“The quest to rid ourselves of complete colonization by noise and to recover our sense of quiet goodness should be as necessary and perpetual as our quest to rid ourselves of air pollution.” SilenceMeditationBuddhismSolitudeQuietZenNoiseContemplationStillness Book:The Sound of Water, the Sound of Wind: And Other Early Works by a Mountain Monk Source: The Sound of Water, the Sound of Wind: And Other Early Works by a Mountain Monk
“When I listen to that distant call [of the cuckoo], I become freshly aware of a sense of oneness with everything that exists. At such moments I come to see that everything is flowing together like a timeless river, and I become thoroughly convinced of this reality. The invisible becomes clearer than the visible, and the eternal becomes closer than the present. ,,, One of the tragedies of modernity is that artificial sounds are making it impossible to hear the sounds of eternity. They are cutting off the sounds that come from within the deepest part of us.” TimeNatureBuddhismEternityZenModernityRevelationZen BuddhismSounds Of Life Book:The Sound of Water, The Sound of Wind: And Other Early Works by a Korean Monk Source: The Sound of Water, The Sound of Wind: And Other Early Works by a Korean Monk