How will we Find Peace, Now?
With all the things that have been going on it’s a good question to ask, I think.
Some people actually know how to find peace and harmony.
Like all us are writers, artists and musicians, maybe?
But I’m biased.
What Buddha Says…
I’m the owner of a Buddha poster.
A good friend gave it to me a while back and it sits on my wall, so I can easily look at a list of quotes.
One of the quotes says:
“Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.”– Siddhartha Gautama, founder of Buddhism
The quote above is one I always look at and think about it.
Chaos is everywhere, in every “thing” and you can’t get away from it, which is what this quote seems to be saying.
Chaos Everywhere
Chaos is everywhere, in every “thing” and you can’t get away from it, which is what this quote seems to be saying.
The word Diligence means “conscientiousness, hard work, concentration, effort, care, rigor, meticulousness, thoroughness.”
Notice how it doesn’t say “ignore” the chaos or drop a bomb on the chaos or destroy the chaos so it doesn’t exist anymore.
I grew up Christian, so it’s not always easy for me to understand what the “Buddha say.”
My cousin’s husband was in my place one time. He’s a minister. He said, looking at my Buddha poster, “They got almost everything right.”
Meaning they got everything right, but Jesus? That would be a great bumper sticker. “Honk if you like Buddha, but love Jesus.”
Applicable
Yesterday, chaos for me was some stranger, who I didn’t know, on Facebook, who made fun of me because I got my degree at a Buddhist, writing school called Naropa.
I didn’t engage because “sticks and stones,” but this whole idea of “destroying” another person through violence, whether words or weapons, really freaked me out for a good minute.
How do you strive on in diligence?
Meditate?
Pray?
Probably.
Find Peace
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” is the first line of the book of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
I think it sums up modern life… even human life itself… in this moment… meaning the never ending moving into the future… meaning the “now”… meaning Be Here Now like that Ram Dass book.
It was the yin of times and the yang of times.
It was chaos and it was harmony.
I think “right now” is the best time to be alive, .
Promote Peace
Let’s pray, wish, spell-cast some peace, love, dope and harmony to these coming days… The coming future… The coming years.
Free love is coming!
So get ready!
Believe it.
Evan Hundhausen is an Author, DJ and a spiritual human being.
