Silence Shared in Words

The way I talk

is a little strange.

No speaker in the world

talks like me

technically it is wrong;

it takes almost double the time!

But those speakers

have a different purpose

my purpose is absolutely

different from theirs.

They speak because

they are prepared for it;

they are simply repeating

something that they have rehearsed.

Secondly,

they are speaking

to impose a certain ideology,

a certain idea on you.

Thirdly, to them speaking is an art

they go on refining it.

As far as I am concerned,

I am not

what they call

a speaker or an orator.

It is not an art to me or a technique;

technically I go on becoming worse every day!

But our purposes are totally different.

I don't want

to impress you

in order to manipulate you.

I don't speak for

any goal

to be achieved through convincing you.

I don't speak to convert you into a Christian, into a Hindu or a Mohammedan,

into a theist or an atheist

these are not my concerns.

My speaking is really

one of my devices for meditation.

Speaking has never been used this way:

I speak not to give you a message,

but to stop your mind functioning.

I speak

nothing

prepared

I don't know myself

what is going to be the next word;

hence I never commit any mistake.

One commits a mistake if one is prepared.

I never forget anything, because one forgets

if one has been remembering it.

So I speak with a freedom

that perhaps nobody has ever spoken with.

I am not concerned whether I am consistent,

because that is not the purpose.

A man who wants to convince you

and manipulate you through

his speaking

has to be consistent,

has to be logical,

has to be rational,

to overpower your reason.

He wants to dominate through words.

One of the very famous books of Dale Carnegie is

about

speaking

and influencing people

as an art

it has been sold second only to The Holy Bible

but I will fail his examinations.

He used to run

a course in America

to train missionaries, to train professors,

and to train orators. I will fail on all counts.

First, I have no motivation to convert you;

I have no desire anywhere to impress you.

And I don't remember what I have said yesterday,

so I cannot

bother about being consistent -- that is too much worry.

I can easily contradict myself,

because I am not trying

to have

a communication

with your intellectual,

rational mind.

My purpose is so unique

I am using

words

just to create

silent gaps.

The words are not important

so I can say anything contradictory,

anything absurd, anything unrelated,

because my purpose is

just to create gaps.

The words are secondary;

the silences between those words are primary.

This is simply a device to give you a glimpse of meditation.

And once you know that it is possible for you,

you have traveled far

in the direction of your own being.

Most of the people in the world don't think that it is possible for mind to be silent.

Because they don't think it is possible, they don't try.

How to give people a taste of meditation

was my

basic reason to speak,

so I can go on speaking eternally

it does not matter what I am saying.

All that matters

is that I give you a few chances

to be silent,

which you find difficult

on your own in the beginning.

I cannot force you to be silent,

but I can create a device in which

spontaneously you are bound to be silent.

I am speaking, and in the middle of a sentence,

when you were expecting another word to follow,

nothing follows

but a silent gap.

And your mind

was looking to listen,

and waiting for something to follow,

and does not want to miss it

naturally it becomes silent.

What can the poor mind do?

If it was well known

at what points I will be silent,

if it was declared to you

that on such and such points I will be silent,

then you could manage to think

you would not be silent.

Then you know: "This is the point where he is going to be silent,

now I can have a little

chit-chat with myself."

But because it comes absolutely

suddenly....

I don't know myself why at certain points I stop.

Anything like this,

in any orator in the world,

will be condemned,

because an orator

stopping again and again

means he is

not well prepared,

he has not done the homework.

It means that his memory

is not reliable,

means

that he cannot find, sometimes,

what word to use.

But because

it is not

oratory,

I am not concerned about the people who will be condemning me

I am concerned with you.

And it is not only here,

but far away...

anywhere in the world

where people will be listening to the video

or to the audio,

they will come to the same

silence.

My success is not

to convince you,

my success is to give you a real taste

so that you can become confident

that meditation is not a fiction,

that the state of no-mind

is not just a

philosophical idea,

that it is a reality;

that you are capable of it, and that it does not need any special

qualifications

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