The Return to Thoughtless Peace, Joy and Fulfilment

Introduction: The Whisper Beneath the Noise. Have you ever felt that despite everything you’re doing — the achievements, the planning, the self-improvement, even the spiritual searching — something still feels… just slightly off?

Like there’s a quiet hum beneath all the noise of life, a subtle pull back to something simpler, something real, something not so heavy?

This is not your imagination. It’s a glimpse of your natural state. And this blog is a short journey into understanding how we lost touch with it — and how we can remember it again.

1. How We Lost Ourselves Without Even Noticing

When we come into the world, we don’t have strong opinions or beliefs. We just are. But as we grow, something happens. We begin to take in ideas from others:

• This is good, that is bad.

• You should be like this.

• Life is meant to look like that.

We form judgements — not just about the world, but about ourselves. What begins as innocent learning becomes a thick web of beliefs, preferences, fears, and expectations.

Suddenly:

• The weather can ruin our mood.

• A number in a bank account can define our sense of safety.

• A word from someone else can make or break our self-worth.

We start looking out there for peace, joy, and fulfilment. And without meaning to, we hand over control of our inner state to the outside world.

2. The World Becomes Heavy

As these beliefs build up, we begin to live in our heads — constantly thinking, planning, judging, comparing.

We try to manage life by spinning plates:

• Chasing what we think will bring happiness.

• Avoiding what we believe will cause pain.

But no matter how good we get at juggling, it never ends. There’s always something else to fix, fear, achieve, or control.

Life begins to feel heavy.And thinking becomes constant — even exhausting.

3. The Beautiful Breakdown

Eventually, many of us reach a kind of inner crisis.

It might look like burnout, anxiety, a breakdown, or simply a deep sense of dissatisfaction that no success or philosophy can fix.

But here’s the most important thing to know:

This moment is not the end — it’s the beginning.

For the first time, we begin to question the beliefs that shaped our experience of life. We begin to see that we haven’t just had beliefs — we’ve become them.

We’re not meeting life as it is — we’re meeting our ideas about it. We’re not being ourselves — we’re being who we think we are, or should be.

And now, something begins to crack open.

4. What Is Awakening?

Awakening isn’t a mystical achievement. It’s not becoming spiritual, or better, or more enlightened than anyone else.

Awakening is simply starting to see what you are not. So what you are can shine through.

It’s the gentle peeling away of the layers of judgement and belief — the ideas we picked up, the labels we clung to, the identities we wore.

As they dissolve, a quiet truth begins to emerge: You are not your thoughts. You are not your beliefs. You are the aware presence beneath them — alive, peaceful, still and untouched by the dramatic stories of life.

5. The So-Called Spiritual Journey

Many people talk about the "spiritual path" as though it's a climb to some better version of yourself.

But in truth, it’s more like this:

• First, awareness descends into the complexity of life.

• It becomes wrapped up in thoughts, beliefs, roles and separations.

• It gets overwhelmed by the need to control everything.

• Then, through difficulty or curiosity, it begins to let go — to dissolve the illusion.

This isn’t about becoming someone new. It’s about seeing clearly that there is no separate self to protect or improve.

The more we let go of beliefs, the more obvious it becomes that life isn’t happening to us — it’s happening as us and within us.

6. Thoughtless Peace: Your Natural State

What happens when the judgements stop — even for a moment?

There’s no opinion to defend. No preference to chase. No fear to manage.

There is just this: Quiet. Clarity. Peace.

Not the peace of everything going right — but the peace of no longer needing anything to go any particular way.

This thoughtless peace is not dull — it’s full of life. Not passive — but deeply present.

It doesn’t come from outside. It's not from what you're told or experience. And it doesn’t need to be maintained. It’s what you are when you stop trying to be something.

7. Life as a Wave in the Ocean of Awareness

We often think of life as something separate — a series of events we’re moving through.

But what if life is more like a wave, rising and falling within something much deeper?

That something is awareness — not a mystical idea, but the simple knowing that you are here, now. The aliveness of it all, isness of what is.

In that space, everything appears: joy, pain, thought, silence, success, failure. But you are the space that holds it all — not the contents.

There’s nothing you need to believe. No system to follow. Just a quiet recognition of what’s already true, underneath all the noise.

Final Words: The Gentle Return If you feel tired, confused, or caught in overthinking — you're not lost. You're simply being shown that the way you've been taught to see the world isn't the full picture.

You are being invited back. Not to a new belief system — but to something simpler than all of that.

A return to thoughtless peace. To joy without cause. To fulfilment without effort.

To the beautiful simplicity of being — as you already are.