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SilenceHummingBird said Nov 30, 2009, 8:50 AM: |
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Re: SilenceHummingBird said Nov 30, 2009, 8:54 AM: |
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My Divine Brother, I've been following your posts one after another - so beautiful. |
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Re: SilenceAndrew [no longer around] said Dec 22, 2009, 4:09 AM: |
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I often regret that I have spoken, never that I have been silent. |
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Re: Silencetorch said Dec 22, 2009, 6:33 AM: |
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Nature says it Best…..We cannot improve on It. Peace. Acceptance. Love. |
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Re: SilenceHummingBird said Dec 22, 2009, 9:02 PM: |
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The Benefits of Silence Q: Could tell us about the benefits of silence and how we could bring that home with us from this retreat? A: Many of us have realized in the last few days that silence can be enjoyable. We realize that there are many things that we do not have to say, and that then we can reserve the time and energy to do other things that can help us to look more deeply into ourselves and things around us. If you are pushed by your habit energy to say something, don't say it. Instead, take a notebook and write it down. A day or two later, read what you wrote, and you might find out that it would have been an awful thing to say. So slowly you become master of yourself, and you know what to say and what not to say. I remember one time I proposed to a sister that she practice silence. She was an elder nun and she had a few negative seeds in her that prevented her from being happy. She was just a little bit too hard on the other sisters. I proposed to her that she was a very talented person, very skillful in many things, and she could make many people happy if only she knew how to be silent and to say only things that needed to be said. I proposed to her that she use only three sentences for three months. She could repeat these three sentences as many times as she wanted(laughter) and I told her that if she practiced that for a week, she would feel happiness right away. The first sentence was, “Dear sister, is there anything I can do to help you?” (laughter) The second sentence was, “Did you like what I did to help you?” The third was, “Would you have any suggestion that I can do it better?” (laughter) If she could say that, she would make many people happy and the happiness would go back to herself very quickly. In the family we can practice silence. We can ask the other members of the family to agree that we will practice silence for three days or for a week. It is very beneficial. There will be a transformation after the period of practicing silence. Thich Nhat Hanh |
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Re: Silence~Kes said Dec 23, 2009, 12:12 AM: |
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Do not create experiences for others that they cannot comfortably perceive. |
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Re: Silence~Kes said Dec 23, 2009, 12:17 AM: |
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Silence is golden  |
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Re: SilenceNicole said Dec 23, 2009, 4:08 AM: |
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Choose Silence More on the theme of letting go. Choose silence, and love is apparent When we choose silence, we choose to give up the reasons not to love, which are the reasons for going to war, or continuing war, or separating, or being a victim, or being right. In a moment of silence, in a moment of no thought, no mind, we choose to give those up. This is what my teacher invited me to. Just choose silence. Don’t even choose love. Choose silence, and love is apparent. If we choose love we already have an idea of what love is. But if you choose silence, that is the end of ideas. You are willing to have no idea, to see what is present when there is no idea, past, present, future. No idea of love, no idea of truth, no idea of you, no idea of me. Love is apparent. – Gangaji Posted in Conciousness, Mind, Perspective, Practice, Presence |
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