State of Awareness

Everything arises from a state of silence, but not everything’s heard from a state of awareness. Freedom from the known can happen, but only when it’s learned how to truly listen from a state of awareness…

It matters little what you hear, but how you listen does matter in the sense if it comes from a state of awareness. There’s all kinds of noise around us most of the time, and what’s mostly heard is labeled from our conditioned impulses. Freedom from the known can happen, but only when it’s learned how to truly listen, and you can only listen when you’re in a state of awareness; this is when you truly hear. This state of awareness arises from silence, there’s nothing to think about in a state of awareness. A dog barking, a car beeping its horn, a helicopter, a waterfall, the ocean, all sounds can be heard and as with any sound it can annoy you or anchor you in the present moment. There’s so much noise that goes on all around, but it has nothing to do with the sounds that are heard.

Everything arises from a state of silence, but not everything’s heard from a state of awareness. As I was sitting in my yard the other day listening to a guided meditation of a water falls the neighbors son came out to play basketball in his yard, he also preceded to play his music very loud to where my serenity was disturbed. I immediately took a deep breath and realized that although I was enjoying listening to the guided meditation I wasn’t in a state of awareness. If I was, when the sound changed to what arose from the silence, in this case my neighbors music, I wouldn’t have been annoyed. 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 the mind agitations of my conditioned impulses…