Stillness & Yielding

If you stand still then you are so either because you are neither sinking nor rising, neither turning to the right nor turning to the left, or you are so because you are both sinking and rising, equally and together, and/or turning to the left and to the right, again equally and together. The first way of being still tends to stiffness and an idle and therefore wandering mind. The second way is dynamic, engaging and healthy: full of richness and potential. What's more, it yields – draws the other's energy down with its sinking and turning away – whilst issuing energy with its contrary balanced movements. If you confuse yielding with not being there then you avoid connexion. A solid and firm body that is not ostensibly moving can still be yielding – drawing external energy into its root. In fact such yielding is really the only way to be honestly – fully – present, and to be any other way whilst in the presence of a person who is so present is very dangerous indeed.