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21-10-2022, 10:22 AM
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Amoda Maa on Living as Silence...
Insightful article by nondual teacher Amoda Maa on Silence being synonymous with Being...
https://kripalu.org/resources/living-silence
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When silence fully reveals itself as the ground of being, and when you are fully open to this inner dimension of beingness, then the business of life doesn’t make an iota of difference in the primordial state of things. Whether you’re sitting still with no noise in the vicinity, or you’re in the midst of a bustling marketplace, who you really are is untouched by any of it. ~ Amoda Maa
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When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. ~ Swami Satchidananda
Wholesome virtuous behavior progressively leads to the foremost.~ Buddha AN 10.1
If you do right, irrespective of what the other does, it will slow down the (turbulent) mind. ~ Rajini Menon
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21-10-2022, 12:18 PM
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Ah, the Kripalu Center in the Berkshires, (Massachusetts, USA).
I know it well! Beautiful, lovely for a retreat.
Nice to bring it up and the article on silence. 
There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.
Meister Eckhart c. 1260 – c. 1328), German, Catholic mystic
Many have never heard of him or his incredible life.
Hoping this topic is more about Silence than Amoda Maa.
If a person has not taken part in the Practice of Silence - I suggest taking just a day
with no electronic sounds or texting.
No talking, not even to your pets! :) Just one full day, minimum.
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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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23-10-2022, 12:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn
If a person has not taken part in the Practice of Silence - I suggest taking just a day
with no electronic sounds or texting.
No talking, not even to your pets! :) Just one full day, minimum.
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Ah, yes. Mauna. Great practice! 
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26-10-2022, 08:30 AM
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Master
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Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn
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It is interesting and insightful that silence have been equated with divinity in many traditions.
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If a person has not taken part in the Practice of Silence - I suggest taking just a day with no electronic sounds or texting.
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Yeah, this is a potent spiritual exercise for peace and relaxation.
'A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. ' ~ Bertrand Russell
Meister Eckhart was a theist, while Bertrand Russell was an atheist, but they both have similar views with respect to silence.
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When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. ~ Swami Satchidananda
Wholesome virtuous behavior progressively leads to the foremost.~ Buddha AN 10.1
If you do right, irrespective of what the other does, it will slow down the (turbulent) mind. ~ Rajini Menon
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17-12-2022, 04:21 AM
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Thanks for sharing, Ajay. I’ve downloaded her book, ‘Embodied Enlightenment’ on kindle.
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17-12-2022, 01:17 PM
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Emptiness, silence, neutrality. These are stable breeding space for enlightenment.
No one can give this to another. One has to find it in ones own awareness. Meditation helps a great deal.
One can focus on a sound consistently enough that the emptiness and neutrality is restored in ones awareness. One can rest in it again and from that a lack of resistance an allowing of allowance can be allowed by the awareness to be realised by this awareness again. One cannot conjure it or create it, at first. It has to be allowed.
Only when the allowing and joy is stable and consistent enough, one can channel and flow it at will for whatever intention/will, as an act of natural creation/creativity or expression of joy/enlightenment. This is not an act of creating joy, but rather flowing with, by allowing, the joy that is already always there anyway. Waiting to be realised through allowance through stable emptiness and neutrality and receptivity.
Doesn't mean negative things cant or wont come in at first. Especially not if they have been in the awareness for a long time. But it does mean that through deliberate emptiness one can make room for the natural and good things to come into the awareness, tiny bit by bit. That is enough. Little bits of goodness, emotionally authentically felt in awareness of it, goes a loooooong way. The power of goodness has extreme healing capacity. One has just to learn how to allow it. Meditation helps with that. The emptiness, and thus the allowing of the allowance, part.
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