Stillness Energy

When the mind is quiet there is freedom because the controlling energy of what arises has nothing to attach to so there's nothing to control. Be Still and you will naturally be free…

It's not that we have problems, it’s that our problems have us. It’s never what happens that cause our issues, it’s how what happens is allowed to draw you in and control you. What allows the control is the draw and it’s almost unpreventable because of the unawareness of its cause; the control is what can be prevented.

You might wonder how something be prevented that you are unaware of, but the key is in learning to quiet the mind. What a quiet mind will do for you is allow the drawing energy to pass through you and hence it won't get to the point where it transforms into controlling energy. After all, what arises itself doesn't control you, it can't because it has no energy, yet. When you give it energy that’s when it grabs a hold of you. Remember our default energy is stillness, that’s the energy we began life with. Only attachment to something transforms your energy to control you.

How your problems grab you can be summed up in how you allow what arises to fester and thus become the energy that controls your life. Positive, negative, to me both can be just as controlling, but quietness, the ever elusive quietness can not be controlled because there’s nothing to attach to; that’s why it is said to "Be Still". When there is nothing to attach to there is no controlling energy. Energy always is, the energy of attachment is controlling, the energy of quietness is freedom. This is why meditation is so valuable because discipline is developed to allow the energy of stillness to be the guiding energy of life. With stillness as the guide, we’re given control of the direction of energy in our life. So it isn't that we have problems, but it’s in giving what arises the energy needed so that our problems have us…