Silence

Everything that is, is meant to be. Everything that can be, will be. We must suffer to know peace.

We must be discontent to know joy. We must lose something to find another. We must crawl so we know flight.

So now that we know suffering, do the majority of people know peace? I think not. We are a murmuration of motion.

Humans flow in groups of trends for good or for bad. We are a grand unit, a group of moths that flock to the fire that is the next zeitgeist.

I believe that Buddhism is the way to break free from the herd.

I think the human majority is asleep at the wheel, so we let others steer the car, who, in turn, are asleep as well.

It takes radical thinking and faith to break from the gravity of others’ state of ignorance.

We are gregarious pack animals with natural inclinations to follow the majority line of thought.

But what if they are wrong? We need radical change in our thinking, but how? By not thinking.

Our brains are inundated by so much information that we become talking heads without purpose.

We lose contact with our divine right, our Buddha Nature.

If the majority of people have a habit of thinking that causes them nothing but trouble,

then why not try not thinking? My faith tells me that Silent meditation, or not thinking,

is the gateway to breaking free from the majority rule of harmful thinking. We have a lot to undo as we try to do the wise thing.

We trained our brains to always be thinking of this or that to the point that we can’t shut it off.

To break free, we must form new neuro-pathways so we can bypass our monkey mind of chatter and find silence.

Meditation actually forms new neuro-pathways that improve brain function and well-being.

It wakes us up from our slumber that rules the land. If you want true freedom, then set the intention and simply sit.