How To Find Inner Peace

We are so busy looking for peace and happiness on the outside that we often neglect to address the actual reason why we don't have peace: our thoughts. This talk will guide you to come back to the peace of this moment.

Transcript

So,

We all want inner peace,

But what is it?

How do we have it?

Well,

As you've probably come to discover if you're searching for this type of thing,

External stuff can't give us peace.

If we have wealth,

It can't give us peace because it doesn't eliminate our insecurities,

Our judgements,

Our worries,

Our anxiety.

If we have a wife,

If we have kids,

It doesn't eliminate any of these thoughts.

So,

If an external world can't make us happy,

How do we make our inner world peaceful?

Well,

The only thing that takes you away from peace is believing in the idea that something is bad.

That's it.

So,

I'll explain that a little bit more clearly.

So,

When you experience anxiety,

It's because you believe it would be bad if so and so happened.

When you experience worrying about what someone thinks,

It's because you think it would be bad if they had that opinion.

When you feel insufficient,

It's because you think it's bad that you are like this.

When you feel ashamed about your situations because you think your situation is bad.

When you feel guilty about something,

It's because you think it was bad that you did that.

When you feel judgements towards others or anger,

It's because what they did is bad or something about them is bad.

That's the only thing that creates your unhappiness,

Is just the idea that something is bad.

And then once we become spiritual or examining our thoughts,

Then we have new concepts of bad as it's bad to think negative thoughts,

It's bad to have a busy mind,

It's bad to think about the future,

It's bad to think about the past,

It's bad to have tension,

It's bad not to act lovingly.

All of that just creates suffering.

All of that is just suffering,

Suffering,

Suffering.

Right?

You've probably discovered that.

And then there's this internal war happening in your head of wanting to do what's good but yet doing something that we think is bad,

Or wanting to think good thoughts but yet thinking bad thoughts,

And then this conflict happens and this internal battle going on.

So if you want to end the battle,

Just stop in this moment,

Just stop.

And just bring your attention back here.

Bring your attention back to this moment.

What's here right now?

And then notice mind pops up,

Stories pop up,

Let them pop up,

It's okay.

Don't try to stop thinking,

Don't try to let go of thoughts,

Don't try to improve thoughts.

You don't pick the thoughts which enter your head,

Do you?

Look,

What's the next thought to pop up?

Where does it come from?

Who put it there?

If you picked the thoughts that entered your mind,

You would never think negative thoughts.

Why would you?

It doesn't make us happy.

So stop trying to control your thoughts,

Just in this moment,

And just let them do whatever they want.

Give them free rein.

And then stop and bring your attention back here,

Back to my voice and back to my eyes.

We're just here sitting,

Standing,

Listening.

We're just here being.

You don't need to fix anything,

Improve anything.

How do you know something's not good enough?

Where does not good enough exist?

Where is bad in this moment?

Where is there a problem?

In this moment,

Where does problem exist?

Can you find it?

Can you locate it?

Is it here?

Can you touch it?

Can you hold it?

Stop and come back.

We're just here being.

Where is there a problem?

Where is not good enough?

It doesn't exist.

It's just a story.

So notice,

What's the next story to pop up in your head?

The next comment,

The next question.

And then follow it for a moment.

See where it takes you.

And then stop and bring your attention back.

When you follow stories,

It creates problems out of nothing,

It creates suffering.

But then when you bring your attention back to this moment,

All of a sudden we're just here.

Nothing wrong here.

Where's insufficiency in this moment?

Where is lack in this moment?

How do you know?

Even if there's a feeling in your body,

How do you know what a feeling signifies?

That's just a story.

A feeling is just a feeling.

End of story.

And every time we follow a thought,

A thought takes us into this fantasy world away from here now.

What is real in this moment?

What do I see in this moment?

What exists right now?

Stop and come back.

Stop and come back.

We're just here.

Nothing to fix,

Nothing to improve,

Nothing to do.

Stop and come back.

Just bring your attention here.

Who says something's not good enough?

Who says thoughts are no good?

Where does that exist?

Who says I'm not peaceful enough?

Where does that exist?

You're just here being.

Let your experience be whatever it is.

Allow your experience to just be whatever it is.

How do you know it's bad?

How do you know the feeling in your body is no good?

That's just an idea,

A concept.

It doesn't exist as part of reality.

Stop and come back.

Just notice in this moment.

Allow thoughts to do whatever they want.

Allow your experience to be whatever it is.

But look,

Is there a problem here?

Stop and come back here.

Is there a problem?

Is there something wrong here?

You want to have inner peace?

Allow everything to be as it is.

Recognize that bad doesn't exist as part of the facts.

Recognize you don't know what bad is.

Everybody has a different concept of what is bad,

Right,

Wrong,

But none of it is part of reality.

Stop and bring your attention back to this moment.

And then see what's here.

That all of a sudden what remains is lightness,

Peace,

Relaxation.

You need to fix anything.

You need to improve anything.

You don't have to change your mind.

You don't have to change others.

Let everything be as it is.

The only thing that ever created your suffering was following stories.

That's it.

Reality doesn't have the ability to make you unhappy.

Reality doesn't have the ability to take away your peace.

Peace is who we are.

Peace is our nature.

In any moment we just get confused and we follow thoughts.

Of course,

Because we've been taught our whole life to follow thoughts.

But in this moment just notice the thoughts that come and then out of curiosity stop and bring your attention back,

Back here,

Back to this moment.

Allow your experience to just be.

So inner peace,

Inner peace is just our nature.

Inner peace is this moment when we don't add our stories about it.

We don't follow our stories about this moment.

We don't believe our stories about this moment.

We're left with peace.

Inner peace,

External peace,

It doesn't matter.

Peace.

So I hope you enjoyed this video and I'll see you around my page.

Reviews

Remarkable of the stories we constantly tell ourselves are keeping us from having inner peace ☮️. Stop and just be…🙏🏾

Loved it!!

I found this last night and have already listened to it a few times and I'll continue to listen to it because It just makes sense. Thank you for sharing.
Its exactly what I needed to hear, right now.

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Good talk but Noah’s face is blurry. Is there a fix for that?

So very helpful for me with my struggles today!
Namaste🙏🏻

This made me cry. So passionate!

Thank you for the reminders. Insightful.

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very simple ...JUST what was needed!

I really liked this talk.

Thank you for this. I had a really bad day yesterday "family conflict". I felt so small and that nothing I do matters. This certainly changed my focus ❤️

beautiful and compelling

Insightful; good cognitive defense against unhappiness.

Really helped me in a moment of feeling sad, lifted the weight of the world with his wise words.

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I really liked his message it helped me with a few thoughts. Thanks

Just what I needed! Thank you, my friend!

Meditation comes in many forms and is defined differently by each individual. There's no wrong way to meditate. For me, I could feel the passion in his voice and it was very powerful and very meditative indeed. Thank you so very much.