Silence Awareness

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

One of the most difficult things to learn in life is to understand the absence of silence in spite of their conditioning telling you noise is needed. To not give in to the noisy mind (disturbed) that tells you to reach for this or that, is so difficult because of the lack of awareness of the absence of silence, and the lack of understanding this absence. Even with awareness and the understanding of the absence of silence, it’s still difficult because of all the outer noise and conditioning. Silence is not something many understand. 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 a disturbed mind . 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 disturbed 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 a disturbed mind, life is based in noise. Not listening to noise allows for one to truly be an instrument, but this will only occur if you‘re aware of silence so you don’t have to listen to the noise…