Tan Amarasiri remembers when Ajahn Sumedho visited Tisarana two years earlier and he was sitting at the feet of Ajahn Sumedho watching the sunset and the silence in their presence is perceptible.

Does silence need to be complicated? Is it not a matter of being receptive, of waiting..?

He then talks about a depth of understanding possible in the Mangala Sutta. What is auspicious, that touches the heart? I am going to watch what's happening.

He references the last Stanza of the 38 Blessings of the Mangala Sutta, and asks is there something that is without sorrow, without stain that is safe an secure unshakeable ..is there something that remains steady if we can touch that - be with the silence, be in the background..then none of these things shake us. He asks..where does the joy spring from?

Life's Highest Blessings

The Maha Mangala Sutta translation and Commentary by Dr. R.L. Soni

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/soni/wheel254.html#ch4-1

Tan Amarasiri speaks about reflection and transition from the monks recent three month retreat. He found a note in a book that said "what is not the practice?" he reflects on his experience of unwholesome layers falling away and draws upon Ajahn Jayasaro's analogy of the story of questioning Michelangelo's process of sculpting a prancing horse: the parts that are not the prancing horse, fall away.