Peace within Yourself

"Peace comes from within, do not seek it without." (The Buddha)

You all want to live a happy, peaceful life, and in harmony with others. However, the real peace is just your wish if you cannot find peace in your heart.

‘Peace with yourself' sounds like simple; in fact, some initial context, requiring you to practice reflecting the scene and the mind in a long time.

How to reflective practice in the phenomenon and look at the mind? Usually, our minds are dependent on the five sense organs in our eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body and associated sense objects (visible forms, sounds, odors, tastes and tactile objects), thus incurred the distinction of consciousness. From unreal consciousness such as likes and dislikes to the outside then arise defilement, unhappiness… In actuality, the phenomena are indifferent, just because your minds are constantly moving, that why they become problems with you. Try to see a flower without thinking how to taking a flower from cutting it, what peaceful you are!

Many say that 'peace' is synonymous with 'civilization'; this definition seems reasonable. Nevertheless, the ‘civilization' is not sure to bring peace. Technically and scientifically today developed in a dizzying fashion, but the voice of unhappiness is louder than ever when the forces of greed, prejudice, intolerance, misunderstanding and contradiction always cause a lot of tensions between a lot of nations. The War and the risk of war exist at many levels; on the ground, conflict and violence continue to occur among peoples and religions; and upstairs, where the nuclear war cloud still hangs in the sky. The distinction between human and human; greed and selfishness have created fears, doubts and anxieties that almost never stopped.

In the political realm, in order to consolidate its power, it must exist in the multicultural and multi-religious societies. If a nation exists in a religion only, then the leaders of that religion can become powerful politicians who would ‘threaten’ politics just by religious belief. Religion separated from politics is the concept of democracy that some countries have implemented. However, the system of democracy that denies religion can also create conflict and no longer truly democracy. The balance between freewill and predestination is the skill of the social consciousness of the peaceful existence to human of life and death, war and peace, and this has become the traditional thought to war and the pursuit of 'peace by using force' in Western countries. Human beings, however, have no attain true peace yet as every country, race still strengthens and enlarges its own weapons.

The Preamble to the 1919 Constitution of the International Labor Organization (“ILO”) stated that universal peace can be established only if it is based upon social justice. Thinkers and peace activists have called for peace with a broader agenda of justice and development on equality of justice, but some are still conservative for the class, such as rich and poor…because of its tradition of long-standing thought as unchanging fate, destiny, so these causing more the insecurity and suffering for people on this earth.

How long do people have real peace? Each person finds peace inner oneself through mindfulness, awareness, and does not bring one’s own favors to fight against the outside that oneself doesn’t like; generally, which is also human’s psychological illness. If people cannot grasp the mystery of mind, whether to meditate or purify the body, all is just in vain.

Peace comes from within. When you go, still go…don’t stop, don’t choose. Let yourself float on the way naturally; no matter how you drift, but this is not hurt your mind and just look at it, smile…!

TNTQ