Typed by Kunio Takahashi (Kodokan)

April 11, 2006 (Tuesday)
Speech is Silver, Silence Is Also Silver.
Krishnamurti

IsaSamurai(principled)

Silversmith.
雄弁は銀なら、沈黙も銀。クリシュナムルチは、サムライ銀細工師だ。

Krishnamurti says to me, “Be a light to yourself. Be a holistic man never deals withcorruption.” I argue back, “Sir, light travels faster aboveground, but sound travels fasterin the water. Your speech isn’t holistic; but ‘holonic,’ according to one of your Yoga
disciples from Munbai. Give me the sound of your voice, so I can ‘see’ you.” “Seeme?,” says my mentor, “Stop seeing my image. Your image of me will keep you trapped.
Let go of my image. Be a light to yourself. Free yourself from fear, jealousy and images.”“I CAN’T. But I’ll be your shadow.”
Without thinking WHY, WHY, WHY, I’ve been blinking, blinking and blinking. Pro andcon, pro and con.
Thinking the opposite for a change makes me whole, if not holistic. I’m not physically
fit in the first place. It’s raining outside. The rain depresses me. My body makes me feel
negative and contrary. Today is an S day – spiritual and soulful, in search of somethingsacred in me.
Speech is silver, silence is golden. So goes the prove. Is it true? I’ll debate thatwith myself. Krishnamurti is silver-tongued, arguing melodiously, “Listen to the sound ofsilence. Is the silence golden? No. It’s silvery. My counter-argument: Speech is silver,
so is eloquence.
Silence is silver? Why? Let me prove it. If speech is golden, it
can be a gift or prize for you so you can flaunt it, as athletes might.
Speech contests and the Olympics are golden, gold and the firstprize is coveted so much that every professional athlete fights likea demon to be No.1. Gold glitters as Gelt (money) does. Makes
people greedier and greener with envy. Organized religions getgreedier and greedier by making their GOD glitter. Religionist byand large put light above darkness, shadow shared by shady,
seductive snake-like Satan.
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Typed by Kunio Takahashi (Kodokan)

But subconsciousness comes back with a vengeance spirally upward like a Kundalini(Serpentine energy) sneakily? No, silently. Sexy? No, sacred. Shadowy? No, shiny. Goldalso shines brightly, but it glitters. Silver doesn’t compete; it doesn’t care which isshinier. Silver is a samurai that serves someone else – saburau – ready to sacrificethemselves for what they believe in. Their “mentsu” (面子) is at stake. Face, mask(personality), name or dignity might be lumped together, as images – to be dumped.
Chinese have competitive 面子 - golden. Japanese have non-competitive mentsu silvery. The former glitters; the latter shines by its own light. Both are beautiful. In fact,
Victoria and Albert Museum’s SILVER exhibitions were surreally beautiful,treacherously beautiful. Judas betrayed Jesus for thirty pieces of silver. There arealways snakes in the grass. Eve was evil enough to seduce Adam to eat from a forbidden
tree – a sly slut. Adam, golden boy, was seduced and scandalized into a sacrificial lamb.
A smutty joke? No. A story from a scripture, signifying the subconscious mind of allsouls capable of committing sins, secretly, secretively or surreptitiously.
Silver is samurai’s self-worth, where as gold is businessmen’s wealth, money’sworth. Economists might call it ‘conspicuous consumption,’ an engine for economicgrowth. Gold is highly valued over silver, 80 to 1 for its exchange value (rarity) or thestore value, to be blunt, not for an aesthetic value that varies from person to person.
Silver is shibui (cool), disciplined beauty, zen, unobtrusive, both silent and eloquent(silver-tongued). But silver, because of its inherent murcul temperament, has more
down-to-earth functions. Mercury is God of commerce. Silver can be currency, mirror,ornament, wine – cooler, germ-killer because of its malleability.
Playing the devil advocate for the moment, let me praise almighty
gold as omnipotent and infallible God. The muses lay people, worship
God, ‘something out there’ – outworldly, and are tempted to identify
with the super-being or savior God, to be saved. This is where the devil
sneaks in - in the detail or in the grass. God (surreal and abstract) is thebest tempter of Satan and the millions of devils, Her disciples, seduced
and slaved.
Silver-haired Krishnamurti is silvery, having never been tempted to die a martyr’s
death - a golden opportunity to be crowded and worshipped eternally. He lived up toninety-one, talking till he breathed his last. If the sun is golden, shinning brightly,
tempting devils, then the moon is silver, shining by itself, tempting nobody, making God
jealous. Since in a while, Krishnamurti’s speech was, still is, silvery, so is his silence.

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