Life is full of activity, people busying about doing things, and if they're not doing things they're often sat watching other people on a screen busy doing things. We may take ourselves away from the busy world to somewhere tranquil, but still the mind can be busy thinking about things. Many people want to find some peace and stillness in their life.

 

The reality is, we won't find true peace and stillness 'out there'. The world is active. It never stops. The planet is continually spinning and orbiting around the sun, whilst swirling in a spiral galaxy, moving through the universe. The planet itself is full of moving life, flowing and changing, never staying still. If it seems to stay still it is either an illusion or only a relative temporary stillness. Nothing you can see is ever still. The ground beneath our feet is moving as the planet spins. Relatively speaking it seems still. Buildings seem to stand relatively still in their place but, as well as spinning through space with the planet, buildings move and shift slowly relative to the ground beneath them, which also moves extremely slowly. We don't notice the slow movement of the tectonic plates, but it's always slowly happening.

 

Stillness isn't 'out there'. It's important to recognise that when looking for peace. The peace isn't out there. If we find peace and stillness 'out there', it won't last. It may be nice to have a comfortable life, but don't expect to be tranquil right through. That's not the way of the world. But there is a Stillness that pervades the activity of the world. This is the Stillness we really need to find if we are looking for peace and contentment. I use the initial capital letter for a reason, to differentiate from the transient stillness, or fake stillness, that we usually associate with the term stillness. True Stillness is an unchanging timeless 'state' of being.

 

Where is this Stillness, and how can we find it? It's really right here, so we can't find it. This Stillness is everywhere we go, yet nowhere. The reality is that we don't really go anywhere. We don't move. We don't have arms and legs and a body. That's not who we are. We are the Stillness that perceives the activity of the world. I could say it is the core of our being, but it's not just the core, it is the whole. When looking from outside, from the world of activity, True Stillness is at the heart of where we are looking from. Yet in the heart there is no inside or outside, and there is no activity.

 

It is the still centre around which the world seems to move, like a black hole at the heart of the universe. But the black hole is a Singularity, where there is no inside or outside, no division, no space and time. Pure Stillness. The movement that is perceived from our centre of Singularity only appears to happen. The Singularity that is our true being has nowhere to go and nothing to do. It is complete unmanifest contentment. The manifest world seems to unravel for while from the Stillness, then returns to the Stillness, yet it never leaves the timeless Stillness.

 

So, in practical terms, how can we 'find' this peace, stillness and contentment? We need to let go of thinking that we are something else, and that there is indeed anything else. We need to see the activity of the world for what it is: One Infinite Unchanging Being playing at being many finite changing forms. See the world as a play. Forms, or bodies, will grow and fade away, but you are not this. You are the unchanging Stillness in which this seems to happen. Don't try to be still - know you are Stillness itself. Nothing is really far from you or close to you; that's just the play of separation. Let this understanding fill the mind and root out the errors it believes. The idea that you are separate and lacking something is an error. All ideas and concepts are inaccurate. The only real truth is an Infinite Indivisible Singularity, and we are That. But we need to eventually drop that idea as well.

 

No ideas or concepts are ultimately necessary for you to be as you are. Just be. Stillness, peace and contentment is not something you find. It's always right here.