Inner Silence as the key to the power of attention- by Castaneda

[Littlepaw]

Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence. Some very talented practitioners need only a few minutes of silence to reach that coveted goal. Others, less talented, need long periods of silence, perhaps more than one hour of quietude, before they reach the desired result. The desired result is what the old sorcerers called "stopping the world", the moment when everything around us ceases to be what it's always been. This is the moment when sorcerers return to the TRUE nature of man. The old sorcerers always called it "total freedom" ----Don Juan (Carlos Castanada)

I have come to think of internal dialogue not only as the chit chat in the mind. I pretty much never have any chit chat in my mind and this is not inner silence it is just being awake. I think inner dialogue includes everything in the describable universe, everything that has a name. My world is full of names, computer, guitar, me, music, everything that is happening around me is being described and I believe inner silence will be the cessation of the description of the world.


(Edit: merged consecutive posts by the same author.)