What is it?

Sāntimāggā is a compound Pali term translated as peace is the way. It’s the name of a chosen way of being and going about in the world. The foundation for practice rests on acknowledging the Four Conditions and assimilating and integrating the Four Insights into one’s way of being. As a practice, it’s monitoring perceptions, feelings, and thoughts in our field of awareness. The purpose is to examine whether the perceptions accurately represent what’s happening and whether the feelings and thoughts are appropriate for the situation. Then, insofar as it’s safe, choose to respond peacefully.

Sāntimāggā is not a religion. It has no commandments, beings or objects of worship, gurus, or spiritual intercessors. Like life, finding peace of mind is a do-it-yourself journey. And because we each have different triggers that bring about the unpeaceful mind, Sāntimāggā isn’t a one-size-fits-all practice. All seekers want the same thing, but one size fits only one. Fortunately, the different paths share common trail markers; anyone anywhere can find their way when they choose to do the work.

Website Mission

To make peace of mind and the welfare of our planet desirable, tangible, and achievable. To inspire a profoundly spiritual and visceral sense of global interdependence and mutual responsibility for everyone’s peace of mind today and in future generations. And to support the practice of Sāntimāggā: being peaceful within ourselves and then with others wherever we are, doing whatever we’re doing as we’re doing it.

Aspiration

Aspiration is the hope or ambition to achieve something. Here, the ambition is developing the skills of being present, mindfulness, meditation, gratitude, contemplation, introspection, and compassion for self and others by assimilating and integrating the Four Insights into one’s way of being.

Intention

Intention is what one strives to do or bring about. Here, the intention is to bring about a peaceful way of being and going about in the world for oneself and the good of all others.