How to attain peace of mind?

 

Peace doesn't mean to be in a place where there is no noise, where there is no trouble. where there is no hard work, where there are no trials. 

Where there are no difficulties. peace means to be in the middle of all mayhem and chaos and yet to stay focussed to make that inward journey and that's the story of real life. 

Spirituality is the art of bringing us to that inner calm with all the troubles and problems surrounding us.

WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF ANXIETY OE UNEASINESS??

There is a disease called anger. anger is the cause that you are not able to attain peace of mind. In anger, you destroy property hurt people. once a father and son were going on a road trip but suddenly the tire of the car got flatted. the father starts changing the tire and the son picked up the stone and starts scratching the car.

When the father is done changing the tire. he saw that his son has scratched his new BMW he got so angry that he picked up a scale and started hitting his son on his knuckles. he hit him so badly that he broke his knuckles. the boy had to be taken to hospital where the doctors examined him and came up with a solution that his fingers have to be removed. 

The father was so shattered that he started crying. he doesn't know what to do. he had made such a big mistake only because of anger. This is the disease of anger.

There is one more disease that is bigger than anger and that is greed. anger increases and subsides but greed increases and keeps increasing and it never subsides.?

What is big in this world? the mountain? bigger ? the ocean? even bigger?  the earth? even bigger? the space? the whole cosmos? what is bigger than the cosmos? your greed is even bigger.

Because if one person gets the whole world that person's greed will not be satisfied it will go on increasing and increasing.

But greed is nothing there is one bigger affliction that is desire.

From desire comes anger and greed.

Suppose if you desire something and you didn't get that thing then you will become very angry and you will hurt others or yourself and destroy property. on the other hand, if you desire and you got that thing now you will want another thing and another and so on. thus your greed will increase..

Suppose if you make a desire and it gets immediately fulfilled then you will keep desiring for eternity without any inner satisfaction. the desire would go on and on. and suppose you never desire you will never get greedy you will never get angry.

If you give up desires you will become situated in yourself

The Budha made this the basis of his whole philosophy. he said that there are four golden truths of the world..

THE FIRST GOLDEN TRUTH

There is suffering in this world.

THE SECOND GOLDEN TRUTH

The suffering has a cause. 

THE THIRD GOLDEN TRUTH

The cause of suffering is desire.

THE FOURTH GOLDEN TRUTH

if the desire is removed the suffering is removed.