Mauna - Silence

words are meaningless and forgettable...

this mauna happens when I read Guruji, Shri Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Maharaj...

this "phenomenal" world - is nothing when compared to the "noumenal" world

and I get - why me, born in the Philippines, a country in a continent that reveres silence - Asia -

was quite shocked at the "din and the noise of mundane concerns" all throughout the U.S. when I arrived.  And the trick

the trick

the trick

is not to buy into all the noise-making we do around here in these here parts...