The Importance of Silence in Buddhist Thought

David Perry: Negative theology is a way of getting at a conception of a supreme singular God without bringing that God down to the level of an individual being or a human being. He says in Buddhist thought there's a tradition of noble silence, because Buddhism is an agnostic religion and certainly not a monotheistic religion. Perry: When we hold together space for these forms of silence, we actually open up the possibility that something new is going to enter into our lives.

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