Dan on Silence

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< Dan: My experience is of a vast Stillness with no boundary.

The word vast is a misnomer, used for the sake of suggesting

the expansiveness of the experience.

The Silence includes all that is, not just this world, but

all worlds. All sound arises in that Stillness, vibrates

without disturbing the Stillness, and returns to the Stillness.

So it is with our life and our awareness. From This we arise

and return. "It" breathes me (I'm not suggesting

by this word any sense of an it as an object).

"It" is aware "through" me.

"I" am not aware of It. To "me" it is pure Unknown, although

it is my "true being". It doesn't breathe just me, but all me's.

It is the awareness of all awarenesses.

 

Stillness is here now. Only the attentional

focus, the constriction of awareness around "me" gives

the impression of any reality other than Silence. And this

is only an impression. That impression is always dissovling into

Silence, even when "I" don't notice. Thus, even the "me" doesn't

impede it - the dichotomy between "realized" and "unrealized" is an

appearance only. My experience is that my "me" only temporarily obscures

anything, as the "me" is dissolving into "It" each moment. This happens

naturally, with no effort, and is the case in any situation or

experience.

 

This is my experience of it, and my

perception is that this experience is ever-deepening,

simply because experience is boundless...

This life is merely one expression of this Silence, in which

infinite lives are brought forth. The less attachment to

any particular life or event, the more clearly the Silence

reveals itself to itself as timelessness. >

 

~ Beautifully said, Dan.

 

xan