QUESTION: BUT HOW TO ACHIEVE THIS SILENCE?
Just be silent. It is not a matter of procedure or planning. See with your eyes and hear with your ears the sights and sounds around you; do this with full consciousness, but without any reaction to these sights and sounds. Silence will be spontaneous if there is full awareness of, but no reaction to, the external stimuli.
Silence does not mean non-use of the faculty of speech. The basis of silence is not the throat, but the thought. The root and center of silence is in the mind and not in the vocal apparatus. You may be silent without, but verbose within; and then you are not silent. On the other hand, even if you are loquacious, but without thoughts which overwhelm your mind – so that you are silent within – then you are truly silent.
It is like this: supposing you decide to fast; you may successfully abstain from food; but you are not truly fasting if you keep thinking about food all the time. But there may be another person who may eat without indulgence and eat consciously; in reality, though not apparently, he is fasting. What matters ultimately and always is the man within, and not his actions.”
What matters ultimately and always is the man within, and not his actions.
Osho
