Where can we find true peace?

Question from the Internet:

“Where in the world do you find the most peace?”

Peace or war, agreement or conflict is always between people or nations. These notions relate to relationships or connections between entities.

In the “human world”, we do not find “true peace”, perhaps we have “temporary peace” or ceasefires. But human history is basically an endless chain of recurring conflicts and wars.

And this is because we are all born with an inherently “warmongering”, selfish, egotistic and exploitative nature. We all – knowingly or unknowingly – thrive to prove ourselves above others, we all try to accumulate and consume whatever we can for ourselves and we actually cherish and pursue surviving and succeeding at each other’s expense.

If we want to see how “true peace” – meaning completeness, mutual complementation between diverse and seemingly incompatible elements – works, we need to look elsewhere.

We find this “true peace” in nature, in complex and mutually integrated living systems like our own biological body, for example. Although superficially it seems to us that nature is a cruel and ruthless system, full of wars and destruction, we simply cannot see or comprehend how all the natural processes are planned and precisely arranged in order to create and sustain a system that is capable of creasting and nurturing life.

If we experienced how our body works on a cellular level, we would also see seeminglt wanton destruction and rebuilding, endless fights for survival. But when we feel our healthy body as the “conscious self”, above the cellular level sensing the body as a single, mutually integrated and mutually complementing system, we feel calm and balanced most of the time.

We need to learn from nature how individual human beings – in effect individual cells of the same living organism – need to operate, find and fulfill their unique, irreplaceable and crucially important roles, so we could also maintain a general balance and homeostasis – above and against our inherent differences, diversity, mutual distrust and animosity which we do not suppress or erase. Then we will also give birth to a new level of “Human” life, with a unique collective Human consciousness and composite perception of reality that will elevate our sense of existence to previously unimagined heights.

We will never find “true peace” on the level where we are, where we all try to remain our inherently egocentric, subjective and individualistic selves. Peace will be found between us when we all abandon our original individualistic existence for that qualitatively much higher, collective and peaceful human existence where we all exist and act for the wellbeing and benefit of others and the whole system – including humanity and nature.

Obviously, since this requires learning and practicing a life and behaviour that is not only abobe but against our instinctive inclination and program, we need a special, purposeful and practical method to achieve and enjoy “true peace”.