Those Who
Hear the Silence

A Wider View

We don't live in a world where every need is perfectly met—and few of us ever will. But Zen, Taoist, Advaita, and Buddhist teachings point, in their own way, to the same quiet possibility: that the peace we imagined as the reward for a flawless life is, in fact, reachable without one. Not by fixing the world, but by arriving — beyond the need for it to be fixed.

The window is wide open.
The room holds the air, the light, the sound.
A breath arrives, and then it is gone.

Leaves fall without permission.
The river flows over the sharpest stone.

A cloud drifts across the blue.
The sky does not try to hold it.

Night falls without a sound.
The stars appear.
Everything rests exactly where it lands.

The silence was already here.
Before the first word was spoken.
It is here after the last word fades.

 

The Ground We Share

Once raw emotions dissipate, something deeper may touch you. If you come to recognise "that" which is prior to the self you take yourself to be—prior to consciousness—what is there for death to destroy? The apparent difference between life and death, between being and non-being, can dissolve.

Being at peace is not about doing nothing. It is about no longer being driven by the sense that something is lacking.

 

We meet weekly for tea and conversation, with close attention to present experience. Meetings are held in Adelaide, Melbourne and Byron Bay, in person and online. There is no fee.

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satoricircle@gmail.com