We speak endlessly. The world is ill from so much chatter. Although we talk a lot, we often say little. Never before in the history of humanity have we spoken so much. We find ourselves in the age of communication and, contradictorily, in the moment in time when the disease of loneliness is at its most widespread.
Originally, the word was sacred; it was the medium through which we unraveled and shared the secrets of the universe, a tool to manifest the sublime within us, what makes us human. And yet we trivialize the power that we have inherited and lose our strength through our mouths... and also through our fingers and thumbs!
Masters and sages of all eras have turned their attention to silence because it is the opposite and complementary force to words. Silence balances the scale. The word (thought, written or spoken) is the synthesis of our nature as creators and our creative instinct, the reflection of the Original Word and the dialectical dimension of reality. And yet, how can we be that we are overusing one of our most precious resources? It is as if a strange force has possessed us, forcing us to speak or communicate continuously, both with ourselves and with others. Words have become the vehicle of personal importance. We have even invented new and funny symbols that we send over and over again to keep saying something, even when there is nothing new to say.
Warriors of consciousness master language, but they must also forge the Three Silences within themselves.
The first silence is seemingly simple; it starts that very day when you stop telling others what is unnecessary or superfluous. It is self-evident that in order to achieve silence it is necessary to stop making noise.
As the first silence is attempted by means of unbending intent, it will gradually be created the necessary space to invoke the second silence. This grows when you renounce the habit of repeating the same stories in your head over and over again, when you stop complaining and deceiving yourself and thus manage to silence the inner critic.
Later on, when the first two have become powerful enough, a new kind of silence appears. This is the most elusive and precious of all. If you find it, you will naturally experience that state in which time stands still, you will feel the embrace of infinity, you will hear the sound of emptiness, you will see the invisible, you will immerse yourself in the highest, you will touch the inner fire and you will not be burnt. However, all these sensations are secondary and confuse many who reach a certain state of relaxation and experience similar things. Unlike those moments of silence into which anyone can fall by pure chance, this silence I speak of is not a place to which you go from time to time, but a place where you stay to live and that ends up being part of you. This is truly the third silence, which is also the alchemical couple of the authentic word.
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