STOP THROWING STONES……

Consciousness or energy of this existence is like a pool of still water which reflects the things as they are, like a pool reflects the moon. Stillness is integral to consciousness and both are synonymous with each other. Reflecting the things as they are is the very nature of consciousness; the very nature of stillness. When you become totally still within, the reflection happens on its own accord. For example, for a pool of water to reflect the moon, it does not have to do anything else except to become still and reflection will happen on its own accord. 

This function of reflecting the things as they are is also what we know as witnessing or awareness. Witnessing is existential in the sense that it is not your doing but is a doing of the existence because existence or consciousness is the ultimate seer. Witnessing or awareness is, thus, inherent to consciousness which arises without your intervention. For example, you heard a bird tweeting. The tweet happened on the screen of your consciousness and with that the witnessing or awareness too has happened to you. 

A thought or mind (mind and thought are one and the same thing), on the other hand, is like throwing a stone in the pool. A stone will disturb the peace of the pool and so a thought will disturb stillness of the consciousness. A stone is, thus, a disturbance to the peace of the pool, so is a thought to the consciousness. Consequent to the disturbance, the pool will become wavy and will not be able to reflect the moon as it is. A wavy pool will distort the reality and instead will show hundreds of moons at the same time and not one moon. The same is true about consciousness. In the presence of disturbance, I mean mind, what you will see is not the things as they are but the things as distorted by the mind.       

These stones which we keep throwing, are in the form of reactions, which mind makes all the time. A thought or a stone is your input, something from outside. Throwing stone is like you having your agenda and thus adding or imposing something from your side because thought is not integral to consciousness. Thought or mind is vibhava because it is a deviation from your original nature or svabhava.

Though, you too are a pool of still water as the same consciousness is functioning within you as well but because, you keep throwing stones all the time, you never come to experience stillness within. You never become aware of that dimension within you, which is always still. If you keep throwing stones all the time, a day will come when the pool will stop its original or innate function of reflecting. Hence stop throwing stones and you too will become a pool of still water, reflecting the things as they are. Stillness yani sthirtha ko sadhana hai. This is the only sadhana or spiritual practice you need to do. To know that which IS, the only thing needed is stillness. If a pool of water can reflect moon in it by just becoming still, you too can also reflect the whole existence within, if you also become still. You will become this existence itself because that‘s what existence is i.e. to reflect the things as they are. Meditation is practicing stillness.

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