THE SIREN SONG OF SILENCE
To listen to this silence and allow it to show me and more tender, more vulnerable, more receptive, truer way of being…with tears as well as laughter as well as wonder…
Apprenticeship to Love: September 23, 2025
- Today’s questions: How are you with silence? What do you feel when the one you love takes their time to reply or respond? Can you hold yourself, instead of requiring them to hold you as you sit in silence?
- Today's suggested practice: Several times today you will ask for a response. Notice if your request is direct or indirect. Notice if you are able to sit with the silence between your ask and their reply, if there even is one. Breathe into that silence, at least three slow, deep breaths. Notice how your mind and your body experience this silent waiting, the breathing into it. Notice that nothing really changes, just your nervous system.
Rev. Hans Peter Meyer
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TODAY'S MEDITATION
Click-click-click. A grasshopper finds its way through the late summer air.
Small birds are chirping.
The cherry tree above me, so often host to many, many birds moving quickly from twig to branch to twig again, is silent.
In the apple tree next to it, a solitary singer.
One of my dogs is snoring in my lap.
A neighbour is tap-tap-tapping a piece of rebar into his scraped-bare back yard.
A metal door slams shut.
This is the morning concerto, today.
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I’m sitting in my garden office. It’s morning time. I’m listening to Her silence and following a practice given as part of the current “Creativity” sadhana by Tim & Marieke at Kundalini Yoga School in Amsterdam, one of my sources these past four years. The practice is not unlike John Wineland ‘s suggested practice for the masculine: to take time to sit and notice and allow Her to nourish us, as men. We need to become still to receive the nourishment, in this case the song, that is always here for us.
In my title I’ve suggested that Her silence, this silence I’m attending to this morning, is the Siren’s call. But how, you ask, how is this song which seems so nourishing, how is it Her Siren’s call?
The Siren’s call invites us to smash our ships on the rocks and be released from our masculine tasks, our masculine goals and purposes and all the many things we think and believe and are committed to achieving. She calls us to obliterate this mania for achieving, for doing, and realize we are already all that is necessary. We need only sit, and allow. Sit and wait. Sit and enjoy what She brings.… This is deep nervous system retraining. Listen… Let the silence lead you astray…
TODAY’S INSPIRATIONS
🌀The earth has music for those who listen. (George Santayana)
🌀Vibrate the Cosmos. The Cosmos shall clear the path. (Aquarian Sutra 5)
🌀The Conscious Warrior practices the cultivation of wonder and awe. (John Wineland, Precept 7)
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