While preparing for a leadership workshop on communication early this month, I learnt this beautiful thing from the Buddha’s Teachings – SILENCE is the biggest tool of communication.
As Buddha says … Look at the Noise in your mind … more money, more power, more fame, more recognition, position. The noise is always about something… SILENCE is about nothing. Hence, SILENCE
Talking on the subject, he explained four concepts:
- · Kayanath Paschanath - Observing your body
- · Vedanan Paschanath – Observing your sensation
- · Chitanan Paschanath – Observing your flow of mind
- · Brahmanan Pachananath – Observing the nature of you.
If words create more noise then they have not reached their goal. Want, Desire, Craving, Greed, Need create NOISE … Joy, Contentment, Fulfillment, is SILENCE. Words cannot capture existence, Silence can.
Buddha in his teachings explained further three things – Sheela (Conduct), Samadhi (Right Practice, Samayak Samadhi - Samayak Drishti i.e the right vision) and Pragyan – Awareness – the right Mindfulness. When all these three things combine … it results to ‘SILENCE’.
This SILENCE is not the numb silence or the angry silence. This is the ‘space’ inside you. ‘SILENCE’ and ‘SPACE’ are synonymous. This zone is full of Contentment, Saturation and Gravity. This ‘SPACE’ is the place where you connect to ‘self’. This can be achieved with the right alignment between the head and the heart.
This was an excellent knowledge point that I learnt from the teachings of Buddha and I seriously feel that Buddha’s teachings are immensely helpful if implement in life with correct understanding and practice.
