Revealing Silence

There's a silence beyond noise that reveals all that life has to offer. If this silence isn't observed you will live in a world of noise and in this world the revealing silence won’t be heard…

While I was observing our first snowfall of the season in NJ the other day I had to take out the trash from the evenings dinner. As I went outside there was a silence that was revealing. How can silence be revealing you may ask, but it was a silence so quiet that it revealed all existence. I was very much aware of this silence and it was eerily still outside except for the snow coming down. It was beautiful and the revealed silence was equally as beautiful. Noise doesn't reveal beauty it reveals noise, silence doesn’t reveal beauty because silence itself is beauty; without revealing silence beauty cannot be.

To innerstand silence it is imperative to innerstand noise. The noise needs the silence for without silence there wouldn't be anywhere for the noise to arise from, but the silence needs nothing to arise, it is self sustaining, it reveals itself. This is why meditation is so valuable in our human evolution because without it we are a society of noise. All you need to do is look around and see evidence upon evidence of this. It’s nearly impossible because of the lack of practice for most people to be still for even five minutes in their daily life so this equates to life being strictly run by noise; this is not a perception, this is truth. Silence is revealing, noise can't reveal. If you live a life filled with noise there won't be much peace because silence won't be revealed. In silence all of life is revealed, in noise there's noise and not much else…