Silence is always there.

Something that I’ve discovered from meditation practice is that the sound of silence is always present -even if noises are present within it.

I’ve practiced listening to the silence, focusing on the silence, and noticing that it remains available and detectable even when other sounds are there too.

It is a paradox, but a handy one. How can oppose-able things be present at once and yet distinguishable as still separate from each other - even something as subtle as sound?

Because, even in this creation of atomic same-sameness, we find that everything is separated by a barrier. It’s the reason that when someone jumps off a building they don’t go through the ground, they splat onto it because their own bodies electromagnetic barrier has run hard up against the electromagnetic barrier of the ground. Nature causes them to remain separate even at the expense of destruction.

There is separateness inherent in all things - even if there is also togetherness.

Sound is no different.

In meditation I can hear the empty vessel of my own psyche - and I can also project my hearing outside my body and detect the silent, empty vessel of my environment. Even when there are sounds being made.

In a way, a glass full of water can be seen, as yet, still empty. The glass and the water are never really one; one is just temporarily containing the other.

Think of ocean water. It appears that the salt and the water are one. But if you take a bucket of that water out of the ocean and allow the water to evaporate, you will see the salt is still independently present from the water. And the water is independent of the salt.

Close your eyes and think of the ocean water and just focus on the water alone, as independent from the salt. Then shift your mind to the salt and focus in on the essence of the salt only.

Keeping the eyes closed, now do the same with sound. Empty the mind and focus first on the container of silence that is your inner world as well as the local container that is your outer world.

You can detect sounds within the container, but understand that they are not the container itself. The container remains itself.

This may seem complicated and it is not the easiest thing to explain. However I thought I would try because it has helped me in meditation.

The best thing about locating the silence and focusing on it is that one discovers that silence itself is a sound. It resonates and has super subtle vibrations and can lift consciousness upward.

Heightened awareness can lead to the great experience of the most-high inner sound, NAAD sound. Naad sound is the inner, unending, supernatural OM.