Sound of Silence
A meditation technique taught and used by Ajahn Sumedho involves resting in what he calls "The Sound of Silence". He talks at length about this technique in one of his books titled "The Way It Is". Ajahn Sumedho said that he was directly influenced by Edward Salim Michael's book : The way of inner vigilance (republished in 2010 with the new title : the Law of attention, Nada Yoga and the way of inner vigilance" and for which Ajahn Sumedho wrote a preface).
The "Sound of Silence" is also the title of one of Ajahn Sumedho's books (published by Wisdom in 2007). In his book, the "Sound of Silence," he mentions that it was not directly influenced by his study of Ven. Hsu Yun's works or by the Shurangama Sutra, though he has heard that the Shurangama mentions a similar practice.
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