Listen with insight, attention, totality. And in that very vision you will see something. And that seeing changes you—you don’t ask how. That is the meaning when Krishnamurti says, “To negate is silence.” Insight negates. And when something is negated and nothing is posited instead, something has been destroyed and nothing has been put in its place. There is silence, because there is space. There is silence because the old has been thrown out and the new has not been brought in. That silence Buddha calls shunyata. That silence is emptiness, nothingness. And only that nothingness can operate in
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