{"id":5502,"date":"2008-03-21T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2008\/03\/can-totality-silence-watch-its-own-totality\/"},"modified":"2008-03-21T15:00:27","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T15:00:27","slug":"can-totality-silence-watch-its-own-totality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2008\/03\/can-totality-silence-watch-its-own-totality\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the totality of this silence watch its own totality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The whole brain, the mind, the feelings, the body, everything is quiet. Can this quietness, stillness, look at itself, not as an observer who is still? Can the totality of this silence watch its own totality? The silence becomes aware of itself \u2013 in this there is no division between an observer and an observed. That is the main point. The silence does not use itself to discover something beyond itself. There is only that silence. Now see what happens.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The whole brain, the mind, the feelings, the body, everything is quiet. Can this quietness, stillness, look at itself, not as an observer who is still? Can the totality of this silence watch its own totality? The silence becomes aware of itself \u2013 in this there is no division between an observer and an observed. That is the main point. The silence does not use itself to discover something beyond itself. There is only that silence. 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