It is the birthright of each and every one of us to have stillness.
You laugh: Ha! Really? Are you kidding?
I can hear the guffaws being hurled out of the mouths of the readers like cabbages being thrown at a bad play.
I will bow and say: it is the birthright of each and every one of us to have stillness… Booing, I can hear it. Boooooooring….
This is good, that clears away the dross, they will leave and the theatre will go quiet and Oh! La! La! Suddenly, we will have stillness and yes, it is our right.
I am not offended by the boos and the cabbages. What is the point? I have stillness. I have one of the rarest gifts on this Exquisite Earth. I can sit and be still, in the midst of chaos, I can find stillness.
Can you?
Have you any idea how the Masses are being deprived of this ability? They are actively giving it away, they are too busy, too important to notice, to notice, to notice, even for a nanosecond, that they have no peace unless on an app, on a game, on a show, on a date, drinking alone in a crowded bar, smoking a joint on the doorstep before bed…… et al.
The tricky part about stillness is that to get to the real gold you have to journey into your own underworld, your underbelly, your fear of your own internal darkness, the landscape that you try to push down with all of the above tricks.
You have to sit in the Void. And it actually is as scary as it sounds, as silent as a vacuum, as screamingly loud as your worst nightmare.