XVII

                                                                                     PEACE

PEACE cannot come through the MIND because it is not of the Mind. PEACE is the delicious fragrance of the QUIET HEART.

PEACE is not about projects, international police, UN, OAS, UE international treaties or invading armies that fight in the name of PEACE.

If we truly want true PEACE, we must learn to live as the watchman in times of war, always alert and vigilant, with a prompt and ductile Mind, because PEACE is not a matter of romantic fantasies or a matter of beautiful dreams.

If we do not learn to live in the state of alert from moment to moment, then the road that leads to PEACE becomes impossible, narrow and after becoming extremely difficult, it will finally lead to a dead end.

It is necessary to understand, it is urgent to know that the authentic PEACE of the TRANQUIL HEART is not a house where we can reach and where a beautiful maiden awaits us joyfully. PEACE is not a goal, a place, etc. Pursuing PEACE, seeking it, making projects on it, fighting on its behalf, making propaganda about it, founding organizations to work for it, etc., is totally absurd because PEACE is not of the Mind, PEACE is the wonderful perfume of the calm heart.

PEACE is not bought or sold, nor can it be achieved with the APPEASEMENT system, special controls, police, etc.

In some countries the national army walks through the fields destroying villages, killing people and shooting supposed bandits, all of this in the name of PEACE. The result of such a procedure is the multiplication of the BARBARIE.

Violence causes more violence, hatred produces more hatred. PEACE cannot be conquered, PEACE cannot be the result of violence. PEACE only comes to us when we dissolve the ego, when we destroy within ourselves all the PSYCHOLOGICAL factors that produce wars.

If we want PEACE we have to contemplate, we have to study, we have to see the total picture and not only a corner of it.

PEACE is born in us when we have changed radically in an intimate way.

The question of controls, PRO PEACE organisms, appeasements, etc., are isolated details, points in the ocean of life, isolated fractions of the total picture of EXISTENCE, which can never solve the problem of PEACE in its radical, total form and definitive.

We should look at the picture in its complete form, the problem of the world is the problem of the individual; if the INDIVIDUAL does not have PEACE within him, society, the world, will inevitably live in war.

Teachers of schools, colleges, universities must work for PEACE, unless they love BARBARITY and VIOLENCE.

It is urgent, it is essential to point out to the students of the new generation the path to follow, the intimate path that can lead us with complete accuracy to the true PEACE of the tranquil heart.

People do not really understand what true inner peace is and they just want no one to get in their way, not be bother, not get upset, even if they take the right at their own risk to hinder and annoy and to embitter life to their fellowmen.

People have never experienced true PEACE and only have absurd opinions, romantic ideals and misconceptions about it.

For the thieves, PEACE would be the joy of being able to steal with impunity without the police crossing their path. For the smugglers PEACE would be able to smuggle their contraband everywhere without the authorities preventing it. For the exploiters of hungry of people, PEACE would be for them selling very expensive, exploiting right and left without official government inspectors forbid it. For the prostitutes PEACE, it would be to enjoy in their beds of pleasure and to exploit all men freely without the authorities of health or police intervened for anything in their lives.

Each one is formed in the mind fifty thousand absurd fantasies about PEACE. Each one tries to raise around them a selfish wall of false ideas, beliefs, opinions and absurd concepts about what PEACE is.

Everyone wants PEACE in their own way, according to their cravings, their tastes, their habits, wrong habits, etc. Everyone wants to lock themselves inside a protective wall, fantastic, with the purpose of living their own PEACE wrongly conceived.

People struggle for PEACE, they want it, but they do not know what PEACE is.

The most people only want that they are not hindered, to be able to do their mischief very calmly and at their ease. That is what they call PEACE.

No matter what mischief people do, everyone believes that what they do is good. People find justification even for the worst crimes. If the drunkard is sad, he drinks because he is sad. If the drunkard is cheerful, he drinks because is cheerful. The drunkard always justifies the vice of alcohol. Most people are like that, for every crime they find justification, not consider themselves perverse, all presume of the just and honest.

There are many vagabonds who mistakenly assume that PEACE is to be able to live without working, very quietly and effortlessly in a world full of wonderful romantic fantasies.

