The Prince Of Peace

As we think and pray for peace, I delve into the role Christ played as teh Prince of peace, and what we can learn from the peace that passeth understanding. A talk about how to be that peace and maintain it. I also do a deep peace meditation.

Transcript

Peace.

Christ was known as the Prince of Peace.

I often wonder how he maintained that peace while going through all of the challenges he went through.

He faced so many challenges,

And yet he carried that light,

That peace with him.

Jesus was known to have many attributes,

But the gift of holding the light of peace,

It's one that rings forth still.

You hear it in many Christmas carols and see it on many Christmas cards.

One of the ultimate realizations is to find that peace that passeth all understanding.

This is holding that vibration and frequency in your mind from a higher dimension,

That higher reality,

And the merging of it with your life.

It is that ultimate satori,

That place where you go beyond the mind,

And then you can find that blissful,

That wonderful,

Magical power of that peace that passes all understanding.

The truth is that peace comes from within.

Now,

Just like any spiritual practice,

You learn to find that place of peace.

But the true practice is being able to live it.

It's the same as trying to find that love inside and live with that love always in your life.

Now,

There have been masters who have achieved this upon enlightenment.

Of course,

Christ was one who was the Prince of Peace,

But Buddha and many others have also lived with that idea of carrying that peace with them always.

While we're living in this world and we are not in that conscious state of enlightenment or that Christ consciousness,

We are going to be finding times that people push our buttons.

I've been practicing meditating for over 55 years now,

And I can tell you that it still happens.

I'm amazed at how we have to realize that this is part of our learning experience.

This is part of the need to reveal what is in us.

Things need to come up so we can find out how we can heal,

Let it be revealed,

And then let it go.

That's a part of the process.

It's a lengthy process,

Obviously,

But it certainly helps to meditate on it.

It also helps to know that the keys to better control can be by finding that place where the buttons are pushed.

You find out not to get upset when they come around and how to overcome that by being able to go to that place where you are not getting upset easily,

Even if your buttons are pushed.

With practice,

We have learned from Christ there are many tools to develop peace.

There are many wonderful teachers who have embraced the idea of peace.

It is beautiful how there are so many wonderful peace prayers.

In every single religion,

There are some powerful peace prayers.

These peace prayers hopefully can bring the world together in a way to see that all religions pray for peace.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama said,

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

I have thought about that often.

What does that take?

It takes being disengaged from the ego.

It takes being able to be objective and go to that place of the objective observer to be able to see things from that higher place of peace inside.

We have to be able to negotiate peace with ourselves if we're going to be in the world trying to negotiate peace with others.

That takes a certain peace zone of sorts,

Right?

We can make up a physical boundary in the world,

But can we make it up in our own self to have healthy boundaries?

It's important where we allow there to be that peace inside us always.

Eleanor Roosevelt said,

Stop what you say.

It's not enough to talk about peace.

One must believe in it.

It's not enough to believe in it.

One must work at it.

She was saying this and doing this during World War II.

What a need for peace at that time.

Now we have wars going on again.

What do we need for peace in our time?

As we really dedicate ourselves to finding that inner peace,

Can we hold that and spread that and share that around the world?

I know that on the UN International Peace Day,

As people are meditating on this,

People are sharing their thoughts of peace.

There's always that true sense and energy,

A field of peace that is being present as people all around the world pray for peace.

I believe that we do sense that same energy sometimes on Christmas Day through music,

Through prayer,

Through meditation.

It is easier to do that.

There are thousands of international cities of peace,

And so we have more opportunity to be able to live and share that peace that comes in the midst of moments and chaos.

Keeping stillness inside of you is one of the ways.

Dr.

Martin Luther King said,

The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than a diamond or silver or gold.

Can we let peace come to our own state of mind?

Can we extend that conscious inner peace and allow ourselves to extend that peace as an olive branch to the rest of the world?

I pray and I hope as you find the strength of peace inside you,

You can be a peacemaker in the world.

