Bound to be silent

The mind eagerly listens and anticipates for the next word or whatever it expects to be coming.  How does it react to an event? It downplays the last one, asks about and begins to plan the next one. What does mind do with silence? It grows restless, voices anxiety or shifts attention to mental noise.  As mind hangs on a state of no mind, it is faced with its greatest fear, the threat of having no identity.  Mind responds to silence by doing things to change your focus of attention. Why does silence inevitably emerge?

The deepest being is only ever silent.  To know one is awake and enlightened means one is bound to be silent.  The heart feels this as ordinary, allowing silence to be as it is. Unconditional love accepts and appreciates each moment and all it embodies.

Comments

[Hilary]

Hi Liara .. I can read my mother's state in your last paragraph .. "unconditional love accepts and appreciates each moment and all it embodies ... the heart feels this as ordinary" ..

Bound to be silent .. I love those moments .. sometimes the mind jumps around, but just as often it is quiet - not empty and deep I grant you .

Thanks Hilary

[Liara Covert]

Hilary, silence can be a comfortable state of being or deep connection and timeless intimacy felt beyond words. Some people are conditioned to assume silences are awkward or uncomfortable. Silence speaks through you based on what you are ready and willing to hear. The 'ah-ha' moment says it all.

[Bernie]

Silence Shackles That Which Grasps Upon Free Movement.