..续本文上一页 is just one face to the mind, and not even its true face. But until it trusts you, until it knows its not going to get criticized, condemned or violated, its not going to open up its deeper secrets to you. Relating to it with friendliness allows it to relax, to not have to keep up its particular "face", and to transform into something quite marvelously different. What that is we don”t know, but we are peaceful with that too.

　　There are different kinds of peace too, there is a peace "away from", peace without disturbance, when your disturbance is all gone and then it is quiet. But what I am talking about is "peace with disturbance", being at peace with the noise, being at peace with the pain, being at peace with the wandering mind -- it is a different kind of experience. And practically, how often can you really be away from disturbances

　　 We go off to the quiet mountains, walking peacefully, "Oh, so peaceful", until one of those Swiss Jets comes blasting over you: Wrooooaammm! Or here, especially in the springtime, it is an especially good place for wakefulness. If you go wandering up the path here a lot of little avalanches come down. You just walk along in a daydream, and then Craaash! This is a different kind of peace.

　　Insight meditation is seeing the way things really are. When you see how they really are, you can be at peace with them. Whatever is there is alright, it is just the way it is. We don”t make suffering and complications around it. But in the process it is different. It is a different kind of a wandering mind. When we are at peace with the pain, it is still there, but it is a different kind of pain – a soft, peaceful pain. Try developing a more peaceful, friendly attitude to the so-called unpleasant and see for yourself what happens to it. Then it will be your experience.

　　May your practice of friendly insight develop well and bear fruit.

　　Be well.

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