The Wisdom of Transcending Positive and Negative Energy

When we encounter things we like, we call them positive energy. Conversely, when we encounter things we dislike, we call them negative energy. So, when this so-called negative energy appears, it is something we do not want. At this moment, we feel pain, because we want to eliminate that pain. At this point, can we pause for a moment?

 

Is what we call negative energy—our pain—actually existing because of the positive energy we want?

 

Precisely because of this positive energy, what we want and what we do not want exist simultaneously; they cannot exist independently. When we truly recognize this, we actually do not need to eliminate our pain.

 

Pain and negative energy exist only when we do not understand or clearly see this relationship between positive and negative energy—only then do we feel the need to fight against them. Aren’t we often like this?

 

So, through the method of letting go, when we face our pain, at a certain moment we come to understand what was just mentioned: they coexist. At this moment, our perception and feeling toward so-called negative energy and pain change, and we no longer fight or resist this pain.

 

Positive energy and negative energy—joy and pain—exist side by side. They cannot exist separately. It is like this: if many people say I am beautiful, there will also be some people who say I am not. This is simply the reality of existence, and we need to understand it clearly.

 

Therefore, the most important part of the letting-go method is not removal. Because if the goal were removal, it would be a contradiction. When you understand this point, a kind of energy and state naturally arises—one in which positive and negative energy can coexist.

 

Pain and negative energy cannot be eliminated by us. When you truly understand this, you have already transcended pain.

 

Let me give an example. A woman once told me that she had broken up with her boyfriend two years earlier. During those two years, she suffered greatly—almost every few days, she would think of him.

 

She felt unable to let him go and was in deep pain. She had tried many methods but felt trapped in emotional attachment, unable to move on.

 

I said to her, “Please sit down first.” Then I asked her one question: What is it that makes you so attached?

 

She paused and could not answer. I said, “It’s okay. Take your time and feel into it.”

 

After a few minutes, she suddenly told me that she believed this boyfriend was the true love of her life. When she said this, her eyes lit up.

 

I said to her, “Now stay with this feeling of ‘true love’ you are sensing.” After a while longer, she smiled.

 

What does this tell us?

 

When we truly face our difficulties, the first step is to calm ourselves.

 

This calmness generates a different frequency and field—a frequency and field of crossing over and transcending. It brings clarity, and very quickly, we can see our problem.

 

She was holding the belief, “This is my true love.” Gradually, she then saw that because her parents’ relationship was not good, and because this boyfriend treated her very well, she defined him as her true love.

 

So here, two issues emerged. How do we face these two issues?

The first is her personal belief.

The second is family belief—family consciousness.

 

This friend was seeking a partner while carrying her parents’ disharmonious relationship within her. As a result, she was not living her own life, but her parents’ life. Therefore, regardless of whether she gained or lost the relationship, she felt emptiness, loneliness, and a deep sense of loss.

 

In our courses, we include both of these aspects. We face our beliefs—not to eliminate them, but to understand them. And the aspect of family consciousness involves the connection of family energy.

 

During this process, some pains that have been stored from the past and remained in these states may surface.

 

When the force of this pain arises, if you can be present with it, or practice the letting-go , clarity and understanding will naturally emerge. In that very moment, you transcend positive and negative energy.

 

By Suzhen Liu

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

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Consciousness is manifesting “you”

 “… one cannot say that you are choosing this. You are an expression of Consciousness, and Consciousness, one would say, is choosing, and you think you are doing it.” Eckhart Tolle 

We are forced to act out the conditioning of our mind.

Sometimes we are aware of the conditioning, and then we are forced to act out the struggle between desires and aversions on the one hand, and our awareness that these desires and aversions are leading us nowhere.

Freedom is a big word, but we might be able to differentiate degrees of freedom as awareness penetrates our thinking, feeling and doing. This degree of freedom is beautifully expressed by Viktor Frankl, “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

What is the other state then, the one that conditioned mind, and awareness of the existence of conditioned mind, appears to equate with freedom? It’s contentment, abundance, silence and love! We have all experienced this state of freedom from the conditioned self at one point or the other, but then, isn’t it true that if someone came along and asked us if we are free, wouldn’t we reply that there is no one around to choose anything?

So, is there freedom or a path out of bondage? Well, there is contentment, abundance, silence and love. The portal to that state is always wide open with only “you” in the Way.

Radiate Your Own Light

 When I lived up on the mountain, I never turned on the lights at night. My younger brother once asked me, “Why don’t you turn on the light? It’s so dark—why are you so strange?” To him, it was too dark to see anything. But I could see everything clearly. I felt that I was a being of light—and so were others.

After years of observation, I noticed that there is light around everyone’s crown area, about the width of our outstretched arms. Everyone radiates light—even cats and dogs. But each being’s light is different.

I often speak with people whose light is very bright, and I find something they all have in common: their hearts are pure and complete. What they think about is how they can benefit others. In contrast, I observe that people who always want to take advantage of others, who get angry easily, or who are filled with fear tend to have very dim and dark light.

If you constantly believe that others are wrong, that they owe you an apology, that everything is someone else’s fault—and you allow these thoughts to drive you without pausing to examine them—you will be led by habitual patterns, and your world will take on that same quality. When you think only of yourself and blame others, your light becomes weak, and people naturally keep their distance.

So, what kind of world are you living in? Isn’t your world simply a reflection of the contents of your own thoughts?

True learning, spiritual practice, and awakening begin in ordinary life. We don’t need to seek them deliberately. All we need is to pay attention. Enlightenment can be found in every small thing.

By Suzanne Liu

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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Know when you are being and when you are being manifested

 Lord Ram walked up to Hanuman and asked him, who are you, monkey?

Hanuman replied, I am you when I know myself and prostrate before you when I don’t.

