Mountains Beyond Mountains

Stillness is motion.

Stillness is concentration, and when outer motion stops, inner motion is released.  I'm told my teacher's teacher, the Rev. Soyu Matsuoka, used to say that when we're sitting in meditation, we may look like a mountain (I'm still thinking about the Kan hexagon), but on the inside, we're like a volcano.  

Right action emerges from stillness, from concentration, from controlling the passions of the self, from restraint, and from honesty. Cleverness and learning have their place, but ultimately the presence of  a calm character and the insight of meditation rise above all else.

This is how we rise above mountains beyond mountains by being a mountain ourselves.