The Book
When the mind grows still, you discover that stillness itself is nourishing. Each moment of quiet awareness reminds you of the calm that exists beneath the surface of daily life.
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Unmasked Meditation: Twelve Weeks of Inner Freedom
Sample Chapter: Stillness
Beneath movement, stillness is.
The body is always here. In joy or in sorrow, in ease or in difficulty, it is where we are. When nothing is added, it settles on its own. Not through effort, not through control.
Stillness is not something the body enters. It is what remains when nothing extra is carried. Voices, movement and daily life continue as before, yet something no longer moves with them.
Nor does stillness withdraw us from life. It is undefended presence, life fully felt without tightening around it. Nothing stands between ourselves and what is here.
Beneath movement, beneath thought, beneath the weight of familiar things, stillness is. It does not come and go. It is where presence resides.
We begin our journey with stillness. Stillness isn’t something to find or create; it has been here all along, quietly waiting beneath everything that moves.
Like the ocean that lies beneath the waves that rise and fall, come and go, its depths are still. Waves are the emanations of this stillness. You can rest like that too. There is room for everything. Nothing has to be fixed, and nothing has to be held.
Like a mountain standing through wind and cloud and passing seasons, stillness is not separate from what moves around it. The mountain is unmoved by the wind. The wind passes. They meet without conflict, each simply as it is.
