“Stillness isn’t doing nothing.”
It’s the breath before the kettle clicks off, the weight behind the wiggle. Stillness protects us from the newsfeed, the noise, the urge to constantly leap into action. In Tai Chi, we call it sinking—into the hips, into the moment, into the bit beneath the obvious. The still bit that holds it all together.
Chapter 26
A simple rendition of the Tao Te Ching for you and me - by the teapotmonk
Chapter read from the book: Nothing to Do Nowhere to Go by Paul Read
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