2. Silence: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.(see text after the french version)
Silence : Ne parlez que si cela présente un intérêt pour les autres ou pour vous, éviter le bavardage inutile.
Benjamin ne faisait pas référence à la solitude monastique quand il a présenté le silence comme une vertu. Pour lui, quelques mots simples et bien utilisés ont plus de pouvoir que des heures de bavardage.
Pour moi, la compréhension du silence et sa mise en pratique est une source de grande force comme a dit Lao Tseu. Comment peut-on rentrer en contact avec cette grande force ?
Pour moi, le moyen le plus puissant pour goûter à cette force est par la méditation. Tout ce que je désire acquérir se trouve en moi. Cette force ne se trouve pas dans la parole surtout lorsqu'elle n'est pas d'or mais dans le silence.
C'est ainsi qu'à travers le silence que j’arrive à découvrir qui je suis, que je rentre en contact avec mon pouvoir personnel et à sentir cette force. Rentrer en contact avec elle n'est pas un concept que l'esprit peut saisir, c'est par la pratique que j'arrive à goûter à ce luxe qui ne s'achète pas, mais qui prendre naissance dans mon cœur.
Entre vous et moi, il y a un océan de calme et de silence parfait. La méditation offre un passage facile pour aller à cet océan qui se trouve au-delà du bavardage de l'esprit. Je sais que mon mental a peur du silence, et si je veux prendre le pouvoir sur lui, je dois lui imposer le silence.
C'est à cause du mentale que la majorité de personnes n'auront jamais accès à cette force. Elles pensent qu'en soulevant la poussière en se pavanant ou en brassant l'air qu'elles peuvent montrer leur force. Valéry Larbaud a dit : Parler du désert, ne serait-ce pas, d’abord, se taire, comme lui, et lui rendre hommage non de nos vains bavardages mais de notre silence ?
J'aime bien Lao Tseu qui exprime beaucoup de sagesses sur la façon d'agir pour acquérir du pouvoir comme "Celui qui est à la vue de tous ne peut garder sa puissance longtemps" qui montre que la vraie puissance s'acquiert dans le silence.
Notre quotidien est une rivière d'émotion, et souvent, le meilleur moyen pour trouver des solutions à nos problèmes ne consistent pas à courir derrière les autres pour avoir des conseils, mais simplement en apprenant à nous asseoir avec nos sentiments. Nous pensons souvent que des conseils ou qu'une aide extérieure viendra changer notre vie. La vérité est que la solution à nos problèmes résident en nous.
D'autres personnes peuvent être là pour nous aider, je ne suis pas contre, mais à la fin de la journée, nous aurons besoin de trouver les réponses en nous-même et ensuite nous laisser guider par notre intuition pour faire le bon choix et ainsi tirer parti de notre propre force que nous aurons développé pendant tes moments de silence.
Voici un exercice que je pratique au moins une fois par mois. Je passer 24 heures dans le silence total. Pour cela, je ne me retire pas dans un monastère avec d'autres personnes, mais tout comme. Je loue une maison sur le haut d'une colline, loin de toute vie humaine et pendant les 24 heures qui suivent, je vis sans téléphone, sans lecture, sans musique, je suis qu'avec moi-même. Pendant ces 24 heures, je vis la pleine conscience en méditation. J’élimine toutes pensées négatives et je plonge mon mentale dans un profond silence nourri de pensées positives de ce que je veux vivre comme expérience de vie.. Si vous faites cela, vous verrez que votre mentale n'aimera pas ça. Il va protester, trouver des arguments pour vous dire que ce n'est pas drôle du tout. Il faut du courage et de la volonté.
Il faut savoir que vous ne pouvez éliminer vos pensées, en tout cas de mon expérience je n'y suis jamais arrivé. Par contre en concentrant sur ce que je veux sans ajouter de la résistance, je suis arrivé à prendre le contrôle de mes pensées. J'ai constaté que lorsque je me concentre sur ce que je veux, je ne laisse pas le champs à mon esprit pour se disperser.
Le jour où vous arriverez à prendre le contrôle de vos pensées, vous allez vous t’apercevoir que vous n'avez plus besoin de vous justifier auprès de qui que ce soit, mais aussi que vous n'avez plus besoin de parler.
Faites cet exercice et vous découvrirez le sens de ce texte sur le silence.
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2. Silence: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
Benjamin did not refer to monastic solitude when he introduced silence as a virtue. For him, a few simple and well-used words have more power than hours of gossip.
For me, understanding silence and putting it into practice is a source of great strength, as Lao Tzu said. But how can we come into contact with this great strength? For me, the most powerful way to experience this strength is through meditation. I know that every quality I want to acquire is in me. My strength is not in my words especially when it is not golden but in the silence that I practice. Thus, it’s through silence that I can discover who I am, that I can come into contact with my personal power and feel this strength. Getting in touch with my personnel power is not a concept that my mind can grasp, it is through practice that I can taste this luxury that finds its origin in my heart. Between you and me, there is an ocean of calm and perfect silence. Meditation offers an easy passage to this ocean that is beyond the chatter of the mind. I know that my mind is afraid of silence, and if I want to take power over it, I must silence it.
