10.12.2023

Calm in a world full of noise. Tit Khan - Silence. Quotes from the book “Silence. Calm in a world full of noise" Tit Khan

A book by one of the greatest spiritual leaders of our time that will help you use your most powerful inner resource - silence - to live consciously and happily.

How much time we spend chasing happiness, not noticing that the world around us is full of miracles. Living and walking on earth is a miracle in itself. And yet most of us rush in our search, as if there could be a more beautiful place. Every day beauty calls to us, but we hear it very rarely.

In order for us to hear beauty and respond to its call, silence is necessary. If we do not feel silence within ourselves, and our mind and body are full of noise, then we are not able to hear the voice of beauty.

The same radio station called “Neverending Reflections” plays in our heads all the time. Our mind is filled with noise, so we do not hear the call of life, the call of love. Our heart calls to us, but we do not hear it either. We don't have time for this.

Practicing mindfulness calms the noise around us. Without awareness, we get distracted by all sorts of things. Sometimes regret and suffering for the past. We recall events and sensations in our memory only to relive the pain we once experienced again and again. We are so easily caught up in our past.

In his new book, Thich Nhat Hanh shows how to maintain equanimity despite the constant noise around you. How to be calm even in the most turbulent places. Thanks to breathing exercises and mindfulness techniques, you will be able to live in the present, enjoy the beauty and harmony of the world around you, you will be able to get to know yourself better and understand what you really want in life.

Who is this book for?

For everyone who wants to become more aware, happier and calmer.

For fans of Thich Nhat Hanh and anyone interested in mindfulness.

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What surrounds a person in everyday life? Items? Look wider, gentlemen, without paying attention to them. Man is surrounded by sounds!

Listen. Every day we hear hundreds of different sounds - birds singing, the hum of cars, children crying, dogs barking, mouse clicking, the voices of others, etc. The clutter of sounds prevents you from being alone with yourself and putting your thoughts in order. To modern man Not only is there not enough time, but also silence, which has already become priceless. How to find it in a world that simply cannot help but make noise? Thich Nhat Hanh knows the answer to this question that worries millions of people and will share it with everyone who reads his book “Silence. Calm in a world full of noise." Download "Silence..

What is this book about?

It is very difficult to remain calm when everything around you prevents you from getting into a working mood. Sounds are distracting and sometimes annoying. They make it difficult to concentrate and be alone with your thoughts. If a person is taught to get away from noise, then he will be able to make sober decisions even in the most difficult situations and think sensibly without making mistakes. But how to achieve this, because the world is constantly noisy?

In the book “Silence. Calm in a world full of noise" Thich Nhat Hanh, one of the most famous Buddhist monks, author of books on self-improvement, tells how to distract from the hustle and bustle of the world and teaches how to enjoy silence. The author is confident that even in those moments when a person is alone in a room, he is not immersed in an atmosphere of silence. People can hide from the sounds around them, but not from the inner voice, which also prevents them from putting their thoughts in order. To reboot, relieve emotional stress and calm your nerves, you need absolute silence, in which there is no room for a single sound or thought. Listen to the audiobook “Silence. Calm in a world full of noise”, you can read online or download in fb2, epub and pdf directly on the website!

What does this book teach?

Thich Nhat Hanh based on the book “Silence. Calm in a world full of noise" teaches you to get away from the surrounding bustle, interrupting the internal dialogue with yourself and immerse yourself in complete silence, which helps you reboot and restore strength.

The author offers a set of effective breathing exercises that helps you distract from everyday problems. Daily use of the practices described in the book helps you become calmer and teaches you to harmonize all areas of life. You will learn to make informed decisions and not worry about trifles. This book will tell you where to look for inspiration in moments of creative crisis and teach you how to get motivated..

Thich Nhat Hanh (born 1926 in Vietnam) is a Zen Buddhist monk, abbot of the Plum Village Buddhist meditation center in France, one of the most influential spiritual leaders of our time, author of more than 100 books on Zen Buddhism.

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Target Audience

Those for whom it is important to become happier and more harmonious, to live a conscious and fulfilling life, to understand themselves more deeply.

The book reveals the concept of silence as one of the most powerful internal resources for living a happy life. We are in too much of a hurry and don’t have time to notice how wonderful the world around us is. To see and hear this beauty, we need silence so that the heart and mind can get rid of the noise and be able to comprehend it. Practicing mindfulness through breathing exercises and techniques will help you calm the noise, maintain an equanimity of spirit, and hear the call of love.

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To feel the moment of presence in the present time, we must free ourselves from thoughts, passions, and experiences. We are largely unfree, we do not know how to hear, see, touch what we need.

To learn to let silence into yourself, you need to perform exercises that will allow you to fully experience the taste for life. In sublime silence you can learn to heal your body and soul, free yourself from fears and unnecessary thoughts.

Silence is not the absence of sound, but rather sound, but very powerful. In Buddhism, a being named Avalokiteshvara, who alleviates human suffering, can listen to all earthly sounds and produce those five that heal the world.

