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Permanent-peace.

It Aint Necessarily So

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If I ask; do you need "Permanent-peace". Do you need this ?
No. I've had rough patches in life, and that was fine. And some days, I get mildly upset at some things, but that can be helpful. It's energizing and focuses attention, and often feels good, as with moral indignation.
Why not forget stubbornness of a desire which CAN/WAS never fulfilled ?
A good idea and an essential element of ataraxis - a fancy word for serenity or equanimity. It is a gift to be able to say, "I have is enough" whether that be control, love, material needs and desires, etc..
God synonymous with permanent peace and CAN be found in one's own self.
Disagree. Nobody experiences permanent peace, and you shouldn't believe everything you read about a future paradise where all is goodness and light. That's a promise that can't and needn't be kept. If one can find inner peace, he's created it himself.
Impermanence is a fleeting illusion. permanence is reality. Being mindful of the difference is helpful.
Somebody else already told you that this is backwards. You've never seen permanence and never will. Everything is changing.

I just saw an interesting show about the Big Bang, which began with Aristotle's cosmology, which considered the heavens a different kind of reality - an unchanging one made of a fifth substance (quintessence). This was an introduction to the idea that we eventually learned that everything evolved from an initial hot, dense state and will continue to evolve indefinitely.
God is paramount to survival of the soul.
Disagree. What people call the soul is likely just the working of the brain. It doesn't enter a body or leave one any more than a flame enters a burning wick and then flies off when the candle goes dark - an excellent metaphor for brain producing mind and what is called soul/spirit/personality.
Regardless of it resides in every tiny particle one can experience it in inside itself.
Who and what you are arise from the organization of those particles into a person.
 

YmirGF

Bodhisattva in Recovery
Hmm. Could it not be precisely the opposite…?

Humbly,
Hermit
It certainly could be however, I think it unlikely because we exist in a universe of endless change. We have no evidence, of any kind, of anything that is actually permanent. It is my suggestion that people imagine a "perfect peace" due to fatique with constant change. Life wears a person out. It must be a comfort to imagine a place where everything would remain the same with no thought in regards to how quickly such a condition would likely become quite boring. Fortunately, reality is not a cruel joke,(imho, of course).
 
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