Hi James Thanks for sharing

“The eyes see, the ears hear. The mouth speaks, the nose smells. That is all.”

“Zen enriches no one… When they are gone, the ‘nothing,’ the ‘no-body’ that was there, suddenly appears. That is Zen” – Thomas Merton

Yet

“As long as this “brokenness” of existence continues, there is no way out of the inner contradictions that it imposes upon us. If a man has a broken leg and continues to try to walk on it, he cannot help suffering. If desire itself is a kind of fracture, every movement of desire inevitably results in pain. But even the desire to end the pain of desire is a movement, and therefore causes pain. The desire to remain immobile is a movement. The desire to escape is a movement. The desire for Nirvana is a movement. The desire for extinction is a movement. Yet there is no way for us to be still by “imposing stillness” on the desires. In a word, desire cannot stop itself from desiring, and it must continue to move and hence to cause pain even when it seeks liberation from itself and desires its own extinction.” ― Thomas Merton, Zen and the Birds of Appetite

A seeming contrast between stillness and motion though Zen would avoid such measures…
Still I’ve wondered of the experience of Stillness as we sit on a rock spinning through space. Stillness in Motion…

We sit on a rock spinning through space, the earth moves, the stars drift,
and yet…
the eyes see, the ears hear.
The still point is not in the world, but in the seeing.

Stillness is not the absence of motion, but the absence of grasping?