STILLNESS IS NOT A QUALITY OF THE MIND
Stillness can see the mind and it’s incessant activity. Movement is a characteristic of mind. Observation of the mind, by anyone, reveals the superficiality of generating roughly 70,000 thoughts in a day. Are that many thoughts justifiable in transacting life?
We all know that over-thinking things is common and often generates stress and a mis-use of productive time. The question we inadvertently bump into is “Is mind and thought production the most effective way of transacting our relationship to self and others in the pursuit of living?”
If there is another way, other than through mind and the structures of thoughts building ideas, where can we go to access a more direct ‘knowing’? A ‘direct’ knowing would also obviate the idea of ‘control’ that creates a neediness for ‘more’ thoughts and thinking.
‘Control’, is indeed present in the backdrop of our ‘thinking’, causing us to hold on to our thoughts as well as the imagined self that is presumably holding these thoughts.
So, losing the idea of the ‘thinker’ and losing the idea that ‘thoughts’ are the only vehicle for gathering knowledge, we find ourselves pretty empty.
The emptiness is scary for the alleged ‘thinker’. The identification with the over-whelming investment made in the production of thoughts gives us pause when we consider our independence from these structures.
Stillness, silence, emptiness, and no ‘thinker’ is ‘crazy talk’ from the ‘view’ of the mind. Sure enough. But the mind will not go away quietly. It will complain and keep on showing up uninvited. And the mind says that ‘it’ wants to ‘get it’.
There is no ‘getting it’ for the mind. The mind ‘needs’ to ‘get it’ so it can ‘control’ again and again. Control, the mind, and the thinker are colluding and ‘moving’ together to continue the charade of covering up the Stillness. The Stillness allows everything to be as ‘that’ is Its nature.
Despite all that movement and activity, the Stillness remains untouched. The superficiality of these temporary ‘appearances’ have zero effect on what is eternal and unchanging. Stillness abides effortlessly and eternally.
The mind is happening in Stillness.
To ‘Be’ Stillness is to ‘let’ Stillness. There is no control in ’Stillness’. Stillness Is. If there was ‘control’ in Stillness there would be separation and that wouldn’t be Stillness. Stillness Is everything with no movement required. Stillness allows the perception of movement with Stillness unchanged.
Being Stillness is being effortless. ’Stillness’ and ‘effortless-ness’ define each other yet cannot be adequately defined (by the mind). We Are ‘that’ which is not moving, changing, or effort-ing.
When We can See from the Stillness, nothing is present but Stillness. The appearances come and go in the Stillness. When we view from ‘appearances’ we can only see ‘appearances’. Stillness Sees Itself first and foremost with ‘appearances’ being a form of formlessness. There is only Stillness as seen from Stillness.
Being-ness is Stillness. Our existence is timeless with no start or finish. To have a start/finish is to abide in appearances only. To have ‘effort’ and ‘control’ is to have movement. There is no movement or controller in Stillness. Simple unadorned Being-ness Is abiding always in Us with absolutely no additives.
The ‘Spaciousness’ talked about here has no limits due to its eternal nature of unchanging change. Any ’seeming’ landings are mere appearances that have no permanence, longevity, and/or ultimate reality. The illusion that is seemingly created, is not the reality of ‘Reality’.
The reality of ‘Reality’ is not to be treated like a ‘noun’ in a lab. ‘It’ Is the falling into the falling of Self with no nouns or stops to be found. It Is all ‘falling’.
There is no effort or pain in existing. It is the landing as a noun or ‘person’ that hurts and ‘seemingly’ stops the flow of Being. Existing is always verb-ing unless we create the effect (illusion) of suffering and stopping that hurts.
Seeing from Spaciousness (first and always), we access resting as Awareness Itself, without the seeming need for the perseveration of an exclusive ‘person’. The ‘person’ is a noun that comes after the essential nature of Being. The noun of ‘person’ is more appropriately utilized as an expression of Being. Being-ness never stops Being regardless of noun selection.
