What is constant inner peace?

[Audie]

I hear proponents of various religious
practices speak of (constant) inner peace.

What are they / you talking about?
Steady bliss?
No emotions at all? Only happiness?
No stress?
Peace as opposed to what, war or
turmoil?

Many questions! How could one be
in one state without anything to
compare it to? Even god is said to
not be able to do good without evil.

Stress, freedom from? Stress can
do harm, so can sleep air food and
water.
Peace as in no stress?
No stress even to fulfill an obligation
is no motivation!

Someone please explain "inner peace"
derived from religious practice, how it
is supposed to be a good thing!

 

[SalixIncendium]

I'd be happy to answer your questions, but not in a debate forum. I don't have a problem with my views being questioned (I do so myself regularly), but I am not inclined to debate them.

 

[Audie]

I'd be happy to answer your questions, but not in a debate forum. I don't have a problem with my views being questioned (I do so myself regularly), but I am not inclined to debate them.

Sounds sensible, and a way to avoid
harmful stress!

 

[Jollybear]

I hear proponents of various religious
practices speak of (constant) inner peace.

What are they / you talking about?
Steady bliss?
No emotions at all? Only happiness?
No stress?
Peace as opposed to what, war or
turmoil?

Many questions! How could one be
in one state without anything to
compare it to? Even god is said to
not be able to do good without evil.

Stress, freedom from? Stress can
do harm, so can sleep air food and
water.
Peace as in no stress?
No stress even to fulfill an obligation
is no motivation!

Someone please explain "inner peace"
derived from religious practice, how it
is supposed to be a good thing!

Ill answer it with 2 experiences.

One time as i was praying, i felt this burning heat go from my head, all the way into my stomach. This burning sensation came with a incredable joyful feeling.

Another time i had this dream. In the dream i saw nothing, i just felt this incredable joy. And words cannot describe it justice of how joyful the feeling was.

 

[George-ananda]

Someone please explain "inner peace"
derived from religious practice, how it
is supposed to be a good thing!

In my belief system (Advaita) consciousness at its source is pure infinite sat-cit-Ananda (being-awareness-bliss). That is the experience of inner peace.

 

[1213]

I hear proponents of various religious
practices speak of (constant) inner peace.

To me it means that I don’t have to worry or be fearful.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don't let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
John 14:27

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.
1 John 4:18

He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds! Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height? If then you aren't able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest? Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith? Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious. For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things. But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.
Luke 12:22-31

 

[robocop (actually)]

I hear proponents of various religious
practices speak of (constant) inner peace.

What are they / you talking about?
Steady bliss?
No emotions at all? Only happiness?
No stress?
Peace as opposed to what, war or
turmoil?

Many questions! How could one be
in one state without anything to
compare it to? Even god is said to
not be able to do good without evil.

Stress, freedom from? Stress can
do harm, so can sleep air food and
water.
Peace as in no stress?
No stress even to fulfill an obligation
is no motivation!

Someone please explain "inner peace"
derived from religious practice, how it
is supposed to be a good thing!

I've studied a religion or two, and I think inner peace is just contentment. You can be bothered by life, but if you are content, that is inner peace to me.

 

[sun rise]

Someone please explain "inner peace"
derived from religious practice, how it
is supposed to be a good thing!

Have you ever had an experience that you might call "being in the flow". For example losing yourself in dancing so that you become the dance, even for a moment? Or losing yourself in music? Or in sports? Or in 10,000 other ways.

If you have, there's a sense of freedom, freedom from the burden of carrying around a sense of self struggling with everything under the sun. Buddhism describes this very well.

In the Eastern tradition, achieving that state of freedom/inner peace permanently is called "mukti", liberation.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

I hear proponents of various religious
practices speak of (constant) inner peace.

What are they / you talking about?
Steady bliss?
No emotions at all? Only happiness?
No stress?
Peace as opposed to what, war or
turmoil?

Many questions! How could one be
in one state without anything to
compare it to? Even god is said to
not be able to do good without evil.

Stress, freedom from? Stress can
do harm, so can sleep air food and
water.
Peace as in no stress?
No stress even to fulfill an obligation
is no motivation!

Someone please explain "inner peace"
derived from religious practice, how it
is supposed to be a good thing!

I have known peace. At times.

I have read that some people experience a form of apparent inner peace when they have decided to end their own lives. Those that are serious about it and not just using attempts as a cry for help. It has been described as an acceptance of the knowledge that they know just what they are doing and are completely willing to carry out the actions leading to the conclusion.

I also have seen people that are very simple minded that have an apparent peace with the world around them. A sort of ultimate naivete derived from a simple personality that exists blissfully in ignorance.

I think it is achievable. I believe that some have done so, apparently. But I doubt that I or anyone else can know for sure.

I see it as a confidence and loyalty to a path that is so strong that no perturbation can move the person from that path, while allowing them the ability to interact and perceive the world around them.

There are many conditions that could mimic inner peace and there is always the possibility that inner peace can be derived from false conditions or false perceptions.

 

[PureX]

I hear proponents of various religious
practices speak of (constant) inner peace.

What are they / you talking about?

