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Silence Comes Closest. · Council of Kings

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  SPEAKER_01: What's up, everybody?
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  SPEAKER_01: Hopping out of the shower here in Germany.
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  SPEAKER_01: And was just asking myself what I can say about life at this point.
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  SPEAKER_01: Where am I at with this whole exploration of
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  SPEAKER_01: now of life,
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  of presence that I have been deeply engaged in for a long time
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  and that I share
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  SPEAKER_01: about.
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  And what arose was simply that I can't,
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  I can't really say anything about anything.
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  SPEAKER_01: It feels like
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  SPEAKER_01: It feels like silence may be the purest,
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  SPEAKER_01: the purest and most honest message that could be delivered.
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  SPEAKER_01: I can't say anything final about anything.
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  SPEAKER_01: If I were to say something about it, it would sound like
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  SPEAKER_01: This is here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Check it out.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is here.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, look at this.
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  SPEAKER_01: What is this?
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  SPEAKER_01: What is this basket of bizarreness?
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  SPEAKER_01: What is this tactile frenzy of ferocious flamingness?
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  SPEAKER_01: What is this jamboree, this jubilee, this cosmic shebang of artistry?
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  SPEAKER_01: Let yourself be bowled over.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let yourself be regaled, astonished.
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  SPEAKER_01: The astoundingness is cumulative over time.
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  SPEAKER_01: It shifts your foundational way of being.
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  SPEAKER_01: You become a poet who's mesmerized by all of life,
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  SPEAKER_01: all textures of life,
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  and you don't need to say what it is or know what it is in any
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  final sense.
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  SPEAKER_01: Even if you don't always want to be in the same room with all of them,
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  SPEAKER_01: you know,
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  it's not like all of your personal preferences and
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  idiosyncrasies disappear or
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  SPEAKER_01: something.
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  SPEAKER_01: I prefer a nice falafel sandwich over a shit sandwich for sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: Can't really say anything about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's here.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is humanity and time and space and earth.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's simultaneously not those things.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's simultaneously beyond anything it can be described as.
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  It includes everything and it also disappears everything in a
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  puff of smoke.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a total zero and a total fullness.
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  SPEAKER_01: Numberlessness.
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  SPEAKER_01: Numberlessness.
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  SPEAKER_01: no thing and everything,
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  SPEAKER_01: imminence and transcendence,
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  SPEAKER_01: emptiness and fullness,
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  SPEAKER_01: qualitylessness and pinnacle of all qualities whatsoever-ness.
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  SPEAKER_01: And both neither far beyond either.
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  SPEAKER_01: Both neither far beyond either.
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  SPEAKER_01: So... I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the punchline of the present chapter over here after...
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  After a noble 15-year journey to the heart of reality to
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  discover the mystical truth.
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  SPEAKER_01: Come up empty-handed.
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  SPEAKER_01: Come up empty-handed.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nothing to grasp.
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  SPEAKER_01: And simultaneously we do know it.
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  SPEAKER_01: We know it most intimately.
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  SPEAKER_01: We can't pin it down, sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yet we are it.
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  SPEAKER_01: We are this intimacy.
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  SPEAKER_01: We are this artistry.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we know it with, mesmerizingly,
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  SPEAKER_01: Functional, holistic intelligence.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean,
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  how do we simply know how to dance with this and move with this
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  and be with this
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  SPEAKER_01: and flow with this in the way that we do?
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  SPEAKER_01: How do we know how to walk across the kitchen and grab a slice of pizza?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's completely confounding, perplexing, bamboozling.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we know it.
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  SPEAKER_01: We know it so intimately.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's our children.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's the light in the eyes of our kids.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's the kids laughing on the playground.
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  It's the jazz musicians playing the saxophone on the crowded
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  street corner in Berlin.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's all of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's beyond all of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's a pure silence that is somehow forever untouched.
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  At least these are ways I can gesture toward experiential
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  qualities of how it shows
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  SPEAKER_01: up over here.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's your life exactly as it is.
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  SPEAKER_01: So treasure it, cherish it, check it out.
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  SPEAKER_01: Really look at it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Love it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Be grateful for it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Say thank you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Realize life's too short for squabbling and fighting and abuse and drama.
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  SPEAKER_01: End the war within yourself.
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  SPEAKER_01: See no enemies in this existence.
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  SPEAKER_01: Befriend.
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  SPEAKER_01: Befriend what is.
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  SPEAKER_01: Be spaciousness.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's end war on this earth.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's give a more beautiful world to our grandkids.
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  SPEAKER_01: What else is there to do?
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  SPEAKER_01: Small acts of kindness and peace ripple forever.
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  SPEAKER_01: What else is there to do?
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  SPEAKER_01: Be love, be the medicine, be you.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Great mystery.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.