Kundalini Splendor

Golden Eternity

This world has no marks, signs, or evidence of existence, nor the noises in it, like accident of wind or voices or heehawing animals, yet listen closely the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been gong on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.

At night under the moon, or in a quiet room, hush now, the secret music of the Unborn goes on and on, beyond conception, awake beyond existence. Properly speaking, awake is not really awake because the golden eternity never went to sleep; you can tell by the constant sound of Silence which cuts through this world like a magic diamond through the trick of your not realizing that your mind caused the world.

~ Jack Kerouac

In this reflection, Kerouac summarizes one of the key concepts of Buddhism: life itself is a dream, for our own consciousness creates what we call "the world."  His comment also reminds us of the song of a few years back called "The Sound of Silence."