A taste of silence
There are many moments in our lives when there is no need to talk, when becoming silent can enhance the experience, says Amrit Sadhana
Driven by habit we tend to verbalise everything and ruin the depth of the experience. The modern man lives superficially because he has become too talkative. In these sutras, Osho prescribes a few techniques to get a taste of silence.
Talk telegraphically:
For one day, talk telegraphically. Limit yourself to using only absolutely necessary words akin to a telegram, 10 words at the most. A telegram is more effective than long letters because in those 10 words the entire message is condensed and has a deep impact.
Keep mum when you feel good:
Whenever you feel very good, keep quiet. Once you express it, you can disturb it. Even to say that you are feeling good is a disturbance because you have already made it the past. You have already started looking at it as an observer, a spectator. You are starting to analyse it and are no more deeply involved in it. There is no need to label it or say that 'it is good', because no label can be true to it. The feeling of goodness is so infinite that when you call it good, you have already made it mediocre. Saying ‘I love you’ makes love profane: When you feel love for somebody, to say ‘I love you’ is to make it profane. You have already made it rotten. The word corrupts. Just show it by your full being. Enjoy it. Let the other feel it... but don't say anything about it. Once uttered, beautiful and great experiences become trivial.
Silence deepens love:
If you can deepen your silence, you can deepen your love without any difficulty, because it is the same process. You can deepen your laughter, you can deepen your vitality. Your life will not become superficial, but something that contains depths beyond depths. A fundamental law of existence is that if you can deepen your experience in any one dimension, you become capable of deepening your experience in other dimensions to the same extent.
There are many moments in our lives when there is no need to talk, when becoming silent can enhance the experience, says Amrit Sadhana
Driven by habit we tend to verbalise everything and ruin the depth of the experience. The modern man lives superficially because he has become too talkative. In these sutras, Osho prescribes a few techniques to get a taste of silence.
Talk telegraphically:
For one day, talk telegraphically. Limit yourself to using only absolutely necessary words akin to a telegram, 10 words at the most. A telegram is more effective than long letters because in those 10 words the entire message is condensed and has a deep impact.
Keep mum when you feel good:
Whenever you feel very good, keep quiet. Once you express it, you can disturb it. Even to say that you are feeling good is a disturbance because you have already made it the past. You have already started looking at it as an observer, a spectator. You are starting to analyse it and are no more deeply involved in it. There is no need to label it or say that 'it is good', because no label can be true to it. The feeling of goodness is so infinite that when you call it good, you have already made it mediocre. Saying ‘I love you’ makes love profane: When you feel love for somebody, to say ‘I love you’ is to make it profane. You have already made it rotten. The word corrupts. Just show it by your full being. Enjoy it. Let the other feel it... but don't say anything about it. Once uttered, beautiful and great experiences become trivial.
Silence deepens love:
If you can deepen your silence, you can deepen your love without any difficulty, because it is the same process. You can deepen your laughter, you can deepen your vitality. Your life will not become superficial, but something that contains depths beyond depths. A fundamental law of existence is that if you can deepen your experience in any one dimension, you become capable of deepening your experience in other dimensions to the same extent.
Source: The Times Of India
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