A preacher came to address some small children. Before beginning he put a question to them: If you were asked to address a gathering of such intelligent boys and girls who expect a good lecture from you, and if you had nothing to speak on, what would you say? A small child replied: I would keep quiet.
This child-like simplicity is needed to experiment with silence.
This child-like simplicity is needed to experiment with silence.
Wittgenstein has said somewhere: Of that which one cannot speak, one should remain silent. Oh, if only this advice was heeded there would be no useless arguments about truth! THAT-WHICH-IS cannot be spoken of. Whatever is said in words is not, cannot be, THAT-WHICH-IS. Truth is beyond words, only silence is related to truth. But silence is very difficult; the mind wants to speak even of that which is beyond words. Really, the mind is the only barrier to silence. Silence belongs to the state of no-mind.