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How do you cultivate peace in your moments?

DaltheJigsawDaltheJigsaw Mountain View Veteran
edited August 2011 in Buddhism Basics
How do you cultivate peace in your moments?

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  • CloudCloud Veteran
    What do you mean? (on behalf of myself and anyone else who doesn't know what you mean)
  • zidanguszidangus Veteran
    edited August 2011
    Do you mean how to remain remain peaceful and calm throughout our daily experiences in life (moments) ?
  • ownerof1000oddsocksownerof1000oddsocks Veteran
    Don't get caught up in the drama, especially on forum topics..
  • DaltheJigsawDaltheJigsaw Mountain View Veteran
    Do you mean how to remain remain peaceful and calm throughout our daily experiences in life (moments) ?
    Exactly!
  • zidanguszidangus Veteran
    edited August 2011
    This gets quite hard when we experience stressful situations, but I guess the best way is to always stay mindful, understanding exactly that what we are feeling, thinking and experiencing are impermanent, and remind ourself to not become too attached to those feelings, thoughts or experiences.
    Of course speaking from experience (pardon the pun) this is easier said than done, but practice makes perfect as the saying goes.
  • DaltheJigsawDaltheJigsaw Mountain View Veteran
    How about repeating Mantras?
  • zidanguszidangus Veteran
    edited August 2011
    I believe Mantras can also help to encourage skillful mind states to arise when your in a stressful situation or just want to encourage peace and calm to arise at any particular moment, but I have to say that I have not really persevered with a mantra for long periods of time, for me I have found that just being mindful of my breath and seeing its impermanence and then connecting this to the impermanence of the moment, helps more than repeating a mantra, this is the case at least for me so far in my practice anyway.
  • goshikigoshiki
    I was in extreame fear of death when I was 10 years old , I used to scream , shouted ,crying all day even scared to close my eyes at night fearing that I will die and be "lost" forever .
    I grew up "wondering" , never interested in anything just waiting time to feel death . At 18 years old , I fall in love with a girl and this "funny" feeling lead me to find myself , the other side of me that never "introduced" or known to me before . This feeling lead me to something I believe is Buddha and totally agrees with Mr Siddharta's finding of being "awake" .
    "be awake" of action , intention and be sincerely giving love , sharing love and accepting love is my way finding my peace , the Buddha side of me .
    Just sharing.......thks alot
  • taiyakitaiyaki Veteran
    just be. in being you accept what is. in accepting what is you embody unconditional love.
    then if something is done or said it is pure, but don't attach.
    this is the peace that exists all around. even in hell.
  • aMattaMatt Veteran
    Sitting meditation practice opens the spaciousness of our mind, and metta meditation dissolves agitation. Either/both would "cultivate peace", by removing the defilements that prevent peace.
  • KarmaDondrupTashiKarmaDondrupTashi

    How do you cultivate peace in your moments?
    Peace can't be "cultivated" since anything cultivated will be just another fabrication. The only ultimate solution is to rest in the nature of mind, which is empty awareness.
  • taiyakitaiyaki Veteran

    How do you cultivate peace in your moments?
    Peace can't be "cultivated" since anything cultivated will be just another fabrication. The only ultimate solution is to rest in the nature of mind, which is empty awareness.
    damn straight!
  • santhisouksanthisouk Veteran
    True happiness starts with peace.

    :)
  • yemanjayemanja
    cultivating may refer to practice meditation and practising meditation helps you to know in other moments the possibility that you have to be more peaceful .. meditation gives you a sort of approach to peaceful states and i believe the more you practice the more you will be familiar with a certain peace .. now i am not an expert i am just trying to try!YEMANJA
  • auraaura Veteran
    edited August 2011
    Breathe in the Light:
    Namo Amitabha
    hold for a moment to allow it to collect up any interior darkness,
    then breathe out that darkness, gently giving it back to the earth for recycling and purifying back into the Light.
    Namo Amitabha
    Namo Amitabha
    Namo Amitabha
    24 hours a day, 7 days a week,
    waking, walking, working, eating, sleeping...
    Namo Amitabha

    Gratitude
    gratitude, gratitude, gratitude!
    For another day
    For another chance
    to learn and practice!

    Practice is not always easy!
    It is not always easy to practice compassion.
    It is not always easy to give another the opportunity to learn compassion.
    Too many martyrs, too many saints, have been killed on this earth...
    giving us the opportunity to learn
    compassion.
    So many people have suffered and died giving us the opportunity to learn compassion!
    Practice what you have learned.
    Let it shine.
    It is not always easy.

    Namo Amitabha
    Namo Amitabha
    Namo Amitabha
    let there be..... LIGHT!
  • pegembarapegembara Veteran
    Constant awareness of one's thoughts, words and deeds.

    "You should accomplish all your duties without allowing mindfulness to lapse!' Thus did the Blessed One, while on the bed of his Parinibbana, summarize in that one word on earnestness the advice he had given through forty-five years."
    [appamadena sampadetha]
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