The simple goodness

 "The simple goodness" is that you can live an authentic and comfortable life. With this life, you do things with joy and happiness. You live with this mood, and do what you want to do, and go through your life with this approach. Deep inside you are very happy and joyful. You are happy and joyful not because of what you get, or because you escape from something, and then force yourself to do something meaningless. If you live your life like that, force yourself to do something meaningless, it will make your life really meaningless, and then you will feel as if you don’t have a sense of dignity.

 

The simple goodness is that your heart is at ease. Every day, no matter what you do or don’t do, you can live a good life; what you do is also what you want to do in your heart, and no matter what the result is, you are just doing it. Experience the process of doing things you love. There may be some setbacks, but they don’t matter much as you do something you really love and are willing to do in your heart. In the process of experiencing your life, you are evolving.

 

 

The real evolution is not torturing yourself. It is just living our life with a very subtle, spacious and capable heart to meet every moment of our life. My experience is like this, not to do something to save the world and humanity. It's not like this. Evolution should be based on how you live, and in what state you operate.

 

 

When you can really look at your life from this perspective, don’t you live a very comfortable life? Maybe when we were young, we didn’t know how to make ourselves happy, but now we have learned how to meditate and live consciously. We can use this attitude to live the rest of our days and live our everyday life with a kind of tenderness, serenity, and joy. It is beautiful when we can lead our life with this kind of heart! This is a real evolution!

 

Suzhen Liu

 

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Feel to heal—See to be!

 Legend has it that Bodhidharma sat in front of a wall for 9 years. There is nothing special about sitting in front of a wall. You might as well also marry, have kids and embark on a mission that is meaningful to you. What remains a requirement though, you have to look the inner conflicts straight in the eye and refuse to move just as Bodhidharma did in front of the wall. 

The thing about an inner conflict is that it doesn’t matter if you do the “right” thing or kick the can down the road once again. The diffusion of energy remains the same because without a liberating aha moment that resolves the inner tension, the loss of energy from the inner friction remains the same. The upside of the choice between a rock and a hard place is to sit with the tension.

Feel to heal—see to be! I don’t know what made Bodhidarma get up after 9 years but I venture to say that the breakthrough of blocked energy can happen everywhere at any time if we just have the patience and resilience to look and be willing to feel what slumbers in the depth of our being. Life has been tailored for us to enable the breakthrough right where we are right now—use it!

Walk the path of being with yourself

 When we walk the path of being with ourselves,

there are no bad people and no good people in our world—

only clarity or confusion, awakening or being lost,

but no right or wrong.

 

When a person is lost, they feel helpless and disoriented.

When you are hurt, you will naturally protect yourself and react.

Because you are lost, you do not know where your “home” is.

You feel fear, a deep lack of support and safety.

 

Those who are lost may hurt others.

But when they find their way—when they begin to see clearly how to walk their path—

they no longer wish to hurt anyone.

Because they understand that to hurt another is to hurt themselves.

We are all walking the same path.

 

When you begin to walk the path of being with yourself,

there are no bad people—only those who are clear and those who are not.

 

When you are clear about what guides your life,

when you truly know which path you are walking,

you no longer have time to be entangled in conflicts and disputes with others.

Because you begin to clear away the confusion within your consciousness—

your biases, conclusions, and fixed judgments.

 

As you step into the path of awareness, attention, and presence,

you move closer each day to a life without troubles.

And the most beautiful thing is—

this requires no force, no striving.

We can simply and gently be with ourselves.

 

Sometimes resistance arises, and being present may feel difficult.

But that is okay—

continue to be with the resistance.

In doing so, you are already going deeper.

 

Conflicts between partners are like two lost people arguing,

or like two individuals carrying burdens as vast and heavy as mountains accumulated from their families,

living together day after day—

how could there be no conflict?

 

But when one person begins to be present,

begins to clear the inherited emotional burdens and obstacles,

something truly begins to change.

If you truly love your children,

this is the greatest gift you can give them.

 

Notice what you feel in this moment.

Just notice—

do not judge, do not label it as good or bad.

Because the moment you label it,

you fall into liking or disliking.

And if you dislike it,

you will try to make yourself feel better.

 

Thus begins an endless cycle within “good” and “bad.”

Your time, your life,

will revolve within this loop—

repeating the same patterns again and again.

 

When presence happens, it is profoundly important.

It allows us to understand what suffering is,

and what joy is.

 

Once you grasp this essence,

you can truly live well.

And true well-being is simple—

peace, contentment, and an ordinary life.

