Silence beneath the sounds
Stillness at the center of every movement
Fullness in the infinitesimally tiny fulcrum
Self - All - Peace
This thread meandered into several side roads. But I came back to it thinking to myself how much there is to learn in this life. Especially if we realize that this life is really nothing more than a big school. It may take a lifetime for some to recognize. Even if we do recognize it at a young age, we still have our share of hard knocks in this school of life. It is better to thank the Masters for all the lessons we are learning and all the improvements we have made in our knowing. The more we are conscious we are of the great help and the towering figures that have blessed our life the better off we are. We are often put in positions of being seemingly humiliated that latter turn out to be the best experiences of our life because we find out what we are and not what we imagined ourselves to be.
My last observation here is Art’s initial short poem .’Stlllness’ Even if we practice stillness every day we will begin to understand the benefits of meditation. It is through relaxation and silence that we open up to inner awareness and understanding. I had to get a definition for the word ‘fulcrum’ in Art’s poem to understand its meaning better. When I pictured it in my mind as a ‘ place of rest ‘ between two points of motion it fit in quite well with the rest of what stillness is and like many poems; we do not fully understand their impact or meaning till life gives us similar moments that the poet expresses and pause between the
actions we are thrust into…. The polarity…the duality of those sides we swing between… and the point of rest where we understand. I have had the experience of having a few words being the key that opens the heart’s 💜 door to love. Sometimes koans are the best words to ponder on until they do their work on us.
