What is Fundamental Peace?

Fundamental Peace is the inner state from which a person responds rather than reacts — the ground beneath negotiated peace and the peace of justice. It is not the absence of conflict nor the presence of fairness, but a trainable and measurable capacity in the person, described across four components and measured by the FP20 scale.

What is the architecture of peace?

Peace has three layers: the peace of arrangements (treaties and settlements), the peace of justice (structures and dignity), and Fundamental Peace (the state in the person). Each layer rests on the one beneath it — arrangements fail when people have no inner ground to keep them.

What are the four capacities of Fundamental Peace?

Flexible attentional control, emotional coherence across self-states, reduced self-referential rigidity, and compassionate self-awareness. Each is measured by five statements in the FP20 scale, giving four component scores alongside a total.

How is Fundamental Peace measured?

With the FP20 (Fundamental Peace Scale): twenty statements rated 1–7, five per capacity, taking about five minutes. It returns four component scores and a total, and is designed to be retaken every ninety days as a mirror rather than a verdict.

Can Fundamental Peace be trained?

Yes. The Ground Route — ground, settle, focus, intend, witness, transmute, choose, return: eight movements, five of them a five-minute daily engine — is the daily method described in Fundamental Peace: The Source Book, together with the five-step alchemy that carries each of the six wounds toward the virtue it has been hiding.

Who coined the term Fundamental Peace?

Prof. Luis Miguel Gallardo, founder of the World Happiness Foundation, coined and defined Fundamental Peace and authored the FP20 scale and Fundamental Peace: The Source Book, published for the International Day of Peace 2026.

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Fundamental PeaceThe Source Book

Beneath the peace of treaties and beneath the peace of justice lies a third state: the inner ground from which a person responds instead of reacts. This book names it, measures it with the FP20 scale, and teaches it as a method — from one person to ten billion.

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“Fundamental Peace” — the song

The book ends where this song begins. Recorded in English and in Spanish, it is the finale of the album The Mind That Makes the World and the sonic companion to Fundamental Peace: the fullness mantra, the Four Gifts, and the sky that holds the storm.

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Mantra

Om Purnamadah Purnamidam Purnat Purnamudachyate Purnasya Purnamadaya Purnamevavashishyate Sarvam Khalvidam Brahma

That is full; this is full; from fullness, fullness arises; when fullness is taken from fullness, fullness alone remains. All this, truly, is the One.

Isha Upanishad invocation · Chandogya Upanishad 3.14.1

The libretto note

The prince asked for one thing that would never leave him, and the sage gave him back his own two eyes. Every voice returns for the finale — and what remains when fear unties is Fundamental Peace: not the end of weather, but the sky that holds the storm. The bridge sings the Four Gifts — a steady eye, a whole-hearted heart, a self worn soft, kindness watching — and the great fullness mantra carries it out. Ten billion hearts, one seeing.

As the seeing, so the world. See well.

Lyrics

Om

I asked you what would never leave me
You gave me back my own two eyes
The world I feared was my own weaving
The weaver woke — the fear untied

Now walk the market like a temple
Now wear the crown, and wear it light
Grief will come — it will not drown you
Joy will come — you'll hold it right

Peace is not the end of weather
It is the sky that holds the storm
Not the absence of the aching
The aching turned to love's own warmth
Yatha drishti, tatha srishti
As the seeing, so the seen
Free... conscious... happy
Awake inside the dream

A steady eye that does not grasp
A heart that keeps all seasons whole
A self worn soft as river linen
And kindness watching from the soul

We built the worlds and walked their weather
We wore the dream and let it go
Now every road runs bright with being
Above, below, the same one glow

Peace is not the end of weather
It is the sky that holds the storm
Not the absence of the aching
The aching turned to love's own warmth
Yatha drishti, tatha srishti
As the seeing, so the seen
Free... conscious... happy
Awake inside the dream

Om Purnamadah Purnamidam
Purnat Purnam Udachyate
Purnasya Purnam Adaya
Purnam Eva Avashishyate
(That is whole, this is whole
From wholeness, wholeness arises
Take wholeness from wholeness
Wholeness alone remains)
Sarvam Khalvidam Brahma
Om Shanti... Shanti... Shanti

Ten billion hearts... one seeing
Om

For readers

Three gifts that come with the book

Listen to the song, download the libretto with all the lyrics, and measure your own peace. The book's ePub is free once you complete the FP20.

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Companion deck

For teachers, professors and book clubs

24 slides introducing the book: the idea, the measure, the way. Use it freely in a classroom, a seminar, or a reading circle. Read it here, or download it as a PDF or as editable slides.

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Free to use with attribution: Prof. Luis Miguel Gallardo, Fundamental Peace: The Source Book.

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The FP20 scale

Twenty statements, four components, five minutes. The FP20 (Appendix A of the book) turns a philosophical idea into something you can watch move in yourself over time.

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