Be Still & Know - The Lost Art of Stillness
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- In this video, we'll explore all sides of stillness. Not just the still side, but also all the motion it contains. And although it is grounded in both mind and body, this video highlights psychic stillness.
Since ancient times, this practice has been with humanity. Unfortunately, with our restless distractions, we seem to have lost what it means to be still.
Stillness is engrained in sports, music, art, religion, spirituality... it is everywhere you look. Yet, to truly Be Still is quite the task.
So, in all the motion which follows..... Be Still.
CHAPTERS
Introduction 00:00
Lost Stillness 07:36
Ancient Stillness 19:26
The State of Stillness 36:33
The Art of Stillness 44:49
What is to Come? 01:05:07
Conclusion 01:06:45
#stillness #consciousness #carljung #psychology #philosophy #pythagoras #socrates #individuation #meditation #innerwork
The world wants you to keep moving, the spirit wants you to remain still...
Stillness requires the conjunction of each.
Let us know your thoughts on your own art of stillness below! I appreciate you all.
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Thank you for the upload. Your absence was noticeable. Happy that you have returned. Peace be with you.
This was perfect. May we all Awaken through Stillness!
"Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing" --Lao Tzu
Appreciate you not slapping music on this philosophical piece of art. A great reminder. This is the way.
Yes, thank you.
A fellow Mandolorian ..
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More thoughts, less happy. Less thoughts, more happy.
This video deserves millions of more views.
It's incredibly insightful, and it diagnoses one of the many causes of dis-ease in modern civilization in a non-confrontational, digestible manner.
Great work. Thank you.
I absolutely LOVE your insight. I have listened to this video over and over and gain something new each time. Thank you so much for sharing this.
Oh how our world needs this. This video just kept getting better and better. I loved the end!
"Be still and know is one of the most fundamental sutras of the inner alchemy. But by being still is not meant that you have to force stillness upon yourself. A forced stillness is not true stillness. One can sit like a buddha, almost like a statue, absolutely still, and yet deep down there may be great turmoil, a thousand and one thoughts rushing. There may be great traffic in the mind. The body can be forced to sit silently for hours, and you can also learn tricks to still the mind.
For example, if you chant any mantra for hours, any name of God, if you simply go on chanting “Allah, Allah, Allah,” it functions like a tranquilizer. Repetition of a single word or a single mantra creates a certain melody in your mind soothing, very soothing, very calming. And a kind of stillness will be felt which is not the true kind - because the sound of a certain mantra is simply changing the chemistry of your mind. The change is not alchemical, it is chemical.
Sound is chemistry. Hence music can help you to become still. And, moreover, when a certain word or a mantra is repeated constantly, you become hypnotized by it. That’s the secret of all hypnosis. You look at a flame, a candle flame, constantly - what are you doing? You are repeating the flame through the eyes, again and again and again. It is a repetition; it is a mantra - through the eyes. Or you can repeat a mantra inside yourself; that is through the ear, through the sound. Any sense can be used. Perfume, incense can be used; the same incense can hypnotize you.
Hypnosis means going into deep sleep, artificial sleep. That’s exactly the meaning of the word “hypnosis”: a sleep deliberately created. It can be through a tranquilizer, it can be through a soothing silence, sound, music, perfume, incense - there can be a thousand and one ways, but you will become hypnotized. And, hypnotized, you will feel a kind of stillness which is not true.
And also, if you repeat a certain mantra again and again, you will feel bored. Boredom also brings sleep. That’s why doctors suggest to people who cannot sleep that they count sheep from one to a hundred, and then backwards from a hundred - ninety-nine, ninety-eight, back to one - and then go up the ladder again . . . go on coming up and down. How long can you do it? Somewhere after going three or four times up and down the ladder you will fall asleep. It is the most ancient formula for falling asleep: count sheep from one to a hundred and then come back - because it is such a boring job that you lose all interest in it. And the moment you lose all interest in it, there is nowhere to escape except in sleep.
Mothers know it perfectly well. Hence the lullaby: the mother goes on repeating a single note again and again and the child falls asleep. And children have their own mantras: they can suck on their thumbs - that is a mantra. The child goes on sucking on the thumb; it is very consoling, soothing. He believes that it is the breast of the mother, and he falls asleep. Children invent their own methods - the teddy bear, or just the corner of the blanket, and the child holds it; if you take the blanket away from him, he cannot sleep.