In the knowing of our own Being, the ‘view’ is no longer ‘outward’ but rather ‘inward’. Outward view is conditional and noun-based. Inward view is unconditional with no stops (nouns) anywhere, i.e. everywhere. Everywhere is everywhere without being anywhere (verb-ing). This Is the Reality that cannot be coerced into a limited definition.
Spaciousness, Silence, and Stillness are all unlimited non-things or non-states. They Are (period). Engaging in ‘this’ Reality Is Us that effortlessly allows Being-ness first, with phenomena and the idea of person, appropriately second. Even this ranking disappears in the Truth of Reality.
Looking for a path is looking too far. What Is Present Now Is. The looking, the seeking, the finding, is missing the self-evident. What Is self-evident is Present in the fullest sense, Now. 
If proper ‘timeliness’ is correct i.e. ‘Now’, then the problem has to be in ‘where’ we are searching. Where we are seeking is commonly demonstrated to be in the world of the ‘phenomenal’. The ‘phenomenal’ is without argument the wrong place to place our bets, despite the overwhelming odds of ‘not’ finding it there. 
The phenomenal is ridden with uncertainty and perennial change. These two concepts sister each other subtly because they each define the other to a great extent. And they behave in a way that makes them hard to love. Consistency is not there except in making a bet ‘for’ change/uncertainty. But at the the same time ‘they may be loved’ because of the sheer boredom and dread of certain certainty. The play ‘they’ invoke is always interesting and unpredictable. 
Change/uncertainty have a role to play in keeping the ‘phenomenal’ phenomenal. And this too is the play of consciousness (leela). 
What Is ‘not’ in time is ‘Now’. ‘Now’ is actually ‘not’ in linear time. The Presence of eternity is always ‘Now’. It is only past and future that are in ‘time’. 
Seeking has an implicitness in it i.e. ‘not Now’. Which leaves us in an object-based past and future illusion. Again, not a good starting point for realization of what is always Present. 
Starting with ‘Now’, we gain the immediacy of our very existence that is experientially and immediately validated. The mis-step is avoided. 
Also, ‘Here’ in this experientially validated knowledge, ‘Is’ the ‘where’. The ‘Now’ and ‘Here’ travel together. The ‘Here’ is found ‘Present’ but ‘before’ any phenomena and ‘after’ any phenomena because the ‘Here’ and ‘Now’ is not bound by time. 
The point being we are now looking in the right ‘place’ (not a thing) and at the right time (always Now). And this ‘looking’ is not searching. ‘It’ Is ‘Seeing’ without a stop for a noun.
All this is to say that ‘phenomena’, which is especially temporal, cannot facilitate our evolution into selfless Self. The ‘Priorness’ of existence (Being) never is not Present. Access to this gateless gate is found in losing the perseveration on any phenomena in any time-bound way. The ‘seeming’ geography of the ‘ground’ also has phenomena written all over it. Lose all phenomena as meaningful means to find the ephemeral.
The ephemeral is always Here Now. There is no searching in the temporal illusion. The ‘ground’ is never an idea or object. ‘It’ Is groundless precisely because it is not phenomenal.
Identity is a grouping of ideas we have about ourselves. “We like ‘this’, we don’t want ‘that’, we have to have ‘this’. We should never get ‘this’.” Our preferences as identity aren’t even stable as we may modify them given changing circumstances. Some preferences though are projected from ‘birth to death’ with nothing seeming to get in between them, e.g. gender identity, politics, religion.
If the universe, which is perennially expanding on a physical level, were to stop expanding, what would that outcome look like? The nature of life cosmically and the nature of life in our particular situation, is not different as far as how life operates.
If the universe thought it had a great idea, braked for the idea to ‘hold it’, would that even sound right?! In life everything is subject to change as ‘change’ is an inherent operating principle of the universe. To ‘hold’ any ‘thing’ would be heresy to the basic operating principle commonly called ‘change’, in the universe and/or in our particular life.
Bondage is clearly the outcome when identity is not fluid, i.e. stopping the moving and verb-ing as everything and anything. The yelling begins in ‘letting go’ of this hard definition of identity, because ‘letting go’ is taken to be a threat to a seemingly ‘stable’ existence.
