To Access Stillness
Stillness, in its purest essence, is not the absence of activity, it is the heart of experience. Stillness is the fundamental ground of consciousness, 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 such, 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. Stillness is inherent in our being.
When attention shifts from body-mind identification and attachments to the infinite, unmovable center, the source of all that is—when the understanding occurs—we are whisked into the stillness, the unshakeable peace.