August 6 , 2005

Sometimes it is hard to believe what you "hear" in silence. Yes, you actually do hear in silence- - - sometimes. Not with your ears, yet the clarity is as real as the sound of your dog barking.

Your mind denies the sounds it hears in the silence. Why? Sometimes it is because we can't believe what we "hear". Sometimes we assume it is just more thoughts, more insistent thoughts, perhaps. Your sword of discrimination is the only tool that you can use to discern the difference between your own thoughts and transmission through stillness.

Your mind is such a wonderful mechanism. You begin to notice how incredible mind is when you meditate and touch the tip of the iceberg that we call silent mind.

Once you melt into the totality beyond the surface that we call "silence" for want of a better description, you enter a world of light, love and power. Every now and then as you melt into that spaceless space you "hear" truth.

It may be a phrase that repeats, "I am you, you are me", it may be a series of high truths, and you may actually remember some of those truths at the end of the meditation.

It may be your spiritual name,or a student's spiritual name. Usually, after such a transmission, your ego-mind will deny whatever it received -- and decide it was just thought and imagination.

Just when you are convinced that you are making all of this up,Magic Happens! Something in real time-- in what we call the real world-- confirms the truth of what we "heard in silence."

Once day I was driving in my car, on my way to work, and I was listening to one of the On the Road with Rama tapes. The story Rama told on the tape was related to a dream I had the night before. A few minutes later when the tape was about to end I heard Rama say, "winking at a cute girl, everything is in the mind of the Buddha, Miller time, right?"

I got goose bumps, and knew that Rama was somehow talking to me. At the same time, I knew I was just ego-tripping. At that very moment a giant Miller Lite Beer truck stopped right beside me at the stop light, and there were very large letters in my face, saying MILLER-TIME!!

The Magic -- the World of Light and Truth Melts into our physical reality. It happens!! I think it happens to let us know that our experience of truth is real. What we touch outside of time and space prints out in real time. Eternity winks her magic, and we laugh, and embrace the delicate awakening.