Stillness

We are always moving . Our mind is thinking , our heart always pumping, our bloody always flowing and in all our cells is evolving in silence and mysteriously. But , we don't feel anything but yet everything is changing all the time in our self and also in our external environment. Nothing can stop and forever moving, changing and evolving.

How can we stop it ? No never and even after we die , it is still changing , rotting and until ashes to ashes, dust to dust. We cannot run away from this path. The path of birth, age, sickness and death. We can do everything to try to stop thinking about it. Some people tame their mind , some people involved with their work until they die, some people try to run away from reality by traveling , reading and all sort of things to avoid the awareness of changing and moving towards death.

Some wise men try to find the stillness in themselves as the body and mind evolves and changing. Stillness in what ? Stillness in our mind. We have to find the core and equilibrium in our body and mind. How do we balance our mind or body to find stillness?

The balancing or control point of our sense, our sight , our taste, our smell  and our hearing.  A point where all these senses come to a standstill as our body and body find the harmony. It is never easy and for Buddhism , it is called " the six roots " to peace.

The monks burned six holes on the top of their forehead to make themselves aware of these moving senses. The movement of these senses moving in different direction and density or depth , creates the feeling in our body and make our mind to response to it. The combination of these senses moving in different density will caused us to re-act carefully to the recipe . Hence, with our mind and body in harmony , we can balance all these senses and still our thoughts and body balance despite all the senses are forever moving.

If we quiet down our body and focus our mind , we will find the sense of stillness in our system and balancing it will give us a sense of stillness. Like putting a glass filling with water on a table and observing it from the outside.

Namaste.