What is the significance of silence in spiritual practice?
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"Silence is the flowering of trust and presence, emerging when you drop your defenses and embrace the risk of openness and surrender."
According to Osho, silence is not belief’s mental noise but the flowering of trust and presence. It begins when you drop defenses, stop the competitive mind’s chatter, and risk openness and surrender. Belief is cheap, theoretical, and changeable; true silence arises from existential trust in a living presence—the real rose, not plastic ideas.
Silence comes when you stop clinging to ideas and bravely open your heart to what’s here, trusting it.
Why this matters practically
- Quiets mental chatter by shifting from concepts to lived presence
- Softens defenses, allowing openness, peace, and surrender
- Encourages choices guided by trust rather than fear and competition
- Softens defenses, allowing openness, peace, and surrender
- Encourages choices guided by trust rather than fear and competition
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