Space of Silence

Without awareness of the mind becoming agitated in the absence of silence, the Conditioned Mind will create story after story just so it can fill the space of silence with noise…

The most difficult thing one will ever do in life is to learn how to hear the space of silence in spite of their conditioning making noise. To not give in to the noise (mind agitations) that tells you to do this or that, reach for this or that, is so difficult because of the lack of awareness of the space of silence, and also the lack of understanding the space of silence. Even with awareness and the understanding of the space of silence, it’s still difficult because of all the outer noise and conditioning. Silence is not something many master. I’m not talking about sitting in meditation or taking a nap, I mean being wide awake without listening to the noise. For forty nine years there was only noise in my life; there was never silence long enough to be aware of any mind agitations. I like so many was a noise reactor; a slave to my Conditioned Mind.

For some this doesn’t seem like much of an issue because there isn’t any awareness of the noise, but make no mistake noise is noise and one is a slave to it regardless how productive or subtle it may seem. Without awareness of the mind becoming agitated in the absence of silence, the Conditioned Mind creates story after story just so it can fill this space with noise. You can only do what the conditioning in place dictates so without awareness of these mind agitations, the conditioning is usually based in noise. Not listening to noise allows for one to truly be an instrument, but make no mistake, this will only occur if you‘re aware of the space of silence so you don’t have to listen to the noise…