THE NOISE IS NOT ON THE OUTSIDE. THE NOISE IS WITHIN YOU

Imagine for a moment that you are sitting in your room and you heard a dog barking outside. Instantly, you made some mental commentary within, saying – "Oh, a dog is barking; it’s my neighbour’s dog; why it is barking; why do not they control it; do not they know that his barking is disturbing me etc etc." Now, this mumbling within is of your mind. Mind means memory or stored information. Because you identified with your mind, I mean memory, and hence you reacted instantly to dog’s barking. This mumbling within, comes from our identification with the past memory and hence it is a reaction. Reaction, thus, is of the mind. Reaction is ours. Reaction is of the ego. Our reaction has nothing to do with the reality. The dog does not even know that his barking is disturbing you. The dog is just living its nature.    

If you choose not to react, both the dog and barking do not exist for you. This is true about everything else, I mean, whatever the movement, or so called ‘noise’ which happens within and around you. This is even true about the movement in your mind i.e. thoughts. If you do not react to a thought, that thought too does not exist for you. A thought or barking exists only and only if you react to that. Your reaction is a recognition of that ‘noise’ on the outside. 

Existing without reaction is the way of consciousness. Consciousness is pure awareness which simply takes in or absorbs that comes in. In consciousness, there is no noise. Consciousness makes no noise. Noise is ours including that which you see on the outside. Noise is of the ego. If you do not react and just stay with the barking or the thought or for that matter, any other ‘noise’, you will see that, the ‘noise’ simply gets absorbed within which is your real nature. 

Thus, the so called ‘noise’ is not on the outside. ‘Noise’ is within you and exists within you in the form of your reaction. Because you get carried away by it, for you, the noise exists on the outside. If you become aware of the dimension i.e. consciousness within which is pure stillness and is never moved or disturbed by the movement on the outside then this noise will stop for you. This noise is on the surface. Deep within, there is an unmoving hub. Mind is periphery or surface and consciousness is stillness or the unmoving hub. Outside is just a reflection of your inside. If there is movement inside then there is movement on outside too. Similarly, if there is silence inside then silence is on outside too.   

Reaction is our making; our doing. Our reaction is in the form of our liking; disliking; resistance; judgement; opinion; personal preferences etc. ‘Noise’, thus, exist in your mind, in the form of your reaction. If you learn to distance yourself from your memory, I mean mind, the outside noise will cease to exist. This is true for everything else. If you do not identify with your mind which is that if you can exist here without reactions then you are free. The world will cease to exist for you. This does not mean that the physical world will disappear. No, this only means that because it no longer disturbs or affects you and hence the world does not exist for you. Please know that only that which can disturb or influence you, dose exist for you. 

The outside noise becomes real, I mean disturbance, to you only because with your reaction you recognize that noise. If you identify with your Center within then noise on the outside can never disturb you. Meditation is a method of becoming aware of stillness within and learning to distance from your mind. 

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