The substrate of the existence of all this at this moment is silent. The Source of our existence is silent. The rug is silent. This is silent. Everything about us. Do you get what I’m saying? Out of that innate silence then is where, as you expand context, you begin to own the silence as yourself and that which is interfering with the silence is the not-self. The sound becomes the content. It’s only because of the silence that you can hear any sound. You begin to identify with the silence as that which you are. It comes on profoundly. The oneness with the silence is one’s own existence beyond all time. That which I am existed prior to this universe and will be here long after this universe expires, because universes come and go, like the dreams of Indra. The illusion of it all comes and goes. And creating and unfolding universes is how I enjoy myself. That’s my prerogative, all right? That’s a prerogative. I choose to do that. When you choose it, you’re not at the effect of it. So, you choose to experience this existence as you experience it. And in so doing, you let go resisting it and as you let go resisting it, you dissolve it. And you go back into that which you are, prior to this existence, … And that is the meaning of the silence.
To be that which you are now, you have to be the whole universe, because it’s all part of the whole picture. So, Indra’s dream, …—on an out-breath a creation arises and on an in-breath, it disappears. Over the millennia. Millennia. You have done it for millennia. All it is, is remembering who you are. That’s your Oneness with the Creator.
Spiritual Power and Integrity: Ch. 5, Pgs. 123-124
(This book contains the transcriptions from the July & August 2002 lectures by Dr. Hawkins)
