5 Months Without Speaking

Read this blog on HuffingtonPost.com. Could someone do it
without going to Nepal or giving up their day-to-day life.

Good read.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jay-michaelson/what-its-li ke-to-spend-fi_b_204559.html

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"The trouble with "spiritual" truths such as these is that they are often banal when conveyed secondhand. But when seen directly, in one's own experience, even the simplest of bumper-sticker bromides has the power to change one's life. For example, just knowing that you are perfectly okay without that car, house, success, lover -- and with that backache, mortgage, conflict, and envy -- can be moving to the point of tears, even though, intellectually, it's pretty lightweight stuff. I can't really explain why this is so, but I have seen that it is so. What to a busy mind is just another spiritual throwaway may, to a quiet mind, be the gateway to liberation. Thus even extremely mundane perceptions of eating, breathing, and walking around are grist for the mill of awakening."