Back to the Oneness thing...

In the Unmanifest, all are one. In the manifested state, all appear to be separate...like separate notes rising and fading out of the vast and omnipresent field of silence. Each note appears out of silence, sounds, then fades away and vanishes...back into silence. The silence is always there, but you don't notice it while you're focusing on a note or a group of notes.

Silence generally goes pretty much unnoticed...unless one focuses on it deliberately with real attention...or in a moment of inner stillness. Then it becomes very powerful. Without it there as a foundation, the many notes would have no field upon which to make their appearance.

That's what we're like in our manifested lives here. We are like notes arising out of a vast field of silence. When we return to that field, we are said to have "died", but what we have really done is we have rejoined the single state of formless unity that is the silence. Normal birth is birth into (the appearance of) separation. Death is rebirth into Oneness. (in my opinion)