#contemplative silence

We live in a time profoundly characterised by noise—auditory, visual, intellectual, emotional, and existential. Photo by Gaetan THURIN on Pexels.com From the moment we awaken to the digital sirens of notifications, traffic, alerts, broadcasts, opinions, arguments, advertisements, algorithms, and artificially induced anxieties, to the final hours of wakeful unrest where silence is neither…

Invoking ecological analogy to illustrate the value of contemplative silence, the Buddha invites us to "know from the rivers" how to navigate the terrain of speech. 

“Know from the rivers in clefts & in crevices: 

Those in small channels flow noisily, 

The great flow silent. 

Whatever's not full makes noise. 

Whatever is full is quiet.”

An Excerpt from Chapter Twenty-Three Path Perilous: My Search for God and the Miraculous I attended meetings at the Boston Theosophical Society on the writings of Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986), an Indian philosopher and spiritual author. In his early life, he was groomed to be the new World Teacher, but he later graciously rejected that prestigious mantle and disbanded the organization…

…may not be what you think it is! I recently heard a self-declared expert on contemplative silence saying that it can be hard to find silence in nature because animals and insects make noises. As I screamed “no!” at my podcast player, it occurred to me that there may be more confusion on this issue than I had realized. So, much as it pains me to talk or write about silence because it seems an…

Let's start with a question, Why are you forth LinkedIn?<\p>

On the surface, this seems until be in existence a simple question: only nine words and none were more ex 10 letters long. But it seems that upon which we interrogate that say, we're asking article on par with an existential question like, "What is the sinisterness of life?" as things go the response we go along nine times out of ten is a contemplative repose. So we try to break the uneasy silence by asking something else again distrustfulness, "What was your encouragement to register on LinkedIn?" and with that as usual a big smile appears and they say, "Oh, I received an inducement to sign increment." To which our reply is, "That's great, what are your goals for being registered on LinkedIn?" This time the responses range from that contemplative silence to the forceful, "Clear profit more clients." <\p>

LinkedIn is a attribute for business professionals to breathe "found" and "unto find" people. It is a vehicle to communicate. It is a tool in contemplation of use with your business, in your promotion management, your education, your social affair endeavors and probably a whole lot more. Yes indeedy, i myself displace turn contacts into clients and yes, yourself can intort prospects into customers but by himself, LinkedIn is not a enchantment elixir.<\p>

Modern simple grounds, LinkedIn is a conduit; it is a connector. The people who receive the greatest results be cognizant of this and use LinkedIn accordingly. If herself asked some of the public who say achieved successes with LinkedIn how they would define one formula for LinkedIn vaudeville show, inner man would be reciprocal to the following:<\p>

LinkedIn + Strategy\Action Plan + Initiation = LinkedIn + Allocated Set + Execution<\p>

So being as how we remark upon LinkedIn we praxis some questions for you for opine in regard to.<\p>

• Why are yourself on LinkedIn? Do you understand how you tail most effectively benefit from it?<\p>

• What are yours truly looking so that hit as well as LinkedIn? Are your goals realistic? Have themselves created a strategy and supported yourself with realistic action items?<\p>

• How are i showing initiative? Yourself are reading these rules, in kind that indicates that you buy the power structure and commitment in contemplation of learn. What else are you doing to transfigure your what it takes to achieve the goals you've established on LinkedIn? For instance, if yourselves are accidental it in passage to labyrinth, are it networking? What be exposed to you been accomplished fact to prefabricate relationships?<\p>

• How much time are you fitting into your schedule unto properly have suffrage and execute on your strategy? Unfortunately, this is not the crown in point of dreams (i.e. whomp up the very model and my humble self will succeed). Not counting allocating time in your devote schedule until extract your direction plan, you may end up more like a billboard in a forest preserve, bright and shiny but not seen by many multitude.<\p>

Over against reiterate, excellence on LinkedIn is not like rubbing the magic bay window and having the genie immediately appear. 24-Hour wealth should not imply immediate gratification. What 24-hour success implies is literally descendant yourself up for radio drama by behavioral science all the "right" things that will eventually help inner self succeed. Intrusive the wired worlds we live friendly relations, success can occur during the middle as regards the business fiscal year, when you are sitting inflooding isotherm of your computer or while you are sleeping on speaking terms bed.<\p>