Leaving the bio-robot behind

 How does a diabetic feel in a Lindt chocolate outlet, or a recovering alcoholic when his friends meet in a local pub? That’s the struggle of conditioned self in a nutshell. Certain desires and aversions are seemingly stamped into our DNA and once the trigger gets activated, we react like a bio-robot to our environment. 

Maybe one day diabetes can be healed; certainly, no recovering addict needs to perceive this prior compulsive affliction as a lifetime sentence. Everyone has the power to step away from that limiting energy for good. Conditioned automatism is not stamped into our dna, and if it is, then our dna can be changed by conscious living.

Be alert without and spot the thought arising, the feeling bubbling to the surface or the external trigger being activated. Stay with the energy. See how it is received by the inner bio-robot and see the root-cause of the mechanism that was downloaded sometime by someone in the past. It’s alien energy and as you spot it, it fades into nothingness. 

Discovering the Root-cause of our Problems

 Why study Family Energy and meditation? Because to truly and thoroughly resolve our problems, we need to loosen them from many different angles. For some people, the key lies in family energy; for others, it is hidden in the deeper layers of consciousness; and for still others, meditation is the path. When taken together, all of these approaches ultimately lead us back to the heart.

 

Family Energy is a very important practice because the obstacles rooted in family energy are often extremely difficult to resolve through individual effort alone. Through the workshops we hold, these family energy blockages are given the opportunity to move, unfold, and transform.

 

The anger we feel, the constant need to strive, feelings of guilt, shame, and many other struggles and difficulties are not always entirely our own. Sometimes we are carrying unresolved energies from our family system. These unseen forces can influence much of our emotional life, relationships, health, and destiny.

 

Because we are born into these family systems, we often take them for granted and remain unaware of their influence. When problems arise, we tend to focus only on the symptoms and outward results. While making changes at that level may bring temporary relief, the same problems often return again and again.

 

If we can learn to work with the causes of our problems—family energy itself—then it only takes one person within the family to begin seeing and moving these forces for transformation to occur. What once seemed like an unchangeable difficulty can be transformed into insight and understanding. At the same time, other members of the family may also be positively influenced and uplifted.

 

As family energy begins to move, personal obstacles—our attachments, beliefs, and habitual patterns—are often revealed as well. This is why combining Family Energy work with meditation offers such a rare and valuable opportunity deep healing, cleansing, and growth.

 

Suzhen Liu

 

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Effortless Awareness

 It’s easy to assume there’s a little thinker sitting behind the scenes choosing, producing, and managing our thoughts, but as the great sages of Non-Duality consistently point out, this assumption is the very illusion that perpetuates the sense of separation. What we call a “self” is just a bundle of thoughts claiming ownership over other thoughts. 

Yet no such owner is ever found—only thoughts, rising and falling like waves with no wave-maker in sight. When this is truly seen, the burden of trying to control, identify, or fix the thinker dissolves. In its place, there’s a quiet spaciousness—an effortless Awareness in which everything comes and goes, including the idea of “me.” And that, beautifully, is freedom.

With sincerity you won’t go astray

 When you are paying attention to yourself—If you really are paying attention—there will be a focus and seriousness at work. When you focus seriously on yourself, you may see joy or unhappiness. The moment when you really focus, you don’t really need to force yourself to do anything, or ask yourself to do anything, or move forward with willpower, because at this moment there will be a force at work to move you forward. When you are paying attention to yourself, when you are serious about yourself, there is everything you need in this seriousness. With sincerity you won’t go astray, you will have self-discipline, love, focus, concentration, and seriousness.

 

When we indulge in our pain, how is our mind acting at that moment? There is resistance and trying to get rid of it, hence we are creating more conflicts. On the contrary, when you start paying attention to it, your energy will shift to your attention and the conflicts and struggles will stop. When you start paying attention to your pain, your pain starts to transform.

 

Suzhen Liu

 

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Being human in Being

 “Thoughts arise without a thinker; they vanish without a trace.”

 Huang Po

“Thoughts are spontaneous occurrences. There is no personal agent generating or owning them.”

Emily Snow 

Creations arise from the Field of Infinite Possibilities but who is the entity that sets them into motion? We call ourselves “human beings” for a good reason; there is history behind the being for most of us. The Bible says, “Be still and know I Am That I Am,” and likewise, let creation unfold from the stillness of being. No agenda, no fear, just spontaneously and intelligently responding to the demands of the moment. That’s being in a nutshell, and that’s humanity in its truest essence. 

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True Meditation

 When meditating, use observation as your guide. Observe any feelings that arise with ease, freedom, and openness.

 

If you can observe in this way, then inner guidance will always be with you. No matter where you go, the power of this observation can always provide you with guidance and clarity.

 

In meditation, it's not about eliminating thoughts or not allowing thoughts to arise, but about understanding that these thoughts come from our consciousness.

 

The root of suffering begins with consciousness and then leads to desires, losses, hurting others, or hurting oneself, and so on.

 

All these problems originate from consciousness that has not been clearly observed, which is to say, thoughts.

 

Therefore, the true essence of meditation is to use observation as your guide. Without this observation, all our efforts will be in vain.

 

This is the key point to end and stop suffering.

 

Suzhen Liu

 

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See to be, feel to heal

 Question: How to get rid of the ego ?

Ramana Maharshi: 

"Just see it for what it really is. That will be enough. It is the ego itself that makes an effort to get rid of itself, so how can it die in that way ? So first realize what the true nature of the ego is, and it will go of its own accord.”

This is the “see to be” part of spiritual living. In Awareness we see the conditioned self for what it is and look through it. However, we cannot see what we are not aware of and that’s where the “feel to heal” part of the equation comes in. Let whatever thought-feeling energy arise and stay with it. As we understand its root cause we watch it fade into nothingness.