Your Peace is in Your Control

Why do animals seem more peaceful than human beings? You cannot be as peaceful as a cow; try as hard as you want. You cannot be. You may manage it for a few moments but then it’s gone.

People have tried excessive eating, intoxicants, excessive indulgence in pleasures, with all these things, they have tried to create some kind of peacefulness within themselves.

You think that you’ve got there but the next moment it is gone. Any number of times it’s deceived you, hasn’t it? Yes? One Saturday evening, your whole family met; all of you had a wonderful dinner; you thought this is the height of the world.

Everything is so wonderful, magical. Tomorrow morning you see, poof. Not because there is something wrong with your family; It is just that with a limited entity, you are trying to create an unlimited space.

It’s not going to work. It’s just not going to work. Nothing wrong, it’s just that it doesn’t work. There’re lots of great things in the world which don’t work. I am not interested in them, that’s all.

You’re interested in great things? Are you interested in great things? I’m not interested in great things; I am only interested in things that work.

There’re lots of great things. People claim there are great things but they don’t work, they have not worked for anybody. They are great things because somebody says so. They are great things because somebody thinks too much of himself and whatever he says or does must be great, but they don’t work.

We are looking for something that works. If you are determining the course of your experience right now, one hundred percent, you are beginning to you know but your legs are aching like crazy but still, it’s beginning to work.

If you are determining the nature of your experience right now, one-hundred percent, let’s say, we assume that, if you are, then would somebody have to tell you, “please create a pleasant experience.”

Will somebody have to tell you? No. So somebody telling you ‘be loving is all bullshit. Yes or no? Because nobody needs to tell you.

The problem is you are not able to determine the nature of your experience. Yes? The problem is you are unable to determine the nature of your experience for whatever reasons. If you could determine the nature of your experience, nobody has to tell you.

This is all coming from patchy ideas about life. You see somebody fighting, you say ‘be loving;’ you see somebody unhappy, you say, ‘be blissful’; it’s most insulting. When somebody is in a great state of unhappiness, going and telling them, ‘be blissful’ is most insulting, isn’t it? But these are all the great teachings on this planet which have been around for centuries.

These are all great things that have never worked. So we are only seeing how to determine the nature of your experience. If you take charge of what causes experience within you, if you are in-charge of that, I’m hundred percent sure, you will make it very pleasant for yourself.

And I am also sure, if you are feeling very pleasant within yourself, you would be naturally pleasant to everybody around yourself. Unfortunately, people have taken it upon themselves, to confuse humanity so badly about their own nature.

You see, it’s very simple, it doesn’t take any scripture or a Guru to tell you this, it’s very simple, whatever the nature of your experience, it’s happening within you. Is it so? You don’t need some great yoga or a scripture or a Guru or a stone that falls from heaven to tell you this.

If the nature of your experience, then whatever is the nature of your experience, whether it’s fear, anger, love, hatred, ecstasy, agony – everything is happening from within you, it would be very natural for human beings to look and see how to make it into a most pleasant experience? If you had not freaked them with ‘God loves you from up there,’ if you had not exported love to heaven, a lot of human beings would have been very loving human beings.

But now we have exported it out there, you have to import it, for importing it, you need permission. And there are agents here who don’t give permission so easily. It’s not coming across because all the love has gone to heaven.

How do you get it now? Here there is a priest standing with a permit. He won’t give it to you. Whether you want to experience blissfulness, whether you want to experience love, whether you want to experience ecstasy – whatever, whatever states of pleasantness human beings have known, have come from within them.

Is that so? So there is no need to apply for any permit from anywhere, you just have to become willing to explore what you are, to bring this self to the most pleasant state. Not because it’s a virtue. Love is not a virtue, bliss is not a virtue, to be pleasant is not a virtue – it’s just that, this is the way you long to be, isn’t it? It is not that if you are loving, you’ll go to heaven; it is not that if you are ecstatic, you’ll go to heaven, it is just that if you are loving and ecstatic, you don’t need heaven.

People who’ve made a hell for themselves, want to go to heaven. People who have made heaven out of themselves, where do they want to go? Wherever the hell they go, they don’t care. So, it’s very, very important. The more you know about this whole mechanism, the better sound you produce. Isn’t it so?

Sometimes by chance it may happen. That’s different but the more you know about it, the better. If you are a sound engineer, you produce good sound. So if you are an Inner Engineer, then you make your self the way you want your self to be.

That’s all it takes. It doesn’t need anything else. It is just that because it’s in a different direction than the way you are constantly looking through your sense perception. You need help maybe, not necessarily, but generally yes.

You need a certain amount of help but that’s all. Grace is just that help, that it creates a conducive atmosphere to slip in. If any machinery has to perform well, you need some lubricant.

Whatever car you have, try to run it without oil for ten minutes; it will be ruined, won’t it? It’s the lubricant that is keeping it going. All these great machines without that little bit of that thin film of lubricant, it’s all destroyed in no time.

Grace is just that, that little lubricant so that things happen smoothly. Now they have started calling it liquid engineering. Everybody’s started doing it. It’s appropriate, it takes liquid engineer.

So this takes liquid engineering. Grace is just a lubricant, without the lubricant if you try to work, then the friction of life will destroy you. Yes?

People are born, which was not their doing. They just want to eat well, sleep well, fulfill their basic needs – this is all they want to do. In the process of doing this, how many human beings are broken and bitter and destroyed because they have no lubricant, but there’s nothing else wrong with them?

Your peace comes from within you but only if you take the time to create that inner peace. Contemplate a flower. Consider a tree. Empty your mind of distractions and begin to understand the simplicity of the complex world in which you live.

Understand that the universe was there long before you existed and it will be there when this life through which you pass has ended.

Create an inner calm through quiet contemplation.

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It is said that with age comes wisdom. As a "senior" I would candidly say that were I able to live my life over again but retain all of the lessons that I have learned in my life, then the new, young me would enjoy a very different life than that which I have enjoyed. Experiences (good and bad) teach us life's lessons if you apply them. My intention with this blog is to provide a constant source of wisdom to you, gentle reader, in the hope that you can avoid some or more of life's mistakes and thus enjoy a better quality of life. My sources are global because applied wisdom is what counts.

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