What is stillness?

[Ming the Merciful]

I learned how to remain untriggered while remaining myself from Tolle.

Stillness is a "State of Mind"?

The old metaphor, "Stillness as in a still pond".

"While remaining myself" means that this stillness is present even while I am interacting with someone that is turbulent emotionally. The more obvious stillness state is the one we normally experience in meditation. But having this inside you while interacting with others takes a different type of presence. You are basically witnessing your mental body react to the turbulent interaction, instead of thinking that this mental body is you. So you can reach a type of detachment.

Well said Patrick. The "Key" is to cultivate Stillness, so it becomes the natural order of things. Whereby, Stillness is the natural state, while thinking and interacting with the outside world becomes secondary. We are Still first, and then interaction. Once you have achieved that, everything changes, (literally). Do you control the Mind, or does the Mind control you? I am Master of my own thoughts. Did you know, that when you are in "Controlled Stillness", you can hear the subconscious thought before it develops into the thought? With practice, even Subconscious Mind can be controlled.