The Way To Live In Peace
Everyone’s need is the peace and tries to find it outside because from the time we born, we opened the eyes and looked the outside world as important thing and happiness. And some others think that money or any other wealth is the source of happiness. It is true that wealth brings us happiness and satisfaction if it is related with lawful and moral code. However, if the wealth associated with immoral, illegal act, our happiness will turn into sorrow, unhappiness, grief and agitation and so on.
From day to day lives we experience the agitation, irritation, torturing, depression, disharmony and suffering etc… And whenever we come into contact with such experience, we do not keep this misery limited in ourselves but we permeate the environment around us to be polluted by our miseries. When such feeling arise in our mind we, ignorance people, do not know how to control it but we react to that by generating a new negativity in our mind- the anger which later develop into aversion, hatred and it spreads outside- in the society, therefore the atmosphere around us or those who come into contact with us also affected by our anger. Anger leads to aversion, hatred, ill will and finally become into the war in society. It is not the proper way to live. Where is the origination of peace?
In fact, it originates from the inside- in the mind of individual. Only that leads outside to be peaceful. How to make peace come into being in our mind at the time of unstable world as today? As we already know nowadays, some people claim that they love peace however they try to burn the fire of anger inside themselves and spray it toward the atmosphere around them. To do so how can one find peace and harmony here and now? Here let us and see the art of living which discovered by great man known as Gotama Buddha, 2500 years ago in the northern part of ancient India- that is vipassanæ.
Vipassanæ is meant to teach us the art of living wisely. It is most practical teaching if we learn it properly and practice it, we will be able to use it effectively in our lives. Then we will know how to live happily and peacefully with equanimity in all circumstances.
The importance of arising peace in our mind is that “know you as the advice of the Buddha has given to in the purpose of living with harmony and peace. We, however, always engage in agitation, torturing, depression and suffering etc. Therefore the lord Buddha taught us to observe whatever sensations arise in our physical or mental structure. On hearing this teaching it sounds very easy to obtain it, but this is the practical aspect. An ordinary person cannot observe what is going in our body and mind. We need the proper training to observe ourselves under the guidance of the qualified teachers because as we know all the defilements are rooted deeply in our mind since we are born from the mother’s womb to this world.
Since we are born in this world we start to open the eyes to look outward so our thoughts are deep to the outside world. We think that the world outside is very important to us for bring peace and happiness or suffering, torturing and depression etc, to us by failing to see inward as the cause of these miseries. Therefore it is not easy to wipe out all the impurities of the mind at once but we have to be patient to cut it off step by step by trying to know ourselves in the way of self- observation.
Still, however, we start to observe what is going on in our body and mind and it is easy to do so, therefore there must be a reaction to that such feeling, pains any part of the body then the agitation arises in our mind at once. After that we start generating another new negative reaction to that by anger, hatred and version. But if such feeling- pains any part of the body, there must be reaction to that when we observe whatever arises in us we know suddenly that “this arises in me or that arises in me”. By noticing like this the defilements which start to arise will disappear, so that we do not allow the new impurity of the mind to arise and uproot the old one, until our minds become purer and purer.
This direct experience of reality of processes of the mind and body in one’s own self, this method of self- observation, is what we call Vipassanæ meditation. Vipassanæ method of meditation is to see thing as they really are, not just as they seem to be. The appearance of truth has to be penetrated; when one reaches to the realization of ultimate truth of the whole mental and physical structure. When we experience this truth then we learn to stop reacting blindly, to stop generating the defilement- impurity of the mind. The old defilements are gradually eradicated. We come out of all miseries, and experience happiness and peace.
Finally our mind will be peaceful, and when we reach this stage, our lives start changing. It is no longer possible for us to anything by speech or action which perturbs the peace happiness of one and of others. Instead the balanced mind not only becomes peaceful in oneself but it also help others to become peaceful because those who reach this stage are full of love which is not associated with attachment known as universal love (compassionate love) Hre it means that when we find peace in ourselves we can also spread it to the atmosphere surround us and those who live nearby will enjoy the taste of peace which bring from inner peace. As we know we all are the member of society therefore if we all have inner peace it means that the society also stays stable, peaceful and harmony.
By: Ven. Sin Kong B.A (B.Dh)
International Thearvada
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