Try to focus as you read this and you'll get a lot more out of it. It's a bit deep, but not hard to understand if you focus..
It seems to me that the the absolute form of life is a tranquil peace that comes as an expression of the harmony of life, a natural harmony. ( Is not the idea of a perfect life one in which we achieve perfection at the achievements that are that we believe to be worthwhile? I think so. )
When a persons sense of inner achievement has been muted, they return to the clamor of the material world.
The bondage of the material world brings a loss of all the senses surrounding the living center of self. Now that person is caught in the middle of many different situations. This will alienate one from their spiritual power and force the them to find fulfillment in the excitement of cheap stimuli by way of satisfaction of primal desires or an over expressed sense of self importance. Their power to recognize true peace and harmony or to settle the differences of the heart and spirit, or for that matter even recognize the opposite or conflicting sides of issues makes transcending from a material state to a spiritual state impossible.
As we have chaos around us, the most admirable quality that we can have is to preserve our own inner tranquility, not to be insensitive of the situations nor to be arrogant about others pain. But instead our lessons of spiritualism are at those times ready to be implemented and used. We must at his time look as deep as we are, and find the power of peace.
On this idea it would appear to be, that a person that has been tried by the experiences of life are nearer to tranquility than one who have not gone though the school of suffering. Those who have gone through great suffering have learned great truth. (When we ask God to show us the truth it is often followed by suffering) If one waits too long and gets past their prime the tranquility of life will not be the dominating factor. As we get older we become better at rationalizing and defending our attitudes ideology. It is important that the younger one is that the more that they need to be taught the lessons of these truths. Kind of a tough love I suppose.
The greatest civilizations allow the grandparents to raise the children. Wisdom brings tranquility.
The most common word that this relates to is maturity. Maturity is the state of mind that allows us to find harmony in disharmony, and unity in opposition. Life is full of actions that become automatic and that have to be practiced to become perfect. This leaves us at a loss as to where we will find a way to learn and train for developing our inner life and not our outer or material life. Just because a person has more or can do more is no sign that they are more. The challenge then begins to be a pursuit of broadening your outlook in order to obtain a greater degree of maturity. At that time you begin to realize that your effectiveness comes from your essential being and not what you have or what you can do. but, rather from what you can release and give up and cultivate your personal nature.
This would take a life time to achieve for most of us. Those that live in this fashion are indestructible.
Nothing can harm them because all that they are is in them not dependent on what is on the outside of them. Kind of like riding through an angry mob on a bicycle versus driving through a mob in a tank.
The essential part of our inner being is complimented by our experiences in this material world and one needs to understand that we have to be able to hone our inner strength much in the same way we hone a sword blade in order to cut through the bonds of materialism. If we give in to our desires and our unnecessary wants then in fact we dull this blade that we need in order to cut those material bonds. But with a different outlook and practiced maturity we can hone this blade and cut a bigger and better life out for ourselves and do it with less worry or even effort. The more we are quiet and still in our beliefs and the more faith we have in our inner self the easier life becomes.
When you are in a car and feeling cramped forget your ego and imagine that the car is moving in you and the people in the car are sitting in you.
