Choosing Peace

[sonamdhargey]

Peace is a matter of choice. We can be peaceful or not, it all depends on on our decisions.

There is a key moment, says Pema Chödrön, when we make the choice between peace and conflict. In this teaching from her program Practicing Peace in Times of War, she describes the practice we can do at that very moment to bring peace for ourselves, for others, and for the world.

If we want to make peace, with ourselves and with the world at large, we have to look closely at the source of all of our wars. So often, it seems, we want to “settle the score,” which means getting our revenge, our payback. We want others to feel what we have felt. It means getting even, but it really doesn’t have anything to do with evenness at all. It is, in fact, a highly charged emotional reaction.

Underlying all of these thoughts and emotions is our basic intelligence, our basic wisdom. We all have it and we can all uncover it. It can grow and expand and become more accessible to us as a tool of peacemaking and a tool of happiness for ourselves and for others. But this intelligence is obscured by emotional reactivity when our experience becomes more about us than about them, more about self than about other. That is war.

I have often spoken of shenpa, the Tibetan term for the hook in our mind that snags us and prevents us from being open and receptive. When we try to settle the score, we cover over our innate wisdom, our innate intelligence, with rapidly escalating, highly charged, shenpa-oozing emotionality. We produce one hook after another.

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[fruven]

It is also choosing anger over patience, us versus them, losing something versus none losing something, pride or face versus none. Besides these one the underlying intention is too grab resources. Countries go into war because of wanting to have more or insufficient of resources. The war is a cover of controlling or claiming a stake of resources in another country. We can see much resources are being fought over in even modern times.

[RedLantern]

In a world where stress,worries,fears,strain,rush and restlessness abound,inner peace is of paramount importance.It is a treasure that everyone desires,but very few know how to find and enjoy.
We face situations that cause stress,anxieties,worries or unhappiness.Problems, conflicts,demands,  misunderstandings or emergencies often arise at work,at home or in relationships,and lend to emotional and physical strain or problems.A state of inner peace is a blessing and such and similar situations,is important for
dealing effectively with them.Often,even while being in good financial condition and in good health,people still experience anxiety,unhappiness and lack of peace.This is because inner peace and happiness comes from within,and do not depend on external conditions,but we can certainly bring changes into our inner world,which will in turn affect our actions,reactions and external world.