Awakening: Halfway there

 Bon Jovi’s “Living on a Prayer” comes to mind. Actually, prayer can be a pretty good approach after Awakening. The break-through has occurred. We see glimpses of what lies beyond the dictate of the personal self, but the self-made interferences still get the better of us from time to time. So we can ask God, “Open my heart and open my mind to Your Kingdom!” The Guidance from Beyond is bound to come if we have the open eyes and ears to receive it. What is not so useful if we pray for this and that in order to be complete. That way we try again to put our little constraints on God’s Abundance.

What we call ego is an attempt to cling to what we perceive to be good while avoiding what we perceive to be bad. When we vibe with Universal Energy all these petty considerations are temporarily overridden in the magic of the here and now. When it comes back, however, we often don’t even realize what is going on. Why is there so much fighting in the spiritual community? It’s because everyone has a narrow perspective of what path to follow. It’s the same “what appeals to me is good and what doesn’t is bad” perspective that everyone else carries with them. Have an open mind and heart and stay with the tension.

Without tension there is no orgasm. Without a quake there is no break-through. Likewise, stay with the tension when you feel squeezed in between two competing demands. Awakening can for some—for me it felt that way—be a honeymoon period where everything goes your way with divine assistance. We own that, but as long as we have one foot in the personal world and the other in the universal, conflicts are bound to happen. Their sole purpose is to help us making the commitment towards the Universal Energy complete. So stay with that tension, uncomfortable as it might appear. The good thing is we have to face the inner programmings only once. Every tension that arises afterwards is just a repeat of the same old tune.

Please Give Me Your Love

 When both are demanding love from each other, how can that be exactly? When you both are demanding love, who can actually give?  When we are demanding something, we are functioning from a lack of energy. This lack of energy is created by both of us because you are demanding it from me and I am demanding it from you. You aren’t able to give love consistently because you haven’t transcended that lacking energy within yet and neither have I. So, you and I create this lacking force together.

 

We never see that “lack” is our personal problem, but we demand it from the external world instead.  As a matter of fact, if there is one who can give, then it is possible to ask, but the only one who can give is the one who already has.

 

When you indulge in any feeling, say you feel lonely and alone, you identify with this feeling, it means that you identify with this force. Because you already identify with this force, you don’t have the ability to withdraw yourself from it, that’s why you want to fill this hole.

 

Learning meditation and the Letting Go Method is to learn to withdraw yourself from these forces, then we are able to withdraw from these states of experiencing lack. It is not easy to learn this, but once you do, you become quite powerful.

 Suzhen Liu

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Love your fate

 The here and now is timeless. Everything is perfect when we are “That”—peace, abundance and love prevail. Have you noticed that the past does not exist when we enjoy this satori moment? It is like sitting on the mountain summit and the arduous journey to get there was just the means to an end and has lost all relevance. 

As I was driving yesterday I realized that this is really the meaning of the “love your fate” philosophy. The “body, mind, world matrix” is merely the means to an end to bring us to this summit, and to get here, we needed everything, the good, the bad and the loving. In this timeless state everything is forgiven and forgotten.

“A Course in Miracles” presents the same idea in Chapter 13, The Guiltless World: “Time seems to go in one direction, but when you reach its end it will role up like a long carpet spread along the past behind you, and will disappear.” Likewise, you can consider life as the perfect archer: shoot first and draw the target around it!

Do you feel the perfect moment right now? Life got you here in all shades of grey.

On loneliness and emptiness

 A few years ago, a man who had been meditating for twenty years told me that during the Chinese New Year, he went out for a walk and saw others were in pairs during the New Year. He was single and not married. When he saw others in pairs at that time, he felt very sad. He was depressed for several days. I said: “Why?” He said he saw others in pairs while he was alone. When he told me this, I told him that when two people are in pairs, they have their own problems. They may quarrel about their children, their future, their finances, or whether they should go back to their in-laws' home. Being alone also has one’s own freedom. Others all say that I am alone and free. So, I told him that one person has one person’s problems, and two persons have two persons’ problems too. If you don't learn to understand yourself today, even if you are always in pairs and achieve what you want, you will still have problems.

 

After listening to me, he suddenly became cheerful. He seemed to think that it's not bad for him to be alone. He didn't continue the topic, so I let it go. Why do you feel depressed when you see two people in pairs? Is what’s inside you coming out? Ah? Loneliness and emptiness come out, right? But our conversation just touched the surface, right? Do you understand your loneliness and emptiness? So, in our many relationship, business, and job problems, why do we feel better for a while, and then those problems reappear not long after? The reason is here, which is what we will learn later. What was that emptiness? Did he understand it? This emptiness is deep in our consciousness. We encounter many things in relationships or in life, and our interaction with people on the surface are all right, but when we get to the deeper level, this thing will come out. So why do your relationships with your partner and children keep going around? The reason is that we have not yet transcended this part of loneliness and emptiness. It is that simple.

(…)

That man has meditated for twenty years, and his mind is already very attentive and calm, but he is still not aware of his own emptiness. Why? This is worth exploring.

Excerpt from Suzhen Liu’s recent family energy workshop, week 11, Emptiness and Loneliness

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See the power of Oneness and the inner interference as is

 We are wired to pursue what we like and avoid what we dislike. The challenge is that this “institution” that fends for our happiness sees a world of make-belief and tries to override what is and creates a lot of mischief in the process.

This impostor claiming to be “me” has been around for eons and we have taken it for granted. If we try to get rid of it we are bound to face a lot of inner resistance. This entity naturally distrusts the power of Oneness and minds our claim that it is illusionary.

