Stillness ...

In his life, a man needs to learn just one thing. He needs to learn to manage just one thing. His breath. He needs to be conscious of his breathing and should be able to control it voluntarily. For this, he needs to master the techniques. But the secret is that the breath and the mind tend to slow each other down. Slow and deep breathing leads to calmness of mind immediately. The dynamic mind needs to be stilled. The dynamism manifests itself in the form of mind and its various alterations, propensities and dispositions, such as thoughts, desires, emotions, intelligence, senses, etc. These are the cause of all his actions. The more prevalent are these, the more is the dynamism and less is the stillness and calmness. The less of these things means more of calmness. On one extreme is the state where no breath is taken, but that is death. That is complete stillness. On the other extreme is the living state of the present day’s man, which is filled with restlessness, anxieties a...