What is silence? In the ancient wisdom schools, silence was never understood as mere absence or emptiness. It was recognized as the living ground of being—the fertile stillness from which all of life arises.
In this experiential session, we will begin with a simple practice to settle into deep presence before exploring the teachings of the great Kashmir Tantra master, Abhinavagupta. Together, we will contemplate the mystery of silence as inherently sounding, and consider what it means that we are the form of the Unformed, the sound of the Unsounded.
What changes when we understand ourselves in this way? What if meditation is not a means of achieving a future state, but a sacred remembering of our essential nature?
Blending contemplative teaching with direct experience, this session offers an invitation to rest beneath the noise of striving and rediscover the presence that has always been here—whole, awake, and fiercely calling us home.
