Silence, stillness and the contemplative
Journal of Silence Studies in Education December 10, 2024 Bill Genat
Writing here, in a journal of silence studies, strangely, however thankfully, silence appears to me to be a mental abstraction. In my view, an experience of silence signals deep trouble. Is there not inevitably some thought arising in the mind? Such inner verbalisation is hardly an experience of silence. Beyond arising thought, at the least, are there not the birds singing, or the trees...