A Peaceful Mind

Can we ever find peace, not as an ideal, but as a reality?  Humans say they want peace and they perform all sorts of activities that they say are aimed at peace.  But is peace a procurement?  An ideal that has a causation and is therefore remedial?   Can the mind that is filled with prejudice, suspicion, fear, and all the rest of it ever find peace?  Does the violence we heap on other cultures for the sake of peace ever return peace?  Does the divided mind, the opinionated mind, the mind that is caught in  doctrines of right and wrong, moral and immoral ever realize peace?

You as an individual, what action in moment will you take that leads to peace?  Will you look at your neighbor and accept him/her without your opinions and prejudice?  Surely peace must start with the individual.  This means that a person needs to be acutely aware of the movement of the mind and how it formulates based on fear, misunderstanding, and conditioning.  If you are one of the few that realizes that each one of us is responsible for creating peace and understanding, then that is the beginning of world peace.  Because you are in fact the world.  This is not just a nice quote.  This is the actual reality of the moment.  The moment that you fully realize your responsibility for creating peace, then the world realizes it.

This does not mean that you create an organization of peaceniks.  It means that you fully realize peace, not as an ideal, but as an actuality from moment to moment.  It is totally an individual effort that does not rely on the conflict and confusion of organizations.  The self (mind) that is seeking peace as an ideal never finds it because it is looking outside its self for answers. To seek peace means that you know what it is. But have you ever really, in the depths of you being, actually experienced peace. If peace were an ideal to be sought after then the answer would be yes.  But it is not. It is a state that only exist in the moment.  You are either peaceful in this moment or you are not peaceful at all.  There is no tomorrow that brings peace, only the illusion of the ideal. The conditioned mind is sick and violent, it is unable to see that it is the cause of all the fear and hatred.  That fear is fueled by our political, religious and cultural beliefs.  These beliefs divide us and turn us into automatons of violence.  The mind is absent the ability to realize its own weakness because it has become hypnotized and conditioned to think in terms of fear.  Any society or organization that relies on fear as the primary motivator can never realize real peace.  Look at your religion, look at your politics, is it not based on fear?  As long as you worship fear (and you do) you will always be violent either psychologically or physically.  But seeing this in the actual moment, realizing that you are "violence" is the beginning of a peaceful mind and of an intelligence that is beyond the conditioned mind.

One has to look at one's own conditioning.  How that your life up to now has been one of fear and violence.  You have to actually see it, see the reality of it.  You can only do this if you are vulnerable.  That is you are not making excuses, justifying or reconciling your psychological fear.  Fear and violence are not two separate activities...they are one in the same.  A person should not make the mistake of thinking that violence is only physical.  Psychological violence is much more brutal and damaging to the mind.

When you realize the maker of all violence and fear, then peace becomes a reality, because in the moment you take action.