Day 46 of 365: Peace

The second quality of the precise nature of reality is peace.  Khenpo further describes this, saying that the precise nature is "peace in its true nature".  The precise nature is peace because it is free from the four extremes.  Any conflict that we have or struggle that we have is because we are grappling, perhaps in a subtle way, with reality and trying to pigeonhole our experience into one of the four extremes (existence, non-existence, both, neither).  As we sit, this happens continually.  A thought arises.  It is real!  We let go.  Oh, maybe it's not so real!  An emotion arises.  We investigate, finding that we can't find a center or fringe to the emotions nor a color or a texture.  But, the emotion is there.  Maybe it's real and not real somehow?  We constantly are trying to get an angle on the situation.  But, this fundamental reaction is really nothing other than paranoia and fear, leading us away from true peace and the precise nature.