Silence is the Eternal Language
April 26, 2023 at 11:18 am,
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“Silence is ever-speaking; it is a perennial flow of language; it is interrupted by speaking. These words obstruct that mute language. There is electricity flowing in a wire. With resistance to its passage, it glows as a lamp or revolves as a fan. In the wire it remains as electric energy. Similarly also, silence is the eternal flow of language, obstructed by words.”
-Ramana Maharshi : Talks 246

Im reminded of this quote and the beauty of these cultures and languages; though aware of the impermanence of words which hope to share silence. Silence here is the eternal language obstructed by the need to speak.
A poem entitled “Wordless”
Before I am , it is
I speak yet cannot speak it
I am quiet yet cannot quiet it
Descriptions of it are many, yet do not encompass it
It is decorated ; a painted canvas
Beneath ribbons of 10,000 hues
An innocent and unadorned clarity
Quietly supports them all
Into transparency
The matrix code

Mongolian Clear Script

& a Tibetan Prayer Mandala
