Instruments of Peace
The call of this time
is a call for peace. In may early morning mediation, I can hear the call of the
peace-less world for peace – not just for an end to conflict, but for a deep
inner stillness and calm, which all souls remember as our original state.
If we are to find peace, first we must teach ourselves to
become quiet and then we can become peaceful. Becoming peaceful means seizing
the reins of the out-of-control mind and bringing the runaway thoughts to a
halt. Once we have the mind’s attention, we can begin to coax it to take us
into silence, a true silence, not a please without sound, but the of peace and
a pervasive awareness of our well-being.
It is not an empty mind that elicits this state of peace. To
move into this state of profound salience we must train it to concentrate. Our
wasteful thoughts burden us. Our habits of creating too many thoughts and too much
word exhaust the intellect. We must ask, “How can I cultivate the habit of pure
thought?”
Who is it that yearns
to go into silence? It is I, the inner being, the soul. As I detach from my
body and from bodily things, and turn away from the distractions of the world,
I can face inwards to the inner being. Like a perfectly calm lake when all
whispers of wing have stopped, the inner being shimmers. Quietly reflecting the
intrinsic qualities of the soul. Feelings of peace and well-being steal across
my mind and, thoughts of benevolence.
I let go of all thoughts of discontentment and am reminded of
my oldest, most intrinsic state of being. I remember this inner calm. Though I
have not been here recently, remember it as my most fundamental awareness, and
a feeling of happiness and contentment wells up inside me. In this state I know
every soul to be my friend. I am my own friend. I am deeply quiet. I am silent
and utterly at peace.
This deep well of peace is the original state of the soul.
When I am in This state, I feel the flow of love for humanity and I feel a
state more elevated than what I world normally call happiness; a state of
bliss. It is when I attain this state that something truly miraculous can
happen. When I am in this state of complete soul-conscious rest, I become aware
that energy is beginning to flow into me. I feel stretch and a power so
expansive that in do, nowhere I cannot reach.
When this happens, I am experiencing the connection with the
divine energy and the flow of God’s power into my inner being. If I stay
focused inward, connected with this stream of divine power, even the way I use
the physical senses will be different. When I look at the word, I will see
through my original nature of benevolence and experience compassion for the
world.
It is in this experience that I know what silence power is. It
is this power that transforms me inside, making me pure and powerful. When the
soul and God are linked together, there is a power that reaches me and then
reaches invisibly across to others, bringing about transformation in them, in
nature, and in the world.
The secret of this power of silence is that I don’t have to do
the work of transformation. Divine power automatically transforms. Let Mme do
the inner work. Let me go deeply into that experience of the original state of
the self, and let there be silence so that God is able to do His work through
me, His instrument.
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