Inner listening – Three levels of meditating on silence

Within the spirit of  silence amongst the noise,

Toby

Interior listening – Three ranges of meditating on silence

Cultivating silent presence will not be by any means the one solution to meditate, however nonetheless it’s a tremendous necessary dimension of meditation. It’s also one which, as soon as you are able to do it, helps all of your different types of meditation in addition to being an finish in itself. Listed below are 3 ways to meditate on silence, the primary is a doorway to the second, and the second is a doorway to the third. For the primary two there are two methods to do it; listening inwardly and listening outwardly. They are often mixed or targeted on individually in any given session, as you want.

Listening and observing the non-silence
The primary observe is to take heed to the non-silence or the noise.
On the interior degree – As you flip your consideration inward, this implies to note your interior dialog, and all the opposite ‘noise’ that is occurring inside your thoughts, simply holding the place of the observer in that house. You don’t try to cease the ideas, quite you merely pay attention and see.
On the outer degree – You merely take heed to the sounds happening round you, noticing them, and letting them come and go. Just like the interior degree the secret is merely listening and noticing, and letting that be your level of stability because the sounds come and go.

Listening and observing the silence
If you happen to take heed to your interior noise in the way in which described above, then after some time you’ll discover that it begins to die down just a little. Listening inwardly, you’ll begin to discover pockets of silence between the noise. When these begin to occur, take note of them and begin to drop into them, extending the length of them just a little. Over time you’ll begin to have extra silence than interior noise. Ultimately you’ll begin to expertise prolonged intervals the place it’s virtually all silence, and also you drop into deeper and deeper states of meditation.
On the outer degree, you may select to give attention to the silences in between the noises. After some time you’ll begin to discover that silence is all pervasive; even when there’s noise, you understand that the noise is contained by silence; that silence is current even when there are sounds round.

Listening to the sound of silence     
Upon getting some expertise of phases one and two, you should have most likely began to note that, while you take heed to silence, each inwardly and outwardly, there’s a sound. It’s type of like a high-pitched ringing in your interior ear. If you happen to calm down with it, you might discover that it makes it simpler to let go of discursive ideas and transfer right into a inconsiderate situation. Listening to the sound of silence virtually places you in a trance-like state that may be very conducive to meditation and shifting into deeper, non-conceptual states of consciousness. On this third degree the interior and outer dimension of the listening just about merge into the identical factor, because the sound appears each ‘inside’ and ‘exterior’ on the similar time.

The good factor concerning the above meditation can be that it may be achieved with out having to exert a lot effort; it’s all listening, accepting, opening to. It may be achieved if you end up drained and need to calm down, in addition to while you need to sit down and actually do some targeted interior work!

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