There Is No Mental Peace Without Meditation

Mental peace is our true wealth. It is the wealth of emptiness that we can return to when we have lost clarity and become anxious, swallowed up by emotions. It is the source of wisdom and compassion – we just have to remember.

Meditation is very simple: sit in silent awareness, with the senses wide open, without distraction. If the mind wanders, focus on the breath. This clarity of peaceful stillness is the wealth of all the universe.

Returning many times to awareness, we realise that we are that awareness. The experience that there is nothing else but that uncontaminated awareness is therefore proof of its purity or emptiness.

Outer wealth is fool’s gold,
wanting whatever is out there.

Inner wealth already owns the universe.
Whatever is out there, we already have within.

Our true reality is precisely what the universe is all about.