1. A wonderful sound is the one that God created: the chirping of birds, the murmuring of a stream, etc.

2. The sound of silence, of one who watches the world.

3. The sound of the God of creation “om”.

5. The sound of transience, surpassing all universal sounds. It can be heard everywhere.

In everyday life, we often chase comfort and material goods; this takes up a lot of our time. We are too preoccupied with finding friends, love, those we would like to trust. And each of us has an incomprehensible concern - what we really want from life. A rhetorical question arises: why do we live, who are we? If we cannot answer it, we are not able to achieve a state of peace and get much joy from life. But once we start practicing mindfulness, we will learn to find the answers within ourselves, because best condition there will be silence.

We are our ancestors, water and earth, air, light and fire. There is no point in chasing unclear goals when awareness gives us peace and inner space, a sense of peace. Mindfulness gives you the opportunity to stop, calm down, breathe, come back to yourself and enjoy it. Silence is a very important state that allows you to abstract from unnecessary streams of thoughts and words. There are people who are afraid of it, so they endlessly consume something to fill their internal space with texts, music, the Internet, etc. We are afraid of isolation, emptiness, abandonment, unloving. But if there is silence, all emotions come out.

There are four types of everyday human food: edible, informational (entering through the senses and mind), volitional (desires, concerns, our will) and conscious (individual and collective consciousness). We need to be attentive to each type of food, correctly assess its effect on our mood - this is our key to self-defense.

Conscious breathing saturates the mind and body with this awareness, tension in the body goes away, breathing becomes free, and allows for a break.

Thinking does not always have negative consequences; in most cases, our thoughts are the result of perceptions and sensations. Basic consciousness is responsible for thoughts and emotions, for positive and negative sensations. The higher consciousness is busy “moisturizing” what grows in lowest level, but this hydration must be selective. “Harmful grains” cannot be allowed to appear in the consciousness of the mind; they must be recognized and calmed in order to understand where the negativity comes from. Our thoughts are our continuation; they contain the energy of feelings and judgments. First, you need to create a calm space within yourself, engage in self-knowledge, so that only good and good things can be broadcast outward.

The ability to NOT THINK is truly a great art that requires patience and practice. It is very difficult to take away attention, mind and body from the world, but mindfulness helps us to be present in our present. You need to learn to find a couple of minutes to calm your body and mind; simple walking is the best way to do this. When we walk, we can stop thinking and focus on our steps and breathing. One must learn to stop the mind both when motionless and when active body. To completely stop thoughts, you need to focus on breathing and calm your body and mind. Living in silence means not worrying about the eternal internal monologue, you need to be able to find it in ordinary life. This silence is born in the heart, and not due to lack of conversation.

Silence in Buddhism can be overwhelming and joyful, the second is also called “deafening”: it has a lot of energy and power. Conscious silence is called sublime, but it is light and joyful, helping to understand how our energy affects people and life situations. This silence can heal, it calms and pacifies thoughts. Healing comes when we truly smile. When we are very overloaded, we cannot seriously hear the other person. It is important not to rush to answer; it is better to silently let someone else’s thought inside you and feel it. To help another, you need to learn to experience inner peace.

There are four mantras to achieve reconciliation and understanding:

1. “I’m here for the person I love.”

2. “I know he’s here, and that’s why I’m happy.”

3. “I know he’s suffering, and that’s why I’m there for him.”

4. “I am suffering and ask him for help.”

To return to ourselves, we need walking, eating, drinking tea and meditation, and every day should be spent in physical solitude. Then you will be able to maintain yourself as the center in any human group. To feel more connected to others, you need to listen to them more, this will lead to deep interdependence with them.

When we love someone, we dream and act together, looking in the same direction. Then the feeling of happiness becomes sharper and more lasting.

Best Quote

“Every day beauty calls to us, but we hear it very rarely.”

What the book teaches

- Achieving a state of silence can be done collectively, then a more powerful healing effect will be obtained.

- We want to live in safety, this is why we satisfy everyday needs, but sometimes these needs become overly important.

- You can be happy only by living in today, but not in the future.

- It seems to us that we need to always run somewhere for happiness and want more, but truly the real joy of life is within us: we live, we are free and that is why we are happy.

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Thich Nhat Hanh

Silence. Calm in a world full of noise

Thich Nhat Hanh

The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise

Published with permission from HarperCollins Publishers and Andrew Nurnberg Literary Agency

Legal support for the publishing house is provided by law firm"Vegas-Lex".

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Introduction

We are also distracted by our future. A person who worries about the future and is afraid of it falls into the same deep trap as a person shackled by the past. Worries, fears and uncertainty about the future prevent us from hearing the call of happiness. Therefore, the future becomes like a prison.

Even if we try to be in the present, many of us become distracted and feel empty, as if there is a vacuum inside us. At the same time, we passionately desire and wait for the arrival of something that will make our life more interesting. We place our hopes on something that will change our existence, which is at the moment we regard it as painful: there is nothing special around.

