Silence offers answers

The ego exists through comparison.  When you introduce polarity, you bring opposition into being.  That which is not is purely imagined and can be shaped and corrupted. That which is remains untouchable, indescribable and unfathomable, and is what exists beyond the mind.

Consider a man who shares his sense of identity.  His ego grounds his judgment in what mind conceives and accepts.  He speaks of what he thinks he is and what he believes he is not.  He limits his scope of awareness to his familiar five senses.

Imagine one with no sense of self. As the ego disappears from view, one has no substance. One is only pure space. Hindrances are not perceived. Thought does not exist here. Insults have no effect when thrown at someone who is truly at peace in silence. Such sounds are not even heard. Notice if your focus of attention is not on a tree, you cannot hear it fall. So, you sense silence when not looking, listening or doing, but being. Silence is transparent by nature.

Comments

[Mark]

Very well stated! The pureness of being is transparent by nature.

[Liara Covert]

Mark, cultivating awareness is a very powerful way to shift perception.

[tikno]

But not every silence really offers an answer. Perhaps answers do not always exist?

[Liara Covert]

Tikno, answers only exist for he who is willing to accept them without self-doubt.

[Bernie]

Silence is the lubricant to every adjoining cell. It then through Silence that each cell hears the other. (An adjoining cell can also be any subject that comes to mind)

[Liara Covert]

Bern, love this perspective. Everything you utter begins in silence and returns to silence. It facilitates everything and is in fact everything for it all emerges here.