peace

When one finally chances upon one’s essence – upon that great stillness, silence, spaciousness – it naturally follows that peace comes with this. A great peacefulness fills one’s being, from the inside outwards. This peace comes as a relief from the turmoil and anguish which the mind is accustomed to.

Finding this beautiful, existential base to our being, all else is understood to be the passing of surface waves, perhaps a little blustery now and again, nothing to worry about. And a deep peace comes to pervade the whole being. The tension melts away. The feeling of effort drops away. The struggle, the worries, the anxieties, the fears, all these things drop away. The tension of grasping and holding on to things also drops away.

The being is left light and free and deeply at peace with itself, with existence, with its place in existence. In fact, it feels itself as existence. Where then can there be space for conflict? No. No more conflict; at least in the depths of one’s being, which is where one feels reality. Here there is only peace, a peacefulness which is not disturbable.

Allow this peace to overwhelm your being. Relax into it. Content. At peace.