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Stasis has several meaning but in this context is an internal that is held constant
by a force around its boundary. Suppose you have a population of people and
they are held constant by a political entity. At first the stasis is easy to maintain
because the difference inside the stasis is not very different to outside the stasis.
But as the world changes the pressure for change within the Stasis increase and
more control has to be used to hold the Stasis constant.
At some point the control fails and the Stasis explodes. In the physical world
revolution, uprising and civil wars are the result of the controls needed to hold the
Stasis constant failing. Communism failed when the internal need for change
become stronger than the force keeping it contained.
For the individual the concept of Stasis is equally relevant. Someone works at a
job they hate. At first it isn't too bad, but the pressure builds until there is an
explosion. Married couples do nothing to solve the problems building in there
marriage until it all blows up and the marriage is over.
Then there will be an explosion and we will abandon the spiritual way because
we are not good enough. Nobody on this earth is perfect. The spiritual path is not
about perfection, it is learning to do the best we can.
The way to deal with the pressures of the physical world so that it does not put
pressure on our spiritual being is to learn, accept and move on.
Everything on the spiritual path is the same concept repeated in many different
forms. Learn, accept and move on. This is how to deal with stasis in all its forms.
The worst thing we can do is to try to force ourselves to conform to an idealised
perfection that cannot be achieved.