27 Ways to Approach the Master
10 : The Master is Silence
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Like the lake upon which no ripples rise
the master absorbs the chatter of your mind,
he welcomes you into the silence of his being
his is not the silence of wordlessness
his is the silence that sings
the silence of the bamboo flute : frozen music.
when a master speaks, listen not to his words
but to his silences
and you will hear that truth
which no words can ever express.