Short story: Stop minding life with your mind, and live from the love in your heart, to find peace
@innertalks (21905)
Australia
November 7, 2024 8:16pm CST
A Zen student went to his master one day, and asked him,
"How do you remain peaceful, all of the time?"
The master replied:
"I say, 'no' to a life of questioning, and 'yes' to a life of answers from God."
"Life is not about agreeing with it, piecemeal, nor of surrendering to it. Life is about listening to your constant cue, and reminder, from God."
"Love does not queue in line for anything as love is everywhere aligned already to God."
"Take a cue from God and align yourself to his love, and find instant peace in the following of his love, by not following it with your mind, but flowing from it in your heart."
The student walked off then, thinking that he will no longer follow questions, but love instead, and then he dropped from his mind into the great peacefulness of love, living from love, from his heart.
He had now found profound peace too, or more so, it had found him.
Peace is not of the mind, it is only of the heart.
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@Dreamerby (4798)
• Calcutta, India
8 Nov
That's indeed a peaceful way to live life.
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@innertalks (21905)
• Australia
8 Nov
Yes, if we can stay living from our heart of love, we will always remain peaceful. That is the best way to live.
@innertalks (21905)
• Australia
8 Nov
@ahmedibrahe Yes, anything that conflicts with love will lead us away from love, and we should be careful that our thoughts do not mislead us, and turn us away from love too.
@ahmedibrahe (62)
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8 Nov
@innertalks It must be used positively so that it does not conflict with love
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@innertalks (21905)
• Australia
8 Nov
Yes, we need to be willing to choose God, and his love, and we must decide willingly by choice to love God, with all of our heart, mind, and soul, as we are told to do in the Christian bible too.
Once we do that, we feel a great peace, within us, the same peace that God always feels too.
The grace of God accepts us gratefully, when we love him from our whole person too.
Yes, we need to be strong to push aside our negative thoughts, and not dwell in, or on them, for too long.
@ahmedibrahe (62)
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8 Nov
@innertalks Negative thoughts have many forms that must be known.
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@innertalks (21905)
• Australia
8 Nov
@ahmedibrahe That said though, if we just live from love, our thoughts are then coloured with love too, but if we move away from love, darker thoughts can gain a foothold, and we even then can begin to dwell on them, and follow them too.
We should allow love to show us how to discriminate, and when bad thoughts appear, we should push them aside, and out of us, and replace them with positive, and lovingly constructive thoughts, then too.
@Shiva49 (26665)
• Singapore
8 Nov
Mind is like a monkey jumping from one tree to another.
Love is the panacea to our worries.
I rely on counting the blessings when the mind pulls me down.
It is a choice whether to live by accepting reality, changing what we can, and accepting those we can't.
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@innertalks (21905)
• Australia
8 Nov
Our mind also chases bananas like a monkey too, always wanting immediate gratification for its greed-based thoughts, usually coming from an inflated ego.
If we always love, even some of the things that we think that we cannot change, just ourselves, will begin to change too. That is the miracle of love-based living.
@innertalks (21905)
• Australia
9 Nov
@Shiva49 Yes, somehow love must be moved back into the forefront of our mind, and be alive in every thought of ours, generating only positively good thoughts for us too.
@Shiva49 (26665)
• Singapore
9 Nov
@innertalks Ego and greed lead us to our fall.
Love is an afterthought when the mind leads us astray.
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@innertalks (21905)
• Australia
8 Nov
Thanks. I like to write this type of article with some meaning behind it.
@RevivedWarrior (2191)
• India
8 Nov
Perhaps after a long experience of going through not so great times, I definitely agree to the above. There have been many moments in my life where I was frustrated - like not getting something , or something did not happen etc. After sometime , I have realized that all those happened for good. As if I had got those I would have been worse and not great. I truly believe to take teh cue from God and love his ways. Peace of mind is when we know he will be there to guide and not to worry if something did not work as wished or planned. And living without desires also gives peace to mind. Have a wonderful weekend!
@innertalks (21905)
• Australia
8 Nov
My life also has not apparently gone how I would have best wished it to go, and to turn out too. But, as I get older, I accept it more for what it is, and was.
God has a plan for each one of us, and when we allow love to guide us, we better see his plan, and follow it more willingly then too.
In the long run, though, we are always being steered by the love in us to better living, and as you said, when we place desires behind us, instead of in front of us, love pulls us forwards, and desires are fulfilled, too, as God's desires for our life, not as just our own mostly petty, and worldly based desires, too.
