i realized that it is easier to become silent while listening to you than in
any other meditation when you stop talking everything seems to stop for a moment
and i get a glimpse of what meditation can be these are the most precious moments for me
why is it easier to become silent in your presence
um
dancing this
the question you have raised
is significant not only to you
but to many more
who are not fortunate enough
to be in my presence
but who will be reading these words or listening
or seeing on the video is screen all over the world
the question arises almost to everyone
that the way i die
is a little strange
no speaker in the world
talks like me technically it is wrong
it takes almost double the time
but the speakers
have a different purpose
my purpose is absolutely
different from theirs
they speak because
they are prepared for it
they are simply repeating something that they have rehearsal
secondly
they are speaking
to impose a certain ideology a certain idea on you
thirdly to them speaking is an art
they go on refining it
as far as i am concerned
i am not what they call
a speaker or orator
it is not art to me or technique
technically i go on becoming worse every day
but our purposes are totally different i don't want to impress you
in order to manipulate you
i don't speak for any goal to be achieved through convincing you
i don't speak to convert you into a christian into a hindu or a mountain
into a taste or an atheist
these are not my concerns my speaking is really
one of my devices for meditation this way is speaking has never been used
i speak not to give you a message
but to stop your mind function i speak
nothing
prepared i don't know myself what is going to be the next word hence i never commit any mistake
one commits a mistake if one is prepared
i never forget anything because one forgets if one has been remembering it
so i speak with her freedom perhaps nobody has ever spoken
i am not concerned whether i am consistent
because that is not the purpose a man who wants to convince you and to manipulate you through
his speaking has to be consistent
has to be logical has to be rational to overpower your reason he wants to dominate through words
one of the very famous books of del carnegie
is
about
is speaking and influencing people
as an art
it has been sold next to the holy bible
but i will fail in his examinations he used to run a course in america
to train missionaries to train professors to train orators i will fail on all accounts
first i have no motivation to convert you
i have no desire anywhere to impress you
and i don't remember what i have said yesterday
so i cannot bother about being consistent that is too much worry
i can easily contradict myself
because i am not trying
to have a communication with your intellectual rational mind
my purpose is so unique
i am using words
just to create silent gaps the words are not important
so i can say anything contradictory anything absurd anything unrelated
because my purpose is just to create gaps
the words are secondary
the silences between those words are primary
this is simply a device to give you a glimpse of meditation
and once you know that it is possible to
you you have traveled far in the direction of your own being
most of the people in the world don't think that it is possible for mind to be silent
because they don't think that it is possible they don't try
how to give people a taste of meditation was my
basic reason to speak so i can go on speaking eternally
it does not matter what i am speaking
all that matters that i give you few chances
to be silent which you find difficult
on your own occurred in the beginning
i cannot force you to be silent
but i can create a device in which is spontaneously you are bound to be silent
i am speaking and in the middle of his sentence when you were expecting another word to follow
nothing follows
but a silent gap
and your mind was looking to listen
and waiting that something will be following and does not want to miss it
naturally becomes silent
what the poor mind can do
if it was well known that at what points i will be silent if it was
declared to you that on such and such points i will be silent you can manage to think
you will not be silent then
then you know that this was the point he was going to be silent now i can have a little
chit chat with myself
but because it comes absolutely
suddenly
i don't know myself why at certain points i stopped
anything like this in any orator in the world will be condemned because the orator
is stopping again and again means he's not well prepared he has not done the homework
means that his memory is not reliable means that he cannot find sometimes what word to use
but because it is not
oratory
i am not concerned about the people who will be condemning me
i am concerned with you
and it is not only here
far away anywhere in the world where people will be listening to the video or to the audio
they come to the same silence
my success is not to convince you my success is to give you a real taste
so that you can become confident enough that meditation is not a fiction
that the state of no mind is not just a philosophical idea that it is a reality
and that you are capable of it that it does not need any special
qualifications
you