Silence: A place of the sacred in three Eastern religions

Abstract

In several religions and philosophies, especially in those from the Eastern world, Silence has been a starting point of the dialogue with the Sacred, with the Transcendent, or with God, an essential element of the hierophanic experience. This article exposes that three spiritual beliefs rooted in the Eastern world: Judaism, Sufi Islam and Taoism, converge in the idea of ??Silence as a metalanguage where the Sacred arises. Despite the doctrinal divergence between these religions, Silence generates in its practitioners an overwhelming experience in the face of something that transcends them, disrupting the most intimate of their being and that is difficult for them to express in conventional language.