“You” can’t bring in the Light—Grace does, 

but “you” can observe the interferences just as

keeping an eye on the Rays that arise when “you” vanish.

God gave us two eyes to see the interferences as they arise,  

and the portal to the Beyond that is always right where we are.

The disappearance of “you” is impossible according to the scientists, 

and many who claim they have, are probably fooling themselves.

Yet when it comes to God everything is possible and we are That.

The trick is not to cycle between conditioning and partial breakthroughs.

The trick is to know when you are being and when you are being manifested.

The Compassion of a Buddha

 Student: If someone hurts me or tries to bother me, it’s difficult for me not to be against him, can we please talk about the compassion of a Buddha.

Consider this example, in an ancient temple a Goddess is worshiped, but at the same time, many invisible beings stay in this temple as well.  Most people would say, if the Goddess is very powerful, why doesn’t She get rid of these invisible entities. Why is She not against them?

As a matter of fact, Buddha treats all beings equally and treats them as one.  I have been saying that same with our pain, it’s part of this oneness too. Yet, most people cannot realize this.  You can only start from yourself, step by step, until you are just like a Buddha. At one point realization becomes very broad.

Why do we feel pain and unfairness?  It is because we feel pain and suffering when we are bullied and cannot get what we want.  Does all the suffering start from here?  Actually, these are all just our thoughts.  Our thoughts are just some thoughts and memories.  When we just let it go, you don’t need to resist them, they will just loosen up by themselves.

The way Buddha looks at these invisible beings is just like we look at a little child, for example, kids in the nursery. Kids in the nursery act just like they are supposed to be , Buddha won’t be bothered and think they are wrong or try to get rid of them.  He won’t exclude them either because one day these invisible entities may upgrade themselves.  So in the heart of a Buddha, they are all the same.  That’s why a Buddha can be a Buddha.

You want to get rid of the bad or try to expel perceived evil. It is like acting against fear; but the Buddha will do differently.  A Buddha can see the true nature of all beings, so he won’t do anything like that. That’s why a Buddha can coexist with these invisible beings and be present with them.  This is not easy, but it is the balance of the universe.

Whenever a person can be in such a balanced state, he is a Buddha.  The Buddha is not only one historic figure.  Whoever can be in such a balanced state, is a Buddha.  We all have this one in our own heart.  The true Buddha is in our heart.  That’s the true nature of us.

By Suzhen Liu

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

 https://www.amazon.com/Discover-Love-Within-Release-Suffering/dp/0999251732

Just be and enjoy the ride

 Do you have these moments when life simply flows through you? I recently started cooking after our householder left. I can’t say that I especially enjoy it, but when I cook, everything just flows through me. It’s meditation at work!

There are three distinct states after Awakening. The satori moment when we are one with life, the conditioned moment, when the past or the aspiration acts, and the mindful moment, when we are aware that we are conditioned.

After Awakening we are on autopilot just as we were before reaching this state. Life acts—we just follow along for the ride. Prior to Awakening, we are manifested by our conditioning. After Awakening, we are also part of the mystery.

There is living and there is healing for everyone. The satori moment is being and everyone can be part of that. We can know, sense, feel and see being in action, just as we can consciously be aware of our inner quest to heal. 

Just be and enjoy the ride!

Opening up to the inner emptiness

 When we are very quiet, our obstacles will appear. For example, I am very quiet now, and it emerges that oh he lied to me last month; he said he was going to meet friends, but he didn’t. At this moment I’m getting angry. At this time, I am angry and stop at this anger. I’m just very angry and haven’t transcended it. After this anger, you will think and doubt whether he is like this or that and then you will finally not want him anymore.

 

But then the doubts will return. If I don’t want him and he doesn’t want me, what will happen to me? I will be back here, right? So, what will I do? I will quarrel with him and question him again because I have no other way. So why do relationships keep repeating the same old things? What’s this? It’s because we haven’t upgraded ourselves. We don’t know for entanglements in relationships, we can’t find an answer or solution from the entanglements.

 

Instead, you must reach this emptiness, you must reach this height or this state before you can control your life. Do you understand? I’m not good enough. I failed. Why am I so miserable? Why can’t I get out of it? I feel like I haven’t done well. I can’t meet my parents' standards. I’m not good enough. Then what’s next? What do I feel next? When I think I'm not good enough, I feel my colleagues don't like me, they don't accept and recognize me. My parents don't like me, and my friends look down on me. So, when I think I'm not good enough what do I feel in the end? Emptiness, right?

 

So why can’t you step out of the feeling of not being good enough? Why? Because you haven't reached emptiness. Then when you reach emptiness, the state of not being recognized, respected, loved, or welcomed, and when you feel—wow—empty, it is so terrible and what are you going back to do? Eating, drinking and having fun! Yes, go back to eating, drinking and having fun, or being a workaholic. Then your life is like this, repeating over and over again, just like a clock that strikes from one to twelve. So, in the end, this state can be summed up in two words: doubting life!

 

So, when I have a feeling that no one respects me, no one welcomes me, and I feel that I am not good enough. I feel very painful. Then when you feel the pain of emptiness and loneliness and you run away. Is that right? You escape to eat, drink and have fun. So, you keep repeating, "I am not good enough.” What is the reason? Because we don’t know the emptiness caused by our not being good enough. We don't know what emptiness is at all. So, this feeling of not being good enough will keep repeating. Today when we transcend it later in meditation, our life will be different.

 

This emptiness is really very important.

 

Excerpt from Suzhen Liu’s recent family energy workshop, week 11, Emptiness and Loneliness.  If you enjoy Suzhen Liu’s writings, please check out her new book, “Discover Love Within—Release Your Suffering” available on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Discover-Love-Within-Release-Suffering/dp/0999251732