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

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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.

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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

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

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.