Peace Is Not A Thought, Not A

Let Come What Comes, And Accommodate Yourself To That, Whatever It Is. If Good Mental Images Arise, That Is Fine. If Bad Mental Images Arise, That Is Fine, Too. Look On All Of It As Equal, And Make Yourself Comfortable With Whatever Happens.

No Matter How Hard You Pursue Pleasure And Success, There Are Times When You Fail. No Matter How Fast You Flee, There Are Times When Pain Catches Up With You.

But Look Within And Watch The Stuff Coming Up-restlessness, Anxiety, Impatience, Pain-just Watch It Come Up And Don't Get Involved. Much To Your Surprise, It Will Simply Go Away. It Rises, It Passes Away. As Simple As That. There Is Another Word For Self-discipline. It Is Patience.

We Usually Do Not Look Into What Is Really There In Front Of Us. We See Life Through A Screen Of Thoughts And Concepts, And We Mistake Those Mental Objects For Reality. We Get So Caught Up In This Endless Thought-stream That Reality Flows By Unnoticed. We Spend Our Time Engrossed In Activity, Caught Up In An Eternal Flight From Pain And Unpleasantness. We Spend Our Energies Trying To Make Ourselves Feel Better, Trying To Bury Our Fears. We Are Endlessly Seeking Security. Meanwhile, The World Of Real Experience Flows By Untouched And Untasted.

Ignorance May Be Bliss, But It Does Not Lead To Liberation.