The Language of Silence
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- What IS the sound of Silence? Is it an absence of noise or a Presence of something more? In this conversation John Butler reflects on what 50 years of daily silent meditation has revealed.
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John, please consider turning your books into Audiobooks but with you reading them, that would be absolutely amazing. :)
We have talked about producing audio books but not committed to it yet. Maybe we should do crowdfunding? If we did would you be in? Phil
Spiritual Unfoldment 100%. I would love to chip on on that!
I mean this guy could read the ingredients off packages in the market and it'd be captivating.
@@SpiritualUnfoldment definitely
Oh wow...the thought! take me to a dessert island with that thought and leave me there with the audio books and I'd die happy.
Again, dear friends, your messages just melt my heart. Who am I to receive them? In truth, it's not me, is it, but what my old School of Meditation used to call the 'Work'. May each of you respond as you can to your own 'Pull of the Way' to firstly help yourselves, then each other and, finally, here, now, come home to One complete.
Spiritual Unfoldment is relaxing, thank you😌
I am delighted to of found you, you are a little gem. I listen when I am upset or feeling sad, you motivate me and make me see the beauty of nature like never before. I wish you well in life, I am greatful for your advice and guidance as well as sharing your life experiences with me. Please keep making more videos as I am extremely grateful.
Thank you. 🙏🏼
Mr. Butler is an angel in disguise. The world would be a better place if we had more of him.
Greetings from Canada 🇨🇦✋ there was a reason I found you
Oh I loved that cow looking at John, so puzzled! Just beautiful. The only smile in my day. Thank you.
How very gently and intelligently this interviewer conducts the interview.
He definitely allows John's spirit to shine. thank you
Literally the best voice I've ever heard. Calm, soothing, relaxing. He could fluff the most hardened heart.
I love his voice and that gentle pause he offers as he listens and thinks. Thank you, John
I can relate to some of his stories. Once, I was at the Colorado river after a long day of offroading. I was sitting in my folding chair after everyone else had gone to sleep and was just quietly sitting there, enjoying the stillness and the stars and the reflections on the water from the town across the lake. I noticed some motion out of the corner of my eye, and saw a young coyote walk right past me to get a drink from the lake. When he was done, he walked right past me again, this time locking eyes with me. After a moment, he continued back up the hill behind me.
That's just wholesome. Thanks for sharing. :)
He/she acknowledged you as a fellow living being with no intention to harm his/her being. They expressed that back to you like when you nod at someone when you walk by them! That is so beautiful! You are blessed to have experienced that!
You have the voice of an angel, John. Truly appreciate what you've contributed to the world. =)
Something about John's laugh gives me joy.
kaylo492 it’s the laugh of a man that knows something that’s for sure.
I thank God I've found John. I listen every day. My spiritual gem 💎
What a lovely old man John Butler is, he has a peacefulness about him. Listening to his videos has helped me get through a difficult time recently.
I have met an indian mystic whose words I try live by to the best of my ability. He said once that ANYONE can achieve spiritual enlightenment - not just from his particular spiritual practices or philosophy but from any culture, creed, age, or religion. The same teachings return in all cultures and just "spring" out of our subconscious at some point. As if somehow written into our DNA. It's like all the thoughts and experiences accumulate, and form pathways in the brain to give rise to these teachings. Like a message in a bottle from the dawn of time.
John Butler proves him right. So many of his thoughts and advice resemble those of my guide. They're just worded differently.
Thank you Mr Butler for sharing your wisdom.
Silence is golden. It's the sovereignty of God's dazzling presence. Silence is found in His imperial Kingdom. The altar inside each and every one of us. I love silence!
Like you John, I enjoy shutting out the noise of the world, the loud mouth of the ego and meditate on the majestic power of silencing my mind. It is the reality of holy, wholly, wholesome, love, light, peace and freedom.
As I persevere in silence within my own thoughts, it becomes as easy as breathing. It's a blessing on a grandeur scale that is majestically refreshing.🙏
Unfoldment should be in the dictionary and I love him and his teachings. I wish could be like him
Just bought your first book. I haven't bought a spiritual book since i read "I am That" by Nisargadatta over 15 years ago and which i have read and meditated on every single day. I recognised you immediately. Different background and religious language but the experience, the essence, the message is exactly the same. For those of us who have struggled to absorb and filter the true message through the confines of an unfamiliar religion, John is indeed sent from Heaven.
