Thursday, July 2, 2015

The Great Silence



Buddha famously said, “I teach only two things: suffering and liberation from suffering.” Accordingly, he was uninterested in metaphysical speculations. There is a moment recorded in Buddhist literature in which a student asked Buddha (Siddhartha Guatama) about survival or non-survival of death. Buddha simply sat quietly and did not answer the question. This has come to be called “The Great Silence.”