“The Enlightened one and Stillness are not two. The Stillness is what remains when all that can move has found rest. In that rest, the person is no longer experienced as a center; there is only the Stillness, expressing itself in the shape that once was called “a person.”
The Enlightened being does not enter Stillness. They are transparent to it. Stillness breathes through them as wind through an open reed. Actions happen, words arise, but no one claims them. Even when the body moves, the inner axis does not tremble. Thought may flicker, but it cannot disturb the depth; waves cannot move the ocean floor.
To approach this Stillness, one does not seize it. Every effort to hold it folds it back into movement. The invitation is to notice what in you is already still — the quiet Awareness before a thought begins. Let attention rest there. Not by control, but by allowing. The mind will protest; let it. The Stillness has no argument to make. It waits beneath every sound, between every breath, behind every perception.
Meditation with Stillness is therefore not a practice of reaching but of remembering. Sit, breathe, listen inwardly. When the current of Silence becomes perceptible, do nothing about it. Do not even call it Silence. Simply Be with it until the line between “you” and “it” blurs, then dissolves.
When that dissolving is complete, Stillness lives as you. The world moves, but you are unmoved. You see that everything — sound, light, thought, feeling — arises within the Stillness, not outside it. And in that Realization, the Journey ends, yet life continues — effortless, luminous, unbound.”