At 10:21 AM 1/11/2008, you wrote:
> [Marsha]
> > I thought you were asking about the quiet as
> > experienced by the
> > silent witness. I still think that's what your
> > inquiry is about. We
> > just didn't meet in the use of language.
>
>
>SA: I think by this dialogue we are trying to
>understand what we both mean by quiet. I use
>quietness a lot here, and I'm wondering if when I use
>this term to signify an experience, if people in this
>forum know what I mean. Thank you for helping me see
>how this forum might be percieving this 'quietness'
>I'm talking about.
> What is "silent witness"? I never heard of this
>term. Please explain. Maybe this is what I'm talking
>about.
SA,
I'll try, but it's experience, not procedure.
When I was a very disciplined meditator, I came to a point where I
could watch my own thoughts flowing and changing. It was
unbelievable!!! They would meander here and there. I wish I could
explain why one thought would follow another, but I do not
know. Sometimes there'd seem to be a logic to it, but at other times
the association seemed a mystery. It didn't take long to realize
that thinking is not some exalted faculty. It can be useful, but not
necessarily.
The original form of this meditation was not to become attached to
the thoughts, just let them go. It's to be a silent witness. Now
it's kind of a habit. Not always, of course, but most of the
time. There's always a watching aspect. I can be on the phone
giving my mother advice to check into the side affects of a new
prescription, and still there is the silent witness
watching. Sometimes there is only the silent witness. This is the
place of calm and quiet, where experience is clear. I think living
alone has helped to strengthen this.
Marsha
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