Now in sad autumn
as I take my
darkening path . . .
A solitary bird

Whenever we meet ourselves we find no object over there, just emptiness. As we are not familiar with our emptiness we feel like autumn, everything has fall apart. We compare that emptiness with darkness. But in reality it is full of life, silence.

Truth is a transcendence. Truth is a transcendence of duality. Silence is part of the dual game of the mind. The mind is not only words, remember. Between two words there is a small gap where the mind is silent. The mind is both: words and silence crisscrossing. Each word is followed by silence, and each silence is followed by a word.
When you are thinking, one thought comes, then a gap. Otherwise, one thought will overlap another. There will be great confusion. The gap is needed. Then another thought comes. It is just like when you stand on the road watching the traffic. One car passes by, then a gap. You don’t see the gap because you can’t see the gap. One car passes by, then a gap, and then another car. If there is no gap, there will be a crash between two cars; there will be an accident. The gap is always there. The gap is as much a part of the traffic as the cars. Exactly the same is the case with the mind. Words, noise, so-called silence, are all parts of the mind.

There is another kind of silence which has nothing to do with the mind. That silence is not the absence of noise, it is the presence of the unknowable – a totally different quality. Not the absence of noise, but the presence of godliness or the presence of the whole. That silence is not a dead silence. That silence is very much alive, vibrating, full of joy, showering bliss all around, overflowing with love – and you can see the difference.