Some of you may appreciate this report of one journalist's experience:
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With metta,
Ben
My 10-Day Marathon of Total Silence
My 10-Day Marathon of Total Silence
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
Re: My 10-Day Marathon of Total Silence
Pleasure of Noble Silence!
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“As the lamp consumes oil, the path realises Nibbana”
Re: My 10-Day Marathon of Total Silence
I did that in early college long before I heard of Buddhism. It was very relaxing. I saved a lot of energy.