Peace

 

 

Whenever you remember, just be deeply relaxed and feel peaceful as many times in the day as possible. The more you do, the better. After a few days you will feel, without any doing on your part, that peace has been established. It follows you like a shadow.

 

There are many levels of peace. There is one that you can produce just by feeling it, just by giving yourself a deep The second is the real thing but the first helps to create the way for it to come. Peace comes. but before it comes, as a pre -- requisite you have to create a mental peace around you.

 

The first peace will just be mental. It will be more like an auto-hypnosis; it is created by you. Then one day suddenly you will see that the second peace has surfaced. It has nothing to do with your doing or with you. In fact it is deeper than you. It comes from the very source of your being, the unidentified being, the undemarcated being, the unknown being.

 

We know ourselves only on the surface. A small place is identified as you. A small wave is named, labelled, as you. Just within that wave, deep down, is the great ocean.

 

So Prashantam -- to be deeply peaceful -- is going to be your method. Sitting, walking... one can walk in a tense way, one can sit in a tense way. One can sit in a peaceful way, one can walk in a peaceful way. So whatsoever you are doing, always remember to create peace around it. And this is not the goal; it is just the means.

 

Once you have created peace, something of the beyond will fill it. It will be nothing out of your effort. Once that comes you can drop the auto-hypnotic method. There is no need for it.

 

-Osho, "The Cypress in the Courtyard, #5"