I'd like John's audiobook if there is one. His voice is way more soothing than the one in my head
Love your videos I listen to your videos to calm me down when I'm angry or streesed your voice calms me down
I could listen to you talk about anything ❤️ brilliant. I’ve never seen anyone as well spoken as this gentleman
Only found you both a few weeks ago and working my way through your videos. I can't say how pleased I am to have found you, or more's the point, how you have found me at the most appropriate point in my life. You've changed my meditation practice for the better and I'm thankful for that. I will, by grace, learn from your teachings and relate them to my own experience to grow and become all I may be. Thank you
What a blessed man
I absolutely love your voice. I'm not a religious man but I am spiritual. When I hear your voice it relaxes me and helps my anxiety. I appreciate what you do and I hope one day to be as knowing as you are. Keep doing what you are doing and know it helps others.
I could listen to him not talking for long time. It's such a pleasnt silence.
Thanks so much, Phil, for providing these utterly beautiful clips with John. They’re so precious and a joy to listen to.....🙏🏻❤️ (oh, and I totally agree with the suggestions of audiobooks!)
Name a better duo than John butler and a soft lovely cow in a meadow 💚🌾
I am a writer and translator and I find meditation invaluable for allowing meaning to shine clearly and become free from linguistic forms. Of course, it does great work in the rest of my life, too! Stillness is key to writing.
I also translate simultaneous and contiguous and was thinking exactly the same. While translating, although completely aware, mind cannot interfere and when it does you immediately loose the thread
Thank you John and you too Phil for another nice video. One can never have too much Silence or Peace that comes from It.
It began to decend into 20 below here in Vermont and the colder it gets the more silent it gets. Thanks for this verification of silence
it's very interesting seeing this man, who is clearly enlightened, attempt to express the experience of enlightenment in a new a different way. it's pure magic.
Can we get a video of John reading his book(s)? I'd pay $$$ for that.
I checked if any of his books on audible.com, but they're not, unfortunately.
What a sound idea. We could start with a short book. ;-) Would you like to hear John read one of his poems on video? Phil
sounds like a very good idea
Poems, short books and his larger releases too perhaps. Thanks for listening.
What would work best for you - a 'video book' (John reading on camera) or a standard audio book? We have talked about producing audio books but not committed to it yet. Maybe we should do crowdfunding? If we did would you contribute? Phil
I always enjoy these videos. They inspired me to slow down and enjoy the more simple things in life.
These videos are amazing, I've always felt that we over talk and think so often and its really unfortunate. John your such a breath of fresh air for me. Your doing excellent job of dicribing the undriscable, thank you for sharing!!!
Undriscable...thats great lol
Why can't I listen to this gentleman without falling sleepy? Not due to boredom but due to being nearly hypnotised!
A S M R
I resonate with everything John says, I’ve bee practicing Insight meditation ( Buddhist Theravada tradition) for very long..Its the most meaningful thing we could do with our lives, to devote ourselves fully to awakening. But, anyway, I think its grace that makes all happen, not our efforts, which are not only useless but, perhaps, counterproductive..
But to give ourselves completely to what it IS comes with a price..I’ve been kind of ‘evicted’ from the most beautiful, divine, jhanic states to what seems to be an eternal dark night..
Thank you, Phil and John, sending you metta from a grateful heart❤️
Your book arrived with me in Chesterfield yesterday John, I look forward very much to giving it a read. Thank you for the message you left as well.
I have gained so much from your video series with John Butler. I cant thank you enough. Your efforts are beautiful.
My man big John at peace cutting bread. I need some of that tranquility. Great work!
Jhon butler is such amazing one man I have learned a lot from him God bless him
I can be alone without feeling lonely; I like stillness and serenity; just seem to grappling with it recently;
I like that last remark John made, 'when we look at our self in the mirror we can wink at our self' :) Its like our true consciousness is aware that the physical body we inhabit is not us :))
Hey guys, so happy to see you back! I really liked this video, i can really relate to healing through silence. I have very severe anxiety, and i have a hard time being around people. When I'm alone, I am the most at peace in the quiet with my own inner dialogue. I wish i could find a way to apply this into daily life, going to work and being around others with that same reflection and inner peace.
Love and appreciate your channel and wisdom. Your voice calms my anxiety. You are a blessing. Silence and being internally at peace is a work in progress for me. Thank you sir.
I have just discovered these videos and this beautiful wise and adorable man..I have much to say about the profound impact it is having on my spiritual journey but there is not enough space here to write them all down..I can only say thank you dear John and know that your work and message is reaching us far and wide and we can hear you..
