A Peace Full
"Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace."
– Buddha (560-483 B.C.)
Buddha did not say that one word was peace. He knew better. Saying 'Peace' does not guarantee peace. The word 'peace' is one of those 'thousand hollow words.'– Buddha (560-483 B.C.)
So how do we attain Peace if we're not in agreement with what peace really means? Peace, the intent, is more than an absence of war. When there is an absence of war there is a calm. But calm is not quite peace. Maybe those that died in the war now have peace. Hard to be sure of that... that requires some level of faith, wouldn't it? Religion asks the follower to have faith. Faith is more of a belief that does not use logic or evidence.
But we all have some inkling of what Peace really is. Maybe it's an innate thing - somehow related to when we are at rest. But Peace is not an object that can be bought or sold... it's matter-less. Peace is gotten when we are peaceful within ourselves. Peace is the afterglow of peacefulness.
In order to attain peace we must be peaceful first. But so many fight, kill and destroy falsely hoping to find peace. Angriness is the root of this action. We could be angry with ourselves. We could be angry as a group, as a community, a nation. We could be collectively angry as a religious flock of believers. But the anger really begins with just one - our own self.
If we learn to quiet the anger within us, we become better prepared to quell the anger in others... one at a time. Krishna, Buddha, Jesus and Mohammed did not dissolve the anger of mankind, even if their words attempted to do so. Those words were hollow, as Buddha said... meaning the words weren't enough to fulfill. We cannot force-feed peacefullness into everyone. Not everyone has the same liking for the words, not everyone finds the flavor of words appealing. That's why there are so many religions, so many belief systems, so many paths to the same goal - peace.
The one unifying factor amongst all people is our physicality. We all have heartbeats, we all breath, we all urinate and defecate, we all sleep, we all dream, we all laugh, cry, rejoice, celebrate, and we all have the ability to communicate on a sexual level. These are our commonalities, but yet so many do not accept these primal traits as conditions we all share. These human, physical attributes bring us, if not complete peacefulness, so close to peacefulness, that we know there is such a state... and it makes us feel good.
We all have three levels, we are three dimensional creatures - physical, mental and spiritual. Our mental (mind) is often the most problematic within our lives... we are ingrained with limitations by family, friends, associates most of our lives. But if it were known that our spiritual lives are a definite 'part and parcel' of our being, we would soon learn to sift thru our conditionings and eliminate those that prevent us from knowing our spiritual being. Following doctrines down to the letter often do more harm than good for coming to realize our spiritual being... it is not simply a matter of immersing oneself in a chosen religion, but learning that the mind has the ability to limit our being from attaining full potential.
Highly influenced by the dualities, yin/yang, sun/moon, good/bad, life/death, male/female, light/dark... what ever the dualities, our spiritual-ness is what oversees all the dualities. This spiritual level is what has been called full-realization or cosmic consciousness or heaven, nirvana, the absolute, even God or Allah, the word is not what is important, but knowing that we have this third dimension within all of us... this is the one uniter that brings us all peacefulness. And so powerful is this awakening that it imprints us for the rest of our lives.
If we are truly serious about Peace, it is incumbent upon each individual to find peacefulness within themselves. Perhaps this word, 'peaceful,' is one word that can bring us all closer to the essence of peace.
Peaceful begets Peace
Cecil
27 August 2006
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