Stillness is not something we manufacture. Stillness is WHAT IS.

Stillness is what underlies everything. Stillness is that in which all the noise of the mind takes place.

Stillness is that which allows the noise of the mind to occur, without having anything to do with it. Without becoming one with the noise, without entering the noise.

On the contrary, the noise of the mind can actually make the stillness be more clearly present, because stillness stands in such a contrast to it.

Stillness is what allows my voice to be heard in this room. If the stillness were not already in this room, the sound of my voice could not unfold, could not be heard.

And even if it is very noisy in this room - the noise can only exist because the room offers the stillness, lets the stillness be available.

But not in the sense that the stillness gives itself away, but stillness is simply there. Stillness is the basis.

There is no one who can be still. This someone who strives for stillness is itself noise, and nothing but noise.

Stillness cannot be achieved, and there is no one who achieves stillness. Because stillness IS. WHAT IS cannot be achieved.

Because it IS. It is primarily present before any achievement. Primary to any wanting to achieve. Primary to any achieving or wanting to achieve, WHAT IS is already there. It is.

And if you intend to achieve WHAT IS, you actually distance yourself from it, and so deny yourself access.

There is no access to WHAT IS, because it IS. It simply is, it allows no distance to be covered in order to get to WHAT IS. WHAT IS is. It is unattainable, because attaining requires distance. WHAT IS is there without any distance.

And what is, IS. If you distance yourself from WHAT IS, you distance yourself from BEING, and that means that you separate yourself into non-being. And from non-being one cannot reach Being.

A person cannot achieve stillness, a person cannot become still. A person is not, stillness is. Stillness is WHAT IS.

When you meditate, do not try to make yourself still. Don't strive for stillness.

When you meditate, be in Being. Be stillness. Allow stillness. Let the stillness that is already there emerge.

Go behind the noise of the mind.

But not by setting off and going on a search, but by seeing and recognizing: It is present.

Everything is already there. Stillness and awareness are already there, they should not and cannot be fabricated.

Let what is real be there unhindered, let it shine through unhindered. Experience the stillness that shines through you, the stillness that you are.

You are that more than anything you think you are, and about which you have self-images. That is not who you are.

You are the stillness that allows all this, as noise, as superficial noise, as non-existent noise.

When you meditate, allow yourself to enter the stillness that is there and that you are. Take your stand in the stillness that you are.

And experience and realize that everything that happens happens in this space, in the vast space of this stillness, in the clear space of stillness.

You are this stillness. You are this space.

All thoughts, all actions, all feelings and emotions pass by against the background of clear stillness.

And then realize that this stillness is not just the background, but that it permeates everything, without anything sticking to it, without the stillness getting lost in it all.

Stillness permeates everything and makes everything possible, without losing itself in it, without connecting with it, without becoming this everything itself, and without changing its quality in any way.

Stillness does not change its quality when it allows noise within itself.

And there is stillness even in the noise. Stillness is the essence of the noise. All that is real and true and substantial in the noise is stillness.

And you can experience that, you can realize that.

One meaning of the word realizing is recognizing, seeing clearly, seeing what is. Another meaning of the word realizing is making real, implementing, bringing into the world, bringing into life, living.

Live the stillness that IS.

When one lives stillness, the actions and thoughts are pure and free, detached and non-attached, and they leave no trace in the past, and they leave no trace in the future. They are now. And they're complete and finished now.

Because stillness is THERE. The noise comes and goes. And it is an expression of stillness.

When you meditate, see the spectacle. Let it pass, and see that you are the stillness that allows it all, in which it all takes place, without the stillness changing in any way through all that is taking place, or being affected or influenced by anything that is taking place.

Experience yourself as the stillness that is present, that lies behind it.

And then experience everything that happens, all that unfolds in the stillness and collapses again. Experience that this, too, is stillness. Nothing but stillness. And that it's completely fine that way.