Your voice is truly heavenly, endearing and healing, just as Phil's voice is 😊 .
You are a perfect team and every thing that comes out of your mouths is priceless and invaluable..Thank you so much. Much love to you both..❤🌾🍀🌻🌏
Thanks Susan - glad to have you here. Phil
Mr. Butler gives me hope for this world.
I will say that I sometimes think we over think meditation. I believe that it is available to everyone. No special books or teachers needed. It's simply being open to God and listening. God is there at any time. Be still and listen.
I love Phil. He has a lovely way about him..
I wasn’t aware of the website when I ordered my copy. I got it from book depository in the UK. They also have free post to many countries (including Australia, where I am) so for anyone who is worried about high postage, you can get Spiritual Unfoldment there. You can also set the site to show you the books in your own currency and bill you in it. I’ll be buying his other books too!
I'm not sure it's good people are falling asleep to John's voice! When he speaks, my brain lights up! Opposite!
It's just a shame there aren't more John Butlers in the world. Lovely man
I could spend time with John and say nothing while he chats away... lovely voice 🙏🏻
Bob Ross brought me to ASMR, and ASMR brought me here. All in the last 5 months; I didn't have a name for the frisson before then. What a great discovery.
Thanks Mr Butler. You just dont know how much you have helped me. I wished i could talk one on one with you.
Joseph - here, now, deeply silent - lo, your wish come true
Spiritual Unfoldment. I will take that with me the rest of my life. Here , now , deeply silent. The meaning of life or the purpose of life. Or why is it so hard sometimes ? Its so hard to always look into the light. :)
There is peace, and the rest of a job well done. Knowing that the world is good is such a great conclusion! We may have been cursed by our fears, but by taking comfort in Presence and trusting God's judgement, we won't spoil the sanctity of creation with our own apprehensions, and we'll be able to serve without bad Karma.
I watched because his voice.
Dear Mr Butler, Thank you for making these helpful videos. Please consider making a guided meditation video for us?
What I hear is almost the same teaching of John Main Osb. It is wonderful and authentic teaching .
Yay!! A new video! I wish you the very best from Sweden❤️
Thanks again guys, hope you both enjoyed your different trips ✈
Absolutely fantastic words. You guys are so enjoyable. Glad you got to visit America John. God bless you both.
Thank you so much for these videos. They're both calming and inspiring. There's so much to learn from someone who's experienced so much. Thank you again. Much love from Canada :)
I propose that these's more than one kind of silence: there's the dead mundane silence of the separate self, the occasional moment of muffled temporary stillness sought for in meditation before another thought or hypnagogic image swims up from the fetid dank recesses of the brain, and then there's the _other_ kind of silence,
a Silence you cannot willfully invoke or hope to hear, but rather hope _It hears you._ It's a Silence I've only mostly glimmered, but once experienced full-on, unbidden, for a full five minutes......it's shockingly _loud,_ a "ringling-less" ringing, a "motionless-movement;" imagine an infinitely escalating "vibration" into a frequency-range beyond the Plank-length.
It came on gradually at first. I was at work of all places, an OEM manufacturing plant. Alone in the empty paint-booth (intake fan was off but the space was long-evacuated of any fumes and I most certainly was _not_ high on anything) I was in-between jobs, not sure what to do next, nothing to paint, thinking maybe I'll pick up an orbital sander and venture-out onto the shop-floor and start prepping another unit for paint.
Standing there alone I suddenly became aware of an _upwelling_ .....Stillness, in-between the clatter and roar of the factory outside of me with it's air drills and grinders and impact guns, an upwelling oddly blissful _SILENCE,_ growing more pronounced, even in between every verbalized and non-verbalized thought and sensation from within....
....and it _grew...._
Before I knew it, I felt as though encapsulated in a standing-wave of Power-Silence-Emptiness-Bliss, whatever you want to call it, unlike anything I've ever experienced before or since.
I should add that it was not "oceanic," I did not "melt-away" into It, nor was I reduced to a puddle of blubbering goo by It, but it was very _very_ apparent. The conscious space between every thought and sensation continued to expand like a universe. My mind furiously probed from within and without, trying to grapple with it. Was someone praying for me? Or was I having a stroke? Finally I gave up trying to label and comprehend It and just stood there in quiet stone-cold sober, hyper-aware reverie.
_My God,_ I thought, _if everyone in the world felt this right now, everything would cease, all sports and wars and striving and the world would be at peace_
(and I thought I detected a "stand-offish" Intelligence, subtle but pervasive, an almost chuckling vibe, non-verbal, almost like: "Here you go kid, just a teaspoon. This is what you're after...")
