Unlocking the Mysterious Benefits of Silence: A Buddhist Tale on the Power of Silence

there was a huge Hermitage of Gotham Buddha in  a village a famous Buddhist teacher lived there   there one of his disciples used to speak a lot  he used to talk here and there all the time when   he went to collect donations he would bring  a new story from every house and tell it to   the other disciples of the ashram used to talk  bad about one disciple to another backbiting   and tried to be good in front of others he  used to praise himself from his own mouth and   always tried to prove himself to be the most  intelligent and best in front of the guru he   considered himself different and Superior to  all the disciples he said that I am a child   of a rich family if I wanted I could have lived  a comfortable and full of facilities life but I   left all that and came here because I have to  discover the truth to know myself to know life   that's why my sacrifice is bigger than all of  you one day the guru called all the Disciples   of the ashram and said all of you have to take  some resolution for the next one month this will   strengthen your determination power and will  Infuse self-power in you all of you can take   any resolution according to your ability and  if any one of you breaks your resolution before   one month then he will return to his old routine  all the disciples took big or small resolutions   according to their power and went away after  telling the guru about their resolutions but the   disciple who wanted to show himself as different  and bigger went directly to the guru's cottage and   said I do not want to take any small resolution  but I want to take a big and great resolution   like myself please tell me what resolution should  be taken hearing this the guru smiled and said   will you be able to fulfill the resolution given  by me will it be possible for you to complete it   probably not that is not possible for you you will  not be able to complete it that's why you yourself   find a resolution the disciple said no gurudev  whatever resolution you give me I will definitely   fulfill it the master said okay then you will keep  quiet for the next one month won't even take a   word out of your mouth this is your resolution the  disciple said gurudev is this also a resolution   this is very easy remain silent for a month you  give me some big resolution which is worthy of my   ability which I have a problem in fulfilling Guru  said first you fulfill this resolution and show it   the disciple obeyed the guru and he became silent  at the same time and turned and went out of the   Hut he found it much easier to remain silent he  spent one day silently but from the second day the   burden of not speaking started increasing in his  mind on the third day he started feeling heaviness   and on the fourth day he started feeling a strange  uneasiness because all the disciples in the ashram   were talking to each other he also wanted to  present his side in front of them he wanted   to stop speaking but his resolve was coming in the  way that's why he used to make only mouth and eyes   the whole day in this way a few more days passed  and that disciple fell ill his head was exploding   he didn't even feel like eating or drinking he  just wanted to speak he went to the guru and sat   in front of him in writing and told him gurudev I  want to speak I can't breathe without speaking I   am getting out of breath I am going insane inside  what should I do should I break my resolution   Guru smiled after reading this and said  resolutions are only meant to be broken   but the one who fulfills his resolution he  increases his inner strength and the one who   increases his inner strength he is on the path  of society and Awakening grows further taking the   resolution was also in your hands and breaking  it is also in your hands many of your brothers   have broken their resolve and returned to their  old routine if you are not able to do it then   you can also break your resolve and go back to  your old routine but remember if you are not able   to handle this small resolution today then how  will you be able to handle the rest of your life   the rest of the decision is entirely in your  hands this talk of the guru hurt the heart of   that disciple he went back without saying anything  and locked himself in his Hut he used to come   out of the HUD only for his essential works and  would sit inside the hut all the rest of the time   15 days had passed and the resolve of almost all  the Disciples of the ashram had been broken by   now but his resolve was still on after taking  the resolution till now he had not uttered a   single word the whole ashram was surprised that  how did a person who spoke so much become silent   after 15 days he again went to his Guru and told  in writing gurudev I am silent from outside but   there are many voices inside me there is a lot of  whining and complaining I I keep talking inside my   mind keeps asking all kinds of questions the more  silent I am from outside the more noisy I am from   within is my resolve still in this way the guru  said yes your resolution is still going on but   as long as these voices of people keep falling in  your ears your mind will keep on speaking because   he has a habit of speaking you may be silent  on the outside but you will be speaking on the   inside you have to go away from these things  and these voices the disciple goes from there   after saluting the guru and leaves his Hut in the  morning and goes towards the forest many days pass   the time of resolution is also completed but the  disciple did not return everyone in the ashram was   afraid that some wild animal might have eaten him  meanwhile many efforts were made to find him but   he was nowhere to be found all the guru Brothers  had assumed that the wild animals had made him   their prey but the guru did not think so one day  another disciple of the ashram came to the guru   and said gurudev what must have happened to that  talkative brother of ours would the animal have   killed him the guru said the animals may have made  him their prey but there could be another reason   for his non-return maybe he got what he went for  then the disciple asked gurudev is it so harmful   to speak too much the guru said one of the many  miseries of a man's life is that he can never   remain silent he always keeps on saying something  or the other more than half of our miseries arise   just because of our speaking the reason for most  of the quarrels