Being Within the Inner Silence - 8th October 2016

Name: Being Within the Inner Silence - 8th October 2016
Uploaded: 2016-10-08
Duration: 5 min 1 s
Description: Ananta:"Silent retreat only means that we start with dropping this concern about what to say, how to behave, no being nice, everyone smiling. So now we’re making no eye contact; nothing....

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Ananta teaches that silence is not about forcefully stopping thoughts, but about dropping the concern for outward self-image and mental traffic to rest in one's natural, empty reality.

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You are standing on the side of the road; you don't have to stop the traffic to be safe.

Silent retreat means dropping the energetic wastage of maintaining a self-image and trying to be a certain way.

We rush to the mind because reality feels too empty; outward silence helps us get used to our inner silence.

contemplative