ODDY


April 25th 2006

copyright don oddy

~ our inner peace ~

Often, from a grain of sand a mountain emerges. If you want to protect your inner peace transform the mountain into a grain of sand Are we all really searching for inner peace? A state of mind where calm and feeling and emotions are balanced? How can we strive for something we may only imagine. What is this place where calm and joy and happiness dwell? Why do we seek such sanctuary from life or believe life is a progression towards this goal.

We make an assumption that there is some quality in peace which offers tranquillity. And as with all states of mind, can we sustain this outlook and as all our philosophy offers, an inner tranquillity an inner peace.

We seem driven and curious about the world we see and wonder at our minds eye. Some suggest it’s a third eye, there is something in us, a hint from time past which makes us wonder at our dreams. We wonder where and how to sustain joy in our long years and curious quests in life.

As we trip along across the oceans of this earth, we encounter all emotional and thinking states. Like predators our feelings move in harmony with our environment. Are our moods merely a reflection of who we are and how we are affected?

We live in peril, we live in peace and in between. We find comfort in our good times and use imagination to hold on and to replicate our better experiences. We use vision and creativity to make good our real world and so bring dreams to life. And we can experience the nightmares we encounter in our imaginings in reality as our world moves with lurching frequency across nature’s drift to warm and cold, to plenty and famine, so too our moods and dreams flow. And inner peace, a sanctuary from our world is never sustained as nature and our nurture fight and vie. As if an impossible standard created in our imaginary world can hold to ransom this bleak truth, that reality is never ever as we might wish.

An inner calm, an inner peaceful play towards a streaming conscious calm. Man never made this transition and reveres like heavens call, that place where a troublesome world is transformed and all is set to rights.

Might we search and crave and look forever for this utopian and cloud shrouded kingdom where man meets his maker and the making is forever tranquil.

Without the range and magnitude of every element life throws our way, we cannot make our imagination spark and seek these spiritual planes, for without harsh times and plenty, there is no inner peace.

And surely when we look more openly to our experience of life we recognise the bogus pull as maybe dream worlds pull. A fascination with our joyful highs, made good by sadness and reality, the inner we seek is merely a component of the beauty we can see. And with experience and trained mind we understand our way, to find this elusive tranquillity in finding our true pathway.

This inner peace, made good by making good our view, that how we approach life with inner peace is truly what we seek. To meet life head on and intact, letting our vision and senses feel this real world as it is, and with a moderating peaceful heart make use of all we see.

So maybe inner peace is temporal and certainly I agree, it’s a state of mind enabling every one of our faculties. Our thoughts and feelings, and our gifts used as best we can, to experience our real in all its elements and understand our path. To recognise that what we have is purely just reality, and more of course as we are able to change and modify. We apply ourselves with diligence to everything we are, and might find inner peace in toil and making good our world.

Inner peace as we will find comes with hard work and all of human endeavour is seen in retrospect until we master how we work. Inner peace is in the journey of life, its never at its end, for a peaceful end is written to solace and solace merely an epitaph.

Our journey then, that is our true Zen, the peace we find along the way enmeshed and threaded into strands of life is for every humans touch, as we recognise the journey and its worth, our value as we travel, our learning as we capture living, our vision of a world transformed, our dreams becoming realities, where inner peaces comes along the way.

Our conscious minds forget as we wander in the mire, our hearts sing with our visions touch and we labour with fresh vigour, so peaceful if we know, to keep in mind our inner peace and peaceful as we go.

Best to remind ourselves that every state of mind is firmly based in experience and changes as we grow. Our inner world, where dreams and imagination pull apart the world we live in day to day, keeps us moving forward and making good today. We move and vision futures grasp, we make it happen and we make life work. We keep on striving where all else has failed and move our mountains where we will.

We know that inner peace as we toil and share in company, the vastness of our Universe and hope one day we’ll see. We imagine too our inner being transforms across these conscious planes and reaches higher states. We wonder and we exercise our beliefs beyond the days.

We may encounter much as we develop and grasp at natures vast display, we understand our world more clearly as inner peace shows us all the way. And nature keeps us challenging and moves us all along, from peace and harmony to tumults and far beyond. Without our range and experience made from opposites we live, our inner peace is meaningless and unhelpful is our quest, from cradle to our grave we wonder, expectant and fulfilled as long as life keeps us going our journey is the thrill.

No steady state, no free and unhindered route, our mountains all as high, as much as we can stand, we climb, we strive and find, to walk to natures tune, the flow of life experienced from turmoil and our peaceful rectitude, provides for every element mankind needs, to find our true pathway.

We are all in transition and forever impacted by our elements of life, we find peace in our experiences and all we are today. Weathered mountains turn to sand.