The 99th of 108 Gates Of Dharma Illumination

[Shokai]

Gate Ninety-nine
Read the following, place it in your heart and sleep on it. Then, tomorrow, live it until evening when you can leave a brief comment on what you may have received during the process.

Stillness is a gate of Dharma illumination; for it realizes, and is replete with, the samādhi of the Tathāgata.

Stillness : A deeper awareness of the Dharma.

By “Dharma Gate”, We mean a teaching or practice that can lead to spiritual growth: some kind of positive outcome in terms of our practice. A way to approach the truth.

Koan:
"When you are under stress, your body's natural repair mechanisms are disabled. When you can cultivate silence and stillness, clarity develops in your mind and has a settling effect. Your body is not independent of your brain, so it will relax as well."

- Dennis Buttimer, Piedmont.org; link here

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Most note worthy replies :

Approaching dhyāna

It dances from my grasp

Even as the drops fall. But

This is it, this moment, the now

Do not waste it.


As the dust settles

Vision clears

Revealing all truths

合掌 仁道 生開 - gassho, Jindo Shokai
stlah

[Nengyoku]

[aprapti]

[Nengyoku]

The semantic field of Tibetan shi and Sanskrit shama is "pacification", "the slowing or cooling down", "rest". The semantic field of Tibetan né is "to abide or remain" and this is cognate or equivalent with the final syllable of the Sanskrit, thā.

-Wikipedia page for Samatha, the pali term for Stillness

How appropriate. To abide in resting. To act in accordance with slowing down.
When I think of stillness I think of tranquility, even to a point of inaction.
But this would suggest instead that your action is in accordance with things as it is.
It reminds me of our Three refuges.

I take refuge in the Buddha.
I take refuge in the Dharma.
I take refuge in the Sangha.
And a natural extension of that is acting in accordance with this moment as it is.
Thank you friends.

When I take refuge in this world
And in the people in it
How could my actions ever not accord?

Gassho,
Nengyoku
Sat

[Tairin]

Tairin
Sat today and lah

[Anchi]

[Myo Shin]