Biography of Silence by Pablo d'Ors & David Shook

Author:Pablo d'Ors & David Shook
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Parallax Press
Published: 2018-10-15T16:00:00+00:00

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IT’S WONDERFUL TO NOTICE how we achieve great changes in the most absolute stillness. Because it is not just silence that is curative, but stillness as well. For it must be said that silence in stillness is very different from silence in movement. It is scientifically demonstrated that motionless eyes provide the subject with a greater concentration than eyes in movement. While moving, it is very easy, almost inevitable, to be outside ourselves. Stillness, on the other hand, invites interiorization. It is necessary to pass through stillness to train oneself to master it, without which true freedom cannot be discussed.

Sitting in stillness turns out to be so arduous because of the exalted and disproportionate image that we tend to have of ourselves. The immaturity or infantilism of some adults is nothing more than the loss of a sense of proportion. In meditation, we place each thing in its place and we discover what our place is: a place that we certainly despised and branded contemptible before the practice of silence in stillness; but also a place that, once seen, one does not wish to abandon.

Since I discovered the power of meditation, I began to discretely display the vulnerability that characterizes us humans, which I had so tried to hide from the world. That modest display of my weaknesses has revealed itself as a very effective way to acknowledge the worship of my own image that I had lived with up to that point. Showing vulnerability is the only way that allows others to truly know us, and, consequently, to love us.

In one way or another, when meditating one works with the material of vulnerability itself. We always have the impression that we are starting from zero: the house itself never seems to be built; we feel we are just permanently reinforcing the foundation. In meditation there is not, at least by appearances, a significant shift from one place to another; rather there is a sort of installation in a non-place. That non-place is the now, the instant is the instance.

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