A flower doesn’t make itself grow. In the Spring it arises from stillness and in the fall it returns to stillness. This occurs naturally from its own stillness; it needs no assistance…
When the stillness of a flower is seen as life itself and not as the flower, it’s at this point that life is truly lived. You will begin to understand your own existence through the stillness of a flower. When there’s awareness of the stillness of a flower, you will truly see yourself; this is when the essence of life begins to be seen. It will be in this awareness of stillness that the stillness of life will be understood. Enjoy your life, but the joy is not in the things of life, joy is in the experiences of stillness; conditioning produces noise, stillness produces joy. That which most seek to enjoy is noise, joy cannot be attained because it’s already there within you and you cannot attain that which you already possess; this will only be seen through stillness.
Find a place to sit where it’s quiet, sit and be mindful of each breath. Not you breathing in and out, but how each breath occurs on its own. Sit with this mindfulness, watch how many breaths can be counted before the mind wanders. I get to about fifty and no matter how hard I concentrate the mind wanders; when I began doing this six or seven was the number. This is one method used in developing stillness discipline. When you know what noise is, you will know what stillness is. Just watch the flower, don’t label it, just watch it, the flower never labelled itself; through its own stillness it arises. It never consciously did anything, from the stillness of the Universe it appeared. Stillness is where all of life arises from because stillness is itself life; if you don’t believe, go ask the flower…
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