To Access Stillness
The nature of awareness is stillness. Stillness is the unmoving center upon which everything revolves.
Stillness is not only peaceful, stillness is the peace. In religious language this fundamental stillness is “the peace that passes understanding.”
As the nature of awareness, stillness cannot be touched or tarnished by any experience. It could never become restless, agitated, or disturbed by comings and goings, thoughts and perceptions. This stillness, then, is not something to be cultivated or achieved. It is inherent to our very being.
Movement occurs in the mind. Stillness is prior to the mind.
When attention shifts from body-mind identification and attachments to the infinite, unmovable center, the source of all that is, we are back in the stillness, the unshakeable peace.