answered or of answers which will always be misunderstood. Silence is the best response here. This is what explains Buddha’s ‘Golden Silence’ on the face of philosophical / metaphysical questions.
Silence may be said to be naturally built into one’s system. The human body is made this way. Silence finds its manifestation inside one’s being. This can be attested by or felt during various experiences like;
1] when the hand unexpectedly gets caught in a lift or something. One is jolted into silence, and the whole thought process gets interrupted for a few moments. 2] Or when one passes a thread through a needle,
3] Or when one jumps out from an aeroplane, and the parachute fails to open. In these extreme situations one’s mind might go into
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Be silent If you have to eat your words later-(Prov 18:21)
18. Be silent If you have already said it more than one time-(Prov19:31)
19. Be silent When you are tempted to flatter a wicked person-(Prov 24:24)
20. Be silent When you are supposed to be working instead-(Prov14:23)
“WHOEVER GUARDS HIS MOUTH AND TONGUE, KEEPS HIS SOUL FROM TROUBLES” -(Prov 21-23)
“BE STILL, AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD” (PS46:10) May the grace of Lord be with
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2.What effects it has on people?
3. How it was in the past?
4. How yogis used to practice?
5. Why people are afraid of it? so on and so forth.
Aspiration for Knowledge
The thirst for theoretical knowledge led me to the University where both Foundation and Advanced Courses in Yoga gave a glimpse of Patanjali Yoga Sutras, Hatha Yoga, Bhagawad Gita, and different religions and systems of thought. Here I realized that Yoga is purification internally and externally.
Opportunity came knocking at my door when I could take Mauna as my topic for dissertation in MA. Many eyebrows were raised, and amusement expressed on what can be written on this topic. Some said keep the pages blank and Mauna will take place on its own. Reading about the great personalities like Mahatma Gandhi, Vinobha Bhave, Buddha, etc who practiced Mauna, makes one realize how
Joy Kogawa's Obasan is a representation of the silence Japanese Canadians experience specifically in the past as they have been repressed from telling the stories of the internment camps in Canada due to the government's pressure to not talk about what happened to them, leading to the negative and generational consequences of silence as a trauma response. In addition to showing how Japanese Canadians have covered up traumatic events through silence. Obasan also demonstrates how silence has not solved anything, but has made the traumatic events worse, and that healing can only occur when people begin to speak about them. Silence is shown by the family secret about Namois's mother being absent, as well as Namoi never wanting to tell anyone about her sexual assault from an Old Man Grower, the difference between Namoi’s aunts in how they choose to be vocal or silent in their life. Finally, how Joy Kogawa herself uses Obasan as a way to use language to share her story as a Japanese Canadian.
How The Chosen focuses on silence By Beni Halmos In 1967, the American Jewish writer and Rabbi Chaim Potok released his book, named The Chosen. It is a book set over a course of 6 years in Brooklyn in the 1940’s, and is about two Jewish boys with different cultural background and their friendship. The two boys, Reuven and Danny, only get to know each other because of an accident during baseball, despite living 5 blocks from each other for the past 15 years of their lives. Throughout the book, the two get a taste of each other’s culture, and their friendship gets tested multiple times due to the tension rising as their culture collides with each other.
Silence, something so quiet, but yet says so much. Elie was silent, although he wanted to scream, to yell, and to say something. Instead he stayed silent; he did not utter a single word. Elie said “As I bit my lips in order not to howl in
Silence is a powerful word with great meaning for humans of all cultures. Silence is associated with great wisdom and understanding, or correlated with a failure of humanity, as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously noted “in the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” However, silence is also a powerful weapon that has been used to suppress the voices and rights of minority groups in America for generations. In Under the Feet of Jesus by Viramontes, silent speech is emphasized in all the characters as they struggle to survive under harsh conditions as immigrants. Valdez affirms the curse of silence against minority characters in Zoot Suit, when Henry Reyna is wrongly accused of a crime with no means
These illustrated how a certain situation can have power over the psychology of those
Silence is golden. Elie Wiesel states that “being silent means being complicit”. But that’s not true. Because there are plenty of stories where people go above and beyond the call of duty and end up making the situation worse. For example, when a group of hoodlums had approached me.
Smith quoted, “Silence is the residue of fear. It is feeling your flaws gut-wrench guillotine your tongue. It is the air
In the novel, The Poisonwood Bible by Barbra Kingsolver, poetry is continuously used to illustrate Adah’s character. Adah Price is the one character that always appears as though she does not belong. During her childhood while her family lived in Africa, she did not speak, and also was born with hemiplegia, which caused her to walk with a terrible limp. She was created to be very analytical, intelligent, and extremely outside the box. Her habits from when she was younger, such as reading and thinking backwards, can directly relate to her disability and is seen as her way of handling how it feels to be so different from those around her.
Silence: small word, big concept. Silence is crucial to humanity, defining the human experience and language. But unlike silence, language is continually evolving. Most of humanity is advanced through language, setting the foundation for culture, power, and imagination. In other words, language represents both freedom and imprisonment, hope and fear, love and hate.
I have a patient who recalls his silent car rides with his father who kept two guns under the driver’s seat. Silently the boy watched, on guard, even though nothing ever happened. But then again nothing was ever said, and arguably something did happen. There was no way to
Literacy Narrative “Nothing is said of the silence that comes to separate the boy from his parents” (Rodriguez 69”). Silence. Silence is powerful. Silence, in a dramatic movie to make someone sit on the edge of their seat wondering what is about to happen. Silence, at a funeral of a loved one to grieve for the loss.
Sound of silence meaning One of the biggest hang ups we have today is inability of people to touch other people, unable to love other people. This is a song about the inability to communicate - Paul Simon Sound of silence is about a struggle to share and exchange MEANINGFUL ideas. The people “talking without speaking” and “hearing without listening” are too afraid to share their deep and personal ideas or consider the ideas of others. Sound of silence interpretation Interpretation 1 I find that this song isn’t only just about the ignorance and willingness of people to follow a set regime, but also about consumerism, with the “neon gods” being brightly lit adverts seen everywhere.
Mindfulness & Power of our thoughts A strong impact is made on our health and overall well-being by what we think and feel, how we talk to ourselves, and what view we take about what is happening to us, and around us. Mindfulness, in its simplest form, means to be able to pay attention to the present moment, without judgment and criticism. To the things that actually “are”.
There are not permitted a place in calculative ‘herd’, which is how most people seem to find their meaning, therefore they must find their meaning elsewhere and are forced to mediate lest they lose their minds... The only way meditative thought could be entirely eradicated is if mankind as a species ceases entirely to cast some individuals out of the social collective.”