Silence is that place where...

Silence is that place where everything is O.K. It's that deeply comforting space, where all of the problems, worries, and stresses of the world melt into insignificance. Where doing is secondary and Being is primary. Where manifest reality is more like a ripple on the surface of an ocean of infinite depth. Stillness is another world that points to this absolute state. Most of us, most of the time, hold our world of thoughts and stories to be The Truth about the way things are. We live our everyday lives in our heads, accepting our mind stories as "the way things are." But silence reveals another dimension of potential meaning. From here, the purity of life, independent from our mental dictation, emerges as more real than the previous projection. There's no doubt that it takes a certain humility to enter this fully, and that one must be open to the possibility that they are wrong, not wrong in who they are, this is actually the first step toward the revelation of all that's right about who you are, but wrong in the sense of who you thought you were, and the way you have thought things to be. Things are not as you thought, and that is really good news! In fact, if you have been telling yourself a sad or depressing story about the way things are, that's great news.This is not to say that a person cannot posses wisdom, or deep knowing, also known in the Buddhist tradition as Prajna… or to invalidate the core truths that support and sustain you on your path, but the problem making mind chatter, the incessant worry, and so on, are based more in fear and projection, and are therefore empty of any inherent truth or value.

From the awakened point of view, things begin to be seen in a particular way. For example, the world begins to take on characteristics of transparency, luminosity, and perfection. It’s a viewpoint that tends to see the One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death. It sees what is not only beyond, but also deep within every from as its innermost indestructible essence. What is the path to this view point? Meditation. Pure and simple. What is even more powerful is meditating with others...Read More