It is because of their mental state that the majority of people will never have access to this power. They think that by raising the dust by strutting or stirring the air that they can show their strength. Valery Larbaud said: To speak of the desert, would it not be, first of all, to be silent, like him, and honor not with our vain chatter but with our silence?
I like Lao Tzu, who expresses a lot of wisdom about how to act to acquire power, like this quote: "He who is in the sight of all cannot keep his power long" that shows that real power is acquired in silence.
Our everyday life is a river of emotion, and often the best way to find solutions to our problems is not by running behind others for advice, but simply by learning to sit with our feelings. We often think that advice or outside help will change our lives. The truth is that the solution to our problems lies within us.
Other people may be there to help us, I'm not against this idea, but in the end of the day we will need to find the answers in ourselves and then let us be guided by our intuition to make the right choice and so take advantage of our own strength that we will have developed during our moments of silence.
Here is an exercise that I practice at least once a month. I spend 24 hours in total silence. For that, I do not retreat in a monastery with other people, but just like. I rent a house on the top of a hill, far from all human life and for the next 24 hours, I live without phone, without reading, without music, without television, I am only with myself. During these 24 hours, I live mindfulness in meditation. I train myself to avoid all negative thoughts and immerse myself in a deep silence filled with positive thoughts of what I want to live as a life experience. If you do this, you will find that your mind will not like it. It will protest, find arguments to tell you that it's not funny at all.
You will need courage and the will to follow through. You must know that you cannot stop thinking, in any case from my experience I have never been able. But by concentrating on what I want without adding resistance, I am able to take control of my thoughts. I have found that when I focus on what I want, I do not leave space to my mind to do whatever it wants. The day you come to take control of your thoughts, you will find that you no longer need to justify yourself to anyone, but also that you no longer need to talk. Do this exercise and you will discover the meaning of this text on silence.
Benjamin did not refer to monastic solitude when he introduced silence as a virtue. For him, a few simple and well-used words have more power than hours of gossip.
For me, understanding silence and putting it into practice is a source of great strength, as Lao Tzu said. But how can we come into contact with this great strength? For me, the most powerful way to experience this strength is through meditation. I know that every quality I want to acquire is in me. My strength is not in my words especially when it is not golden but in the silence that I practice. Thus, it’s through silence that I can discover who I am, that I can come into contact with my personal power and feel this strength. Getting in touch with my personnel power is not a concept that my mind can grasp, it is through practice that I can taste this luxury that finds its origin in my heart. Between you and me, there is an ocean of calm and perfect silence. Meditation offers an easy passage to this ocean that is beyond the chatter of the mind. I know that my mind is afraid of silence, and if I want to take power over it, I must silence it.
It is because of their mental state that the majority of people will never have access to this power. They think that by raising the dust by strutting or stirring the air that they can show their strength. Valery Larbaud said: To speak of the desert, would it not be, first of all, to be silent, like him, and honor not with our vain chatter but with our silence?
I like Lao Tzu, who expresses a lot of wisdom about how to act to acquire power, like this quote: "He who is in the sight of all cannot keep his power long" that shows that real power is acquired in silence.
Our everyday life is a river of emotion, and often the best way to find solutions to our problems is not by running behind others for advice, but simply by learning to sit with our feelings. We often think that advice or outside help will change our lives. The truth is that the solution to our problems lies within us.
Other people may be there to help us, I'm not against this idea, but in the end of the day we will need to find the answers in ourselves and then let us be guided by our intuition to make the right choice and so take advantage of our own strength that we will have developed during our moments of silence.
Here is an exercise that I practice at least once a month. I spend 24 hours in total silence. For that, I do not retreat in a monastery with other people, but just like. I rent a house on the top of a hill, far from all human life and for the next 24 hours, I live without phone, without reading, without music, without television, I am only with myself. During these 24 hours, I live mindfulness in meditation. I train myself to avoid all negative thoughts and immerse myself in a deep silence filled with positive thoughts of what I want to live as a life experience. If you do this, you will find that your mind will not like it. It will protest, find arguments to tell you that it's not funny at all.
You will need courage and the will to follow through. You must know that you cannot stop thinking, in any case from my experience I have never been able. But by concentrating on what I want without adding resistance, I am able to take control of my thoughts. I have found that when I focus on what I want, I do not leave space to my mind to do whatever it wants. The day you come to take control of your thoughts, you will find that you no longer need to justify yourself to anyone, but also that you no longer need to talk. Do this exercise and you will discover the meaning of this text on silence.

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