Can Action and Stillness Happen Together?
August 27, 2018
By Steve Beckow
The awakening that I had yesterday (1) answered a question that I’d had over whether action and stillness can happen together.
Does one have to be inactive for the mind to be still (as in meditating)?
The answer is a resounding “no.” But to understand how that can be, we have to think … as the Arcturians would say … “multidimensionally.” (2)
The action and stillness being talked about exist on different planes, different levels. Action for us now is in the Fourth Dimension. The stillness of mind, if it is stillness, is in at least a higher subdimension. Maybe Fifth; maybe not.
And different systems are being talked about which also exist in different subdimensions. The body exists on one plane; the mind exists on another, higher one; whatever is present when the mind is still must also exist on a higher plane than the mind.
As long as we make those distinctions, we can keep what’s happening – and what’s not happening – straight.
A still mind in an active physical body is not at all an unknown thing. Most enlightened masters know that state.
When my mind is still, I find myself in touch with a very much deeper side of myself. I still act but without the mind chatter. The chatter waters my action down and renders it inconclusive. The eye is not single, Jesus might say.
The still mind is the windless place in which the candle does not flicker. (3) It’s the still water in which the Moon can be seen. (4)
The mind is silent when the ego falls quiet. I can almost hear all other sides of me breathe a collective sigh of relief. With the ego quiet, life can return to normal.
This normal side of me – when the mind is quiet – is deep, concentrated, untainted, decisive.
The rest of me – physical body, feelings, further thoughts – goes along for the ride.
Always “I” remain, running the show. I simply have a deeper and deeper experience of myself. But the “I” never changes.
A deeper side of me runs the show for a certain amount of my time, until it tenses up and loses awareness or relaxes more and expands awareness.
This is the stream we call consciousness. One persona yields to another, but behind them all is an unchanging “I,” running the show.
A still mind increases in importance when I consider all there will be to do after the Reval. Must I say goodbye forever to the quiet mind?
The linear mind would see the same body in two spaces – stillness and action – and say that, no, both of them going on at the same time would be an impossibility. Yes, I would have to say goodbye to the quiet mind.
The multidimensional mind would say that the two capabilities exist on different dimensions so, yes, they can both go on within the same being at the same time and, no, I don’t have to say goodbye to it.
The last thing Michael said to me on financial matters in the last reading was: “Remember what I have said to thee about taking time and going slowly.” (5)
I so agree. And I feel confident and look forward to what’s next when my mind is silent and my attitude is one of blessing.
Footnotes
(1) See “Awakening in a Quiet Mind,” August 26, 2018, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/?p=295721
(2) “You are a great Multidimensional Being who has volunteered to venture into the depths of illusion in order to assist all the beings on planet Earth.” (“Message from the Arcturians: Transmutation of Form,” channelled by Suzanne Lie. August 27, 2013 at http://suzanneliephd.blogspot.co.uk.)
(3) “‘The light of a lamp does not flicker in a windless place’: that is the simile which describes a yogi of one-pointed mind, who meditates upon the Atman. When, through the practice of yoga, the mind ceases its restless movements, and becomes still, he realizes the Atman. It satisfies him entirely. Then he knows that infinite happiness which can be realized by the purified heart but is beyond the grasp of the senses.” (Sri Krishna in Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, trans., Bhagavad-Gita. The Song of God. New York and Scarborough: New American Library, 1972; c1944, 66.)
(4) “Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken. Although its light is wide and great, the moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide. The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in dewdrops on the grass,or even in one drop of water.” (Zen Master Eihei Dogen, in “Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water,” Upaya Zen Center, January 29, 2009, at https://www.upaya.org/2009/01/enlightenment-is-like-the-moon-reflected-on-the-water/.)
(5) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Aug. 17, 2018.
Source: Golden Age of Gaia
August 27, 2018
By Steve Beckow
The awakening that I had yesterday (1) answered a question that I’d had over whether action and stillness can happen together.
Does one have to be inactive for the mind to be still (as in meditating)?
The answer is a resounding “no.” But to understand how that can be, we have to think … as the Arcturians would say … “multidimensionally.” (2)
The action and stillness being talked about exist on different planes, different levels. Action for us now is in the Fourth Dimension. The stillness of mind, if it is stillness, is in at least a higher subdimension. Maybe Fifth; maybe not.
And different systems are being talked about which also exist in different subdimensions. The body exists on one plane; the mind exists on another, higher one; whatever is present when the mind is still must also exist on a higher plane than the mind.
As long as we make those distinctions, we can keep what’s happening – and what’s not happening – straight.
A still mind in an active physical body is not at all an unknown thing. Most enlightened masters know that state.
When my mind is still, I find myself in touch with a very much deeper side of myself. I still act but without the mind chatter. The chatter waters my action down and renders it inconclusive. The eye is not single, Jesus might say.
The still mind is the windless place in which the candle does not flicker. (3) It’s the still water in which the Moon can be seen. (4)
The mind is silent when the ego falls quiet. I can almost hear all other sides of me breathe a collective sigh of relief. With the ego quiet, life can return to normal.
This normal side of me – when the mind is quiet – is deep, concentrated, untainted, decisive.
The rest of me – physical body, feelings, further thoughts – goes along for the ride.
Always “I” remain, running the show. I simply have a deeper and deeper experience of myself. But the “I” never changes.
A deeper side of me runs the show for a certain amount of my time, until it tenses up and loses awareness or relaxes more and expands awareness.
This is the stream we call consciousness. One persona yields to another, but behind them all is an unchanging “I,” running the show.
A still mind increases in importance when I consider all there will be to do after the Reval. Must I say goodbye forever to the quiet mind?
The linear mind would see the same body in two spaces – stillness and action – and say that, no, both of them going on at the same time would be an impossibility. Yes, I would have to say goodbye to the quiet mind.
The multidimensional mind would say that the two capabilities exist on different dimensions so, yes, they can both go on within the same being at the same time and, no, I don’t have to say goodbye to it.
The last thing Michael said to me on financial matters in the last reading was: “Remember what I have said to thee about taking time and going slowly.” (5)
I so agree. And I feel confident and look forward to what’s next when my mind is silent and my attitude is one of blessing.
Footnotes
(1) See “Awakening in a Quiet Mind,” August 26, 2018, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/?p=295721
(2) “You are a great Multidimensional Being who has volunteered to venture into the depths of illusion in order to assist all the beings on planet Earth.” (“Message from the Arcturians: Transmutation of Form,” channelled by Suzanne Lie. August 27, 2013 at http://suzanneliephd.blogspot.co.uk.)
(3) “‘The light of a lamp does not flicker in a windless place’: that is the simile which describes a yogi of one-pointed mind, who meditates upon the Atman. When, through the practice of yoga, the mind ceases its restless movements, and becomes still, he realizes the Atman. It satisfies him entirely. Then he knows that infinite happiness which can be realized by the purified heart but is beyond the grasp of the senses.” (Sri Krishna in Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, trans., Bhagavad-Gita. The Song of God. New York and Scarborough: New American Library, 1972; c1944, 66.)
(4) “Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken. Although its light is wide and great, the moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide. The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in dewdrops on the grass,or even in one drop of water.” (Zen Master Eihei Dogen, in “Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water,” Upaya Zen Center, January 29, 2009, at https://www.upaya.org/2009/01/enlightenment-is-like-the-moon-reflected-on-the-water/.)
(5) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Aug. 17, 2018.
Source: Golden Age of Gaia
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