by Haemin Sunim
Befriend the silent observer. Find out where it is, and what shape it has assumed. Do not try to imagine it as something you already know. Let all your thoughts and images merge back into silence and just sense the observer already there in silence.
If you see the face of the silent observer, then you have found your original face, from before you were born.
*Gil Fronsdal, translator, The Dhammapada: A New Translation of the Buddhist Classic with Annotations (Boulder: Shambhala, 2011).
*Quote from the Dalai Lama’s July 11, 2011, tweet, https://twitter.com/DalaiLama/status/90351201736065024.
*Virginia Hilu, editor and arranger, Beloved Prophet: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell and Her Private Journal (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972).
*Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967).
*Gibran, The Prophet.
*Gibran, The Prophet.
*Taro Gold, Open Your Mind, Open Your Life: A Book of Eastern Wisdom (Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel, 2002).
*Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation (New York: New Directions, 2007).
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