Angerona is a Roman Goddess with an iconography so odd that not even the ancients knew quite what She was about. She was represented holding Her finger to Her bound mouth in a gesture (apparently)…
Category : Silence
There is a reverential silence that can be felt by everyone in moments of sacredness, moments when the ego is forgotten. Practicing mauna (noble silence) is a way to open ourselves to this sacredness. Mauna is a Sanskrit…
“Sound is of the surface, silence is of the core. The core is a total absence of sound. Absence of sound means absence of reverberation, life, death, creation; absence of creation in one’s experience leads…
by Sadhguru Speech is of the society.Words are of the mind.Sounds are of nature.The soundless is of the beyond. Thus if one gets identified by one’s own speech, that one will belong to the society.If…
“Silence is a space beyond creation and Creator, beyond life and death. As you practice silence, slowly, you can become silence.”
writing on Dharma by Bhante Dhammika What is often referred to as “the silence of the Buddha” has become almost proverbial and has been widely commented on by both academic and popular writers. Some have…
“Love said to me: ‘There is nothing that is not me. Be silent.’ “
by Lama Thubten Yeshe When your sense perception contacts sense objects and you experience physical pleasure, enjoy that feeling as much as you can. But if the experience of your sense perception’s contact with the…
“Silence is true wisdom’s best reply.”
by Dr. Thynn Thynn J: I still don’t understand how we can make the mind silent. Thynn: You must realise that you cannot make the mind silent. The more you try to silence the mind purposefully, the…
