One Can Hear the Sunrise
When perception and presence blend
One Can Hear the Sunrise
by Steve Bechtold
When awareness opens, we don’t step into the world, we begin to sense that we were never separate from it.
In that space, the act of hearing, seeing, or breathing is no longer something we do, but something happening through us.
When I wrote that “with open awareness one can hear the sunrise,” it wasn’t about sound at all, but about the moment perception and presence blend.
The way breath and breather become indistinguishable, awareness and world dissolve into one continuous motion, a seamless unfolding of being itself.
The more still I became, the more the boundary thinned. Listening turned inward and outward at once, as if the ear were a doorway through which the world entered and awareness returned.
Every tone, every flicker of light, felt like an echo of something both within and beyond, the same current pulsing through it all.
And perhaps that’s what it means to hear the sunrise: to feel awareness opening into the ear itself. Perception flowing softly through presence, the two becoming one, until nothing remains but the vibration of being, quiet and infinite.
Hum Hee Hum Brahm Hum We are the universe, and the universe is within us.