The universe is not in chaos. An undefinable intelligence is implicit in its operation. Planets have their measured course and generally are not colliding into each other. When ‘we’ let go of the ‘me’, we too, do not default into chaos and self-destruction. But the fact is we are very secure in holding on to some central thoughts involving ‘me’. And we fear letting go of the idea of ‘me’, despite the bondage and suffering found in our daily grind.
There is an identity for ‘us’ that is present in the physical world. But ‘it’ is like an address on our house. The address on our house is not our house. Who we are is not limited to our name or form or any other concept we may want to add to it. Concepts are fine but they do not define ‘us’ except when we allow that limitation (seemingly).
Who we Are is not limited to being some ‘thought’ or ‘thoughts’. By the act of ’trying’ to ‘Be’ we automatically default to a conceptual base. ‘Being’ is not a concept nor is ‘Being’ accessible through concepts. ‘Being’ is before concepts and ‘trying’. 
Thoughts do happen legitimately. Holding and identifying with thoughts is problematic. Trusting in thoughts is bondage because then thoughts use ‘Us’. Trusting life is trusting the universe which is trusting Self. The ‘energy’ does not need direction from a temporary thought. When ‘Everything’ Is already running everything, why trust lesser vehicles that are limited,
Be free. It Is Our nature. Awareness has ‘Us’. We do not have ‘Awareness’. Let go of thoughts dominating our lives unnecessarily. See the ‘existence’ we always Are Now. Feel the space around ‘this’ existence as ‘that’ Is real, unchanging, still, yet alive and awake.
What claims the message is not here and now. If what hears the message, claims the message, then linear time comes into play. Putting time into this equation invalidates the message because the message is not ‘in time’.
The ‘message’ comes from timelessness to timelessness. Timelessness is always Present even when it seems to not be the case. Timelessness is essentially everything everywhere with no ‘time’ present.
When ‘time’ is seemingly present then the illusion of dreaming a separate self expresses itself in phenomenal reality. There is no ‘here and ‘now’ access from this venue.
At the same time, it is all ‘here’ and ‘now’ regardless of illusion seemingly obscuring Reality. Reality is never really obscured. When ‘time’ comes into play there is an acknowledgement that something is missing. This prompts a search to follow-up on finding a way to get ‘that’ fullness back (that cannot be present in time). The separate self is created and is itself phenomenal. The ‘fullness’ cannot be located in the phenomenal by the separate self due to its own phenomenal limitations.
The problem is exacerbated by the utilization of the construct of time to seek a solution to our faux uncomfortable emptiness. Just the act of using ‘time’ is enough to stall any immediacy for getting to the ‘fullness’ we desire and Are.
Any use of ‘time’ to search for the missing piece is failure compounded, with relief stubbornly evasive. ’Time’ cannot contain what is ‘timeless’. ’Timelessness’ contains ‘time’ (more accurately). To go into ‘time’ is to go away from ’Timelessness’. ‘It’ cannot work any other way.
‘Presence’ is only and always ‘Here’ ’Now’ and that is the ‘timelessness’ that never changes Itself aka ‘eternity’. Constructs like ‘time’ are forms that are unstable. They exist in the grand illusion. ‘You’ cannot find ‘Yourself’ in the illusion. Our ‘You’ sustains Itself perennially despite the ‘dreaming’ of the dream.
There is no adding of anything to the simplicity of pure existence. To do so is to put limitation on the unlimited. The solution is that there is no problem. A problem would invoke ‘doing’, ‘adding’, or ’stopping’ to get something to get something. All ‘that’ is running around “What Is”.
Being ‘Aware’ ‘Here’ and ’Now’ requires no effort. Beingness Is ‘aliveness’ without trying.
The familiarity of struggle has a natural remediation by letting go of time and falling back to landing on ’nothing’. ‘Here’ ‘nothing’ Is Everything because there is nothing blocking Everything.
