YOU CANNOT BECOME SILENT BY YOUR DOING. SILENCE, RATHER, HAPPENS, FROM WITHIN.

Please understand one thing, that you cannot become silent, because, trying to become silent, is your doing and hence, it is an imposition from the outside. True silence, rather, arises or happens, from within, since, silence is your very nature. Silence, is the quality of the consciousness, which you are. Consciousness is just a presence and only, that which is just present, meaning, that which is just there, without any doing or agenda of its own, can alone be truly silent. 

Noise is of the movement, of the physical and hence, is yours. Noise is a doing of your ego, of the individuality. Hence, trying to become silent, is to impose silence, from outside and therefore, is temporary. But silence, which arises from within, is internal, of your nature, of your reality, of the consciousness and hence, is permanent, which stays with you forever. 

Doing is an effort but that which happens, from within, is effortless and hence, is natural. This existence or the consciousness, is total silence, total stillness and the same consciousness or existence is your reality, as well and hence, silence is your nature too. Didn’t you notice, that in your deep sleep, you exist in total silence? Only, in your waking, your silence is disturbed, by the noise of your thoughts, which keeps happening, nonstop, in your waking. Your thought is a noise, which happens compulsively within and hence, a disturbance to your silence. 

Thus, silence, though, is your very nature, your quality but because of your internal noise, you are not aware of your true nature. The noise of your thought, of your mind, has actually clouded your inner silence, which though, is always there, with you, as an integral part of your consciousness. 

Now, these two dimensions, i.e. silence and noise, go hand in hand, because these are the only two possibilities to exist here i.e. noise or silence, mind or consciousness. These two dimensions, are like two sides of the same coin and hence, can never exist together. When noise is, when thought is, when mind is, then the silence is not, the consciousness is not. Similarly, in the presence of silence or the consciousness, noise can’t exist. 

So, you don’t have to become something, you don’t have to impose something, from outside, which is your very nature. You should know that, you exist in total silence, in deep sleep and you can exist here, in total silence, in total peace, in your waking, as well. For that to happen, the only thing, you need to do, is to stop your inner noise – the noise of your thoughts- which you keep making, all the time, in your wakefulness. 

Hence, just stop your doing, i.e. the action, which you do, in your mind and you will realize that silence already, IS. As the noise of your thoughts reduces, so you become silent, too, and when your inner noise reduces completely, then, what really remains behind, is nothing but just the silence, which always IS. 

The consciousness always IS. Hence, let silence grow from within, arise from within. Allow silence to happen from within, because silence is integral to your existence. Noise is yours. Noise is your doing, your making. Meditation is nothing but practicing silence by reducing noise of your thoughts.