The Still Observer
Your mind may be active with thoughts — thoughts about activity or thoughts about trying to stop — but that is all occurring in the statelessness of being, which is stillness itself.
If you can just get it out of your mind that unchanging stillness is something that can be done or practiced, something that you can succeed or fail at doing, then stillness, the presence of being, can finally reveal itself to you as your own self.
Recognize that the impulses to do stillness come from the activity of the mind that is appearing in stillness. That stillness is not dead or blank. It is consciousness. It is awareness itself, and you are that awareness.
The thoughts, I have to get still, I’m trying to get still, why can’t I get still? are being observed by and experienced by stillness itself.
From: The Diamond In Your Pocket by Gangaji
Categories: Presence