SHUT UP ALREADY!!!! |
Except this is silence of the mind, and not of the external words.
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18-03-2021, 05:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn
Now, ask me about stillness and I could write a chapter on that.
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Please elaborate on stillness, Miss_Hepburn.
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19-03-2021, 04:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn
Now, ask me about stillness and I could write a chapter on that.
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Perhaps another thread for this ...
Though I will ask here why if you have inner stillness, why you would write about it?
I do wonder occasionally why inner silence is widely touted but continuing on to inner stillness is rarely mentioned. Mostly I chalk it up to that so few reach inner silence (even meditation teachers). Not so sure that is the answer.
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19-03-2021, 05:32 AM
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There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.
Rumi
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18-03-2021, 12:21 AM
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Originally Posted by pixiedust
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I like to sit in meditative silence, it's very peaceful and calm. Just me, myself and I time, no worries whatsoever , no cares in the world. I love it. Amen |
18-03-2021, 09:51 AM
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Two better questions are why and how. Know the reason(s) and understand the purpose, method(s) and technique(s).
Another point. Is it really utter and complete silence 24x7? Or is it more a deep and pervasive clarity and serenity resulting in more skillful use of a tool? The big "problem" for most is the "Story of Me" that is constantly playing in the background. For what it's worth mindfulness is a great tool for taming the default network and its propensity to play that story on an endless loop.
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19-03-2021, 09:02 AM
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Originally Posted by JustASimpleGuy
Two better questions are why and how. Know the reason(s) and understand the purpose, method(s) and technique(s).
Another point. Is it really utter and complete silence 24x7? Or is it more a deep and pervasive clarity and serenity resulting in more skillful use of a tool? The big "problem" for most is the "Story of Me" that is constantly playing in the background. For what it's worth mindfulness is a great tool for taming the default network and its propensity to play that story on an endless loop.
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Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn
There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.
Meister Eckhart
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That's a great answer to "Why?". 
A deep and absolute silence and stillness. Ultimate serenity. Not wanting or lacking. Fullness and completeness. Ever-present and unchanging. Witness of all experience. Sat ChitAnanda.  
What I find is once "touched" and the more familiar one becomes it matters less and less what mind does although the more familiar one becomes the less mind is want to run amok in a soup of random and scattered thought.
Familiarization is one meaning for meditation in Sanskrit so in my way of thinking that answers the "How?".
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