A silent mind is a timeless mind, and from that silence one can act. It is a silent mind because it has no time. It is always in the present, always in the now. As you cannot do anything actively, positively, through will to break down the bondage of time, you cannot do anything at all. If you do anything, you are caught in time. If you really understood that, if it really meant something tremendously serious to you, it doesn’t mean that you become lazy, slack, or lead a life of stupidity, a meaningless existence. Seeing the totality of life, the extraordinary complexity of existence, what can you do?