All our lives, we keep on searching for peace.
And…
When we get this peace, it is not valued so grandly. It is kicked out of our lives more quickly than it comes in.
Peace comes with nothing.
Peace brings nothing along. That becomes a problem for most of us. Our minds have become addicted to ‘something’ and peace has brought nothing with it. When you have just came out of a painful situation, a moments’ peaceful breathe will be valued. Few moments of relaxation with your parents, friends and other acquaintances will make you feel cheerful when you return home after years.
Once you have wandered through smoke and dust and noise for years, you would have come to understand the nature of peace.
There will be nothing. There will be just peace. After a few weeks, if you start looking for something again, peace will not be that ‘something’.You will not be at peace anymore because it had brought nothing with it.
You will be searching for ‘something’ again.
You will need joys and excitements and freshness in your life. So the value of peace will be very low for you. Now joys and excitements will get all your attention at the expanse of peace. That is how the cycle goes on. It is not that colours of peace have changed or faded in any way. Value of peace has not depreciated at all. Peace is as much valuable as it was before. You just start looking for it in wrong places. You begin for to forget that peace comes with nothing.You forget that you always have nothing and so the peace.
Peace is available at all times
Even a single encounter with nothingness would tell you of its nature. Even a single conscious experience of thinking-nothing will fill you with tons of insights. That will be at time when hundreds of illusions will break down. That will be a time when years of mental conditioning will start un-doing itself. The habit of looking for peace in something is very strong. That is why we need to make a routine to approach the dreadful habit in a systematic way. The routine is very simple indeed – thinking nothing and doing nothing. |At least for a few minutes in a day|
PS. Peace to me does not imply inaction. It does not imply death.Peace to me implies an optimum level where I am happy with what I am doing. Peace to me implies a state where I am not waiting for the result of my actions to be at it.
