Be still and know that I am
Underlying the signs and symptoms of a diseased state we can find a belief about
ourselves or the world around us. With the right remedy the whole reality of it
vanishes like snow melting in the midday sun, and as a consequence so do the
symptoms. For sure, new sensations and thoughts will enter the mind, but before they
do, for a short moment, in the absence of pain or fear or whatever troubled us,
there is just stillness.
Soon, as a reaction to being relieved from our complaints, happiness and gratitude
or
any other thought or feeling may enter the mind. However short it may be though,
this moment of stillness seems essential to me. In it we experience a sense of
well-being that comes from deep within ourselves. Not caused by anything external
or
by any thought, it simply is.
In the absence of an identification with a symptom, a disease, a role, a belief or
even a thought we get this short glimpse of what self-realized people call our true
nature. For sure, our mind soon breaks the silence with its endless activity. The
supply of stories to be falsified seems endless, but each time we are able to drop
one we can again experience the vastness of our true nature.
Iʼve come to understand that life is always similar to who we are. With or without
homeopathic remedies life presents its simillimum to us. Each of us lives in a
mind-created reality and through events and circumstances life continuously mirrors
back this reality to us. Anything false in it hurts, and thus we live with memories
of pain and fears for the future, and falsifying each and every one of them is what
will make us truly free and establish us more firmly in this inner stillness.
There have always been teachers to help man do this. With plants being the main topic
of this issue the tree is a teacher life provides us with that Iʼd like to mention
here.
“When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You
connect with it at a deeper level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in
and through stillness. Feeling the oneness of yourself with all things is true
love.”[1]
Fig. 1 Banyan tree in Rishi Valley, Madanapalle, India.
A picture is only a faint reflection of its majestic presence, but if you take the
time to really look at this banyan tree, you may hear its eternal message:
“Be still and know that I am”.
