According to Osho, no: the periphery need not—and cannot—be made still. Nature is flux. Liberation comes not by stopping change but by disidentifying from it: witness the moving body-mind and reestablish awareness in the unmoving center. Allow everything to move without clinging or trying to fix it; sustained witnessing reveals ‘I am the stillness,’ so the world continues but not within you.
You don’t have to stop life’s waves; just sit inside as a watcher and you’ll feel the quiet center that never moves.