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Friday, April 17, 2009 Words are for communication.When you are alone, there is no need for words.A wordless mind is a different mind.Try it.Take a language fast:isolate yourself for a day, kill the TV, keep mum, and avoid reading or writing.Without words, the mind is without its usual tools of distinction.Each word, after all, means something; each word defines, delineates, denotes, describes, divides and edits the Suchness of what is.Live a day in this spacious wordlessness.See what emerges.Notice how all these comparative notions of perfection and excellence phase out.In a state of wordless awareness, there is nothing to prove or disprove.Instead of craving existence we begin noticing that we already exist.Instead of chasing ideals, we notice the reality.Speechless, we begin to feel in awe.
(Pavel Somov, Ph.D., copyright, 2009; from an upcoming book, Present Perfect: from the Pursuit of What Should Be to the Acceptance of What Is, in stores summer 2010)
Pavel Somov, Ph.D., author of EATING THE MOMENT: 141 Mindful Practices to Overcome Overeating One Meal at a Time (New Harbinger, 2008)