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| Konrad Mägi, Meditation (Landscape with A Woman) 1915/16 |
Deep Listening in Silence
Our daily life is
filled with news and information arriving from all directions. Yet, recently I
have encountered the situations where facts and cognitive approaches are not
helpful, bringing even more confusion into my decision making process.
My solution has been
to slow down and take time to be with myself in silence. Sometimes it means
sitting and “doing nothing”, sometimes it is a walk on the beach. When I am
able to quiet the thinking mind and make space to unknown to surface, the right
answer to my question surfaces gracefully. There are times when the response
might come through unexpected phone call or email. Few times, the answer
“popped out” from a book that I opened and once, it was written, larger than life,
on a billboard above the freeway.
And even when the
response does not come, I feel calmer and more balanced.
Which answers in you
are wanting to reveal themselves to you?
Which bright ideas are
germinating in you, waiting for silence to make space for them to surface?
Lao Tzu said:
Colors blind the eye.
Sounds deafen the ear.
Flavors numb the taste.
Thoughts weaken the mind.
The Master observes the
world
But trusts his inner
vision.
He allows things to come
and go.
His heart is open as the
sky.
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