Silence Focus

Everything arises from silence, but not everything is heard from here. Freedom from noise can happen, but only when it’s learned how to truly focus on silence…

It matters little what you hear, but how you listen does matter in the sense if it comes from silence focus or not. There’s all kinds of noise around us most of the time, but what’s mostly heard is labeled from our impulses and opinions. Freedom from the noise can happen, but only when it’s learned how to truly listen, and you can only listen when you’re focused on silence; this is when you truly hear. Silence focus arises from the moment, there’s nothing to think about in this state. A dog barking, a car beeping its horn, a helicopter, a waterfall, a plane, all sounds can be heard and as with any sound, they can annoy you or you can focus on the silence. There’s so much noise that goes on in the head, but it has nothing to do with the surrounding sounds.

Everything arises from silence, but not everything is heard from silenced focus. As I was sitting in my backyard the other day listening to birds chirping, the neighbor preceded to play music very loud to where my opinionated serenity was disturbed. I immediately took a deep breath and realized that although I was enjoying listening to the chirping birds, I wasn’t in the state of silence focus. If I was, when the sound changed to what arose from the silence, in this case my neighbors music, I wouldn’t have been disturbed. One deep breath showed me this and it allowed the silence focus of the sounds that were happening at that moment, instead of the mind agitations of my impulses and opinions…