We talked about peace and how to get there. What we're really talking about is the search for truth try to see the advantage of getting to something by truth rather than by practice. Let's say I'm trying to quit smoking there are techniques I can try but they're always painful and difficult very often. There will come a moment when I see something a certain way like a see myself a certain way or I get diagnosis of lung cancer, and I understand that I'm going to die or I see a friend get in trouble with similar bad habits when I see something.
I'm strong enough when I understand it.
Then the Habit can often Disappear by itself the bad habit can dissolve
that's an extreme example much more simply might be
I see some facet of myself that I don't like I see some facet of somebody else that I didn't can't unsee and I can no longer
be friends with them understanding and seeing changes organically in a way that pure practice and technique cannot when you're practicing how to do
something. There's always a gap between you and the thing there's always a repetition
You have to keep doing this always a struggle. There's always conflict.
If we want peace then one of the things we have to give up on himself conflict. We even have to give up on self improvement because self-improvement is just dressed up for himself conflict. We have to instead use our Natural Curiosity for everything to understand things better and then through understanding we will naturally improve ourselves. Once we truly understand the effects of unhealthy food in our body when we can see the extra weight. We're carrying when we can track the
glucose spiking.
Crash and see how we physically feel worse for having eaten too much sugar.
When we see how
caffeine hops us up and then crash down at the
end of the night then we automatically change for the
better. So the path towards peace is truth.
