Everything arises from silence, but not everything is heard because of the lack of awareness. Freedom from mind noise can happen, but only when there’s listening from a state of awareness…
It matters little what is heard, but how you listen does matter in the sense if it comes from a state of awareness. There's all kinds of noise swirling all around most of the time, but what's mostly heard is labeled from mind agitation impulses and opinions. Freedom from the noise can happen, but only when it's learned how to truly listen, and you can only truly listen from a state of awareness; this is when one truly hears. This state of awareness arises from silence, there's nothing to think about in this state. A bird chirping, a train blowing its horn, a plane, a waterfall, the ocean, all sounds can be heard, but as with any sound they can annoy you or the can anchor you in the present moment. There's so much noise that goes between the ears, but it has nothing to do with the sounds heard.
Everything arises from a state of silence, but not everything's heard from a state of awareness. As I was away the other day, listening to the ocean from my hotel room the room next door was having a party. There was loud music being played which disturbed my so called serenity. Immediately I took a deep breath and realized that although I was enjoying listening to the ocean, I wasn't in a state of awareness. If I was when the sounds changed from what arose from the silence, in this case the party, I wouldn't have been disturbed. One deep breath showed me this, and it allowed me to be in a state of awareness to the sounds that were there in the present moment instead of giving into the mind agitations of my impulses and opinions of wanting things different…
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