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It's not the absence of sounds.

So if you go out in nature, you will most likely encounter sounds.

The wind blowing through the treetops.

Birds squirreling.

The sounds from your footsteps.

But see if you can notice when you are out in nature that there is an all-pervading stillness, even though there are sounds.

Nature is free from any mental concept.

And that…