Love, and be Silent

We live in a torn and divided world, so it is impossible not to ask, “What should a Zen student do?” In Shakespeare’s King Lear Cordelia asks herself a similar question in the face of a great crisis: “What should Cordelia do?” Her answer comes as swiftly as a natural event: “Love, and be silent.” So what is love? What is silence? And how might these two illuminate each other and express themselves clearly?