Jayaji — Short Silences

Swami Vivekananda (1863 – 1902), was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. He was a key figure in the introduction of Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world; and is credited with raising interfaith awareness and bringing Hinduism to the status of a major world religion.

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"Why do you love sleep, but not death?"   Short contemplative reading from "Talks With Sri Ramana Maharshi".   About Sri Ramana Maharshi In July 1896, at the tender age of sixteen, Sri Ramana Maharshi had an experience that transformed his life and awakened in him the true meaning of the Self.   During the following fifty-four years his life was a living example of supreme peace, universal compassion and ceaseless Self-Awar...

The following famous prayer has been extracted from Longchenpa’s explanation of Vajra Song and Dance (rdo rje’i glu gar) given in The Treasury of the Supreme Vehicle (theg mchog mdzod).

As stated by Longchenpa, the original source of this mantra is The Tantra of the Union of the Sun and Moon (nyi zla kha sbyor), one of the Seventeen Tantras of the Category of Pith Instructions. Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche explains this mantra to be the...

Some selections from "CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE ABSOLUTE, The final talks of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj"

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, 1897 ‒ 1981, From his living room in the slums of Bombay (Mumbai), this self-realized master became famous for brilliant, aphoristic, extemporized talks in which he taught an austere, minimalist Jnana Yoga based on his own experience. Many of these talks have been published in books. The earliest volume, I A...

Longchen Rabjam lived from 1308-1363 and is revered as one of the greatest scholars in the Nyingma tradition. He carried the title Kunkhyen - All-Knowing. As a child, he studied the Dharma in great depth and entered the famous Shedra Sangpu at age 19, but the behaviour of some of the scholars disgusted him, and he eventually chose to practise in the solitude of the mountains.

He wrote more than 250 treatises on a wide variety of t...

"Your love has brought us to this silence, where the only obligation is to walk slowly through a meadow and look." - Rumi

Jelaluddin Rumi is one of the greatest mystics to have ever lived. He was a Sufi master and Persian poet born in 1207. He is known for his works of poetry around the theme of union with God.

Let these three pieces on Silence allow you entrance into the domain of Silence.

 

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