Sound of Silence

The Primordial gives rise to the formless, unbounded, unqualified Silence. From within this emptiness subtle archeforms are secreted, giving rise to time, space and all sorts of divisions, whence dreams rise with their silence and sounds, with their luminous spaciousness and configurations, all intimations of the prior abyss beyond word or thought or utterance. The Primordial having given birth to the Silent Rose, which in turn gave birth to silence and sounds, the dream then gives birth to the reticence and voice of this waking reality. Sound being meaningful only in relation to silence, sound rises from within silence and dissapears into silence. Voices are sounds of silence made audible. At each level, as we roam in forgetfulness, silence is a meaningful metaphor of the prior deeper level. Therefore, most disciplines in remembering are based on observing silence, making silence into a threshold to depth.

From sound into silence we all return, and then to prior silence to find the original unbounded Silence, the utterance of the Primordial, the everlasting ubiquitous moment of silence ever expressed as voice. The mantra of supreme reality expresses all this at once, quite obvious and plain, always already so.