Silence is aware being.
Jean Klein:
“The silence we speak of is beyond noise and quiet. When you speak of silence, you think of noise. But in the silence of which we speak any reference to quiet or noise is cancelled. It is a silence beyond all complementarity. And you live this silence in identity, not in duality but in oneness. When thought is completely absorbed in you, as happens from time to time, when it is completely exhausted, when there is nothing concrete left in thinking, then you live this silence, you are attuned to it. It cannot be objectified or experienced. It is not a state one enters and leaves. It is the light, the presence, the background of all expression, of all appearing and disappearing.”
There are many moments in the day when this silence is there, free from all activity. But as you are so accustomed to living in a subject-object relationship, you take this silence for an absence, an absence of something, an absence of activity. But this absence is the real presence.”
Is this silence a vacuity?
“A vacuity means vacant, absence of object. When there is absence of objects, there is plenitude. Fullness. Silence.”
~ Excerpt from Jean Klein Transmission Of The Flame.
