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Part "II": ADDITIONAL UNDERSTANDINGS VIA THE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT

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34. [Continuing with excerpts from the eBook "Your Original Nature]

In the process of offering examples of those abiding as The Original Nature as opposed to those who are walking in their sleep and talking in their sleep and abiding under the influence of the ignorance and insanity which follow programming, conditioning, etc., examples of both types have included a Cherokee grandmother, a young girl, and a woman pushing a child in a stroller.

In recent posts we saw (A) a young girl abiding as the Child No-Knowing State - able to enjoy the silence - illustrating the former; we also saw (B) a loud, disruptive woman serving as an example of the latter.

The results from various research studies show that the average person among those in so-called "developed nations" speak up to 30,000 words, or more, per day. [Obviously, some persons speak more than others, the difference usually determined by personality type. For example, Personality Type Two's and Three's are especially driven to talk, the Two's trying to inspire people to like them or love them and the Three's trying to inspire people to admire and applaud them. Type Eights also must speak frequently because their every waking moment is dedicated to trying to control people and places and things. Type One's talk a great deal because they are trying to reform the world and must, therefore, try to influence people to adopt their beliefs. The agendas of those types all require talking and more talking and then even more talking. Type Fours talk the least, but they only make up 1/2 of 1% of the planet's population, so noise will prevail].

The words spoken in a day usually add up to nearly 6,000,000 words spoken per year and nearly 900,000,000 words spoken in an average lifespan.

By contrast, today's post might include about 1300 words or so, none spoken of course, and then the remainder of the day here will likely be passed in the silence. Some few words will be required at the checkout counter when groceries are purchased this afternoon, but that will require the use of a minimum number of words:

Cashier: "Did you find everything you need today?"

"Yes." (See? One word as opposed to the nearly-forty words that would be wasted trying to wake up someone talking in their sleep by saying, "No, actually I need two more items. You suppose the five people waiting in line behind me would not be bothered at all if you send your assistant to finish my shopping for me while they wait even longer?" See? One word instead of nearly forty. Less talking is far easier once you become free, including agenda-free.)

That said, can you truly, and logically, justify using forty or fifty times more words than actually required . . . in every circumstance, all day long? Might you be able to cultivate (via Realization, which is about undoing all of the effects of your programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing, and indoctrination) an appreciation for the silence as opposed to hearing yourself talk and talk and talk all day long? What about those around you all day long? Might they appreciate it were you to develop new habits of economy and thrift when it comes to budgeting wisely your use of words all day and all night long?

Consider: Could you read 50 posts per day on this site? Maybe, but would you? At that rate you could read all of the free posts offered here in a month-and-a-half, but would you? Moreover, would you read fifty posts per day out loud to someone else? Maybe, but would you?

So WHO (what ego-state) is driven on a daily basis so much that their talk is going to be equal to reading today's post out loud 30 or 40 or 50 times, every day, to others who are forced to listen? Even while conducting business (busy-ness), could you talk less if you became willing to modify your communication style to require less talk - and maybe inspire less talk from others as well? A Personality Type Two teacher told me that she had to talk non-stop from 8 AM each day until 4 PM each day and then all afternoon and all night once she returned to her home and family. Being totally asleep - driven by the hidden agendas of her multiple personalities - she can see no alternatives because her primary ego-state does not want an alternative.

Even if busy-ness has been engaged in throughout the day, a fraction of the 30,000 to 50,000 words used some days by most persons could have sufficed. Were you to reflect on the day after all of your busy-ness, might you find that you could have talked less? WHO would not enjoy less talk? The answer: only some ego-state that is willing to listen to persons talking in order to have the right to talk more himself / herself or some ego-state that does not even allow others to get a word in edgewise.

Years ago, a young female said that she and her new boyfriend talk on their mobile phones on the way to school; talk every chance they have at school; and talk on their mobile phones on the way home. Then, once home, they talk on the telephone in the afternoon and then often talk, off and on, until 2 AM or 3 AM in the morning. Why?

Because they are working on creating and developing and sharing an image; because they are assuming and fostering new roles; because they are driven to provide a clear understanding of "who they are" to their new partner (even though they haven't the slightest clue about who or what they actually are);

because they want to explain what "their dreams" are; because they feel compelled to share what they believe and expect and desire and, if speaking after a recent "breakup" with someone else, what they fear in the future and what they want to avoid again and what they will "never tolerate again, by damn."

If they marry, research shows that within a year (or in some cases within a few months), they will engage one-on-one in a truly-focused conversation for an average of fifteen minutes, maximum, per day; however, their conversations with others will increase many fold.

Why the shift? The agendas of those earlier, talkative ego-states that they were "creating" and "maintaining" will disappear. As new ego-states appear, then resentments can manifest around "the failure to communicate"; it is only when ego-states completely disappear that the silence becomes not only "okay" but also absolutely delightful.

Is it understood why talking "the good talk" all night, or arguing and debating via the use of "bad talk" (or just filling the "dead space" of silence with vacuous talk) is a characteristic of the ego? A key pointer, then, is this:

Realization does not inspire the Realized to seek consciously for the quiet; the Realization process at first stuns into silence those beginning to awaken; after that, the quiet comes naturally without being sought, just as naturally as in the case of the deer that move about the neighborhood here in silence and that move away, spontaneously, from noise.

Nothing in nature has anything false to support; all forms and spaces (except for "humans") are just being, so disturbing the peace is not even an option for anything / "anyone" abiding naturally. Being mindless is another element of Your Original Nature (which is also the state in which an unconditionally happy child abides prior to programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing, and indoctrination), so only those with a nonsense-filled mind will talk endlessly;

therefore, the Realized - if abiding naturally - are free of the "constant noise of a psychic life" (Maharaj). That same condition awaits all seekers at the end of the "path" to Realization if the Nisargan message is also understood and if natural, spontaneous abidance follows.

Again, Maharaj: "An infant . . .  is just conscious and happy. Be like an infant with nothing standing between the body and the Self. [Then], the constant noise of the psychic life is absent. Be like that infant, instead of trying to be 'this' or 'that'; be happy to be."

To be continued.

Please enter the silence of contemplation.

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