How to get the peace of mind Learn from Buddha

 If your mind is always unrest then you must understand this story. In this story you will find answers to three questions

What is the meaning of peace?

What is the cause of restlessness of mind?

How to get the peace of mind?

Once a disciple asked his Acharya(Acharya Means a teacher) why our mind does not get peace. Acharya answers that peace is not something that can be achieved, it is always everywhere. Acharya says that every man has two choices, first anger and hatred and second love and compassion. Most of the people consciously or unconsciously choose the first option and say that their mind is disturbed. The disciple asks, but why do people choose anger and hatred?

Acharya answers that people choose anger and hatred in most situations because they feels that they know everything and by doing so they starts increasing their own ego. Suppose a person has a belief in something and another person comes and starts breaking his belief, then you know what the first person will do in this situation. Disciple asks what will he do? . Acharya says that the first person will get angry not because his belief is getting broken but because his ego is getting broken.

And a person who calls himself wise or who understands that he is wise can not see his ego being broken. The disciple asks, Acharya, how does this ego arise?

Acharya answers  every person has made his own identity. He has attached himself to certain things, if someone comes and tries to break his identity, then that person becomes angry. And there is a specialty of anger that it only gives rise to unrest. In similar way hatred and greed also arise. If someone thinks that if I get so much money, then I will be happy and if someone else gets that money or thing, then that person starts hating that other. And hatred increase unrest. There are many such things in this life which only give rise to unrest And anger or hatred does not destroy the peace because there is no way to destroy the peace.

They just arise unrest, Because only unrest can be created and can also be eradicated. Your attention shifts from peace to disturbance, so you ask how you bring peace in your life?

While this question itself is wrong. Peace doesn't go it is always present everywhere. It is you who cannot see the trap of your mind and get caught in it. What you see in this world is an image of your mind, an exaggerated form of your mind. You see everything from one point of view or want to see. In this situation you don't even understand what is right for you and this causing unrest.

That disciple asks, Acharya, how to remove this identity which we have created within us.

Acharya answers to erase this identity and bring true peace

Meditation helps us to experience.  When we meditate, at least at that time nothing matters to us. While meditating, only our existence remains and nothing else. And as we go deeper into meditation, our clarity of mind increases. And we can see what is the root of the unrest rising within us.

That disciple asks what is the real meaning of the peace? Acharya answers, peace means emptiness,  Peace is not something that can be created or destroyed. Peace is something that is always there. Peace is the foundation of this existence, it is just like an ocean  there is movement on the surface of the ocean, but at the bottom it is completely calm and stable.

That disciple asks but from where to start?

Acharya says with awareness, Learn to see what is as it is, and learn to let go of what you hold within yourself with the help of meditation. If you can do this, then you will not have to find peace anywhere, it will be available to you at this very moment.

 

 

 

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