It’s not hard to see where the notion “if I keep practicing this or that then I will be enlightened as well some day” comes from. It’s a mind concept.
Likewise, either we perceive the present moment from the memories of the past, or we approach it with an alertness, an openness and equanimity.
It’s now or never. It’s either or. How, you ask? Well, be still for a moment and let the magic of the moment speak for itself!
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“The spiritual journey is not a career or a success story. It is a series of humiliations of the false self that become more and more profound.” (Thomas Keating)
Someone wrote the other day that with Awakening there sometimes comes a stretch of losses to show us we are beyond those. That may be the experience of some, but we can operate at a higher state of being where the enjoyment of successes is registered just as the pain associated with failures, while we know that we are Awareness watching the assessment of life’s so-perceived ups and downs. Self inquiry allows us to smooth-sail all of life’s occurrences. The lucky streak is welcomed just as much as the occasional stumble.
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.
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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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.
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
If you find Suzhen Liu’s helpful, please check out her latest book, “Discover Love Within—Release your Suffering,” available on Amazon
“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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