This mountain - Mt. Kalish in Tibet - is sacred in four different religious traditions.
Can you sense why?
Can you imagine living in its lowlands and valleys?
Viewing it every morning and every evening?
The stillness? The stability? Its massiveness and soaring heights?
No matter the season, the weather, the time of day?
Illuminated by the sun by day and the moon by night?
Obscured by clouds and fog? Rain and storms?
Blizzards and howling winds?
And always….reappearing when the weather clears?
How do we take our seat in these unsettling times?
Or find our seat, if we have lost it?
How do we embrace the truths that sustain us?
And hold the suffering we are witnessing?
How do we care for ourselves and our families
when fear threatens to engulf us?
The call of the mountain is a reminder of the stillness within.
Stability we can touch when we drop into awareness
of this very moment.
In this very moment.
No matter the tumult in the lives around it,
the mountain remains -
planted and floating at the same time,
ageless and ephemeral,
alluring and implacable.
Reminding us that stillness is available at any moment.