What is inner peace?

Peace is not absence of unwanted or painful emotions or placid apathy. Peace is not getting rid of anger, sadness or other undesirable emotions. Being at peace means being calm and intensely alive through all the ups and downs life presents to you.

Peace cannot to be 'achieved' by any methods or means externally oriented. Peace just need to be realised as that is already within you. People use the metaphor for ocean and waves to explain pure consciousness and individual souls. The same metaphor can be used to understand inner peace. Imagine your life as a turbulent ocean, with waves and waves of experiences - of joy, happiness, sadness, despair, disappointment and so on. However turbulent it may all appear to you, there is a tranquil ocean underneath the waves. We just shift the awareness from waves to ocean to experience the tranquility. Can we say ocean is placid apathy or intensely alive?

Your inner being is always tranquil and peaceful. When you take a step back, breathe and observe all that is appearing on the surface, you become the ocean instead of the waves. All you need to do is carefully observe the thoughts, feelings, emotions, events and all that is appearing in your life. You then become the calm witness, which is your true nature. From 'doer', you instantly shift to 'witness'. You can do this only when you can accept all emotions, including joy and misery as equal parts of unending saga of life. See emotion as just one more wave of experience that rises up to go down again.

importantly, when you let go of resistance to feel painful emotions and allow all the experiences to just flow through you and out of you.

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