The beginning of the cultivation of inner peace is actually to look within one’s self. Inner peace is not some condition that is induced; it is an innate natural state of being. It begins by recognizing peace in your mind. If we consider for a moment the things or stuff that happens around us all day long. Things occur, they are neutral but we attach value to them, which is not necessarily bad, it just occurs. But when we can begin to stop the process of rationalizing, of assigning value, or any of the other labels we attach to stuff, then we can just watch the mind and you begin to become part of the whole. There is no longer an outside or inside there is just the experience.
Lotus Path: Practicing the Lotus Sutra Volume 1