On the Stillness of Being, part I

The search for a path through life

Photo: Piermont Pier, Thanksgiving morning, Nov. 23

Everything is in constant movement. And nothing ever really "stands still" or exists without movement of one kind or another.

Yet movement is peculiar, because it is always observed and measured in relationship to something else. If an object were capable of existing completely independent of everything else, even the cosmos itself, it would not appear to be moving. Within itself, measured alone, it contains a stillness that cannot be described and belongs to the essentially transcendental aspects of existence and non-existence.

This is a big mouthful, and yet we need to begin here in order to more closely examine the question of the movement of energy within Being.

This question could be examined at many different levels, for example, the cosmological level, but I’m just going to examine it in terms of inner work and personal experience today, in so far as they relate to the cosmological questions in the search for being.

Part II of The Stillness of Being will publish Dec. 6.