The Silent Wait
The storm exists within the infinite sky: clouds ominous and dark billow and swirls toward the eye within, energies evolving through its simple movement whether manifested as light, sound, wind or rain.
Between the lightening strike and the crock of thunder’s roll is the silent wait, where the transition of energy is from light to sound then a return to nothing. The non-presence of no thing—the silent wait.
Within the silent wait there is only the potential to exhibit various forms of energy. It is expressed as light and sounds within the vortex of the storm, distance the regulator of our perception. No matter the speed of the transition, the silent wait always exists, for it is from here that all things manifest.
The storm continuously moves. It is through this movement the energies gather culminating in the wrath of the storm. Lightening strikes though it’s centrifugal movement, winds raging through its rotation, rain following the path of the storm. Yet, within is the eye is the infinite sky, always still and calm no matter what is happening in its periphery, silent to cause and effect.
Even between cause and effect, know that the silent wait forever exists.
In the breath—movement in and movement out—there is a pause between the change from inhale to exhale, again here is the silent wait. The same can be said for the beat of the heart—a beat, a pause—it is in the resting that we find the silent wait.
Electrical charges bounce along pathways to the brain, spinning towards receptor centres like the electrical charges of the storm expressed as lightening. Here in the brain there is a translation or a transition from electrical impulse—the cause—from the periphery to these centres which in turn has effect upon that same periphery, the body itself. This moment of transition or translation is the silent wait, where potential is yet to be expressed.
Energy is expressed based on movement whether it is physical as with the storm, the breath or the beat of the heart. It can also be expressed in the form of thought as illustrated by the electrical impulses within the brain that are translated into knowing or reaction, the cause and effect.
Cause and effect seem to continue incessantly always missing the silent wait, too wrapped up in its own mechanisms. Awareness of the silent wait wakens the observer—the witness—who has only potential. There is the ceasing any imposition of value or judgement. There is a moment of rest which comforts and holds.
The silent wait is between all, before and after everything, the point to which we all return even from the darkest recesses of the storm of our minds.
If cause and effect exist not in the silent wait then nor do bliss, joy, anger, resentment or struggle. Life becomes pure existence, pure potential with no walls or boundaries. The mind is calm, the wild beast is tamed, movement ceases as the waves of consciousness are quieted. The loss of self seemingly like paralysis, yet in no self is true existence, a deep current of expansiveness—One ocean, One life, One will.
The silent wait is freedom.
Live in the silent wait.
Be the silent wait.
©The Serene Way
T.S. (Tim) White
September, 2008