Buddha Quote
Saturday May 16, 2026
Peace All The TimeDeep peace in meditation is like the silence and calm at the
bottom of the sea where it is away from the torrential winds and
waves at its surface. Many of us "take a deep breath" before
entering meditation. As we sink into the peace, we enjoy it for a
while, then we realise we are "out of breath" and start fidgeting
before bursting up and out of the surface, returning to the waves
and storms of everyday life. The peace is thus short-lived.
It
is possible to live everyday life at the state of the bottom of
the sea. Mindfulness is the anchor that will hold you there. The
truest meditation is that in everyday life-with no concept as to
step in and out of meditation. Every time is the best time to
keep a meditative mind. The meditation hall has no fixed form.
The world is the hall. Everything that "threatens" to disturb
your peace, urging you to gasp for breath, to burst up to the
surface is a challenge-face it. You can learn to stay longer at
the bottom of the sea by meditating for longer and longer periods
of time. Better still, have no concept of time-just spend your
days off in a retreat and meditate on and on. You don't always
have to fix the period as half an hour or one hour. As long as
you have gotten grasp of the technique, meditate on with no holds
barred.
You might notice that as long as you hang on to the
anchor, you don't ever "need" to go to the surface for a
"breather." You can breathe and live normally in the state of
peace, while in the world of non-peace. This will in fact help to
bring peace to the world! Making peace in this world, afterall,
begins with making peace with yourself!
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