The only way out is in

Find that stillness in the everyday.
Let this be your mantra.
Remember who you are

The only way out is in.

Today - August 14th - Wednesday - 1:11pm - three minutes of stillness

Today, practice three minutes of stillness with friends at distances. Or, with close by friends. I plan to do so today at 1:11pm (Pacific Daylight Time). Join me at that time - regardless of place. Or, even do it at some other time today. 

Meditation Today

Dear Meditators,

What do we do when we meditate?
Seemingly, we are sitting, doing nothing. And this is enough, isn't it?

For imagine what this movement is really about. If every single person in our world could take a moment, or even three moments, each day, to sit and quiet the mind... And what comes with a quiet mind? Gratitude; perhaps first for the realization that mind is not all that is--the mind is not you, no, it is only a tool for you to use how you will. Like all tools it can have many purposes, like for careless misuse, or for stunning displays of beauty...

You may find you awaken to the Truth that perhaps there is an influence that the mind has been deprived of, but that it so desperately needs and cries for: the Heart. And with your concentration alone you not only realize, but recognize the heart in all its massive importance! Some of us even feel our heart center in our chest for the first time, we see a warm soft glow which has always been burning.

This fire is yours to command how you will once you invite your mind to fan the flame...

Love,
A heart friend

July 31 at 1:11pm PDT - Three Minute Stillness

Join us from anywhere on Earth on Wednesday, July 31 at 1:11pm PDT / 8:11pm GMT, for three minutes of stillness, silence, meditation, or prayer. Invite your friends. A global stillness moment.

For help with GMT/UTC conversions:
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Stillness While Waitressing - a testimonial

Last Wednesday July 17, 2013 at 1:11pm PDT I happened to be waitressing, serving a restaurant full with 19 people.  Noticing 1:08pm, I began settling down, slowing my stride and taking more notice of my breath.  By 1:11 I felt encompassed by a natural moving meditation. All the place gradually reflected my inner state by quieting conversation and from 1:10 to 1:11, the whole place experienced an entire minute of silence.  Wow! This is a small testimony to the ineffable global stillness project. Thank you for your momentous blessings. What an awe inspiring project we are creating together. 

Meet you in Stillness, 
Maria Gerstley 

July 24th at 1:11pm PDT - Three Minute Stillness Moment

Join us from anywhere on Earth on Wednesday, July 24th at 1:11pm PDT / 8:11pm GMT, for three minutes of stillness, silence, meditation, or prayer. Invite your friends. A global stillness moment.

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http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/universal-time

Hold Fast to Stillness

Attain complete emptiness,

Hold fast to stillness.

Tao Te Ching, #16

Global Meditation Movement Today

Please join me from where you are today [USA: Wednesday at 1:11pm PDT (8:11pm GMT)] for three minutes of silence or meditation or prayer. 
Invite your friends. This is a global meditation moment. 

Check back with each other after the appointed time. The power of conscious shared global silence will grow and plant seeds of real peace. Post some feedback afterwards. The power of conscious shared global silence will grow and plant seeds of real peace.  
     ~Americ Azevedo

A poem for you all from my friend, Kyoto, in Japan:

      You are a flower (hana)

      You are also the moon (tsuki)

      You found it

          the Heart (kokoro)

              is beautiful!

      This is why 

          You are

              also beautiful...

Thank you for participating. I will post throughout the week with meditation materials. See you next Wednesday for our next sitting @ 1:11PM. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments: hi@starsylph.com               

     ~Frederica

      'Love is all there is' 

4rd Stillness Moment: Wed., July 10rd, 1:11pm PDT / 8:11pm GMT

Join us from anywhere on Earth on Wednesday, July 10rd at 1:11pm PDT / 8:11pm GMT, for three minutes of silence, meditation, or prayer. Invite your friends. A global stillness moment.

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http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/universal-time

Why Global Stillness Practice?

Feedback: World Peace

Commenting on Three Minutes Global Stillness practice, Michael wrote:

I did my 1/7 billionth part today to make this world better place ... it was a joy.

3rd Stillness Moment: Wed., July 3rd, 1:11pm PDT / 8:11pm GMT

Join us from anywhere on Earth on Wednesday, July 3rd at 1:11pm PDT / 8:11pm GMT, for three minutes of silence, meditation, or prayer. Invite your friends. A global stillness moment.

For help with GMT/UTC conversions:
http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/universal-time

Summary of First Global Meditation Moment: June 19th, 2013

From a stream of text messages by a former student and dear friend, Michael Kinder.  He gave me the inspiration to continue with this Three Minute Stillness project. Permission for quoting granted by Michael. It sums it up better than I could say.

Wow!  That was so powerful!  We had so many people meditating with us, even Sarah whose in France.  Blessings.  Om tat sat.

My friend Nicole got my message two minutes before 1:11 yesterday, immediately sat on a curb, and began meditating where she was. My mom meditated in Loma Linda. Friends in France, Texas, Grass Valley, Santa Barbara, Huntington Beach, and Riverside, not to mention Glenn in Minnesota.  what a powerful moment!  blessings! 

Three things that I have been meditating on lately: the religio, the politico, and the aesthetic.  How do they piece together? How do we utilize them pragmatically?

Piecing together the fragmentation of the modern intellecto-spiritual landscape is the deepest challenge of our time!  I love you Americ, thanks for the greatest Present you could give someone, namely, PRESENCE. 

This is not just some metaphysical hoo haw.  Its about cultivating love, forbearance, ataraxia, and autarche. ITs not only a spiritual quest, but a political praxis. meditation is very powerful and important in this era of Kali Yuga, anxiety, and downpression. We must be subversives for sweetness, samurais of self, and revolutionaries for gentleness and kindness.  May lovelight surround you.   Om Tat Sat.

2nd Global Meditation Moment: Wednesday, June 26th, 1:11pm PDT / 8:11pm GMT

Please join us from anywhere on Earth this coming Wednesday at 1:11pm PDT / 8:11pm GMT, for three minutes of silence, meditation, or prayer. Invite your friends. This is a global meditation moment.