I pray that you can overcome the temptation to engage when someone pushes your buttons,

That you can be present in peace in this beautiful place inside and out.

There is a peace that is there within you,

Inside you and me,

Inside the masters.

There is that place of peace that passeth understanding,

And it's a wonderful energy field that we can be in together.

Do not be anxious about anything,

But in everything,

By prayer and petition,

With thanksgiving,

Present your request to God and the peace of God,

Which transcends all understanding,

Will guard your heart and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Now,

Most people think of that peace in relation to the quote in the Bible,

But life was extremely hard for people at that time.

And Paul,

St.

Paul,

Was going through a lot of difficulties.

Paul did not promise that God would do everything that the people needed to get through the hard situations that they were in.

People were being arrested and were being killed and tortured for practicing Christianity.

He did promise that when they did pray about things,

God will change the people themselves,

Not the situation,

But the people.

He said,

And the peace of God,

Which transcends all understanding,

Will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

So when we have a challenging situation,

And we have had so many,

And we have seen in the last couple of years that have now gone on for three or four years,

There's been so many challenges and problems.

There's been a lot to worry about,

But focusing on the worries only worsens the situation.

We know this.

If you pray,

Then you're asking that situation to be handed over with the trust and faith in God to help you.

Hand everything over to God,

Including your problems and your worries.

There you are releasing it,

And then you're releasing also your ego,

Your own mind to God and God's will.

Then you can be open to change your own being,

Your own state of mind.

You have to reject the worry and not to be anxious.

Then you have to talk to God about what you need in every situation that you are concerned about.

Present that talk to God and thank him for already taking the situation and helping you out in that way to handle it in such a way that you can deal with it.

When we are under stress,

We can get obsessed with and worry about a situation.

It happens often,

But miracles do truly happen.

Isaiah 26.

3 says,

You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast because they trust in you.

Again,

That word trust is there.

It's such an important key to finding peace,

To have that faith,

To have that trust.

It said God's peace is not like the peace of the world.

In our mind,

In the world state of consciousness,

Peace is based in our mental state of mind,

The mental plane.

In the physical plane,

In our circumstances of the world,

It might be different or felt in different ways.

However,

That is not the ultimate peace.

World peace and the ultimate peace have to come to that place where it's raised to a higher resolution.

I use the word resolution meaning re-solution from your soul,

Finding that way to come to terms again with peace.

That comes when you let go and let God,

When you can indeed get to that higher place in the light and love of God,

Then you can find a peace that transcends all understanding.

We're talking about something that is found in the highest place within,

Maybe not even in words.

It's found in the light.

It's found in the silence,

Behind the silence.

It is found in that wonderful place of love,

A love that conquers all.

That love is from the source of love that created everything.

It takes you out of your individual self and it surpasses all comprehension.

There are many ways to go about discovering peace and to try to find peace.

Why not go to that place where you can find the source of peace within,

The place where peace came from,

That place of peace there in your heart and soul.

We know that peace has to come from within and there are certain keys you can do when you're going within.

If you have meditated for a while,

Perhaps you found what works for you.

This could be breathing,

It could be some words,

It could be a sound,

It could be finding your soul and connecting with that higher self.

Maybe you find peace by following your breath to the point where you reach a zen-like state and you just go beyond your mind to a level of nirvana.

Maybe you find enlightenment,

Illumination,

The ultimate light of all,

And there you find that peace that passeth all understanding.

In John 14.

27 it was said,

Peace I leave with you,

My peace I give to you.

Not as the world gives do I give to you.

Let not your hearts be troubled,

Nor let them be afraid.

Can you transcend the world and find the peace that passeth understanding?

If you can get to that state,

You will eventually realize you are there.

Then you will be in a place that is out of the conflicts.

Your will will disengage from the battles of the world.

At that point,

You will find a place of peace that is beyond this small ego and the ego's battles,

Beyond individual needs and angers.

