The Silence of the Dunes

There is nothing so silent as the sand dunes. Somehow they absorb the sound so completely that there are no echoes, no reverberations of sound, an immense silence that engulfs and cradles you.

Silence is something we run away from too, too often in this modern life of ours. Five minutes of silence will send our modern youth careening through echoes of "I'm bored!" and "I don't have anything to do!" We try to console them with our parents memories ("when I was a kid we played with sticks and we had alot of fun") and yet we are driven by the same push, push, push, do, do, do, have to, have to, have to...

The silence of the dunes is so powerful that there is not even a remnant of technology in the consciousness. The brain's activity is suddenly transparent and totally audible, and like the awe of some sudden experience of overwhelming beauty you chance upon, it is silenced in wonder. And how powerful is that inner silence.

One moment in the silence of the dunes brings the stark reminder to take the time, nay, to make the time to honor silence each day. To breathe in deeply and breathe out deeply, to sit and re-create that silence you can experience in the dunes, to still the mind so completely that the experience is whole.

Blessings.
- Darshan
Copyright 2009 Darshan F Jessop