THE SILENCE

                                              LIKE GOD AS SILENCE

 

        ARE THERE ANY OTHER PORTALS APART FROM THOSE YOU JUST MENTIONED?

       YES, THERE ARE. THE UNMANIFESTED IS NOT SEPERATE FROM THE MANIFESTED. IT PERVADES THIS WORLD, BUT IT IS SO WELL DISGUESED THAT ALMOST EVERYBODY MISSES IT COMPLETELY. IF YOU KNOW WHERE TO LOOK, YOU'LL FIND IT EVERYWHERE. A PORTAL OPENS UP EVERY MOMENT.

      DO YOU HEAR THAT DOG BARKING IN THE DISTANCE? OR THAT CAR PASSING BY? LISTEN CAREFULLY. CAN YOU FEEL THE PRESENCE OF THE UNMANIFESTED IN THAT? YOU CAN? LOOK FOR IT IN THE SILENCE OUT OF WHICH THE SOUNDS COME AND INTO WHICH THEY RETURN. PAY MORE ATTENTION TO THE SILENCE THAN TO THE SOUNDS. PAYING ATTENTION TO OUTER SILENCE CREATES INNER SILENCE, THE MIND BECOMES STILL. A PORTAL IS OPENING UP.

       EVERY  SOUND IS BORN OUT OF SILENCE, DIES BACK INTO SILENCE, AND DURING ITS LIFE SPAN IS SURROUNDED BY SILENCE. SILENCE ENABLES THE SOUND TO BE. IT IS AN INTRINSIC BUT UNMANIFESTED PART OF EVERY SOUND, EVERY MUSICAL NOTE, EVERY SONG, EVERY WORD. THE UNMANIFESTED IS PRESENT IN THIS WORD AS SILENCE. THIS IS WHY IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT NOTHING IN THIS WORLD IS SO LIKE GOD AS SILENCE. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS PAY ATTENTION TO IT. EVEN DURING A CONVERSATION, BECOME CONSCIOUS OF THE GAPS BETWEEN WORDS, THE BRIEF SILENT INTERVALS BETWEEN SENTENCES. AS YOU DO THAT, THE DIMENSION OF STILLNESS GROWS WITHIN YOU, YOU CANNOT PAY ATTENTION TO SILENCE WITHOUT SIMULTANEOUSLY BECOMING STILL WITHIN. SILENCE WITHOUT, STILLNESS WITHIN. YOU HAVE ENTERED THE UNMANIFESTED.