Silence and Awakening

Meditation (1) is the practice of silence. Beyond or below any mantra or breathing practice, we find at least three levels of silence:
• The silence that comes through the Will/gut.  Just being in the body. No thinking.
• The silence that comes through deep, aware, feeling-heart. Resting in the ebb and flow, fighting nothing.
• The silence that comes through profound learning. We no longer need inner dialogue, and just rest in the garden of all knowing, allowing the silence of all, to be all that speaks.

In the will-silence we discover how memory brings this personality that is I into life.
In the silent-feeling we notice how this I becomes at-one with the flow of life in the world.
In the rested-thinking we discover how the self appears anew in the circle of comradeship formed by others also working on their silence.

Silence connects the centre of our daytime self with the great-circle from which our consciousness originates. In the silence, connections grow that create our centre anew, empowering it with cosmic creativity. Through the practice of silence we build threads that continue, creativity that becomes available at this moment, now, enabling us to bring gifts into this world that are steps forward for many, not just for ourselves. Practicing this silence builds a familiarity that enables us to achieve an inner silence in moments when the world would instruct us. We become able to hear, within the normal sense impressions, meanings that would otherwise remain hidden.
The greatest of these new-hearing powers comes when listening to another speak. The normal process of understanding what is said within a known context gives way, and we begin to understand new contexts within what is said.
This reversal of our everyday listening process, opens up our own growth to a new level of gifted-assistance, at the same time as empowering the one being-heard to understand their own development in a new way. Together this builds community.
The Saturn Path, Enquiry process is a communal practice of listening, through which we learn how to deepen the silence that we are holding. Through sharing with each other where the silence is failing in ourselves, we discover who we are in our thinking, our feeling, and our will.

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