Stillness

AA wrote: "I found my stillness in Athens :-) loved the food, weather and people here.  Thank you for this week's inspiration."

BB wrote: "Beautiful, Sabina. It's why I enjoy my photography so much. When I hold that camera up to my eyes, the rest of the world ceases to exist. I literally don't hear cars, voices, steps around me. It's like being in a sound proof room. The second I lift my eyes back to the world, the world rushes back in. Gives me the feeling of stopping time. Total stillness. "

Stillness

”When we allow everything to be

Just to be

As it is

Then complete stillness

Arises by itself”*

                                          Silvia Ostertag

When I walk through the forest, and I have found my rhythm in walking meditation, complete stillness becomes a natural state of being.

It’s way more difficult during busy days at work, in the city, or at home. You need to finish this task or that. People want something from you. The “monkey mind” jumps from one thing to another.

In the middle of the everyday chaos, try to stop. Allow everything to be as it is. The bus rattling by, your back pain, the shouting man in the street, the annoyed colleague. You just stop and breathe.

And stillness arises by itself.

*“Wenn wir alles sein lassen,

vollkommen sein lassen,

so wie es ist,

dann ist vollkommene stille
von selbst.”