Is true silence found at the top of a mountain?

Is true silence found at the bottom of the sea?

Is true silence found in the middle of the rain?

Is true silence found in a monastery?

Or is true silence found in the center of myself,

When all thoughts of past and future have dropped,

When all I can hear is the song of the birds,

The hussle of the wind,

The crash of the waves,

And the true silence of my mind.

K.Wilson