Be still

The mind tells what it thinks is and is not. Mind also tells you what you should and should not do.  It tells you to always try to do something, be someone, get somewhere other than where you are.  Even the response of the mind is a response to duality. The mind asks, is THAT it? Know you are that.

Within the mind's understanding, all experience happens in time and has a beginning and an end. Do not identify with the voice that anticipates what is next.  You are not the commentary, the voice that leads you to think you are not enough and there has to be more. The"real you" knows knowledge and ignorance.   The mind uses words to conceptualize what it cannot touch. Be still.  Feel what is real.

Watch what happens as you see yourself as the space.  This kind of seeing is not an action but a state of being.  Keep your attention here.  Recognize 'you' can never be anywhere else except in the mind.  True experience is never 'there'.  Stillness is here.

Be aware a voice asks, 'how can I stay here?' Listen to the voice and you come to fear losing who you are. You think it is possible to lose yourself. That voice is illusion. You cannot NOT be here. Find out what is tells you to exert effort to be here, to be yourself. Recognize the voice of doubt is not truth.

Comments

[Hilary]

Hi Liara .. be still and feel stillness is something I can now ease towards ... to understand more, take those quiet times and be still in my mind ... definitely on its way - thanks Hilary

[Liara Covert]

Hilary, silence does not ask to be understood. It is simply here and now. Feel the way into it. Any time you focus on something that has yet to unfold, you shift attention. Every thought has as its basis the presence of 'wanted' or 'unwanted.' To be present is to stop looking back or to stop noticing where you do not appear (to the mind) to be.