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by Bruce Taylor (Author)
Touching Silence explores the presence of stillness as both the source of all form and the space in which all form dissolves. Drawing from Zen, Reiki Ryōhō, and reflections on physics and cosmology, it opens a path toward understanding how energy, matter, and awareness shape the unfolding of life itself.
At its essence, this book invites the reader to return to the immediacy of being, to the subtle rhythm of breath and sensation before thought divides experience. Within this awareness, healing begins to reveal itself not through belief or method, but through recognition: the same creative energy that forms the stars flows through the human body and mind.
Rooted in years of direct study and practice in Japan, Touching Silence draws from the mountain temples and trails of Mt. Hiei and Mt. Kurama, the historical birthplaces of Zen and Reiki Ryōhō. These traditions continue to inform and deepen the author's own meditative path, which has unfolded across decades and more than ten thousand hours of devoted practice. From sitting in practice with the monks on Mt. Hiei to walking the paths of Kurama and the surrounding mountains, the work reflects a life immersed in silence, energy, and the contemplative inquiry that unites them, yet finds its deepest truth in the solitude of personal practice where insight ripens quietly over time.
Both Zen and Reiki Ryōhō reveal that healing is not separate from realization. One moves through the body and breath, the other through stillness and direct awareness, yet both point toward the same unbroken reality, the recognition that life's vitality and its quiet emptiness arise together as a single expression of consciousness.
Bridging ancient insight with modern understanding, the book also reflects on parallels between spiritual practice and cosmology: the birth of the universe, the vibration of particles at the quantum level, and the way time and space arise within awareness. Through this union of science and spirit, it becomes clear that healing is not a separate act, but the natural intelligence of life returning to balance.
Grounded, contemplative, and deeply experiential, Touching Silence offers a way of seeing in which suffering loosens, energy flows freely, and the boundaries between self and cosmos dissolve into quiet understanding.
Touch the silence within, and what was forgotten may reveal it was there all along.
