Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's Quote

Chidi the poet

writes, because "All that's needed for the forces of evil to succeed is for enough good men to remain silent."

There's "The Sounds of Silence"

There'sThe sound of one hand clapping ( Zen Koan)

There's the question:  When a tree falls in a forest and nobody's there to hear it - does it actually make a sound?

In some of our African societies, when a big man passes away they say, "A mighty tree has fallen"

John does not begin his Gospel with " In the beginning there as nothing" or " In the beginning there was silence" or "BERESHIT" he begins it with "In the beginning was the Word " which some schools of Hinduism and Sikhism have equated with shabda

I like The Last Poets: Bird's Word which begins, "Everything was silent"

Then there is the gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha

On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 at 23:15, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:

Ibrahim,
Not to record creates a void! Absence creates nothingness!

CAO.

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