{"id":36956,"date":"2025-09-09T11:09:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tonalibus.org\/?p=36956"},"modified":"2025-09-09T11:09:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:09:42","slug":"before-and-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tonalibus.org\/en\/2025\/09\/09\/before-and-after\/","title":{"rendered":"Before and after"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-cc2e6f22ed0a378c332818026dad731b wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#f7b320\">Before and after <br>the circle closes <br>becomes round <br>like it always is <br>here and now <br>so long before <br>and also after <br>the foundation <br>a consciousness <br>and awareness <br>in one&#8217;s heart <br>independent <br>of all creations <br>impermanence <br>like every religion <br>that comes and goes <br>such as days, weeks <br>months, and years <br>or even lifetimes <br>all that is just is <br>a reality of life <br>and also death <br>comes or goes <br>before and after <br>the sound of silence <br>awakes in every heart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8b8c636d2b35e089727c62fdd053f380\" style=\"color:#f7b320\">&#8220;Octahedron moment&#8221; &#8212; even before and also after<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/tonalibus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025-08-21-7GTARESLS.mp3\" preload=\"metadata\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#f7b320\" class=\"has-inline-color\">octatonal <\/mark><a href=\"https:\/\/tonalibus.org\/tonalities\/reach-or-harmonic-heptatonalities\/reachnabal\/\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#f7b320\" class=\"has-inline-color\">ReachNaBal<\/mark><\/a><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#f7b320\" class=\"has-inline-color\"> derivative w\/minor (and major) third on E+ 333 Hz (rel. A 444 Hz) &#8212; 7-string guitar, lap slide guitar, soprano recorder, tanpura &#8212; 6:14<\/mark><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-77d86a3a21ef045a2bf3db4bd342041e\" style=\"color:#f7b320\">Awareness, the sound of silence, and emptiness<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4b142e61b66781c7f7eee68b950deadc wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#f7b320\">&#8220;You can trust awareness. As you begin to recognize it and know it, you can rest more in being aware and listening to the sound of silence. As you sustain awareness in this way, consciousness can expand and become infinite. When this occurs you are just present in a conscious moment and you lose the sense of being a self &#8212; being a person, this body. It just drops away and can no longer sustain itself.<br>&#8220;It is not possible for emotional habits to sustain themselves, because, being impermanent, their nature is to arise and cease. You then begin to recognize the value of this expansiveness, which some people call emptiness. Whatever you choose to name it doesn&#8217;t really matter, so long as you can recognize it. It&#8217;s a natural state, it&#8217;s not created &#8212; I don&#8217;t create this emptiness.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8f9418eb914bc31bab18aa61729614fe wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#f7b320\">&#8220;I encourage you to rest and relax into this awareness that comes when you recognize the sound of silence. Just rest in this state of openness and receptivity. Don&#8217;t attach to the idea of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c115514b64ba40af977b2cada98c6e51 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#f7b320\">&#8220;Behind it all is the sound of silence. It&#8217;s like this enormous, vast, infinite space that allows things to be what they are, because everything belongs.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-510c69aa64441a0f3b580d25747f6958 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#f7b320\">&#8220;Letting go is not resisting or getting rid of but <em>letting it be what it is<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1f384682c89cc5f2c60a604099907b66 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#f7b320\">&#8212; Ajahn Sumedho, <em>The Sound of Silence<\/em>, pp. 300, 304, 307, 314<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a8f9b908ad53e1559bc1d03076660191\" style=\"color:#f7b320\">Arch of light above and below, before or after<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/tonalibus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250719_113440275_iOS-x-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Before and after\" class=\"wp-image-36962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tonalibus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250719_113440275_iOS-x-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tonalibus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250719_113440275_iOS-x-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tonalibus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250719_113440275_iOS-x-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tonalibus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250719_113440275_iOS-x-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tonalibus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250719_113440275_iOS-x-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/tonalibus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250719_113440275_iOS-x-18x10.jpg 18w, https:\/\/tonalibus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250719_113440275_iOS-x-1320x743.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Not a rainbow, but a fog-bow with its reflection below &#8212; 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