Being dead, I think.

To be alive is to be 'inconsistent'. To be alive as a human is to experience change and those changes bring with them many differing states, and conditions, and reactions, from us.

 

[The Hammer]

I hear proponents of various religious
practices speak of (constant) inner peace.

What are they / you talking about?
Steady bliss?
No emotions at all? Only happiness?
No stress?
Peace as opposed to what, war or
turmoil?

Many questions! How could one be
in one state without anything to
compare it to? Even god is said to
not be able to do good without evil.

Stress, freedom from? Stress can
do harm, so can sleep air food and
water.
Peace as in no stress?
No stress even to fulfill an obligation
is no motivation!

Someone please explain "inner peace"
derived from religious practice, how it
is supposed to be a good thing!

Inner peace IMO, seems to boil down to a dissolution of the ego, and quieting/stopping the internal monologue network (the constant, I, me, them, in our minds).
The more we try to percieve and experience, the less we actually do. You have to be able to completely surrender to 'death/silence', no unfinished business can exist in your mind.

 

[The Hammer]

Being dead, I think.

To be alive is to be 'inconsistent'. To be alive as a human is to experience change and those changes bring with them many differing states, and conditions, and reactions, from us.

But one does not need to react, that is where inner peace resides.

 

[Audie]

Being dead, I think.

To be alive is to be 'inconsistent'. To be alive as a human is to experience change and those changes bring with them many differing states, and conditions, and reactions, from us.

That is why I asked. Looked so to me too.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Being dead, I think.

To be alive is to be 'inconsistent'. To be alive as a human is to experience change and those changes bring with them many differing states, and conditions, and reactions, from us.

I agree. I am uncertain if a state of complete inner bliss is even desirable. Unless we want to become mushrooms and do nothing.

 

[Trailblazer]

Being dead, I think.

To be alive is to be 'inconsistent'. To be alive as a human is to experience change and those changes bring with them many differing states, and conditions, and reactions, from us.

Nothing is constant in this life so no constant inner peace can be found.
Let's hope it is constant in the next life.... That's what we are told.

 

[sayak83]

I hear proponents of various religious
practices speak of (constant) inner peace.

What are they / you talking about?
Steady bliss?
No emotions at all? Only happiness?
No stress?
Peace as opposed to what, war or
turmoil?

Many questions! How could one be
in one state without anything to
compare it to? Even god is said to
not be able to do good without evil.

Stress, freedom from? Stress can
do harm, so can sleep air food and
water.
Peace as in no stress?
No stress even to fulfill an obligation
is no motivation!

Someone please explain "inner peace"
derived from religious practice, how it
is supposed to be a good thing!

Watch Kung Fu Panda 2.

 

[sayak83]

I hear proponents of various religious
practices speak of (constant) inner peace.

What are they / you talking about?
Steady bliss?
No emotions at all? Only happiness?
No stress?
Peace as opposed to what, war or
turmoil?

Many questions! How could one be
in one state without anything to
compare it to? Even god is said to
not be able to do good without evil.

Stress, freedom from? Stress can
do harm, so can sleep air food and
water.
Peace as in no stress?
No stress even to fulfill an obligation
is no motivation!

Someone please explain "inner peace"
derived from religious practice, how it
is supposed to be a good thing!

More seriously...imagine you are as peaceful and relaxed as you have ever been in your life...and combine with the time when you have been as alert, "clear and present" and motivated in your life....what you get then when sustained over days, months or years...would be called inner peace. More technical language is "sustained and stable abiding in the first jhana" (Buddhism).

 

[Audie]

More seriously...imagine you are as peaceful and relaxed as you have ever been in your life...and combine with the time when you have been as alert, "clear and present" and motivated in your life....what you get then when sustained over days, months or years...would be called inner peace. More technical language is "sustained and stable abiding in the first jhana" (Buddhism).

That is what you experience?

 

[chinu]

I hear proponents of various religious
practices speak of (constant) inner peace.

What are they / you talking about?
Steady bliss?
No emotions at all? Only happiness?
No stress?
Peace as opposed to what, war or
turmoil?

Many questions! How could one be
in one state without anything to
compare it to? Even god is said to
not be able to do good without evil.

Stress, freedom from? Stress can
do harm, so can sleep air food and
water.
Peace as in no stress?
No stress even to fulfill an obligation
is no motivation!

Someone please explain "inner peace"
derived from religious practice, how it
is supposed to be a good thing!

I have never drank Coffee.

Explain me the taste of Coffee ?
But, the condition is.. I will not drink it.

If you succeeded in explaining me the taste of Coffee,
Then, surely I'll explain you the taste of Inner-peace, or bliss etc.

But, if you failed,
Just think,
If you are unable to do such a simple thing ?
Then, how can someone be able to explain you a "Divine-taste"

 

[sayak83]

That is what you experience?

To some extent. I have cultivated enough for me to do my tasks in this life well. Though I am more of an outlier as I have mostly done everything without going to any group or anything. I don't have insecurities, rarely frustrated or angry and content and happy most of the time. You may consider it as my innate character, but I would say its mostly the internal practice.