Awakening the Universal Heart by Serge Beddington-Behrens

Author:Serge Beddington-Behrens [Beddington-Behrens, Serge]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780957364189
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd

Cultivating peace

Wars are not going to end unless there is a greater desire for peace, and this in turn is not going to happen until sufficient numbers of us work at cultivating this quality inside our hearts. This is so important, for however hard some of our world leaders work at promoting peace, so long as our hearts are still full of aggression, hostility, hatred, anxiety, fear, greed and many other such dis-equilibrating attributes, peace will continue to elude us.

Being peaceful is not, as some believe, being passive. On the contrary. Peaceful people are generally extremely active (think of Gandhi). Therefore, to cultivate this very important quality, we need to continue working at transforming everything about ourselves that is still warlike. Generally, a lot of Shadow work may be required. If, for example, stress is a factor in our lives, we may need to find ways of addressing it, for we cannot be at peace if we are always feeling anxious.

We also need to work at directly ‘building up’ our peace muscles. Here, we again come back to meditation. No genuine peacefulness can be gained without meditating regularly. Again, it is useful to choose the company of peaceful people and to try to spend as much time as possible in restful environments – or at least visit such environments from time to time. Being at peace is not about an absence of conflict – for conflict, we have already seen, is built into life. Rather, it is an ability to deal with it in a more ‘Heart-centred’ or reconciliatory way. In an article entitled ‘What Is Peace?’ David Spangler sheds additional light on this very important theme:

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