In this impetuous era, maintaining inner peace seems to be a luxury requirement.
This should be a behavior that can be controlled by oneself, right? Doesn’t it mean: I have the final say in my world?
Why does a simple act become so difficult?
Is there always a voice telling you: Something needs to happen in my life before I can feel calm; some things that shouldn't have happened in the past happened, so I can't be calm when I think about it; now there are some things that shouldn't happen What happened happened, so it hindered my peace at the moment...
That voice also likes to say: Maybe one day in the future, the things I hope can happen, if I get or have what I want thing, or if I become this or that, I can calm down...
Can you find a commonality in the content of this sound? —— I really can’t calm down at this moment!
How can you calm down at this moment? Don't ignore this fact.
This fact is Inner peace comes from peaceful coexistence with the present moment. And all the reasons that voice can find are either in the past, the future, or fantasy, but have nothing to do with the present moment.
So, more often than not, that voice has the final say in your world.
However, our lives can only unfold in the present.
Because you can't decide at this moment what you did yesterday, and you can't decide at this moment what you will do tomorrow. Only at this moment can you truly determine what you can do.
Any thought that is divorced from the present moment is nothing more than an illusory thought, a black hand that draws your attention away from life.
That voice doesn’t want you to know this fact. Once you see this fact clearly, it means the death of the mastermind behind that voice. Because, at this moment, you will be one with life and no longer identified with the voice.
Why is it difficult for us to live in the present?
Even if we already know the only certainty of the present, we still habitually fall into the troubles of the past and the future.
The real reason is that we don't want to accept the present moment, or that the only thing you really have in the present moment is not what you want or what you like.
Is there anything more futile than resisting what you already have?
Is there anything more disturbing than being obsessed with the uncertainty of the unknown?
Being separated from or resisting the present moment is the source of pain; and that voice cannot survive in the present moment; but we always habitually regard that voice as our own incarnation, so we are in a temporarily unconscious state : creates pain without realizing it!
In this state, it is almost impossible to achieve inner peace.
Why do I always experience inner peace for a moment?
This is because you are separated from the close connection with thinking activities at that moment, so the true nature of life is released.
How can we prevent ourselves from being completely controlled by our thoughts?
When you notice that your emotions begin to change, it means that you have broken away from identifying with your thoughts, emotions, and reactions. This situation is different from denying them, but being able to perceive them. Before, you were the puppet of those thoughts, emotions, reactions; now you are the one who is aware - they are there and you are here, the awareness.
The so-called transformation of consciousness is the transformation from thinking to awareness. At this moment, a consciousness with greater wisdom than that voice will operate in your life.
You will no longer simply regard everything that voice tells you and the negative emotions these contents bring you as yourself. You will clearly and clearly see that they are just an emotion and a thought that happened to you. Ultimately, your entire personal history is nothing more than a story, a collection of thoughts and emotions.
The emergence of awareness means that these thoughts and emotions no longer dominate your life. They become secondary. They no longer form the basis of your sense of self.
The above content is a description of the heart, thinking and awareness in the form of modern psychology . Below I will interpret it in the form of traditional Taoist philosophy .
" The human heart is in danger, the Taoist heart is only subtle, but the essence is the only one, and it is allowed to stick to the goal ". This paragraph of text is called " Sixteen Characters of Heart-to-Heart" by scholars of the Song Dynasty. It is the governance method passed down from heart to heart by Yao, Shun and Yu.
The so-called "human heart" refers to people's desire to do something. Desire is ever-changing, and any form of desire is an unconscious biased tendency, so the "human heart" is the heart of danger.
The "human heart" here is not the same as the "Tao heart", nor does it refer to the "heart" under common understanding. In fact, it is closer to or just the mind, the voice that tells you everything.
"Tao Xin" has no bias, so it is neutral and fair. In the neutral place is "awareness ". The human heart imitates the Taoist heart, which is to imitate this fair and neutral mentality, so it is necessary to "allow and hold in the middle", that is, to "awareness" to live between the heart and the mind, and to be impartial.
