It's a long listen; I did it in chunks over several weeks.
Lot's of 'nuggets' - here's a few I've found:
- Silence is primordial.
- The foundation of being itself is silence. It creates a sypathetic resonance with what's right in front of us.
- You can only appreciate something that you've already begun to experience.
- The ego uses words to get whatever it wants. We pull out the words that give us power, that make us right.
- The soul doesn't use words. It surrounds words with space - silence.
- ...if we're not willing to sit in the poverty of our silence.
- Beauty emerges from the silence around it.
- Time increases inside of silence - from chronological time to kyros.
- Whenever emptiness becomes its own kind of fullness, you've just experienced silence.
- Dualistic thinking is making things about sides (where you separate everything) and you pick one, and reject the other. We call this being educated. (min 40)
- Arguments are more often not love of truth, but love of victory (min 1:04)
- The dualistic mind loves to exaggerate the differences.
- The psychological defect...the need to exaggerate differences.
- Non-dualistic thinking is contemplation. The contemplative mind is being rediscovered.
- In the Christian tradition, knowing and not knowing are balanced - they are put together...it is called faith. (min 41)
- Enlightenment has come to mean rational. We've lusted after certitude.
- The paths to contemplation are great love or great suffering.
- Trinity (min 52)
- Faith and silence are practicing for death.
