以静默诉说

以静默诉说 mm Nazia Mallick 葛雪雷译自《 Ode 》杂志网站 我在奥尔汉.帕慕克的小说《我的名字叫红》中读到了这句美文.他写到一个盲人注视雪花飘落,慧心微笑.那句话令我久久无法忘怀.盲人怎么能注视雪花呢? 我苦思冥想.我知道,如果视力丧失,其他感官会越发敏锐.这个盲人肯定感觉到了周围寒冷的空气,小雪花拂过他的脸颊;他肯定抓起过一个蓬松潮湿的雪团,感觉它在自己的手掌中融化.但是,他听到雪花飘落了吗? 不知道为什么,我相信他确实听到而不是感觉到了雪花飘落.他肯定听到了雪花的静默.他倾听,因为他的内心是静默的,以他奇妙而特别的方式. 人们习惯于世界的嘈杂与混乱,静默往往令他们不安,但静默能让我们认清自己. 当我们在静默中安坐,我们放松下来,逐渐进入一种微妙的虚无状态.我们探索内心,抛开固执之见,学会更深入地感受身边的一切. 当思想不在喋喋不休,我们沉浸在周遭的静默中,某种神圣的东西在内心萌发.尼采说过,最重大的事变是我们最静默的时刻. 不用说,只有在静默中,我们才能倾听.如同那个注视着雪花飘落、发出慧心微笑的盲人,我们在静默时才能学会听的更多. 如果要开启智慧心,抗拒外界毫无意义的喧嚣嘈杂,静默是个基本要素. 耐人寻味的是,静默( Silent )和倾听( Listen )有着相同的字母,但排序不同. 我们人类喜欢多说少听:一个重要的原因是我们忘记了等待和让内心归于静默的技巧. 大自然毫不费力地记住了这门技巧.大自然因静默而繁盛.当月亮在空中出现,我们从未听到它的脚步声.当旭日东升、当繁星在天空中绽放光亮,我们没有听到巨响.它们总是掩藏在令人愉悦的静默中到来.看看树木多聪明!他一直光秃秃的,美丽平和;等待着新的萌发,知道旧的去了,新得很快将到来.树木在静默中等待. 如同树木一样,如果我们静默的等待,我们内心的某种美好的东西就会不断生长.正是这种平和与静默产生了创造力. 我们静默的等待时,活力往往会再度涌现,填补我们灵魂的裂缝.有时候,静默成为最有效的交流方式,比言语更胜一筹. 据说全世界的恋人都以静默来交流.懂得彼此的静默.两个有情人在一种引人入胜的静默中实现这种美妙的心灵感应. 不可否认的是,寂寞需要一种特殊的力量和权威,以静默诉说需要某种"语言运用能力".一言不发往往比通过言语表达愤怒、爱恋和背叛更具难度. 然而,内疚、自然的静默恰似一种心灵状态的反应.过度剖析或过分思虑,寂寞则坠落为浅薄和浮躁. 我们当然可以掌握静默这一有效的交流方式,只需要沉着冷静.只需要意识到在外界刺激与自身反应之间存在间隔,我们的应变能力便产生于这间隔之中,因为应变之道展现我们的成长和自由.这一"间隔"就是静默. 法国数学家布莱兹.帕斯卡说过:"人类的一切不幸都源于无法静默地独处一室." 每当我感到自己简直无法再生活中再迈进一步,我就在静默汇总寻求慰藉.我确确实实重又获得了新的信念、希望和信息. Saying it with silence There was the very beautiful line that I read in Orhan Pamukrs novel, "My Name Is Red". He wrote about a blind man watching the snowfall and smiling to himself. That line stayed with me for a long, long time. How could a blind man watch the snow? I pondered. I know that when the sight is taken away, the other senses become sharper. The blind man must have felt the cold air around him with the tiny snowflakes brushing his cheek; he must have caught a puffy, wet ball in his hand and had felt it melt in his palms. But did he hear the snow falling? Somehow I believe that he actually listened to the snowfall, more than he felt it. He must have listened to the slience of the falling snow. He listened, because he was silent inside, in his own wonderful and special way. Often silence makes people uncomfortable, accustomed as they are to the noise and commotion of the world, but silence is all about coming home to ourselves. When we sit in silence we relax and slip into an exquisite nothingness. We look within and drop our opinionated mind and learn to feel everything around us more deeply. When the incessant chattter of the mind stops and we let the quietness around submerge us, something sacred is born within. Nietzsche said that our greatest experience are our quietest moments. Needless to say, it is only in silence that we are capable of listening. Like that blind man watching the snowfall and smiling to himself, we learn to listen more when we are silent. Silence is the basic ingredent for entering into our intuitive mind and to resist the cacophony of meaningless noises outside. It is interesting to note how Silent and Listen have same letters but are arranged differently. We humans have a tendency to talk more and listen less; much of it is because we have forgotten he art of waiting and allowing ourselves to grow silent within. Nature has no trouble in remembering this art. Nature thrives on silence. We never hear the footsteps of moon when it appears on the sky. We donrt hear a loud bang when the sun comes out and the stars burst open in the sky. Their arrival is always wrapped in a glorious silence. Look how the tree knows it! It remains bare, beautiful and still; waiting for the new leaves, knowing that the old has gone and the new will soon be coming. The tree waits in silence. Just like tree, when we are silent and waiting, something beautiful inside us keeps on growing and it is this stillness and silence that gives birth to creativity. Often it happens that when we wait in silence, life rushes back to fill those crevices in our souls. There are times when silence becomes the most potent way of communication and is more effective than words. Lovers all over the world are said to communicate with silence. Understand each otherrs silence. The famous telepathy between two people who have strong feelings for each other happens in a compelling silence. Undeniably, silence needs a special kind of power and authority of mind and saying it with silence needs a certain "command of language ". To say nothing is often more difficult than expressing the anger, love and betrayal with words. However, being silent with a natural and calm stillness within is like a spiritual reflex. Analyze it too much or think too much about it and it degenerates itself into something superficial and edgy. But we can certainly develop this powerful way of communicating by practicing a calm mind. By realizing that between stimulus and response, there is a space and in that space is our power to choose our reponse because in our response lies our growth and our freedom. That "Space " is silence. The French mathematician Blaise Pascal said "All manrs miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone." Each time when I feel that I just cannot take another stepforwar s d in life, I seek refuge in silence. And sure enough I get recharg s ed with fresh dose of faith, hope and confidence s . (T he original article is published on the website below: www.odemagazine.com Posted by Nazia Mallick on 6/ 5/2009 6:30 pm)