Silence?

So, do you think if you are in a quiet room, with no clocks to tic etc. that silence is enshured? No, when I meditate there is sound, but not via my ears but straight into my head. Sometimes a whistle, sometimes a hum but more often than not a tune! Yes I seem to have a cheesey juke box in my head. Small snipits of songs, useally not even songs I like, go round on a 'loop'.

To minimise this I have taken to limiting my listening time to music, and have started to just let it be. Not try, as I have done, to turn it down by visulizing a volume control. Just letting it be and focusing on the breath in time does the trick.

If it becomes to distracting I have in the past used chanting which is very effective alternative.

So, silence is not golden, it is infact full of the absence of sound, or at least the sound we expect to hear.

Hi all

Well its Tuesday and am off to the Sangha tonight.

My meditation this morning was "good" and I found the time for an extra 15 minutes! So I think that made all the difference.

So hows your breathing? See in that instant it changed, how do you notice it without changing it? Well that will keep me busy tonight.

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Ian

At last remembered my account name!

Yes it happens to the best of us and am no exception, I forgot my account name and was trying to use it in Myspace!

Any how, all sorted now.

Still sitting on my cushion, still coming to terms with my monkey mind. I have started to use a Zen posture described by Roshi Suzuki in "beginers mind, Zen mind" which is an excelent book.

I think the posture is helping and will endevour to keep my chin down, you need to read the book, and my mind up.

So this is the first of the rest,

More soon.