Peter van Straten
In the beginning, spiritual life
was indistinguishable from daily life, and there could be no concept of the
spiritual.
Only with time, the progress of
technology and the obsession with comfort it bred, did the purely physical grow
to dominate to the degree that people felt they had lost something. This thing
they had lost they called Spirit, and automatically they invented spirituality
in order to try and find Spirit again.
From the very beginning, as it
still is today, the gong and the bell were used to call people to help look for
the spirit.
The chime of the bell does not
end, but diminishes so gradually as to become one, seamlessly, with silence.
The bells feed the silence, but
the silence is always hungry. It will remain so until we no longer understand
the concept of Spirit.
The silence and the bell
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Peter van Straten Biography
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