STILL THE MIND.

I have no family, no official 9-5 employment. I have all the time I need to soak in the silence. I plan on using the next week to stay silent as much as possible (to say as little as possible), while allowing myself some forgiveness if I do blurt something out. It is going to be a very cold week (below freezing all week, and almost all I have to eat are rice, beans, potatoes, and carrots.). I guess I think of silence as calmness in the pool of my mind; any words or statements just stir up the water. The longer I go without saying anything, and the less I say, the calmer and more peaceful the surface of the water gets.