Peace of Mind

him as lower than the yardstick that he has established. This is why even after obtaining all sorts of material ‘goods’ he is not content. Even when he is surrounded by material luxuries, he remains sunk in a sort of unconscious discontentment. This fact proves that to search for peace of mind in material ‘goods’ and worldly luxuries is useless and that it will never be achieved. A second suggestion that is often offered for the problem of mental stress and tension, is a sort of ‘meditation’ that seeks to stop a person’s process of thinking so that he is not capable of feeling stress consciously. However, this approach is synonymous with mental anesthesia. It seeks to benumb or blunt a person’s capacity for thinking and make him insensitive. Even if this sort of peace of mind is attained, it is definitely not something desirable because a process that suppresses the thinking faculty of a person is like putting him into an intellectual coma. This method is against the system according to which human nature works. The greatest thing that Nature has given man is his mind. According to Nature’s plan, the presence of problems is not something bad for the mind. In fact, it is a blessing in disguise. For man’s intellectual development, Nature has established a method of shock treatment. This being the case, to put an end to the process of shock treatment is to shut the doors of a person’s intellectual development. In this way, this method is against the system of Nature. And, needless to say, something that