From your own experience you know that when you find yourself at peace, whether sitting quietly or moving about your day, the question 'what's my purpose in life?' seems irrelevant.

In those moments does the question fall away because you have finally achieved so much, contributed such value to society and really made a worthwhile difference; or could it be that in that moment, while doing nothing in particular, but at peace, your life purpose is being fulfilled.

Peace for now.

Our very own experience is that the most beautiful and profound periods in life are those where the 'doer' is absent. In these times it's abundantly clear that everything is a 'happening' and unfolds in perfect order and synchronicity. True talent, efficiency, creativity and harmony flows this way. Artists, in particular can attest to this.

And still there is such an insistence to hold tightly to the notion I am in control. It's believed to be beneficial and that a surrender to God's Will is an affront to my person. In fact from our own experience it's completely the opposite.

I guess this is another demonstration that we are not the 'doer' and that everything happens when it is meant to.

Peace for now.

A tightly held expectation IS the false self. 

An imagined "me" which is dependent on this or that bursts into existence as part and parcel of expectation. It is contained in the expectation itself, the me doesn't HAVE an expectation, it IS an expectation. 

And when life inevitably turns out as it's destined to, often out of line with expectations, this imagination is then forced to morph into suffering. 

WE don't suffer, but rather a false "me" bursts into existence as part and parcel of the inevitable suffering thoughts and sensations. 

Awareness of this is the beginning of the end of the "me".

Peace for now

The course of a day is inevitably always going to be pleasure sometimes and pain at others. 

Pleasure and pain are not a boost or attack on who you are. 

Suffering is the internal response which relates to pleasure and pain as a boost or attack on who you are. 

Each time suffering is cut off, the reality that you have not actually been touched by pleasure and pain is revealed.

Pleasure and pain are circumstantial and suffering is attitudinal.

The absence of suffering is peace of mind and it is our birth right. 

Peace for now. 

And one glorious day the person who repeatedly insists that there is no person, realises it is not entirely true.

No need to take my word for it, check it out for yourself. Your unbroken peace of mind is only disturbed by one or several of these forms of suffering: 

• Guilt
• Blame
• Pride
• Worry & Anxiety
• Expectation & Attachment to Outcomes

When you look at these categories closely you'll find they are all ultimately thought forms and importantly they are 'attitudinal to circumstance' meaning an attitude to what is happening and not what is happening itself - attitudinal not circumstantial.

Good news - the root beliefs at the base of these attitudes is erroneous, they dissolve when seen with clarity. This is how peace of mind is available in an unwavering basis and can be said to be our birth right.

Peace for now.

It was destined for Eve to eat the apple and inevitable that the fall happened.

There is a deeply ingrained big investment in not acknowledging that the natural flow of life will inevitably be sometimes pleasurable and sometimes painful.

But yet, ironically the best returns come when things are objectively seen as they really are. 

It follows that maybe to Know thyself there must be clarity around the simple and basic aspects of life.

Life will always be a mix of pleasure and pain, so don't be too surprised when in practice this happens - it's quite normal. And besides pleasure and pain only have the power to effect our peace of mind when it's assumed that who we are is defined by circumstance. 

Stop and Be, and you'll find, you are complete right now, regardless of circumstance. Peace for now. 

Try being uncomfortable with yourself or another person without first having a conceptual image of yourself, the other and what the situation means about you and them. 

In order to test this out you'll need to know that there is a place of Being inside you where you still exist prior to thinking.

Peace for now.

It feels like you are free to agree or disagree with the notion of free will.