You
can have a beautiful hut situated overlooking a rushing river or you could have
one that looks out upon a majestic mountain. Yet despite the accommodations, it
is not the hut that enacts change, it is the mind that is inside the hut. A hut
is not even needed. A small corner of a bedroom or living room will have the
power of a Himalayan cave high up in the snowy mountains. Sitting on the sofa
or your favorite chair and letting all things be calm is enough. The peace you
find at the top of a mountain is the same peace you could have found at the
bottom of the mountain. One does not find peace in the external, but
internally, within the mind. Man most often fails to realize this and sets off
on a fruitless journey across town or across the continents looking for
something or somebody to give him tranquility. The peace that is found in a
retreat is like sand slipping through your fingers. Soon enough, you are back
where you were. Only by tapping into the spring of peace within can you not run
dry.
