Stillness Speaks

This audio focuses on the illusion most people live in—and on how to free yourself from it. It’s an invitation to open a deep dimension of consciousness that exists in every person, no matter how lost they may be in thoughts, in time, in the past and the future. “No one has ever touched the past—except in the present moment, and therefore it is a matter of remembering, that is, a thought-form.

Also no one has ever met the future—it’s impossible, because it doesn’t exist! But people live as if nothing in the world is more important than the past and the future. Of course, it’s a form of madness, but it is so widespread and legitimized that everyone experiences it as a given.” “We have identified so completely with the movement of thought that we don’t notice the present—we don’t notice life itself. Of course, this leads to stress and an inability to feel ‘at home’ here and now—whatever happens.

That’s why life seems so unsatisfactory to many people: they create their idea of ‘self’ out of conditioned thoughts and the emotions that accompany them. This is what Buddha called ‘self’—an illusion. But people live in this illusion their entire lives.” “There is nothing wrong with thoughts. The problem arises if in your life there is nothing but the movement of thoughts and this endless mental noise… Psychologists who are also interested in spiritual practices have found that most of a person’s mental activity—about 99 percent—is recreated again and again. You identify with thoughts, that is, you become them. They are the filter through which you perceive reality, through which you judge the world—people, events, and yourself.”