Even grown ups are not really grown ups; they have their own ritual of going into sleep. For example, if every day you clean your teeth before going to sleep, try it one day without cleaning the teeth and you will be surprised: you cannot fall asleep. Something is missing. You have created a mantra. You change the dress, a different dress than you use in the daytime . . . you go into a subtle ritual.
A few people who are religious, so-called religious, they will do some prayer. That too is a ritual. Grown ups are not really grown ups; they have grown in age but not psychologically, not spiritually. The world is full of children of many ages: one year, two years, up to seventy, eighty, ninety - all children.
I am not talking about their stillness. When I say “Be still and know” I mean a stillness that comes out of understanding, not out of any kind of hypnosis. And out of understanding, the first thing that happens is: “Seek the strength of no-desire.” The more you look into your life, [the more] you will find your life is in a mess because of desiring. Why are you in such a storm continuously? It is because of the desire - not only one desire but a thousand and one desires. And no desire can ever be fulfilled; no desire has ever been fulfilled. Desire as such is incapable of being fulfilled, intrinsically it is unfulfillable. Hence each desire creates turmoil, expectation, hope, then frustration, hopelessness. And you have a thousand and one desires surrounding you, and you go on supporting your own enemies.
When you look in, when you watch, you become aware that desire is the cause of your whole misery. Seeing it, desiring disappears - just by seeing it, desiring disappears. Seeing that desire never leads anywhere, but that you go on moving in circles and desire goes on goading you in the same repetitive patterns, seeing this - not because I am saying it, but seeing it on your own - desire disappears. And the disappearance of desire is the stillness, the real stillness, I am talking about.
It brings two things to you: great strength because all the energy that was involved in a thousand and one desires is released. Now energy no more leaks from you; you don’t have any holes for it to leak from. You become a reservoir of great energy. And the second thing: because now there is no noise of desires clashing, conflicting with each other, there is no civil war going on . . . what to do? To be or not to be? To do this or to do that? When there is no conflict, no desire, when all the storm is gone, the silence that follows the storm, that is the stillness I am talking about.
Be still and know.
And I am not saying that by being still you will be ready to know - no. Just by being still you will know. Being still and knowing are the same phenomenon, because when you are still like a mirror, a still lake, no ripples, then the whole firmament, the whole sky, is reflected in the lake. The stars come down, and the moon, and the clouds - all are reflected in tremendous beauty in the lake. When your consciousness becomes a still mirror, a still lake, a silent reservoir of energy, God is reflected in it.
You will not attain to knowledge, remember. You will become wise; you will become a buddha. You will not become a great scholar, a great pundit, a great theologian or a philosopher. You will be a buddha. You will have an innocent kind of knowing: you will know how to live, you will know how to die, you will know how to love - you will know the real art of life. And the real art of life consists only of three things: how to live, how to love, how to die. And these things you will not know from scriptures; these things you will know from your innermost core.
I call this education. “Be still and know, seek the strength of no-desire.” It is desire that is making you weak; it is no-desire that will make you strong. It is desire that is creating continuous storms in you, it is no-desire that will bring stillness - and a stillness that comes on its own is authentic; it is not a kind of hypnosis. It is not through mantra, it is not through any device, it is not through any trick. You are not trying to pretend to be still: you are simply still. This will give you a new birth, you will be reborn. Jesus says: “Unless you are born again, you shall not enter into my kingdom of God.” I say the same to you - but the rebirth is a state of no-desire, a state of no-mind, a state of total stillness."
Where is the origin of these words?
@@uStepProductions from a talk by Osho.
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This comment is longer than the video itself...
Simply wonderful. Thank you.
I loved the “ we have an and you go on supporting your enemies.”
Isn’t that the f’n facts.
This is perfectly right for me today. ❤
As I’m sitting in complete stillness outside a coffee shop, I unlock my CZcams app and this is the first video that appears…so in sync 😮
Wow. God is good
You don't unlock CZcams in complete stillness lol js
Bloody peepeepoopie
The algorithm did it's job then 🤣
@@vasvalstan brought us together o..o
I had a martial arts teacher in the 1980’s who preached the importance of stillness. To master movement you first had to master stillness. We practiced ichuan standing or zan zhuang standing …extremely effective for overcoming illness and understanding movement
Correction Zhan Zhuang
Your content is so refreshing brother! Thanks for helping me think and reminding me that real people do exist.
