Stillness speaks

A couple of years ago, I experienced an intense awakening to life when whilst being pushed to the corners what seem to be the end. It changed my mindset from the "Why" to the "Life gives you what you need, not what you think you want. As Eckhart Tolle puts it; “Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.” It seems that the things we “want” so much are based on form and so the it everything you attain, will fall apart again. Form naturally dissolve as a friend put it beautifully. The good thing is that it makes space for new form to arise. The bad news is that also this will fall apart. Somehow the Buddhism philosophy about ‘life is suffering” makes sense now. We suffer because we chase form all our life and every form, just like us, has an expiry date. Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. Once we start to understand this, life is not difficult anymore, Scott Peck says.

"What is the point then?" you ask. Well, our experiences teach us out about the world of form. It is in those moments of discomfort that we start to search for different ways or truer answers. “How do I deal with this?” you ask. Surrender is the key word. You have probably heard it often, but real surrender means making space for what is. This is when concepts of yoga and meditation come into place as they help us to create space and bring us back to who we really are – the stillness within us. When we have space and the walls of thought are no longer restricting our movement, we can finally breath and remove ourselves from the situation. Inner consciousness is who we are in essence. It is the cloudless sky - it has no form. It is stillness, the sweetness of Being. This is not something we can grasp mentally but it can be sensed in the simple things, such as the sound, sight, touch – when you see beauty, when you feel loving kindness towards other humans, animals, nature. These are the things we consider insignificant to our lives but matter. Nietzsche, in a rare moment of deep stillness, wrote “For happiness, how little suffices for happiness!” Another way to finding this inner space is by saying “I Am” and add nothing to it. It reminds me of my hike in South Africa when at some point I asked a hiker "Who are you?". He answered, “Nothing” nor do I want to be something." In that moment, Stillness spoke, and all form naturally dissolved.

Let me know what your thoughts.

Námaste

Bali 2018