Peace

WHAT-14: If you had true peace, would that not be enough?

Notes and comments from the past 10 days

Jan 21 2026

If you want to, you can remember being born. It isn’t easy to do until you remember there are no words or other ‘handles’ with which to pull up the memory. It is more pervasive than that, more subtle because of the impact it had at the time. Because you have lived with it for so long, you are well-practiced in ignoring it. But the clues are there. Once you notice, you will see how easy it is after all.

Then the problem is to remember time before you were born and then time even before that time, up to before time.

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Jan 27 2026

When we see the body from the inside out, attuned only to the senses and not to the mind,

then there is no recognizing, no silent pronouncements, no seeing things, no things to be seen out there;

scarce difference among the senses, no concerns, no anticipation, no moods.

…. for about three seconds. …

And then all that recognizing and such fills in between the near invisible lines in the colored light.

Memories populate the attention, now with words again.

Words, … “now I remember,” ... “of course,”

as the mind tries to take credit for it all, but a lot more humbly this time.

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Jan 27 2026

Jesus was misinterpreted. Instead of “Thy will be done” implying some future moment - what he really meant was “thy will is being done.” In each moment. Unconditionally. – Shiv Sengupta

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Perhaps Similar to “believe in me” in the same sense as “I just believe in me.” (John Lennon, i.e., that ‘I Am’).

“Created in God’s Image” in the sense that God has within him an image of the world, and your image of yourself is a part of that image.”

“The knowledge of Good and Evil” in the sense of habitually discriminating between what is relatively good and relatively bad, as opposed to directly knowing the absolute goodness of limitless being.

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Jan 27 2026

Peace. If you had true peace, would that not be enough? -- Krishnamurti

Television with Reflections (1990) — BE.

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Jan 27 2026

“One flower, all the beauty we can bear.” – Sophia Schweitzer

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It is characteristic of awakening that the world now is unimaginably beautiful and impossible not to love in every respect and every detail, no matter how good or bad things may have seemed in the past. This is impossible to grasp until you notice for yourself that it has always been so, that it will always be so, and that this is what you truly are. Part of this beauty and love is the awareness that sooner or later everyone remembers this simple and obvious truth.

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Jan 27 2026

I know this impulse: “to escape.” There was once a terrible time when I could not escape, could not fight, and could not play dead. But in that moment I remembered something about myself and about my being there. I remembered that “I” was not the one who was there, I was the place where all this was happening. And with that, I survived.

Ultimately I made it OK that it happened as it did. Today, this memory reminds me of a particular bird. His name is Nesbit.

Nesbit is (or perhaps was) a Peregrine Falcon who was said to have an extraordinary personality. Gentle, intelligent, cooperating, but also firm in his demands and requirements. In some ways he is the embodiment of inability to escape, to fight, or to play dead in a stressful situation. In similar but traumatic situations, this results in injury to the Sympathetic Nervous system.

Nesbit donated one drop of blood and one feather to the creation of the Homeopathic remedy, Falco Pregrinus, that is often used today to treat such traumatic stress injuries to the nervous system. Today, nearly all doses of this remedy are made from that donation.

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Jan 28 2026

I prefer not to use the word, “consciousness,” because it has so many different and often incompatible, or at least quite vague, meanings. There is a confusion in its use, between the content and the container or field of that content; and it is not clear in that confusion what “unconscious(ness)” refers to if anything at all.

I prefer instead, “Awareness,” referring to the place where Experiences occur. I equate awareness with being in and of itself; and I also equate it with reality as the place where the universe appears and not just “enduring things” that arise within the universe.

So, now I have a way to say this to people: “You are awareness itself at the deepest core of your being; you are reality itself, wherein all worlds come and go.”

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Jan 28 2026

Time has for me been one of the most interesting puzzles since my earliest years. Only slowly (but in steps) did I realize that everything everywhere is made of memories. Then, in one of those moments in which the past once again reorganized and inverted inside-out, time became timeless.

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Jan 28 2026

“Art is not born from perfection, but from the need to transmit. Not to impress, but to touch. Not to prove skill, but to share inner truths.” -- Klea

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Some have said that art is truly valued to the extent in which it exhibits or indicates intrinsic value. Reality, Being, Awareness: Aren’t these where intrinsic value truly is?

I think of reality, being, awareness, and some other ideas and words as different words for the same thing, each simply naming different aspects of that thing, like naming different facets of one jewel. I think of art as an attempt to indicate or point out that thing. This idea of intrinsic value and art is borrowed from Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Judgement.

You ask if the value of art is tied to reality etc. that art allows us to experience. Yes, but I also see it a little differently. It seems to me that the best art points out to us that we (you) are the reality, the being, and the awareness. And when we see this clearly, we see that the universe of all experiences arises within us and not we within it.

Awareness, for example, is intrinsically valuable, and at the deepest level of your being, you are awareness itself, timeless, the reality of the universe of all possible experiences.

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Jan 28 2026

Krishnamurti said that he had met only two people that understood what he was saying; and he met really a lot of people. His work did not attract me to sign up to anything, but instead it just surprised me that I thought I knew what he was doing. It was similar to what I had already learned in my own way from my own life even before I thought there were such teachers and books. It wasn’t the ideas, it was the way the words were used to indicate a direction toward something that he actually did very little to describe, except for the idea of peacefulness.

One of the first things that struck me after a significant moment of clarity in my own life, was that what I learned in that moment was by its nature impossible to describe or convey to any other person in any way. Simply impossible. That impossibility is very significant. People who want something to enlighten them are misguided. They can only do it on their own, even though they will find valuable clues almost everywhere in the world.

I don’t blame people for not understanding him; and also I do not blame him for not convincing them. I think there are degrees of understanding, and I also think that no one can be made to finally understand. You can lead some people right up to the truth in certain ways, certain practices, techniques, and so forth, if they are willing to try those; but no one can make them recognize it when they are not willing to do so.

‘Never underestimate the power of denial.’ It is like some Zen people have said: It is absolutely the last thing that you would ever think to consider, no matter how obvious it is.

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Jan 29 2026

From the perspective of being in and of itself, I view Karma as the desire to experience all the consequences of attachment. Thus, if I harm someone, then I am also the one who is harmed, because I am exactly the same I in every being.

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