Your True Inner Silence - 8th January 2018

Because as you come to your true inner silence, you will find, like she was saying yesterday, that it includes all things. Nothing is in opposition to your truth. Nothing is in opposition to your being, actually. It is only shining in the light of your being. You find that God always puts the right amount of spices in every experience. Otherwise, it's very easy to believe that I am the most accepting person around, but when we start getting poked, that's the time we start to see what happened to oneness.

So outwardly you might look very serious—even I might look very serious over the next few days—but inwardly know that there is a gentle playfulness about it. Don't become... they want it to become a very serious retreat or something. It is just a tool, a technique that we are using to discover our inward silence, but we are not going to be fanatical about it. You're not going to be super serious because then a lot of judgment comes: self-judgment and the judgment of others.

So true silence... one day I said my utopian silent retreat will be the one with no rules, but everybody just comes conceptlessly and goes conceptlessly. There's no guideline, no instruction, no methods to follow, no even timings. One day we'll have a retreat like this. You just come conceptlessly and you go conceptlessly. No expectation, no result, just drowning in our own presence. Today being its user of those hands to live, to leave this being unmolested and unharassed by notions about itself. Only being itself. And every moment of this silence shows us the reality of who we are.