We can’t be aligned with the power of Oneness consistently until we have faced this interference, understood it and let go of it. There are two approaches. One, seeing the power of Oneness and two, seeing the inner interference to it.

Everyone wants to be enlightened but no one likes to do the dishes. We have that natural incline to shy away from fears and aversions and run after our desires instead. Again, we need to have the staying power to see the “f-a-d” as is.

Stoicism: maybe we sit with this fear, disappointment and restlessness without doing anything about it as some sort of punishment for the sins of our past, or simply to be someone in the eyes of the higher power that we envision to exist.

Super-ego: maybe we do all this spiritual work which includes the willingness to stand up to our fears, aversions and desires because we have the desire to get something on the other side of the imagined enlightenment state.

There is really only one solution to this problem. Face all the feelings that pop up and examine them honestly. If you are shaking in your boots full of fear, saddle up anyway. If you feel the desire to be somewhere else, hold this tension like a diamond. 

Align with the power of Oneness and inquire into the nature of the inner interference and do it today or it will never happen.

On loneliness

 I'd like to ask everyone if you ever feel empty and lonely?

Audience: “Often.”

We all have these feelings, and we have been doing many things

driven by loneliness and emptiness in relationships and in life.

What is loneliness? What is emptiness?

Audience: “No sense of belonging.”

No sense of belonging. Okay.

Audience: “Feeling unanchored.” “Lack of direction.” “Unable to grasp anything.”

Being unable to grasp anything. Oh, this is very close.  Great!

Audience: “Meaningless.” “A feeling of no existence.”

“I want to do many things when feeling empty.”

So, when I feel empty, I go out to eat, drink, and have fun; this is called emptiness.

So, we still don't know what emptiness is, right?

Audience: “Feeling meaningless.”

Nothing can fill it up and be grasped or found, right? Emptiness!

Okay. Is there any other definition?

What is emptiness?

Audience: “It’s like being floating in the air.”

Okay, anything else?

Audience: “Nothingness.”

Nothingness. This is very close.

Audience: “Not happy whatever I do.”

Yes, emptiness! Nothing is right. Nothing can be grasped. Nothing brings happiness.

Everyone, today if we figure this out, we can avoid decades of wasted time. It’s true.

Why is it? I will take you all to see it later. Not just to see it, but to take you together to transcend it, ok? Why are you sick? It’s also related to this.

Does anyone else want to tell me what emptiness is?

Audience: “It’s like an empty hole.” “Nothing can be grasped.”

It's like a hole. Nothing can be grasped, right?

Emptiness. Does anyone else want to say about emptiness?

Audience: “It’s accompanied by great fear.”

 Yes, it is accompanied by great fear.

So, are all these definitions that we just talked about actual emptiness?

So, when I can't grasp anything, I feel empty and so I go to grasp something.

After I grasp it, do I feel empty? Will I still be empty? Yes, I will.

(…)

We grasp something that is a projection of this part of our inner need, and we then forget this emptiness. You grasp something that you think is precious; maybe it’s a relationship.

When you lose this relationship, why can't you get out of it? You lose the person you love, and you are in pain. It’s not the person leaving you that makes you painful. What is it that makes you painful? It’s the emptiness, being unable to grasp anything, that makes you painful. You must first understand this point.

Excerpt from Suzhen Liu’s recent family energy workshop, week 11

If you enjoy Suzhen Liu’s writings, please check out her new book, “Discover Love Within—Release Your Suffering” available on Amazon.

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Learning and transforming amidst being

 “I never do it again,”

is an empty statement.

It implies that the yesterday “you”

was without wits and determination.

 

“Something inside has shifted,”

is a true acknowledgement of change.

It’s a closer look at the illusionary self and

another step to get the self out of the Way!

(Christian M. Wiese, Get the self out of the Way)

 

I once read a full page special in the NY Times by someone who pledged to beat his addiction with will-power alone. I thought to myself this is odd. He deserves this attention after completion of a ten-year anniversary but not as a statement of intent, but then, the point he made was interesting. He argued that he cannot subscribe to the premise of the 12 step program, “I am powerless,” and I also have to say that I cringe when I see people who have been free from their destructive habits for ten years running when they introduce themselves with the statement, “I am an addict.” We are free but sometimes need a few pointers to realize that we are.

The 12 step program was founded in the 1930s and helped many in finding their spiritual connection in support groups. Surrender is spiritual, “not my will but Thine,” but we are free in joining God’s Will as we participate in this reigning energy. The person who placed this pledge in the NY Times may have succeeded or not in his mission. Sure, we are that powerful to pull ourselves by the bootstraps, but he had one problem to deal with: the will that he appeals to is part of the same entity that got him into the compulsion in the first place. He may succeed in his endeavor to beat his compulsion in one area, but another imbalance will show up without learning and transformation.

The self that we identify with is illusionary and often an addiction is a wake-up call to embark on this quest of losing the conditioned self. There are currently eight billion journeys of a lifetime, and there is no “wrong” or “right” in any idiosyncratic choices of how we live our life. It’s our choice until the day we realize there is no choice. We are being lived by a higher entity with or without our conscious participation. Learning and transforming is what we do, with the occasional glimpses of pure being. I was reminiscing yesterday that nothing really changed since my Awakening started in 2008. I am still riding the higher energies as the first day. Sure there has been some learning and transforming along the Way. We call ourselves human beings for a reason.

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