in the family is our meaningless   speaking none of us wants to be silent we just  want to listen to the other person whatever is   in our mind we want to take it out and put it in  his mind want to make him understand that look you   are wrong and I am right and in this way everyone  is taking rotten streets of each other in this   way this work of listening and narrating continues  throughout life but in this ignorance we lose our   time our life our understanding and most important  and Precious Moments which can be lived which can   be experienced which can be enjoyed but what  do we get in return nothing everything becomes   futile and wasted only a few people realize what  we have lost in this madness just as other people   do not know about their arrival similarly  they do do not know about their departure   the disciple said then what is the solution this  is the only way to watch your thoughts with full   awareness said the guru contemplating all mental  problems by staying in the present doing your work   with full awareness brings miraculous changes  in life after that after getting answers to his   questions from the disciple he bowed down to him  and went away from there three months had passed   since that disciple had left the ashram but there  was no news of him till now all the guru Brothers   had also given up the hope of his return but one  day he returns to the ashram everyone's surprise   and happiness knew no bounds on seeing him but  now he was not the one who left here he came   back as something else a wonderful change could  be felt in him there was an amazing calmness on   his face and great peace in his eyes as soon  as he came to the ashram all the guru Brothers   surrounded him from all sides and started  talking he also started talking to his Guru   Brothers everyone who talked to him felt that he  was no longer as impatient and talkative as before   each and every word came out of his mouth very  smoothly and sweetly after talking to the guru   Brothers for a while he went straight towards the  guru he touched the guru's feet and said gurudev   am I still silent is my resolution still on the  guru looked very carefully into the disciples   eyes for some time and said yes you are still  Silent not a single word is coming out of your   mouth and your resolution is still on the disciple  said gurudev when I left the ashram I was silent   with my mouth but there were many voices inside  me there were many questions in my mind and they   were not stopping so I went to the forest hoping  that there I would find peace and the chatter of   my mind would subside but the more I went into  Solitude the louder the voice inside Me grew   I started hearing the old and old voice inside  me only then did I realize how wrong I was doing   when I used to say bad things to my family  friends and Guru Brothers at that time I used   to feel that I am saying the right thing even  when I used to backbite and make fun of the   guru Brothers I used to feel that I was better  than them yes and I'm doing right but that day I   realized for the first time how wrong I used  to speak for a long time these voices these   complaints kept going on inside me but gradually  one day all these voices finished from inside me   now I have become silent from inside also in  that dense forest there was no one to speak   from outside and there was no sound left inside  and I understood the true meaning of silence for   the first time that day there was peace all  around me although there were still some voices   coming which used to come before but I could not  hear them but now I could hear all those voices   clearly the sound of the wind blowing the sound  of birds chirping and the sound of flowing water   I heard all these voices for the first time with  full Consciousness I had never felt so much peace   around me before so to disturb this piece for  the first time I took any word out of my mouth   I shouted oh God what kind of piece is this why is  everything so quiet what happened but even after   my shouting the peace was not Disturbed everything  was as calm as before outside as well as inside   hey gurudev I talked to my Guru Brothers I talked  to you I am speaking I am walking I'm watching   everything but I am completely alone inside I  am in silence I am in a crowd still I am alone   in solitude even when I want to make Noise Within  Myself I am still in solitude now everything is   visible everything has started to be heard Guru  said as long as we keep speaking on the outside   there will be unrest inside but the day we turn  inward then whatever comes out of our mouth we   will remain calm most of the evil in the world  stems from our speaking because we don't want to   be silent we talk more than we need to we do not  want to listen to the person in front of us rather   we want to stop him from speaking want to make him  understand who I am what I can do and this Remains   the purpose of our life all our energy goes  on getting wasted in talking in vain in such a   society the life of people is filled with Sorrows  who are always engaged in telling each other   never want to listen to each other never want  to understand and they have never learned to be   silent because being silent makes them feel small  the reason for all the battles in the world is our   speaking that's why we should speak only as much  as necessary because talking unnecessarily is a   waste of energy and this speaking never lets us go  back inward because it keeps pulling us outwards   and what is out there in this world except but  if you want to turn towards your inner world   then this mouth must be kept closed that's why all  the Buddhas who became enlightened all of them ran   towards Solitude so that they would not have to  speak much they would not have to listen much he   remained in solitude and remained calm that's why  you can easily travel inside but if someone wants   he can live in solitude even while  living in this world he can remain calm   but for this he has to save his energy which he  was till now wasting in his meaningless words   the lesson of this story is that speaking in  vain is a waste of energy talking too much   and unnecessarily does not allow us to return  inward because it keeps us bent outwards and   those who have to travel inward must keep their  mouth shut I hope you enjoyed this story and   learned a lot you can tell us your thoughts  about the story by 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Published: Tue Sep 19 2023