True silence is not an acquisition, a prized object to be gained after some long struggle. Rather, it is what is already true of us — our own native state — prior to the superimposition of the incessant internal narrative. It is our identification with that personal narrative, fueled by the alternating cycle of hope and fear, craving and aversion, which obscures our peace... By simply being that which we already always are, without resort to any special scheme or strategy of transformation or modification, we simply rest as our default condition of spacious and transparent awake awareness. When all else falls away, this alone remains, this pure and simple silence. By disengaging from that stream of thoughts, images, interpretations, memories, and projections which constitute “the me story”, attention comes to rest in silence, and it is only in such silence, freed from all distractions, all mental and emotional obscurations, all futile seeking and stressful striving, that our true nature can reveal itself as the pure simplicity of open awake awareness that it is. ~Bob OHearn theconsciousprocess.wordpress/2013/01/08/the-discipline-of-silence/
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