Guest guest Posted July 2, 2005 Report Share Posted July 2, 2005 Nisargadatta , " sunyani9 " <sunyani9> wrote: > To all the souls that visit this site do you have peace within your > house ,your vehicle that carrys your soul? > > If so, how did you arrive at that wonder of wonders? > > You have peaceful day! > And if challenges come to steal your peace and fail,then you truelly > have it. > > Sunyani thanks for the question, sunyani. i don't really follow the metaphor of having a house that holds peace. what i have found is that peace simply is always present, as present as the silence that permeates everything no matter what is arising. honestly, it has not been my experience of peace being something i can own or hold. if anything, having people attribute feeling peace around me, believing i had to create it and chasing experience of peace kept me from seeing it is always here. when i began to get that it is so empty, clear, beyond concepts, it also struck me that it is the same peace that anyone sees/knows. it simply is. with many stories and descriptions around where perceptions have personalized it. as to how i became aware of this, it seems there have been many variations on a theme of surrender, of just stopping, and not trying to avoid or change what is here. and in that, a stillness becomes felt as more real than anything that can appear to threaten peace. through a willingness to really be present, i've discovered there is, that which can never be touched by what appears. for me, this enters what is wordless, yet, peace is real. --josie-- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 2, 2005 Report Share Posted July 2, 2005 > Nisargadatta , " sunyani9 " <sunyani9> wrote: > > To all the souls that visit this site do you have peace within your > > house ,your vehicle that carrys your soul? > > > > If so, how did you arrive at that wonder of wonders? > > > > Sunyani > > Nisargadatta , " blueoceantiger " <jkane@d...> wrote: > as to how i became aware of this, it seems there have > been many variations on a theme of surrender, of > just stopping, and not trying to avoid or change what > is here. and in that, a stillness becomes felt as > more real than anything that can appear to threaten > peace. through a willingness to really be present, > i've discovered there is, that which can never be > touched by what appears. for me, this enters what is > wordless, yet, peace is real. > > --josie-- Buddha said it in a nutshell, and it went a little somethin' like this: expectations cause suffering. When we expect something to be different the resistance immediately invokes suffering. Suffering is the anti-thesis of peace. If one doesn't have expectations then then there is no suffering but an acceptance of all that is (as Gene would say) --NOW. The decision to accept some things rather than other things in relation to how it makes us feel or experience is what produces the emotion of peace vs suffering. One would then just accept. But then there'd be no fighting or disagreement, just acceptance for all that is pouring out of empty void, and well...what would be the fun in that eh? nope, suffering vs peace is one of the great dualisms to cling to. Both are emotional inducements and concepts pouring out of empty void. If you seek the one you will surely find the other. They are the dual yin-yang. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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