hi! what/whose teachings do you follow? also, how did you come to know so much about this way of living! i wanna get in touch with it too
I don’t really follow and specific teaching or one specific teacher. I don’t think you really need to. I have found that there are many people, alive and dead that have found stillness and calmness and some measure of truth and are very good at expressing it with words. The y have the eloquent ability to point towards these things with language.
I think getting to peace may take having some measure of suffering, emotional pain and suffering. It is through suffering that you seek answers, like a man in the desert seeks water with a good portion of his day. If you have things like anxiety, depression or even things like disassociation disorders like depersonalization and derealization. If you know suffering you seek peace with your life, you seek till you find, this has been my experience. This being said even if you don’t have a mental disfunction or neurosis there is suffering and unhappiness in any life and to seek the end is to seek peace. Finding peace and true happiness means going into your inner space with your attention and going into the space around you with your attention. It means seeing thoughts as just thoughts and feelings as just feelings, peace comes from not being thrown to and fro by these things. This is the way from my experience and I can only truthfully speak from my experience.
The saying goes use your own light to find the source of light. Use what is there for you. Use what life has given you to find stillness and peace. People will use fancy terms and fancy techniques. Seek the simple, stillness is simple, peace is simple. Just be. Just breathe. Pay attention to your breathing as often as you can. Observe thoughts as often as you can Feel feelings as often as you can and see how doing these things can change things.
~greg
