Peace is your permanent residence

Recently, I’ve just been enjoying the stillness, the silence, the presence of life.

I would stay in it for hours… feeling the brush of a soft breeze pecked with notes of cherry blossoms, pink petals pirouetting gently down the arms of the earth. At day time, I would be absorbed in the sound of birds and at night, it’s the cicadas. 

And even when I’m not out in nature, the expansiveness of inner stillness continues like the vast open blue skies. The stream of awareness is free of thought, with nothing to grasp, and nowhere to arrive to. 

It’s a state of abiding peace, of simply being. All I see is life unfolding, with perfection of God’s love glimmering forth at every becoming.

Yet for a long time, my mind used to be afraid of this. It thought that peace meant boredom, and so would try to grab onto the phone, checking on other people’s highlight reels and then feeling worse about myself. 

Or it would say to me that I can’t just be at peace, because otherwise “who’s going to take care of the business?” The mind thought that being at peace would make me become useless like a vegetable, good for nothing. 

And then there was also a time when the mind would be afraid that people wouldn’t be able to relate to me anymore. That if I have peace, I would be free of problems. And if I am free of problems, then I wouldn’t be able to write content that people would relate to anymore. 

That was just an overview of how the mind tries to oppose my deep soul desire for lasting peace and fulfillment. And if you have this desire– to experience peace, not only in brief moments of achieving/”getting” things, but as an everyday experience as well, heads up, the mind will try to NOT bring you that. 

That’s because the mind lives under the illusion that who you are, in essence, is “bad.” It believes that you, by yourself, on your own is not perfect, not safe, not good enough– which is the biggest block to experiencing the peace that YOU are.

Some examples of mental stories that block us from peace look like:
“Unless I am in a relationship, I am not loved”

“Unless I make a bunch of money, I am not safe”

“Unless I get people to like me, I am not good enough” etc. 

The mind likes to stay in a state of suffering– worrying about outcomes, wondering what ifs, trying to figure out “how to” do things. Because it lives under the premise that if you just BE, without worrying, without overthinking, without suffering, you won’t be okay… 

And so that’s what we get my love. Always striving yet never arriving. Always worrying yet never fully receiving. And the thing is, all of this is not because you haven’t “done” enough but because the mind is unable to accept you as you are...

In this video, I share with you on how the mind blocks us from peace. And by letting go of these obstacles, like peeling onion layers one after another, you finally get to the real source of bliss, consciousness, and the true permanence of reality.

Loving awareness,
Chan Myae

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