Best way to learn this lesson is to do something you hate until you find the beauty contained within. Do that until is pure pleasure, you have arrived.
Ah so. That’s wisdom I hear talking.
It’s an effective tool to be sure.
And upon arrival, hysterical laughter as I realized I never actually went anywhere. 😂
How about homosexuality?
@@primeedits840 😅 to each their own
It’s been awhile. Good to hear from you. I always look forward to your videos!
Another wonderful video. I cannot thank you enough for all you provide. Be blessed joesph!
I'm grateful to you for making these meaningful videos. I hope more people tap into these ideas! I was having similar thoughts about stillness and restlessness a couple of days ago. As I was observing myself I was able to determine that the constant noise of nowadays society has been interfering with my focus and inner peace. Keep on the good work!
Brilliant. Thank you for your hard work, compassion and love. You are a Peacemaker.
I’ve so waited for you to put out another video. There are very few whom puts this much depth in their videos. Peace be upon you my friend. ❤
a stoic mindset is a definite advantage in the purification process, because it can be rough ride!! thanks for the great vid, very enjoyable
You did a wonderful job putting this presentation together. Will be looking for your next.
Listened to this falling asleep last night. Turned it on this evening while dry walling a basement office. I’ll put it on again soon to try and truly digest it all
Such an in-depth exposition of a topic that I find so alluring. Much thanks for your effort in creating this!
Thank you for bringing us this video. A demonstration of this 1 of 10000 things that is actually useful. I have had and continue to have the gnosis . While plant medicine was the catalyst the continued practice and development of meditation has been the gateway. I believe it’s a cycle 🔄 where we have the gnosis and them rise back up into ego and then through introspective thoughts return again and again. I think it’s evolving all the time despite the stillness. I think for some this video may offer a very useful explanation and tool and others an explanation of their personal experience. So funny I also have studied weather and climate. I also have developed a deep sense of connection with animals as well as people who are animals too . I feel the soul that is collective in them all on a good day and then there are the waves where I’ve become distanced from this universal truth only to find myself returning back to it again. The cycle 🔄 or circle ⭕️. This was exactly what I needed to hear and see when I needed to see hear and feel . Ironically my internet went out when this video released lol . The Gods truly have a sense of humour lol . Hope to see more of the work you channel to us in the near future friend ❤.
So glad you're back. Sometimes side quests take longer than expected.
Well done. Worth the wait.
Way to go, Joseph 👍
I was wondering about ya, man!
Thank you! I needed a little break from writing. I feel it is best to "purify" that creative space and step back instead of just chugging along. Sending love ❤️
@@HumbleUMedia sounds both wise and healthy. Good for you 💚
@@HumbleUMediaalways remember to refuel your creativity and critical thinking tanks. You're very generous in your efforts of shearing your wisdom, influences and ethos worldwide. Know you are appreciated and loved.
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This is the realest of the real right here! Much appreciated from the heart❤
Super helpful and appreciated...at the correct time. Thank You.🔥✨💛
This is funny 😊 I am happy to see people turning on and tuning in 😂 keep blowing minds 🤔😵💫 masterful production 👍.. Meister Eckhart. Great topic and foundations that offer a unique and complimentary view to more common spiritual knowledge. Buddhism via ancient Greece and modern neuropsychology. Impressive information+reasoning. A spiderweb that connects all hidden western insight into the nature of existence, extrapolating knowledge therefrom that leads to true understandings. The content is very dense and likely requires repeated listening to grasp it all.
Your material is so darn good! Absolutely love your series on the Red Book and what you have done since!
Thanks!
When stillness arrives to our collective consciousness is when we transcend the
madness of this moden culture. Can’t come soon enough. Thank you for this thoughtful video.
We need more hour plus long videos from Humble. I've learned more about myself and my surroundings from watching your Jung series. And it has changed my life, more so than any religion chasing or occultisms I've ever studied before. Mr. Humble is the truth.
Seriously well edited, and a brilliant piece of work. Ancient Wisdom via a modern vibe. Thanks for your craft, and good luck with your channel. Superb. 😀🙏❤️
Thank You for Your inspiring indication ❣️
This is outstanding work.
Having attended ten one week silent mindfulness mediation retreats over the past five decades, I was delighted by your extended essay.
