Once we meditate it’s good to stay as nonetheless as we probably can and right here’s why.
Our bodily stillness in meditation is a metaphor for not shifting inwardly.
In deep meditation we uncover an internal stillness that isn’t an act of being nonetheless as a lot as it’s a discovery of a facet of ourselves that’s all the time already nonetheless.
In deep meditation, we discover a place in ourselves that has by no means moved, will not be shifting now, and can by no means transfer.
We’re so recognized with the objects in consciousness that do transfer, that we make the error of considering that we transfer.
These objects aren’t us. By remaining very nonetheless in apply we discover a place the place we’re unmoving and all the time have been unmoving.
If we’re considering of stillness as one thing that we’re doing then inevitably once we discover ourselves getting blown round by our expertise of thought and feeling we assume it’s as a result of we’re not robust sufficient.
We conclude that we haven’t constructed up the correct muscular tissues to maintain ourselves regular when the inevitable storms of thoughts come up.
Think about your self on a rowboat, rowing throughout a uneven ocean, making an attempt to maintain your self shifting steadily in a straight line. The waves hold shifting you this manner and that manner.
You suppose, if solely I used to be stronger then I may use these hours to maintain myself secure.
However, after all, in a ship that small, with these little oars, irrespective of how robust your arms received you wouldn’t have the ability to keep the stability that you really want.
Now think about an enormous ocean liner on the identical uneven sea. The waves that had been so large in a rowboat are actually simply little licks on the aspect of a huge hull.
The ocean liner is ready to transfer fully straight effortlessly as a result of it’s to large and heavy to be unaffected by the choppiness that had been so difficult within the rowboat.
The way in which we will discover equanimity in our being will not be by strengthening our internal muscular tissues in order that we will maintain ourselves regular.
Equanimity comes naturally once we enhance the burden of our being. Once we develop into spiritually heavy sufficient we’ll discover that we’re unmoved by the floor fluctuations of our thoughts.
The way in which we enhance our religious weight is by spending time in woke up consciousness.
Once you discover the true place of innocence and equanimity in your self and also you spend time resting there, your religious being good points substance.
You develop into extra spiritually dense. That accumulation of religious weight implies that we’re extra naturally conscious of the true enormity of our being and it’s what permits us to keep up regular by any storm.
As you sit, enable your self to seek out the place in you that has all the time been the middle of your being.
The place that has skilled all of your experiences.
The place that by no means strikes.
Discover your heart after which discover that all the things strikes round it.
It’s nonetheless.
Discover that heart and relaxation there in steadiness, stillness, in equanimity.