There are millions of opinions and misconceptions about PEACE. In this painful world in which we live: each one seeks his fantastic PEACE, the peace of his opinions. People want to see in the world the peace of their dreams, their special kind of peace, although within themselves each one carries inside them the psychological factors that produce wars, enmities, and problems of all kinds.

In these times of global crisis, who would want to become famous founds PRO-PEACE organizations, makes propaganda and becomes a paladin of PEACE. We must not forget that many fox politicians have won the NOBEL prize for PEACE even when they have a cemetery on their own and in one way or another have secretly murdered many people, when they have been in danger of being eclipsed.

There are also true Masters of humanity who sacrifice themselves by teaching in all the places of the earth the Doctrine of the Dissolution of the ego.

These Masters know from their own experience that only by dissolving the Mephistopheles that we carry inside, does peace of heart come to us.

As long as hate, greed, envy, jealousy, acquisitiveness, ambition, anger, pride, etc., exist within each individual.  there will inevitably be wars.

We know many people in the world who presume to have found PEACE.

When we have thoroughly studied these people, we have been able to show that they do not even remotely know PEACE and that they have only locked themselves inside some solitary and consoling habit, or within some special belief, etc., more really these people have not experienced nor remotely what the true PEACE of the tranquil heart is. Really these poor people have only manufactured an artificial peace that in their ignorance confuse with the AUTHENTIC PEACE OF THE HEART.

It is absurd to seek PEACE within the wrong walls of our prejudices, beliefs, preconceptions, desires, habits, etc.

While within the Mind there are psychological factors that produce enmities, dissensions, problems, wars, there will be no true PEACE.

Authentic PEACE comes from legitimate beauty wisely understood.

The beauty of the tranquil heart exhales the delicious perfume of true inner PEACE.

It is urgent to understand the beauty of friendship and the perfume of politeness.

It is urgent to understand the beauty of language. It is necessary that our words carry in themselves the substance of sincerity. We should never use arrhythmic words, inharmonious, rude, absurds.

Each word must be a true symphony, each phrase must be full of spiritual beauty. It is so bad to speak when you must be shut up, and to shut up when you should speak. There are criminal silences and there are infamous words.

There are times when talking is a crime, there are times when silence is another crime. One must speak when he must speak and be silent when he should be silent.

Let's not play with the word because it is a serious responsibility.

Every word must be weighed before it is articulated because every word can produce in the world much useful and much useless, much benefit or much damage.

We must take care of our gestures, manners, costumes and acts of all kinds. That our gestures, that our dress, how to sit at the table, how to behave when eating, how to serve people in the room, in the office, on the street, etc., are always full of beauty and harmony.

It is necessary to understand the beauty of goodness, to feel the beauty of good music, to love the beauty of creative art, to refine our way of thinking, feeling and acting.

The supreme beauty can only be born in us when the "I" has died in a radical, total and definitive way.

We are ugly, horrible, disgusting as long as we have the PSYCHOLOGICAL SELF alive inside us. Beauty in its entirety is impossible in us while the PLURALIZED ego exists.

If we want authentic peace we must reduce the ego to cosmic dust. Only thus will there be within us inner beauty. From that beauty will be born in us the charm of love and the true PEACE of the heart.

The CREATOR PEACE brings order within oneself, eliminates confusion and fills us with legitimate happiness.

It is necessary to know that the mind cannot understand what true PEACE is. It is urgent to understand that peace of the TRANQUIL HEART does not reach us through effort, or because of belonging to a society or organization dedicated to making PEACE propaganda.

Authentic peace comes to us in a totally natural and simple way when we regain innocence in the mind and in the heart, when we become like delicate and beautiful children, sensitive to everything beautiful as to everything ugly, to everything good as a everything bad, everything sweet, everything bitter.

It is necessary to reconquer lost childhood, both in the mind and in the heart.

PEACE is something immense, extensive infinite, it is not something formed by the mind cannot be the result of a whim or the product of an idea. Peace is an atomic substance that is beyond good and evil, a substance that is beyond all moral, a substance that emanates from the very entrails of the ABSOLUTE.