Buddhist mindfulness practice is outside of the realm of Philosophy, a system of words built upon words, but rather is smack dab in the realm of Science. Note a small but profound point, that in order for this to be blindingly obvious one must eschew the noun model of Science and use the verb model of Science instead.
As a life long Science person I was a bit disoriented at first when the mindfulness instructions on all of these retreats were indistinguishable in function from the instructions of any chemistry or physics laboratory course I have ever taken as a physics major: here, do this experiment and we’ll discuss your observations later in class. In a physics laboratory course it is physical phenomena which is observed while in a mindfulness retreat it is one’s own personal phenomena which is observed, mind farts and all.
Do this experiment: sit comfortably in a chair, set a kitchen timer for ten seconds, start it, then for those full ten seconds pay attention only to the physical sensations of breathing, then stop this exercise when the timer goes off. Did you succeed or fail? If you failed, then what was it that took your attention away from the instructed focus, flying saucers perhaps??? The attention training of the mindfulness practice provides you with the spaciousness to observe first hand various stupid tricks you mind plays on you. The more mindfulness practices you do, the greater the access you have to Free Will. Note that simple minded philosophers can only analyze FW using binary logic vs. for example Bayesian logic.
Note that Buddhist mindfulness practice was invented in 1830 or so by Ledi Sayadaw. See details in the book The Birth of Insight.
Gassho the Fred process
I listen to yo the other night to help me fall asleep. I have listened to all your series on Jung, who is someone I revere. I realize the paradox. I am listening to you on my AI!😂 so I switch it all of and continue a meditation in silence where I focus in my third eye. And stay conscious until I am unconscious, and watch the visual light show as it turns into dream images. Of course as soon as I am aware of the specific ( particle )of dream time bursts and I am focused once again in the third eye light show. ( the wave). I do love listening to your presentations. I will continue to do so. However to be still and know is a soul adventure not to be missed.
I had just wondered where you had been. Thank you 🙏
This is an amazing job! Thank you!
Outstanding ❤
Wonderful exploration... Thank you...
Very good video! 👏
You're back! It's been too long Joseph
A desire satisfied is like salt water to a thirsty man-
Outstanding video sir. Quite.
I love how things show up exactly as I need them.
I've been listening to this for the past few days, but I'm very distracted lately and keep restarting the video, which says a lot about the state of stillness in my life lately... I'll keep trying again though, the production is excellent and you have a calming voice to listen to.
Love this 🎉
I love HumbleUMedia. Thank you for sharing with the world.
Stillness is pure potential in the ever vibrant hologram we call reality. Be still and know that I am. God can be heard in the stillness, and it's silent. the know-sis. the ether is conscious-ness. A field of still (know) sis. Beautiful work here m8
This is the first time anyone drew the line between knowledge/gnosis and know-sis. You, @childofkhem1.618, are a lexicographer from another lifetime. X
I adore language and wordsmiths
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Thanks @childofkhem.618
How else can a person really get to gno themselves unless they can exist in that stillness long enough to come to a personal gnoing. A person can't really gno what resonates with them unless they can get still. Imo This is what we need to be teaching our children how to do because everything is stacked against them learning this skill. Gnosis is simply a personal knowing that exist at such a fundamental level that our whole foundation is built upon it. This is not an understanding I came to with my thinking mind. It was dropped into me from a above. But it resonates!
@@childofkhem1.618 Sounds like by creating inner space and stillness within your being, portals of wisdom had the room to open up for your perception. You must see the All's encryption wherever you go 🙌.
amazing work.
I thank you sir for this video, really am trying to face the void and thos helps...
I liked the observations of nature being at ease around you. Something I notice. Great video.
The content of this video was a great remembrance of what we truly know in our hearts but find difficult to express in words. On a final note, the 10,000 distractions are difficult to avoid with so many distracting commercials. I realize the need to fund your important work, but it’s tragic that this beautiful piece was propagated by so much commercialism.
I experience the earth standing perfectly still, wrapped in an azure bell suspended in a black sea of infinity.. This absence of motion is either the grandest of illusions or the metaphysical shrouded by a frenzy of motion.
The video was a master piece images went perfectly
It's nice to see a lantern in the dark here, it gets dark in our subconscious, know your not alone in your own darkness, we are all lanterns in truth though, for a lantern cannot truly see it's own light, it only casts, keep going with this channel, please, for more will see, and before long, the lanterns floating around will will look like stars in the sky, in movement, together, at least in our own explorations, kiss the cook here, and hopefully he cooks up another entree, because I hope, that this is only the beginning...