Falling back is Love returning to Love. The ‘Fullness’ Is Love Loving Itself. Being Love Is effortless. Daddy’O
Our person (or identity) is the overlay for the light to shine through, in every single moment. We, a la the person, are not actually the overlay. It just appears that way. We Are the ‘are-ing’ of Being. The overlay is the noun used by the light to project through its verbing. 
Metaphorically speaking, an overhead projector has a bright light that either shines through the glass or the additional media placed on it, and that filters the light. The media changes constantly while the light is the stable feature.
The light enlivens the media and messages its message. Without the light, the media is irrelevant to the presentation. The light is essentially verb-ing through the noun -it’s message. The ‘noun’ is not the message.
Or in other words the context (the light) is the backdrop that allows the content to even exist. Content is useful but certainly not whom we Are.
Our tendency, clearly and doggedly, is to be thrilled with content that orbits around a central idea called ‘self’. Creating a ‘self’ is creating a limitation on the verb-ing that is being coursed through us. A ‘self’ is essentially a ’stop’ that is put upon the verb-ing.
The ‘verb-ing’ and the overlay of the ‘person’ are wholly compatible when everything is ‘true’. It is only when there is a perceived ‘need’ to stop the ‘verb-ing’ to seemingly give life to a un-enlivened ‘me’, that there is a kink in what is normally a perfectly natural process.
The un-natural-ness is the ‘stopping’ of the flow of ‘The Energy’ by altering the stream into an artificial blockage called ‘me’.
The ’stopping’ is facilitated by a ’stuck-ness’ of energy in a closed system often called ‘me’. This ‘field’ is very restricted as it dis-allows the natural ‘aliveness’ to be fully expressed. The ‘stopping’ is allowed in order to protect/defend an illusion that we created and continues to persist despite a failed history of futile efforts at remediation.
True Nature is before any construct or illusion of ‘me’. True Nature has no stops as It Is always verb-ing. There is no destroying the ‘me’ because ‘it’ is an illusion. To try to destroy ‘it’ is to acknowledge ‘it’. To acknowledge ‘it’ is to create ‘it’.
What Is existing right Now Is the ‘Isness’ that has no stops. ‘It’ has nowhere to stop. ‘It’ Is the nothingness of undivided openness in the undefinable context of just ‘Being’. Falling into this vastness is a constant falling. Where would you stop? It Is just ‘Falling’.
Abiding in the ‘Knowing’ of the known is always effortless. Abiding exclusively in the shallow waters of the ‘known’, is wrought with effort.
We fall back to the prior-ness that is always before thoughts, ideas, sensations, and perceptions. This Is Love unbounded and un-conditioned. Be Love. See Love always free. Daddy’O 
When we are in love with someone, we snuggle up and ‘relax into’ this love. Any pushing would certainly not be parked under this rubric of ‘love’. 
Letting all the Love in, in this Moment, requires ‘nothing’ to be present. If the false self is present, then the ‘doer’ is also present. The ‘doer’ is a fraud and illusion that was birthed ‘after’ the ‘doing’, and the five senses. Just looking at the timing of the ‘doer’, the ‘thinker’, or the ‘see-er’, and we can only logically conclude a complete and fabricated falseness. These ‘labels’ or ‘nouns’ occur only ‘after’ the events of ‘seeing’, ‘hearing’, ‘smelling’, ‘tasting’, and ‘touching’.
This is all to say, that the idea of ‘me’ is only an idea and only ‘thinks’ it has control. Control is vested in the ineffable vastness of the ‘verbing’ of Life. There is no real stopping for any fictional nouns to include the false self.
The vehicle is parked wherever it is parked and driven wherever it is driven. There is no angst or trepidation, or regret. Identity is in Life freeing the vehicle to get serviced, driven, or used as needed. Perfect never looked so good. ‘Nothing’ allowed everything.
The effortlessness of Being results in a zero-effort from the vehicle as the vehicle allows all the effort to be transmitted through it. Everything happened on the road of Life and the driver was not even needed, ever.
“The great secret of spiritual science is allowing something to happen without doing it. It needs great understanding and awareness to allow things to happen.” -Osho
There is no stopping the Love You Are. Love Is Loving Love and there is only Loving. Daddy’O