one obviously will save energy. This explains why mystics went to the hills and forests to seek answers to life –in silence-blissful, all-encompassing endless silence. Mother Teresa believed that God is the friend of silence. “See how the nature - tree, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch the souls” she would say. Most religious traditions are unanimous in acknowledging silence as being essential to spiritual growth. Allowing the mind to be silent is implied as a feature of spiritual enlightenment in Buddhism. It is said that when Lord Buddha got enlightenment, he did not speak for a week. Islamic scholars stress on inner silence that helps us …show more content…
The collective resonance of tuning into the stream of intuition, that lies hidden in the cave of silence, gives access to one’s intuition and creative energies. This creativity and self-awareness can connect with one’s deeper selves and others. That creative potential becomes more personally owned when one realizes that meditation to achieve self-realization and service to others are complementary. One Hasidic saint reminds us that one will not attain salvation without taking others with us towards salvation. We are like a group of pilgrims on a journey towards our goal. When one of us encounters obstacles on the journey we stop and help our fellow pilgrim and then all continue together on our journey. At the end of a silent retreat it is not uncommon to hear participants remarking, “ I got to know my fellow silent retreaters better than I would have if we had talked to one another. I felt a strong support and bond with one another.” We learn in silence that our simple and attentive “personal presence” is one of our greatest gifts to one …show more content…
One should do the practice of ‘no reaction’ every day. One must learn to be like the ocean, whose waves come and go, but the ocean remains the same. Even a large heavy rock when thrown into the ocean causes only temporary ripples on its surface. The ocean 's depths remain unaffected. He also said that one of the best ways to learn ‘no reaction’ is through silence. When one is anxious, angry or frustrated, one says things which is regretted later . So one should learn the power of silence. Silence on the outside will lead to silence on the inside. Silence is the time of remembering that one is more than one’s reactions, a time of charging one’s inner batteries. All discipline of Yoga is an effort to make one a master of oneself. All Yoga postures are not really concerned with the body; they are concerned with the capacity to be or in other words from becoming to being. A person in practice knows how difficult it is to sit without moving even for a few seconds. The moment one thinks of sitting without moving, body revolts and one fidgets. Postures, asanas are not concerned with any kind of physiological training, but an inner training of being, just to be-without doing anything, without any movement, without any activity, just remain. This will help in