Every where we look, every where we go, in every city that we live, in all the times that we have lived regardless of it being the 21st Century or the 1000BC, human beings have been surrounded by noise, mind-boggling noise. But is the noise outside of us or is it really within us. If everything in this world apart from nature is the product of thought then all the noise outside of us is the product of the lack of peace within us. So is not the mind itself a source of disturbance? If you really think about it the mind can only gather, accumulate, deny, assert, remember and pursue.
Is peace - which is so essential because without peace you cannot live, you cannot create - something to be realised through the struggles, through the denials, through the sacrifices of the mind? Do you understand what I am talking about? As we grow older, unless we are very wise and watchful, though we may be discontented while we are young, that discontent will be canalised into some form of peaceful resignation to life.
The mind is everlastingly seeking somewhere to create a secluded habit, belief, desire, in which it can live and be peaceful with the world. But the mind cannot find peace, because the mind can only think in terms of time - as the past, the present and the future, what it has been, what it is, and what it will be - condemning, judging, weighing, pursuing its own vanities, habits, beliefs.
The mind can never be peaceful though it can delude itself into some kind of peace, but that is not peace. It can mesmerise itself with words by the repetition of phrases by merely following somebody, by knowledge; but such a mind is not a peaceful mind, because the mind is itself the centre of attraction; the mind is by its very nature the essence of time.
So, the mind with which you think, with which you calculate, with which you engineer, with which you compare, such a mind is incapable of finding peace.
Think about it.
John Singh.
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in search of peace?
your article is an excellent example of how humans look for something( "peace" )... ending up finding that "something" within themselves (in your case, within your "mind") and concluding that you cant ever find that "something" ( cant't find "peace")
I don't know... but my anaology sounds funny
Posted by: shaizy | November 17, 2007 at 02:05 PM