Why is it so
necessary to spend time in silence in order to learn to master your thoughts?
Because this is the only time you have access to realising the truth of who you
are.
To begin to understand the true nature of your thoughts and thinking mind
and move beyond the limiting false attachments, which currently prevent you
from seeing the truth of who you are.
Often if you wish to
write a reflection, you sit quietly and ‘collect your thoughts’. This enables
you to remove the multitude of other distracting thoughts racing through the
mind and gives you the mental ‘space’ in which to write. Sometimes you may
close your eyes to bring your attention inwards. You instinctively quieten the
mind in order to be able to ‘think.’ This space or silence provides the
substratum for the ‘thinking mind’.
Just as when you run
and then stop it takes a while to catch your breath, to slow your heart rate
and to return to your normal state. Your day-to-day living may be very similar
to ‘running’. Your thoughts, speech and actions are continually ‘running off in
all directions, uncontrolled. You are very rarely ‘present’ as your mind is
full of distracting thoughts. If your mind is full of thoughts your mind is not
‘free’ to comprehend or receive this knowledge. Therefore we quieten our minds
in order to receive. We quieten our minds in order to be 'present' in this moment, which is the only moment we have, everything else is a projection.
Namaste
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