Everything is still moving, still unusual as the inherent nature of life. But if our hearts are calm, then the scenery suddenly becomes gentle, no longer hit by the fast-paced rhythms of reality. That was when he discovered the saying: "When your heart is at peace, the scene is not moving".
The heart is the root. Like the water surface: If you are clear and calm, the sky will be full and peaceful. But just as the waves are the clouds leaning, everything becomes distorted. The scene is not automatic, but moving because our hearts are not at peace.
Sometimes our hearts are as roaring, just a single blink of the eye makes us angry, an accidental sentence in the wrong place also makes our hearts stir. But there were days when, that street, that sound, that face, we felt light. Not that life changes, but that our hearts become calmer and more steadfast.
The ancients said: "The heart is not moved, the wind blows it into poetry." Because a person with a peaceful heart is not attracted by circumstances, not enchanted by compliments, not angry by criticism. Not that they ignore life, but that they know how to put life in the right position, to see, to feel, but not to control their souls.
Meng Zi, a lost Chinese philosopher, once said: "The world is thousands of things, the everything is falling. The self is perfect, the lost is perfect. (All things in the world are available in us. Returning to self-respect for success, there is no greater joy than that) This saying emphasizes that peace and happiness do not come from the outside, but from the fullness, the self in the inner self of each person. When our hearts are at peace, we find everything to be full, no more desire or fear and that is the greatest joy.
Internal shelter is not about avoiding life but bravely facing it with a calm spirit. We are not looking for a world without storms but a heart that is not shaken by storms. It's a journey to learn to get inside.
As Zen master Tu Dao Hanh once wrote: "If it were, it would be by chance, otherwise the whole world would not be". This teaching affirms that everything comes from the heart. When our hearts are at peace, we see everything as complete, but if our hearts are not at peace, even this whole world will become empty and meaningless.
