This is an analogy for a point in timespace.

If you were to attempt to focus on any one point on the peripheral circumference, it's no wonder you become aware a) of spin and b) of the clouds - thoughts, feelings, - floating by...

Focusing 'on' something is always going to create the duality of 'from' self 'to' point of focus. Duality creates bipolar states - which become orbital which create spin.

How to experience stillness?

Don't 'go' anywhere - to refrain from latching on to external stimulus, phenomena, or even self-definition - is to arrive at the completion of a cycle. To be in the place where stillness is, that is a recognition of where you already are.

From stillness to the cornucopia of life, the understanding of YOGA or UNION holds the key to understanding the nature of life, the pulse of breath, blood, and the YOGA is the link between active participation in life and the passive experience of it.

Animals ignore mirrors - after a perfunctory glance. Mostly we take for granted that in order to have life we exist in the world amid all its doings. To exist within ourselves by the same token, means we allow the brain to do what it does, the mind to do what it does, the body to do what it does, life to do what it does - and let be what is

it's a beginning of awareness.

Nowhere to focus - just to be awake,
to be, not to be anything , just is -
is

thinklessness

Thoughts come and go

they are not you

fish swim in the sea -

they are not you

clouds float in the sky

they are not you

as much as nothing is you

so everything is you

no place to go

peace

The practice of auto-suggestion in this manner,
and as a deeply programming device for health and well being,
is well documented.

However, is it not strange how, when we empty something,
we want to fill it again?

However noble our aims, objectives, religious notions (dare I say pretensions) - the sovereign state of emptiness recognises that mind itself is what we are bypassing, or at least, allowing to function without interference.

We can convince ourselves we are ever so enlightened when in fact it is on the basis of a thought, and not a true experience. Some dreams are as vivid as real life, yet it is only when we wake up we realise we were asleep.

To focus without moving the point of the mind - that is coming from an altogether deeper place, where all the positive affirmations in the world are just mental exercises.

The mind is our enemy, as well as our friend, and it tries in ever more subtle and devious means to secure its influence, rather than to surrender and allow the Power that is at the heart of us to manifest more sweetly in our lives than we can even imagine.

May You experience Stillness...

Here are some Homilies from another site to which I belong - I had called these Deep Thought, but they are basically pretty words, which distract from entering the stillnes of no-mind, the state that many of them refer to. For what it's worth, here are some sayings - but be sure to turn off the computer for a while, and to contemplate the mystery behind these words!

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.

-- Basho

Men argue, nature acts.

-- Voltaire

The day of one's death is a good day to be really alive.

-- Calvin Miller

"All great truths begin as blasphemies"

"No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."

"When in doubt, tell the truth."

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

Sometimes you can help so much you hinder.

People with limitations also have abilities.

"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on." Carl Sandburg

"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

"Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first."

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched

.....but are felt in the heart."

"What lies before you and what lies behind you are tiny matters compared to what lies within you."

"The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts life."

"Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

"Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"Each small task of everyday is part of the total harmony of the universe."

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."

"In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity."

"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."

Johann von Goethe

"Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows."

"If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment."

"Dreams come true, without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."

"It's time to start living the life you've imagined."

Henry James

"They can conquer who believe they can."

"My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness."

"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing."

"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."

"Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable."

"If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men."

"When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble."

"I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself."

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

"Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?"

"Is not this the true romantic feeling -- not the desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you?"

--George Bernard Shaw

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

"There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit.

"Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something."

"Death is something you can do nothing about. Nothing at all. But youth is a quality, and if you have it you never lose. it."

-- Frank Lloyd Wright - 1958

"PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy"

"SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited."

-- Ambrose Bierce (1906)

"Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge."

"Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it."

"We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity."

"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."

"As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean."

"No objects of value . . . are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day."

"There is no wealth but life."

"Pythagoras used to say life resembles the Olympic Games; a few men strain their muscles to carry off the prize; others bring trinkets to sell to the crowd for a profit; and some there are who seek no further advantage than to look at the show and see how and why everything is done. They are spectators of other men's lives in order to better judge and manage their own."

"Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."

"To be free is to have achieved your life."

"The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings."

One of my own homilies:

This big thing
is not big enough
to get upset about
because there are
bigger things
NOT to get upset about -
If something needs doing
do it NOW...
you may not get a second chance -

The Music Playing is
Claude Debussy's 'Claire de Lune'

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