Here’s y not’s post from April 21, 11:53PM that got deleted.
y not wrote:
It is difficult. It the what we are here for, the assignment all of
us have to take on sooner or later.
It is difficult because vaci sankhara is not easy to control; at times a thought trend comes on, and if we become aware of it, we try to stop it there and then. At other times, minutes go by, we are not aware, we just get carried away.
And as far as the outer version of it goes, as opposed to meaningful and beneficial talk, 80% of all conversations among men centre around business/investment,slander with visible malevolent undertones at he base of it and useless chatter. Women are more pragmatic, more ‘grounded’ into their immediate day-to-day realities. This gives no opportunity to say something useful and meaningful (even here women are more open to this than men ) so one keeps silence.
So the outward side of it is not that difficult for me. I talk little by nature, at times too little (to my own detriment) It is the ‘conscious
talking in the mind’ which I have to grapple with.
Thank you Inflib for bringing this up.
y not