Five minutes later it was a memory.....I'd love to know empirically what my brain would've looked like in an fMRI while that was all happening. I don't know what to make of it but I'm still glad it happened (2001 or so), as I think I know what the mystics mean when they speak of Silence....but I have fairly given-up to ever experience It again, in this flesh...
This was my experience of the living Void. It is _not_ empty, _not_ dead, but pregnant with infinite power and potential. But you can't have It. It can only have _you_
It would be great if John could put out an audio version of his book ect... because his voice holds the vibration which guides one in so well...
Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it...
Unfoldment did come up on Google search. ..hello from Melbourne Australia. .. gratitude for your "Unfoldment" of the innocence of Wisdom and Love ...you are a beautiful doorway to Truth xxx
The word really does speak for himself.
Itself*
Thanks for sharing this wonderful interview.
Words of silence, thank you "John", we are the STILLNESS after the OM.............................being lived from there as NO-THING become as ALL:)
I love enjoying the silence with a cup of camomile tea :')
9:04 Is the Apex of relaxation
Dauntrell Davis on repeat
Lol!
Thank you guys.
I figured out that watching a fishing float put me into a state of meditation and I still think that it was fishing that started me on my path.
Another great video Phil, but why do you get the HD camera and John gets the biscuit tin with the pinhole?
So happy to have you both back with new conversations! 🖤
The Book of Silence: 250 blank pages.😂😂😂
Ha. Nice one. Maybe we should do a video of 30 minutes silent meditation?
I want a copy!
Pages should be made of foam to so there's no crinkling sounds when turning the pages.
Or just a purely blank audiobook. No background hiss, nothing.
RPKVids Some people like that noise. About as calming as Mr.Butler’s voice.
So good to see u again John ☘️
Love listening to John , I spend a lot of time in his home village of Bakewell and its a wonderful place , as already suggested it would be wonderful to have John actually reading his books , Many thanks again for your great wisdom x😁
Interesting - if you'd care to meet..
Thanks John - why not join us for meditation? Be good to meet you. We have talked about producing audio books but not committed to it yet. Maybe we should do a simple crowdfunding? If we did would that be something you may contribute to? Phil
Please have John put his books on audible .com read by him. Thank you. Love your sharing with us all.
Silence is the absence of a carrier of sound, like space. That's it. Peace and inner silence is increased awareness to sensory stimulation and concentration towards calm.
I remember asking a question in a sitting a few years ago. How can we find our silence among all the noise in the world. The answer was "we move through silence". Everything is really just stillness.
'Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.'. Thomas Carlyle
So uplifting..much love from Ireland
I always read as the real title here: " The Language Of Love"
john yourvoice is incredible
I'm not a religious man but if John Butler read a book or two from the Bible I would watch that
I'd love to have a conversation with you John, your voice is so soothing and has helped me with anxiety
Be still yourself, my dear. Then, with or without words, talk to the stillness. That's what I do.
Quieting the mind...oh boy. That is the hardest part of it all. Turning off obsessive thoughts is incredibly difficult. I've been going to a meditation class for about four years. Everytime I sit down to meditate it feels like the first time. My monkey mind simply won't be tamed!
The best book on meditation or contemplative prayer which is the term I prefer is The Cloud of Unknowing.
John Butler thank you
Has John done any guided meditations ( like Sadhguru or Michael Sealey)? He has such a wonderful voice and I'm sure his calmness and kindness would really help a lot of people who may struggle with finding that quiet on their own
I would love a format without interview process, perhaps with the questions seen only on the screen? I also much love his discussions when he is walking in nature, his favorite place in stillness... could this format be tried once or twice?
Thanks Vara. The idea is that it is a conversation. John does not know what I am going to ask him - so it is always fresh and spontaneous. In fact, I don't know what I'm going to ask him! Phil
Beautiful man and a great voice
Do you use different mics for each of you? They sound soooo different and honestly the jump from johns very cosy and muffled sound to the very sharp and clear sound of the interviewer is something that distracts a little. Beyond that I really appreciate these interviews. Very well done, Sirs!
Beautiful
Whoever edits these is awesome
Thanks for the new video!
John should be a monk in a Christian monastery like the Carthusians. I wonder if he ever visited such a monastery, the silence there is profound.
Thanks for another lovely video!
I don't like thinking anymore I'm going right off it.
So eloquently put
without silence there wouldn't be anywhere for sound to come from. :)
Amazing, John!