Speechlessness is caused by an empty head or a blank mind-that is silence. Enthusiasm fades like
dying embers, thus leading to cynicism and indifference to life, which arouses neither happiness
nor sadness, neither worries nor anger, without any interest in and desire for anything-that is
silence. Despite all the experiences of love and hate, of disorientation and reorientation, of
order-giving that was answered by hundreds and calling that was not answered by a single soul,
he keeps his mouth shut, but only watches the world calmly-that is also silence. With suffering
and hardship, readings of all kinds of human conditions, footprints left in mountains and valleys
and sounds of rivers and oceans cherished in the heart, he is deep in thought-that is still silence.