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Between Thinking And Being
Is there a discordance between “sense” and situation? There is, yes. Situation is an opinion, a rigid pattern, a shell. Sense is music. Consider a loved one. If you try to understand them, what do you understand? What I can sense from them? Can you sense and try to understand? You understand what you perceive?…
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What Is Stillness?
There is a passage from the Bible. The words of Jesus to his apostles when they were aboard a boat on the storm tossed sea. All of the apostles were trying to figure out what they should do. Each having a different notion of what was wise or if they could do anything at all.…
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Under The Rug
Ever wonder what it would be like if you could look under the rug of the world? Well, there is something to be seen. It can be seen if you know how to look, not where, because it’s everywhere. But how? Example. I will just use candles. I have seen people get really nervous if…
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Approach The Threshold
There is stillness in the world and there is stillness in the mind. They echo each other. The observer and the observed. The forces of the cosmic stillness give rise to the mind, and the mental stillness gives form to the world. They resonate most seamlessly in the still point, but even if we step…
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Dance Of Stillness
What does it mean if you have trouble sitting perfectly still? If you have to fidget and keep your hands busy? You have trouble sitting perfectly still, because you are trying to sit perfectly still. It’s like trying to stand unmoved with waves washing over you. You deny your connection to the world with an…
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World In Stillness
We all are familiar with at least some stories of famous mystics, shamans, sages, of one form or another. At the very least, we have all heard some fairy tales. They are marked by something other than their great spiritual power. As amazing as they were, they were equally mysterious. They were mysterious because unlike…
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Emotional Storm
Stillness is readily available. Any energy someone has to yell at you they gain from stillness, and that energy they are using to yell at you will be spent. Inevitably expended and force our minds back to stillness. But if you add your energy to theirs, can that quiet space arise? Someone yells at you…
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Mind Has Rhythms
Stillness. I don’t think people know it very well. I know it well, but only because of how nature “favoured” me. Autism prevents much of that internal turmoil from ever forming, but it also blocks my being able to share well in human experience. Stillness is possible for everyone though. I’m not so sure the…
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Could our understanding of consciousness and soul evolution suggest that plants and trees are repositories of ancient wisdom? How might…