Seasons of Peace

Peace is who you are without a story, until the next stressful story appears.  (Byron Katie)

Peace is an outlook you can carry with you at all times by remembering cycles.    (I' Ching Hexagram 11)

There are plenty of escape routes but there is no realizing peace through any of them. They are all cul-de-sacs. (Michael Brown)

I have noticed how Peace continually surfaces in the conversations. Usually as some sort of goal – to be at peace with myself, etc. I would like to share briefly my current synthesis around Peace. In Design and Gene Keys, at the time of my birth, the Sun was in Key or Gate 6 – and thus a part of my Incarnation Cross - my Life's Work. In Gene Keys this is the Gate of Peace. But Life's Work as opposed to Vocation it is something that is, for me,shared through my aura, my beingness to the extent that I purify my heart. But in the I' Ching the hexagram is called Conflict. In Design, it is the Gate of Friction. Both denote aspects of growth. Growth requires friction and conflict. 

Again, in Gene Keys the spectrum is from the Shadow of Conflict to the Gift of Diplomacy to the Siddhi of Peace. I am directing this at the conflict within ourselves. At the shadow frequency our conditioned minds keeps us continuously focused on the conflict. We spend our time trying to heal the effects, which cannot be done. The analogy of a clogged artery comes to mind. The clog is seen as the cause of the failing heart. Surgery and stints and drugs are used to dissolve the clog. But the clog is the effect; until the cause of the clog is addressed, it will always return. Diplomacy at its broadest interpretation is the change of behavior to facilitate harmony between the conflicted parts. But, in our work, behavior is the effect. Unless we address the underlying wounding, the cause, the behavior will return, as with addictions. However, the beauty is that the behavior will naturally melt away with the integration of this unfinished business. To my mind, this is the dynamics of the breakdown/breakthrough process. Integration being the key. And once the breakthrough comes, we feel peace.  

But this Gate of Peace is an emotional gate. It operates in a wave from Conflict to Peace and back again. The wheel is always turning. We begin again in the next step of the cycle. Maturation is a step by step process. If you skip steps, inevitably you have to return back to begin again. So Peace is transitory yet real, like the seasons. Winter does not end because we don't like the cold. The other seasons will arrive in their own timing. I have found over time with my practice that as my true nature emerges from the veils of conditioning there does arrive what Rinpoche called a natural great peace. We don't seek peace; we allow peace to emerge and to retreat. The ceremony never ends.