Those Who
Hear the Silence

A Wider View

There are moments when the familiar world grows quiet, and another way of seeing becomes possible. Not as an escape from the world, but as a deeper meeting with it.

We don't live in a world where every need is perfectly met — and few of us ever will. But Zen, Taoist, Advaita, and Buddhist traditions point, in their own way, to the same quiet possibility: that the peace we imagined as the reward for a flawless life is, in fact, reachable without one. Not by fixing the world, but by arriving — beyond the need for it to be fixed.

The window stands open.
The room keeps nothing —
not the light, not the sound.
A breath arrives.
It is already gone.

Leaves fall, asking no one.
The river bends around the sharpest stone.

A cloud crosses the blue.
The sky was never asked to hold it.

Night comes unannounced.
The stars simply arrive.
And the ordinary is sublime.

The silence was here —
before the first word,
and after the last.

 

The Ground We Share

Once the charge of emotion dissipates, what remains may touch you. If you come to sense "that" which is prior to your body, name, history — the apparent boundary between life and death, between being and non-being, can begin to dissolve.

Being truly at peace is not about doing nothing. It is about the compulsion to argue with reality falling away.

 

You're welcome to join us. There's no teacher and no teaching — just a shared interest in awareness and how it expresses itself.

We meet weekly for tea and conversation, with close attention to present experience. Meetings are held in Adelaide, Melbourne and Byron Bay, in person and online. There is no fee.

Email us for details.
satoricircle@gmail.com