05:18
This is an extract from 'Becoming Buddha', a small meditation book by Vikram. "I listen like Buddha listens. I hear sounds close to me: my own breathing, in and out of my nostrils, sounds that are more distant, the humming of the fridge and the fan in the kitchen, and even more distant, a car that starts on the street outside, then driving away with a vroom, voices from someone passing by on the street, the high-pitched and liquid song of a swallow."