Unlocking the Mysterious Benefits of Silence: A Buddhist Tale on the Power of Silence

there was a huge Hermitage of Gotham Buddha in a village a famous Buddhist teacher lived there there one of his disciples used to speak a lot he used to talk here and there all the time when he went to collect donations he would bring a new story from every house and tell it to the other disciples of the ashram used to talk bad about one disciple to another backbiting and tried to be good in front of others he used to praise himself from his own mouth and always tried to prove himself to be the most

intelligent and best in front of the guru he considered himself different and Superior to all the disciples he said that I am a child of a rich family if I wanted I could have lived a comfortable and full of facilities life but I left all that and came here because I have to discover the truth to know myself to know life that's why my sacrifice is bigger than all of you one day the guru called all the Disciples of the ashram and said all of you have to take some resolution for the next one month

this will strengthen your determination power and will Infuse self-power in you all of you can take any resolution according to your ability and if any one of you breaks your resolution before one month then he will return to his old routine all the disciples took big or small resolutions according to their power and went away after telling the guru about their resolutions but the disciple who wanted to show himself as different and bigger went directly to the guru's cottage and said I do not want to take any small resolution but I want to take a

big and great resolution like myself please tell me what resolution should be taken hearing this the guru smiled and said will you be able to fulfill the resolution given by me will it be possible for you to complete it probably not that is not possible for you you will not be able to complete it that's why you yourself find a resolution the disciple said no gurudev whatever resolution you give me I will definitely fulfill it the master said okay then you will keep quiet for the next one month won't even take a word out of

your mouth this is your resolution the disciple said gurudev is this also a resolution this is very easy remain silent for a month you give me some big resolution which is worthy of my ability which I have a problem in fulfilling Guru said first you fulfill this resolution and show it the disciple obeyed the guru and he became silent at the same time and turned and went out of the Hut he found it much easier to remain silent he spent one day silently but from the second day the burden of not speaking started increasing in

his mind on the third day he started feeling heaviness and on the fourth day he started feeling a strange uneasiness because all the disciples in the ashram were talking to each other he also wanted to present his side in front of them he wanted to stop speaking but his resolve was coming in the way that's why he used to make only mouth and eyes the whole day in this way a few more days passed and that disciple fell ill his head was exploding he didn't even feel like eating or drinking he just wanted to speak

he went to the guru and sat in front of him in writing and told him gurudev I want to speak I can't breathe without speaking I am getting out of breath I am going insane inside what should I do should I break my resolution Guru smiled after reading this and said resolutions are only meant to be broken but the one who fulfills his resolution he increases his inner strength and the one who increases his inner strength he is on the path of society and Awakening grows further taking the resolution was also in your hands and

breaking it is also in your hands many of your brothers have broken their resolve and returned to their old routine if you are not able to do it then you can also break your resolve and go back to your old routine but remember if you are not able to handle this small resolution today then how will you be able to handle the rest of your life the rest of the decision is entirely in your hands this talk of the guru hurt the heart of that disciple he went back without saying anything and locked himself in

his Hut he used to come out of the HUD only for his essential works and would sit inside the hut all the rest of the time 15 days had passed and the resolve of almost all the Disciples of the ashram had been broken by now but his resolve was still on after taking the resolution till now he had not uttered a single word the whole ashram was surprised that how did a person who spoke so much become silent after 15 days he again went to his Guru and told in writing gurudev I am silent from

outside but there are many voices inside me there is a lot of whining and complaining I I keep talking inside my mind keeps asking all kinds of questions the more silent I am from outside the more noisy I am from within is my resolve still in this way the guru said yes your resolution is still going on but as long as these voices of people keep falling in your ears your mind will keep on speaking because he has a habit of speaking you may be silent on the outside but you will be speaking on the

inside you have to go away from these things and these voices the disciple goes from there after saluting the guru and leaves his Hut in the morning and goes towards the forest many days pass the time of resolution is also completed but the disciple did not return everyone in the ashram was afraid that some wild animal might have eaten him meanwhile many efforts were made to find him but he was nowhere to be found all the guru Brothers had assumed that the wild animals had made him their prey but the guru did not think so

one day another disciple of the ashram came to the guru and said gurudev what must have happened to that talkative brother of ours would the animal have killed him the guru said the animals may have made him their prey but there could be another reason for his non-return maybe he got what he went for then the disciple asked gurudev is it so harmful to speak too much the guru said one of the many miseries of a man's life is that he can never remain silent he always keeps on saying something or the other more than

