Healing: as we slow down

When you are so busy that you feel perpetually chased

when your worrying thoughts circle around your head

when the future seems dark and uncertain

when you are hurt by someone has said

Slow

down

Even for a moment.

What do you hear?

What..does..you’re..body..feel?

What does the sky look like ?

Only when we slow down can we finally see our relationships, our thoughts, our pain

As we slow down, we are no longer tangled in them

We can slowly step out and appreciate them for what they are.

The faces of our family and colleagues whop always help, the scenery we pass by every day

but..fail to notice, our friends stories that we fail to pay attention to

in the stillness of the

pause…

the entirety of our being is quietly revealed

Wisdom is not something we have to strive to acquire.

Rather, it arises naturally as we slow down and notice what is already there.

As we notice more and more in present moment, we come to a deeper realisation that as silent observer is within us.

In the primordial stillness the silent observer witnesses everything inside and outside.

Befriend the silent observer. Find out where it is, and what shape it has assumed.

Do not try to imagine it as something you already know. Let all your thoughts and images merge back into silence and just sense the observer already in silence.

If you see the face of the silent observer, then you have found your original face, from before you were born.

Haemin Sumin, The Things you can see only when you slow down (2012)

The Epilogue of this book, written in full, for you, a gift, an encouragement, to slow down, and let the silence speak and for us to see more as we notice.