The Path to Inner Calm and Awareness : หน้า 100/200

Make sure there are no signs of tension anywhere and that you're closing your eyes the right way. Create a feeling of ease, happiness and purity. Feel that you're entering upon a perfect state of calm with both body and mind. Don't be concerned about anything or anyone. Detach yourself from your job, your business, your responsibilities, your family, everything and anything at all. Let go of everything. Realize that everything around you exists only for a short time. All things will come to an end. Even the world we live in will eventually expire. Our world has to undergo the cycles of creation, existence, and destruction. We, the mere creatures that live in this world, are no exception. All of us will eventually perish. From the time we left the wombs of our mothers until this present moment, our bodies are constantly going through the process of decay and deterioration, and eventually everything will come to an end. This is the way of the world, whether we realize it or not. Our bodies are but temporary shelters that function as vehicles for our streams of consciousness to pass through. Eventually we’ll find the original source of our consciousness and wellbeing, which is located within our very own body. This is known as the Seventh Base of the Mind. It is located at the center of our body, two finger-breadths above our navel. It was through the Seventh Base of the mind that the Lord Buddha found his divine knowledge and supreme wisdom.