Episode 195
Your Peace Serves the World
In many cultures, we have the attitude that our worth is only measured by doing or achieving. We demand so much of ourselves that we think that by allowing ourselves to be at peace, we are wasting time.
In fact, often it is our retreat from the world which serves us and the world the most. We might leave a situation, however difficult, and retire to contemplate. Not merely turning things over to justify our egos, but genuinely seeking insight. Finding the new and creative way to see the situation so that when it comes we can face it, with open countenance and open heart.
Or perhaps to simply allow ourselves to take a break, to experience peace as fully as possible, to cherish our own souls without expectation that it will serve anything but that moment. In the end we might find that our enjoyment of peace is what serves the world the most.
Hosts & Guests
Kurt Robinson
Transcript
I was watching the wind playing with the leaves in the trees on the other side of the road and thinking about how our peace serves the world.
In our culture, in English speaking culture and especially in American United States culture I suppose there is this idea of productivity where we have to put every productive minute to use. We have that auto exigent tendency that takes that cultural value and just runs with it thinking we must do in order to be valuable.
We cannot just be and I think it’s important to take a step back from that. Of course some of us need a kick in the rear end but of course the other side of that is to allow ourselves that peace just to sit, contemplate, meditate and think.
This isn’t something just for fun or something unproductive. Of course it is a valuable experience in itself, something to be enjoyed in the state of mind that Maslow called being condition. Just watching the world pass by, observing things without categorizing them. Allowing the space in front of us to exist, the space that allows us to exist.
Echart Tolle probably said it in a more succinct way. Taking a break, reading, taking the time to step ack from the world of course enables our objectivity to see things more clearly when we do this.
Some people call it navel gazing, sometimes it is naval gazing. Sometimes the introspection is not productive especially for example we step out of the world and think about things in the world perhaps trying to justify our own egos, thinking about the perfect comeback that we could have said.
What about instead of justifying those things to ourselves and our egos we face that situation with more compassion. How could I have resolved it in a way more beneficial for all involved that made me feel good and allowed others to feel empowered.
How could that be done?
In the way of the samurai he talks about how a samurai should meditate daily on death, even on the most gruesome forms of death imagining being drowned by tremendous waves, crashing and driving us to the floor. Or revealing our own innards, being decapitated. Many also brutal events that could lead to our death, this way says the way of the samurai when death finally comes to us we might face it easily.
Likewise if we prepare for death we should so prepare for life. So when a difficult situation arises we can face it clearly, when we need to diffuse some conflict, we’ve already thought about how to smile in that situation, how to take things graciously and gracefully.
How to bring peace to whatever disturbance rises within ourselves and within others.
Taking the time to build that peace within or to find it, to allow it to surface so that peace can serve the world.
Thank you for looking for that peace inside, thank you for revealing it.
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