Welcome to this introduction on moving into stillness.
This exploration is drawn from the excerpts from an interview by Dr.
Jim Drever with the founder of Freedom Yoga,
Eric Schiffman.
Experiencing yourself in stillness is like a wave relaxing into itself,
Thereby experiencing its inherent ocean nature.
Instead of being swallowed up by the ocean and losing its identity,
Losing its waveness,
Like what you would imagine to happen,
The wave continues to exist,
But its sense of identity expands.
It now exists with the new realization that it is not what it thought it was.
It is not a tiny specific wave only.
It is the entire ocean in specific expression.
It is both expansive and specific at the same time.
The wave will experience its ocean nature when it relaxes into itself sufficiently to experience the depths of what it actually is.
In a similar way,
The way for me or you to find out what the divine is,
What consciousness is,
Or what the universe is and how it works is by consciously relaxing into ourselves,
Thereby experiencing what's really so.
If you want to know for sure what consciousness,
What the divine is,
Then you must experience yourself consciously.
You must consciously experience what it means to be conscious.
Knowing is not intellectual or conceptual.
It is the result of direct experience.
Stillness is like a perfectly centered top,
Spinning so fast it appears motionless.
Stillness does not mean no energy.
It means no conflict.
And because there is no conflict,
It is a higher energy state than that with which we are normally accustomed to.
When you experience yourself in this unconflicted way,
You will experience the truth about what you are.
When there is no conflict in your psyche,
If even only for a moment,
There will be a sense of greater energy and greater peace.
At the same time,
It will be experienced by you as your greater energy,
Your greater peace.
The wave will recognize the power of the ocean as being the source of what is.
And you will intuitively understand that the will of consciousness,
The intent of the universe,
And the desires and longings of your heart are one and the same.
You will also learn that you are your own closest contact point with the source of your being and the mysteries of the universe.
Just as a wave is its own closest contact point with the ocean,
And that you are therefore your own best laboratory for delving into and discovering the true nature of being.
The truth of you and the truth of the universe and the truth of your maker are identical.
To learn about one is to learn about the other,
And you are your own closest contact point.
Stillness is at the core of your being.
As you get in touch with it,
You learn that you are a part of the divine.
You are as natural and legitimate an expression of nature as a tree or a cloud.
The creative forces of the universe will then guide you through life and help you make your most important decisions.
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