Fascinating even though there was 10,000 commercials interrupting it
CZcams premium is cheaper than a burger
Thank you
The irony of bumping this up to 1.5x playback speed 5 mins in
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And commenting 6 minutes in.
The exploration of stillness as a state of consciousness is incredibly insightful. Embracing stillness can help us reconnect with our inner selves, leading to deeper understanding and personal growth. 🧘♂
Quarantine was great for this... good times.
What a fine channel
It's 1:11 I am awake watching this video thanks. Truth
Being just this 😊 is bliss
Ty kind sir 😌
that was fire
Great Channel Name
Only silence is eloquent enough to express what is conciousness.
Something I definitely need to work on. Too much noise in the modern world
Excuse me, do you have the full bibliography to this video somewhere? I'd really like to delve into it myself for uni.
Be still and know that I am God
-Psalm 46:10
Top tier comment👌🏻
Is the purification step before attempting Stillness similar to your 3rd lecture on Jung's Red Book, "The Desert & Hell"?
Also, thank you for this video.
Yes, I will give you some modern view of this. I sit still myself, I put my eyes downcast like the Buddha. And I empty my mind of thoughts. After doing this for a few weeks or practice, I started to see a purple whorl and auras on objects in my room.
So this sitting still does lead to an altered state of consciousness.
I haven't got there yet (to "Pythagoras' underworld"), but I did have my whole vision become cloudy and it blotted out everything in my room. I think it leads you to the astral plane, or the plane with "second sight" or other cultures know it as using your third eye. It'd be interesting to see a live brain scan or MRI of what the brain waves are like in this state.
The ad revenue is insane and unreal on this one guys lol every 2 minutes for a 1 hour video is brutal when you're committed to watching the whole thing
"Be still and Know, I AM G O D" words to medite upon.
Exodus 13:14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
17:00 in, my entire body started shaking and I looked for something to eat, drink or do rather than be with the moment in all its revelatory grace. The body does its thing and I remember why I'm outgrowing complacency and stay frosty as long as i can and then I listen to music and paint and breathe.
My sense is we are all experiencing our equivalency but the self containment of the wounded serves as echo chamber and now we're all pinging off one another like pissed off hummingbird drones.
Stop the ride. If you cock yer head jus right, you can hear 8 billion voices saying "Someone stop the ride. I wanna get off."
Simple solution there. Let nature bubble and brew and the yeast will rise and fill ever last crack because that's how we do when nature has her way.❤
Be. Still. Know. I. Am. God. - These words are all synonyms.
Wow! I just went to my room to meditate and i received a notification to this video
convoluted - thats the word :) i know you put tons of work into this -- lol
Death is the doorway to true life. Awareness and service are key.
"I leave you in the love and the light of the One Infinite Creator. Go forth, then, rejoicing in the power and the peace of the One Creator. Adonai."
Summus Christus
I’m the opposite of stillness ! I’m like an ever erupting volcano 🌋
I hate that but I can’t do anything to change it. Sad 😞
“21:43” on the clock? Why?
Is there a way to approach this subject without the basic-ness?
I AM STILL
The ultimate frequency of God is zero. " Be still and know that I am God ". Because when you are still, you are in sympathetic stillness with God. Union is attained.
thats a - whooooole lot of description for such an essence... you all good homie?
My fave Bible quote. Sooooo, go algorithm. Lol❤
My brain autocorrects to silliness 🤪
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Was Jung engaging in incubation when he wrote the Red Book?
“Be still and know I am God”. Psalms 46:10.
In the stillness it’s clear we are all of One consciousness, One Spirit.
John 17 led me on the path to awakening when I kept it in contemplation in the stillness.
John 17 was also the verse that awakened me to the deeper aspects of Christianity.
Be still…… as the narrator Yabbers like an American news reader
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Silence is the langue of God. Everything else is just noise.
7 second delay like between brain and conscious thought
35:24ish
this worlds greatest trick is too have us so busy that we are never able to access heaven while living. By doing the most simple things. Nothing. Take no Thoughts. have no fear. but we worry and have been programmed to chase money and survive.
Sounds like Terence Mckenna speaking.
Be still and know that I am God
How does one talk about being still? It is the opposite…