So what is stillness? It can't be a simple matter of keeping the arms and legs and head still while the mind concentrates on not moving, like a child playing statues. The mind commands the body, and no General can enforce discipline if he is chaotic. The virtue of discipline emanates from himself. Likewise the quality of stillness must radiate from the mind. Therefore it follows that the mind must enter into itself to be itself the stillness which is to permeate the rest of the organism. Yet mind itself is a territory to be quelled. The attention is forced to retract to the centre-most point of the mind to still the agitation in the rest. Only then does boredom cease to exist.
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