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It is counterintuitive to suggest that there is harmony in change because change is about disturbing the homeostasis of a situation. How can change in a relationship bring harmony? How is the death of a loved one going to bring peace and harmony into my life? How is a huge change caused by destruction of my house through a natural disaster, and moving to a new and unfamiliar location going to bring harmony in my life? How is a diagnosis of cancer and prognosis of death in six months, consistent with harmony?
Let me make two very important points: First, the harmony and peace I am talking about is not exempt from upsets and upheavals because, change and harmony are siblings. Mindfulness master, Jon Kabat-Zinn, describes such a situation as living …show more content…

Krishnamurti says: They dig a little pool for themselves away from the swift current of life, and in that little pool they stagnate and die; and this stagnation, this decay we call life.17 We cannot resist change and expect to find peace and harmony in life. What we are looking for is harmony amidst unexpected and unwelcome changes
Let me explain this by using the analogy of two kinds of peace: peace of the cemetery and peace of the airplane. Peace of the cemetery, as the phrase implies, is the peace and quiet of a graveyard. No one is talking, moving or yelling at each other. There are no disagreements, conflicts, shouting or arguing there. Everything is peaceful and quiet. It is the harmonious co-existence of dead bodies. It is the peace of death. We should neither hope for, nor appreciate that kind of peace while we are alive.
The peace that we should hope for while being alive, is the peace of the airplane. Imagine a jumbo jet flying 30,000 feet above us. It is thousands of tons heavy, it makes ear-piercing noise, it travels with high speed, and yet, from the outside, it appears to be smoothly floating in the air, with no apparent effort or distress. That is the image of a life that is full of challenges and struggles, and yet thrives in the middle of them and finds balance and

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