![]() ![]() I think it is safer to find out if there is a… So I want to start the inquiry from this point of right approach otherwise we will wander off. Because there are those people who have practised silence, controlling thought, mesmerizing themselves into silence, and controlling their chattering mind to such an extent that the mind becomes absolutely dull, stupid, and silent. SP: You seem to be giving emphasis to the true approach rather than to the nature of true silence. I think we ought to take that first and go into the other things afterwards. That is why I would like to approach this question by asking: is there a true approach to silence? You started with that question. K: Let’s begin by asking: Is there a right approach to silence, and what is that ‘right’, and are there many varieties of silence? And is silence an absence of thought? Which implies a great many things, such as I can go blank suddenly: I am thinking a great deal, and I just stop and look at something and go blank, vaguely daydreaming. K: I can go blank, without any thought, just look at something and go blank – is that silence? Sunanda Patwardhan (SP): People define silence as the absence of thought. ![]() I would say that when consciousness is not operating, when thought is not operating… I don’t know whether I would put it that way. K: Therefore what is the one? What is the true, natural, reasonable, logical, and beyond-the-logic approach? Is that it? PJ: That’s what I mean by right: the one. ![]() K: But I am just asking, what do we mean by right approach? PJ: Is there one approach? Or if all silences are of the same nature, then there may be many approaches. K: Are you asking: is there a right approach – we will describe what right is – to silence, and if there is, what is that? That’s what you started out with, didn’t you? Are there varieties of silence, which means different methods by which to arrive at silence? And what is the nature of silence? So shall we go in that order? Is there a right approach to silence? ‘Right’ we will put in quotes. Krishnamurti: Where shall we start this? We’ve got so many things. Pupul Jayakar: Can we discuss the question of whether silence has many facets and forms, whether there is only one silence which is the absence of thought, or whether the silences which arise through different experiences of different situations are different in nature, dimension, and direction? ![]()
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