Educate your mind for mindfulness-3: are you listening to me in silence Master started his discourse ‘Every word, every image, every symbol used for true nature of the self is a distortion more than a description. What I teach you now is also false’ "Then why are you teaching to us?” Master smiled and said, “Because your mind always wants to understand through word, images, and symbols. I am removing the nail (words) by nail (words that you consider teaching)’ “Then what is the right way” a beginner asked the master "Through Silence." Master spoke and closed his eyes. "Why, then, do you speak in words?" Master opened his eyes and answered softly, ‘How do you understand words when I am speaking. There is always an interval or space or silence between words that forms the sentences. Listen to SILENCE or SPACE in between what you or I speak.’ Teacher always calls you speak of silence in between words, but you get involved in the words, then desire, then works, then cycle of birth and death. Student asked, ‘is it so simple.’ Teacher smiled and said,’ know the silence before and after the word simple.’ One cannot say- it is simple, or it is difficult, because silence transcends both. When you are aware that mind creates words and dissolves words in itself, silence is born