 

By Suzhen Liu

 

 

The Wave

 I remember a scene out of a Steven Seagal movie in which his opponent said with amazement, “I feel fear,” as if it was the most curious thing in the world. That’s really all it takes in the spiritual quest, the ability to spot when someone or something pulls us in, and staying with that movement of energy as if it was the most important research project in the world.

Awareness is not being on autopilot. It’s energy in motion. It’s alive. It’s effortless. Yet, when something or someone pulls us in—or repels us—that’s when the “self” is activated and the opportunity arises to watch the “wave of me” gain momentum and fade into nothingness where it came from. Have “you” ridden the wave today? Tell us about the experience. How did “you” jump off?

What Is Listening?

 We never really listen to each other. When you really listen, time slows down. What does this really mean? Say, when we are listening to the rain and the raindrops are falling. We don’t have any expectation of how the raindrops should fall. We have no preference for the rain. At this moment, only the rain is present. The person who is listening to the rain disappears. In this situation, time slows down.

 

When we can listen like this, we become sharp, clear, and enlightened. However, once the “I”—thought and “should”—appears, it becomes crowded and busy. When we just listen without the “I”, the ability to be aware arises.

 

When you can be aware with clarity, you will be aware immediately when the “I” shows up. This immediate awareness brings out your insights. You don’t have your insights by reading a book. You don’t get your insights from school but from pure listening. When pure listening arises in you, you have the chance to liberate yourself from your “I”. You become liberated from your mind, liberated from the challenges of life. You can only know your conditioning and mind in this pure state.

 

Just listen. Listen to any sound. Be aware of how you listen. What kind of feelings arise in you? What thoughts arise in you? Just be aware without taking any action. It’s really important to be aware of the rising thoughts. Every thought is connected to another. With this attention, a different energy field is created, and insights arise freely from the “I”.

 

How are you when you are listening? Are your anger or grief sufferings still there? When you are listening, they stop temporarily. They are not functioning at that moment. You are not using your anger to listen. You are not using your grief to listen. You are not using your mind to listen.

 

Listening without our mind opens up our self-sufficient energy. The heart is still. The senses get even sharper and clearer. No intervention. It is a pure and unknown state. At this moment, we enter another space, another dimension. We are connected with energy from another dimension. The energy cleansing happens by itself at this moment. The cleansing process is intensified if you speak the Letting Go Sentences.

 

Suzhen Liu

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

Choice-less being

 Just because you like something doesn’t mean you should do it, that is, be aware of certain dopamine boosts such as over-eating, cheating on your partner, drinking alcohol, etc.

Just because you dislike something doesn’t mean you need to avoid it, that is, sometimes we need to ignore the cortisol spike and do it anyway, such as doing taxes, going to work or gym, etc.

Who makes this decision though, society, ethics, you as a gatekeeper of what you think, feel and sense is “right”? Traveling the Way is an energy constellation. God is pointing at life’s essence and we act accordingly. 

You might say for modern wo(man) the self is the result of all choices in a lifetime, whereas the spiritual opportunity is choice-less being. Follow the energy and if a choice pops up, revel in it. Another opportunity to get the self out of the Way!

Beyond Right and Wrong

Some people come to me seeking help, yet they leave feeling even more upset. They believe I did not answer their questions, but often, what they are truly seeking is not an answer.

 

For example, there was a man who firmly believed he was always right and others were wrong. Yet despite being “right,” he felt deeply wronged. When he asked questions, what he was really seeking was validation—recognition of his position.

 

His questions came from a strong sense of “I,” entangled with inner obstacles:

 

“How could he treat me like this? Do you agree with him?”

 

On the surface, these seem like questions. But underneath, they are requests for judgment. What he truly cared about was who was right and who was wrong. That was the hidden motivation behind his asking.

 

He felt I had not answered him because I refused to step into that framework. It would have been easy to say “yes” or “no,” but such answers would have no real value for him. They would not help him move forward.

 

If I told him what was right or wrong, he would remain trapped in that cycle. And this is the nature of it—those who cling to being right often remain within the same repeating loop:

 

“Why did they treat me this way?”

“I did everything right.”

“You should have treated me better.”

“I was good to you, so you should be good to me.”

 

The mind keeps moving in this direction, unable to break free. It becomes a self-perpetuating cycle—what we might call karmic repetition.

 

In his world, everything is reduced to right and wrong. But real understanding cannot emerge within such a narrow frame.

To find a way out, we must be willing to step beyond this binary thinking—to see from another angle, to allow the mind to open to something new.

 

Only then can a different kind of understanding arise.

 

It is a pity that he could not hear this at the time, but perhaps one day something will shift in him. Perhaps he will suddenly realize that reality holds far more dimensions than simply right and wrong, good and bad.

 

And in that moment, a new possibility may begin.

 

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