half of our miseries arise just because of our speaking the reason for most of the quarrels in the family is our meaningless speaking none of us wants to be silent we just want to listen to the other person whatever is in our mind we want to take it out and put it in his mind want to make him understand that look you are wrong and I am right and in this way everyone is taking rotten streets of each other in this way this work of listening and narrating continues throughout life but in this ignorance we

lose our time our life our understanding and most important and Precious Moments which can be lived which can be experienced which can be enjoyed but what do we get in return nothing everything becomes futile and wasted only a few people realize what we have lost in this madness just as other people do not know about their arrival similarly they do do not know about their departure the disciple said then what is the solution this is the only way to watch your thoughts with full awareness said the guru contemplating all mental problems by staying in the

present doing your work with full awareness brings miraculous changes in life after that after getting answers to his questions from the disciple he bowed down to him and went away from there three months had passed since that disciple had left the ashram but there was no news of him till now all the guru Brothers had also given up the hope of his return but one day he returns to the ashram everyone's surprise and happiness knew no bounds on seeing him but now he was not the one who left here he came back as something else

a wonderful change could be felt in him there was an amazing calmness on his face and great peace in his eyes as soon as he came to the ashram all the guru Brothers surrounded him from all sides and started talking he also started talking to his Guru Brothers everyone who talked to him felt that he was no longer as impatient and talkative as before each and every word came out of his mouth very smoothly and sweetly after talking to the guru Brothers for a while he went straight towards the guru he touched the guru's feet

and said gurudev am I still silent is my resolution still on the guru looked very carefully into the disciples eyes for some time and said yes you are still Silent not a single word is coming out of your mouth and your resolution is still on the disciple said gurudev when I left the ashram I was silent with my mouth but there were many voices inside me there were many questions in my mind and they were not stopping so I went to the forest hoping that there I would find peace and the chatter of my mind

would subside but the more I went into Solitude the louder the voice inside Me grew I started hearing the old and old voice inside me only then did I realize how wrong I was doing when I used to say bad things to my family friends and Guru Brothers at that time I used to feel that I am saying the right thing even when I used to backbite and make fun of the guru Brothers I used to feel that I was better than them yes and I'm doing right but that day I realized for the first

time how wrong I used to speak for a long time these voices these complaints kept going on inside me but gradually one day all these voices finished from inside me now I have become silent from inside also in that dense forest there was no one to speak from outside and there was no sound left inside and I understood the true meaning of silence for the first time that day there was peace all around me although there were still some voices coming which used to come before but I could not hear them but now I could

hear all those voices clearly the sound of the wind blowing the sound of birds chirping and the sound of flowing water I heard all these voices for the first time with full Consciousness I had never felt so much peace around me before so to disturb this piece for the first time I took any word out of my mouth I shouted oh God what kind of piece is this why is everything so quiet what happened but even after my shouting the peace was not Disturbed everything was as calm as before outside as well as inside hey

gurudev I talked to my Guru Brothers I talked to you I am speaking I am walking I'm watching everything but I am completely alone inside I am in silence I am in a crowd still I am alone in solitude even when I want to make Noise Within Myself I am still in solitude now everything is visible everything has started to be heard Guru said as long as we keep speaking on the outside there will be unrest inside but the day we turn inward then whatever comes out of our mouth we will remain calm most of

the evil in the world stems from our speaking because we don't want to be silent we talk more than we need to we do not want to listen to the person in front of us rather we want to stop him from speaking want to make him understand who I am what I can do and this Remains the purpose of our life all our energy goes on getting wasted in talking in vain in such a society the life of people is filled with Sorrows who are always engaged in telling each other never want to listen to

each other never want to understand and they have never learned to be silent because being silent makes them feel small the reason for all the battles in the world is our speaking that's why we should speak only as much as necessary because talking unnecessarily is a waste of energy and this speaking never lets us go back inward because it keeps pulling us outwards and what is out there in this world except but if you want to turn towards your inner world then this mouth must be kept closed that's why all the Buddhas who became enlightened

all of them ran towards Solitude so that they would not have to speak much they would not have to listen much he remained in solitude and remained calm that's why you can easily travel inside but if someone wants he can live in solitude even while living in this world he can remain calm but for this he has to save his energy which he was till now wasting in his meaningless words the lesson of this story is that speaking in vain is a waste of energy talking too much and unnecessarily does not allow us to return

inward because it keeps us bent outwards and those who have to travel inward must keep their mouth shut I hope you enjoyed this story and learned a lot you can tell us your thoughts about the story by commenting in the below comment box before leaving please like the video and subscribe to the channel namobude