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Mountain-stillness: concentrated energy at rest before right action.
This is the mountain: energy concentrated in stillness, the pause that contains all action. Its shadow is stress, stillness corrupted into paralysis, pressure without release. Its gift is restraint: power banked like a fire, perspective before movement.
The practice is formal stillness, sitting until the body's noise settles and the whole landscape of a situation becomes visible. From the mountain, right action is obvious and small. Rest in the pause long enough and it reveals itself as the ground of everything: stillness itself.
Stress → Restraint → Stillness