- Erich Schiffmann, Yoga: The Spirit and Practice of Moving Into Stillness, 1996, p. 7.
"Sit quietly
focus and forget
rest with the great achievement.
The ancient child asks
"what is the great achievement?"
It is beyond description in any language
it can only be felt intuitively
it can only be expressed intuitively.
Engage a loose, alert, and aware
body, mind, and sound
then look into the formless
and perceive no thing.
See yourself as a sphere
small at first
growing to encompass
the vastness of infinite space.
Sit quietly
focus and forget then
in a state of ease and rest
secure the truth of the great achievement.
Employing the truth will not exhaust its power
when it seems exhausted it is really abundant
and while human art will die at the hands of utility
the great achievement is beyond being useful.
Great straightness is curved and crooked
great intelligence is raw and silly
great words are simple and naturally awkward.
Engaged movement drives out the frozen cold
mindful stillness subdues the frenzied heart.
Sit quietly
focusing
forgetting
summon order from the void
that guides the ordering of the universe."
- Tao Te Ching, Chapter 45, Translated by John Bright-Fey, 2006
"There
are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is
undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a
marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy."
- Gregory Bateson, Angels Fear
"You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely."
- Chogyam Trungpa
- Gregory Bateson, Angels Fear
"You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely."
- Chogyam Trungpa
"Teach us to care and not to care.
Teach us to sit still."
- T.S. Eliot
Teach us to sit still."
- T.S. Eliot
Ripening Peaches: Taoist Studies and Practices
Standing Meditation
Quiet in the Garden
Sitting in the Garden
HOWEVER,
"If you cannot find stillness while sitting still, then find stillness while gardening."
- Mike Garofalo, Pulling Onions
... or walking, doing Taijiquan, or reading ...
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