Vimala Thakar

You're looking forward.

You're waiting for the time to help you to acquire something which the outside, the external world, could not give you.

And as long as one is attached to that center, to the I, the me, the ego, one is attached to the past.

There, that center has a ceaseless, involuntary movement, a tremendous momentum.

That center needs time,

And inside the brain, the tremendous momentum of the total human past is wound up.

The center moves, keeps on moving, acquires something, reacts to something, changes something, molds something, says something to someone else,

or hears something, reads something, looks at something.

That is why it is said life has been equated with the movement of the conditioned energy.

Unless the psyche is purged of that error, one cannot talk about silence.

So silence is not abstention from verbalization.

Silence is not turning inward and waiting for something to happen, some experience to take place.

It's a first-hand personal acquaintance with the movement of the conditioned energy that might open the door to the other.

To have the awareness of the total.

To have the awareness of silence.

One has to be with it.

In it.

You may read dozens of books about swimming, but if you don't take a plunge in the pool, then you can give a discourse on how to swim without ever having experienced the ecstasy of being in the waters, the joy of it.

You have to take a plunge into that which thought has not touched.

One has to take a plunge into the vulnerability of innocency, vulnerability and insecurity of silence, where things will happen to me and I, the centre, will not be able to operate upon it.