Mindfulness is often spoken of as a bell, calling us to put everything aside and listen carefully. Sometimes we use the sound of an actual bell or some other sign to help us remember that we should not be distracted by the noise that exists around and within us. When we hear the sound of a bell, we freeze. We monitor our every inhalation and exhalation, providing space for silence. We say to ourselves, “When I breathe in, I am aware that I am breathing in.” By consciously inhaling and exhaling and focusing only on the breath, we quiet any noise within us: voices talking about the past, the future, or our unbridled desires for something unknown.

After just two or three seconds of conscious breathing, we awaken and realize that we are living, that we are breathing. We are here. We exist. The noise inside us disappears. And a deep and expressive space is formed. We gain the ability to answer the call of the surrounding beauty with the words: “I am here. I'm free. I hear you."

What does "I'm here" mean? This means: “I exist, I am really here. I am not lost in the past or the future, I am not lost in my thoughts, I am not lost in the noise that exists within and around me. I'm here". And in order to really be “here”, you must free yourself from thoughts, worries, fears, passions. “I am free” is a very powerful statement because the truth is that many of us are not free. We do not have the freedom to hear, see and simply exist.

I live in the countryside in southwestern France, where at my meditation center Plum Village, I practice with my students a type of silence called sublime silence. Practicing sublime silence is simple. If we talk, we talk. But if we are doing something else, such as eating, walking or working, then we are doing only those actions. We don't do them at the same time as talking. We do them in joyful, sublime silence. In this way we are freed to hear the deepest calls of our hearts.

One recent day, many residents of our center, both monks and students, were eating outside, sitting on the grass. Everyone took their food and joined the group sitting. We arranged ourselves in concentric circles, one smaller circle inside a larger circle, and so on. We didn't say anything.

I sat down on the grass first. I sat down and began to breathe consciously in order to achieve silence within myself. I listened to the birds singing, the sounds of the wind and enjoyed the beauty of spring. I didn't wait for others to come and sit next to me before I started eating. I just sat and enjoyed my surroundings. Other people took food, came up to me and sat down on the ground.

Silence reigned. But I felt that this silence was not as deep as it could be. Maybe this was because people were distracted to get food, moved around with their plates, and then sat down. I watched silently.

I had a small bell, and when everyone was seated on the grass, I rang it. We just spent a week practicing mindful breathing, which we started at the sound of a bell. So now everyone has heard him well. With the first sound of the bell calling for awareness, silence fell. But now she was different. It was real silence because each of us stopped even thinking. We focused completely on the inhalation when we inhaled, and the exhalation when we exhaled. We all breathed together, and our common silence created a powerful energy field around us. This kind of silence can be called “deafening” because it is very expressive. With such silence, the voices of birds and the sounds of the wind are heard much more clearly. Before this, I heard both birds and the wind, but they sounded different because I had not yet achieved such deep silence.

The practice of achieving silence, which helps to free yourself from all internal noise, is quite simple. By doing the appropriate exercises, everyone is able to master it. In a state of “sublime silence” you can walk, sit, enjoy food. In this state, you will be free enough to appreciate all the wonder of life. In such silence, healing itself becomes available to you, both mental and physical. You will be able to be, to be here and now. Because you will be truly free: free from regrets and suffering associated with the past; free from fears and feelings of uncertainty associated with the future; free from all mental idle talk. Achieving this sense of silence alone is good, but achieving it collectively means receiving a particularly healing and energetically powerful effect.

Sound without sound

Silence is often described as the absence of sound. However, silence itself is a powerful sound. I recall that although the winter of 2014/15 was not very cold in France, it was freezing in North America. The temperature at times dropped below twenty degrees Celsius, and there were constant snowstorms. I saw photographs of Niagara Falls: the water could not fall, it froze right on the fly. I was very impressed by this picture. The cascade of water stopped - along with the sound.

About forty years ago I was in Thailand, in Chiang Mai, in a community of young people. I lived in a hut next to a rocky stream. The sound of falling water could be heard there around the clock. I enjoyed doing breathing exercises, doing my laundry, and even taking a quick nap on the rocks around the stream. Wherever I was, I heard the sound of falling water. Day and night I heard the same sound. I looked at the bushes and trees around me and thought: “From the very moment they were born, these plants have heard this sound. What if we assume that it suddenly ends and they hear for the first time the “sound of no sound,” that is, silence?” Just imagine it if you can. The water suddenly stops flowing, and the sound of falling water that the surrounding plants have heard all their lives, day and night, no longer exists. Think of how surprised these plants will be the first time they hear the “sound of no sound.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Silence. Calm in a world full of noise

Thich Nhat Hanh

The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise

Published with permission from HarperCollins Publishers and Andrew Nurnberg Literary Agency

Legal support for the publishing house is provided by the Vegas-Lex law firm.

Even if we try to be in the present, many of us become distracted and feel empty, as if there is a vacuum inside us. At the same time, we passionately desire and wait for the arrival of something that will make our life more interesting. We pin our hopes on something that will change our existence, which at the moment we regard as painful: there is nothing special around.

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