It's found in that ultimate universal consciousness of God that can change the way you live and the way you see things.

Can you hold on to it always?

Well,

If you are in Christ consciousness,

If you are enlightened possibly,

But very few people living in the world maintain that state of peace,

Unless it is Buddha or Christ or a major teacher or master,

We can reach that peace and we can call upon our highest self to be in that peaceful state of mind.

In that strength,

You can be able to surpass the conflicts of the world.

If we do that,

If we find that peace that passeth understanding,

What a glorious way to become a servant,

The Holy Dove,

To become the light of the world,

To fly around and soar around the world with that light like the Holy Dove and the Holy Spirit,

And to offer that branch,

That olive branch of peace out.

In offering that olive branch of peace,

You are sharing the light of the world.

You are sharing that Holy Spirit.

You are sharing that doorway to peace.

When you share that illumination,

You are sharing what you need to help bring more peace to the world.

To be a peacemaker is a wonderful gift.

It's a wonderful way to serve.

What a wonderful way to bring more peace to the world.

So many people are trying to do this,

More than you might ever imagine.

Right now,

Let's try to be in that place of peace within.

Let's just relax and get comfortable.

Make sure you're very comfortable and your spine is erect.

Let's take some breaths of peace in and let that light of peace surround you and be there above you and below you,

In front of you and around either side of you,

Till you are in a cocoon,

A lovely egg-like blessed place of peace.

You are safe.

You can let go and release anything that is not of peace.

Breathing in deeply and following that breath.

Just breathe.

Don't worry.

Just relax.

Let that light come in as you breathe in and as you breathe out.

Breathing in light and breathing out peace.

Breathing in light and breathing all that's not light out and releasing it and letting it go.

Going deeper and deeper in.

Allow that light to start at your crown chakra and come down into your head and circle your head,

Releasing any tension.

Let it come into your throat and that beautiful area of the creative center there.

Just letting it expand in a beautiful light of blue peace.

Breathing it in and letting it come to your heart,

To your heart of hearts at peace.

Allowing that energy to go on down through your chakras to the third and the second and the first chakra,

Till that whole light of peace is glowing throughout all of your body.

You feel it in your hands and your legs and your feet.

Just relax and just be at peace.

Open your heart to that lovely place of silence that holds the peace that passeth all understanding.

See it coming to you like a beautiful dove of peace.

Let that holy white dove know that you are on a journey of peace as the holy spirit participating in peace as that dove soars high around the whole planet.

The dove of peace is there within that spirit.

It's shining its light of peace upon the entire world.

If we look at any places from the objective observer,

The higher realms that are in darkness,

That are at war,

Let us send that light and that love of peace to those places at war,

Bringing that holy spirit down,

Down,

Down to all that are strife and conflict,

Anger,

Killing.

Let it go and see that peace that passeth understanding,

Blessing those areas and enlightening those areas until you can see that peace spreading and spreading from soul to soul.

All those praying for peace going to the places needed.

See the entire vibration of the planet reverberating with peace,

A peace that passeth understanding.

Now that peace comes back to you a hundredfold,

A millionfold to your heart and it brings great love and light to your mind.

Taking that light and love,

Bringing it to your soul,

Then returning it right there to that place of peace within you.

Knowing that energy of that God's inner peace and light and love is there right within you and you absorb it,

You become it,

You are at peace and you can be that peace now and forever.

Now slowly come out of meditation and let your whole body bathe in that energy field and be transformed by that peace.

Allow whatever comes to you to be written down.

If you need to write words,

Remember that feeling of that energy of peace so you can work and share that energy with others.

Peace be with you always.

Be at peace,

My friend.

Peace be with you always,

A peace that never ends.

God bless you always and thank you so much for being here in this place of peace.

Reviews

This was very wise and enlightening and warm! Thank you so much teacher 😊

Oh we all could use more of that peace!
It is the #1 thing in every yoga class I teach that students comment on
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