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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 4
silence we experience is not relative to ideas or definitions about it. This silence abides while the thoughts come and pass unobtrusively which our great Master so pithily expressed as a condition of Non - Concentration Concentration. Obviously the ideas about this Silence (which I prefer to call Imperience) out of habit of mind are not the silence any more than an idea of candy is candy.
One of the main points that we stress most during meditation is that we sit and do literally nothing and allow the Master to handle us as he deems fit. This is a great practice of keeping quiet and be silent without putting any effort. But habits of thinking persist and compel us to think that we should be doing something- if not for our sake but as an effort to help the Master in his work with us. This renunciation of effort on our part is the greatest renunciation which naturally leads to the renunciation of the results of effort and the renunciation of knowledge about both the effort and its result.
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