Ancient Wisdom relevant for today's society
Dharma Talk read in English by a native speaker
“…There is a word, Minsho ( 愍傷 ) in the Amitayus Sutra which is a Buddhist scripture,“Min” means feeling sorry for, pity and “sho” means wound. It means when people feel sorry or pity, they feel it as their own wounds…….
Well, to live with Minsho, there is good news and bad news………..
Good news is you can make your life an art……….
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What is the meaning of suffering in life
“The suffering has a meaning, which is to shake up your subconscious.
if you try to escape from the karma and the suffering you are escaping from God or Buddha, which is the Light.
Suffering and karma is the shadow and God or Buddha is the Light.
We cannot face, unify or manifest the Light without facing the shadow.
The suffering makes you deeply think, what was the purpose of my birth in this life? What should I manifest?
Through your suffering in life, get reminded of why you were born, why you are living. Awaken to this and start to live your real life.
It is different in each individual’s unique life and that is the meaning of the manifestation of the light of God or Buddha, the Great Spirit of the Universe, Amida.”
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Harmony of Sadness and Joyfulness
“Well I am giving this Dharma Talk to the people who were and who are finding the sadness and suffering of life, living as a human being.
The sadness you feel will make your heart pure, transparently pure.
The suffering you feel in life trains you to make your soul stronger.
There is a poem, I remember, which was written more than 70 years ago in Japan: “In autumn my sadness went far into the sky and becomes silent”
The transparently pure sky in autumn is symbolizing the sadness you feel in autumn.
only people who felt sad and suffered are able to empathically understand the sadness and suffering of others.
Why is that? It is because life is an arrangement for us to experience those, to train ourselves, to train our empathy to be able to empathically understand other people’s hearts.
Because you are sent to this human world by being told: “Train your soul to make it brighter and come back”. We are not sent here into this world just to survive, we are here to learn how to help other people and to shine our spirit and life, to train our mind to have freedom to be able to create the future.
The pure sadness makes your heart pure and transparent.
Your suffering strengthens your soul to be able to practice.
I do wish that your sadness and Joy will spring out from you, be melted as one and start creating the beautiful harmonized melody for your existence and naturally the Great Love that manifests from you will be shared to all beings, not only on this planet but the whole Universe.”
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“……Do you have a guideline or direction in life? I believe the one who has a direction in life is very fortunate………
…so many people have no direction in life and have no feeling of responsibility for the future of the people in front of him or her……
…But what will happen to the one who is not responsible for the people in front of them? Instead of being dwelt by the Great Spirit of the Universe, God or Buddha, the one who isn’t responsible is dwelt by Karma, the Karma of human beings. One thing we have to be careful about is that many people drop into this grey zone which is like “Well, I’m not so responsible for the feelings of the person in front of me, but I ‘m not so egoistic either.” …..
..Unless you really mean that you are responsible for the feelings and the future of the people in front of you, do you know what will happen?.Think about light and shadow,only light and shadow exist, there is no between.
This is the same as the Great Spirit of the Universe and karma. If you aren’t dwelt by the Great Spirit of the Universe you will be dwelt by the karma of human beings.
Well, I’m saying this because………”.
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The Only Way Not to Be Controlled By the Devil
“There is a book called “Outwitting the Devil” by Napoleon Hill…..
…which is a dialogue between the Devil and himself, Napoleon Hill. According to this book the Devil said that he is controlling 98% of the humans on the planet. It is a large number of people, isn’t it?
Do you know what is the best way to control people? The best way to control people is to not let them notice that they are controlled, because if they are not realizing it they will be controlled until the end.
Anyway, Napoleon Hill wrote an interpretation about this in his book, but I would like to talk about the part he didn’t write about.
Well in my memory I think he explained that those people who don’t determine the future, who are not sure about the future, who don’t visualize the future and who don’t believe it, they are controlled by the Devil.
Of course to believe in the good future of oneself is to automatically believe in the future of others, which means wishing the good future of others, because one subconscious cannot separate self and others.
This is the part that he didn’t describe in his book. One will think that he or she is not really positive about the future or really living in altruism, but they are not so negative about the future and not so egoistic. So many people think this way, like a “gray zone”, and they are thinking like “I am not so positive but I am not so negative either”. There is a way to find out what this state of the heart is.
Anyway, what the Devil says in the book of Napoleon Hill means that this is how the Devil controls 98% of the people. They don’t notice that they are controlled by Karma.
As I have been saying, and as you know, Ki energy is the source of everything, your health, your relationships, your fortune, your future, your destiny, everything.
So start to look at your heart and keep shifting, negativity to positivity every moment, to train, to make it subconscious, like riding a bicycle or like the circulation of the blood by your heart. Make your Ki energy comfortable to let yourself and others also around you, feel comfortable, warm, lifting up, light and bright.“
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“….One day, Buddha or God will be present in front of you.
The surprising experience you will feel as a body sensation when it happens is …”
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“If you have a wish, what you want to be in the future or the situation that you want it to be in the future, then you should start to visualise it and feel it as if it is the reality. Keep visualising it as to penetrate into your subconsciousness because it will be realised………
…there is a problem on the human beings side. This is because even though you have a wish, for example, you want to be in some situation, subconsciously you might think that it is not going to happen etc...It is because in some cases you feel that you are not valuable enough to be loved by life.
So how to overcome the feeling of lack of self worth so that you can live the life of the wish realisation…“
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The Way of Fortune Development
“Not so many people are aware that the Universe is Spirit.
The Universe itself is the Infinite Development of the Spirit.
Therefore, how to be unified with the Universe, which is the Infinite Development? There is only one way and a very unique way, it is for the one who is able to be aware of the light and shadow of one’s own heart.
The light and shadow which are the positive and negative parts of the heart.
Well, the negativity can only be recognized or realized when wisdom is awakened. Wisdom will be awakened only by practicing altruism, practicing giving heart to others. Because the positive heart, such as the giving heart, when you try to increase it, then the shadow, the negative part, which is the ego, can be recognized.
So, I must say those who do not recognize their own negativity either lack wisdom or they don’t practice altruism.
The healthy way is to recognize the negative part of yourself and all the time transform it to the light. In this way you will recognize the God, Buddha, the Great Spirit of the Universe as a light, as a Nobel existence, as an existence of Love, whatever. It is a projection of your internal God or Buddha and as a reflection of The Great Spirit of the Universe that you recognize externally, you can feel that your negativity is what is most loved by the Great Spirit of the Universe, because it is the source of the Infinite Development.
You need to have a healthy relationship with the negativity and positivity that you have in your heart.
When the shadow appears, some people are defeated by the shadow and side with the light, in that case these people can be very negative to the community of practice or the leader, they start projecting all the negativity towards the leader and the community.
The life method: “transforming every moment one’s own shadow to the light”, is a life method because this is the only way to unify with the Great Spirit of the Universe, which is Infinite Development of the Universe.“
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“I have a saying that life should be a prayer.
Yes, and maybe someone listening to this Dharma talk agrees with my idea, but how can your life be as a prayer?…………….
….. one heart and ten worlds means that each one of us, each one of the existences has ten different worlds internally. So people in the hungry ghost state also have the heart of Buddha internally as well as nine other worlds. That is why Buddha can rescue, for example, hell beings can be rescued through the prayer of the human beings because they have the heart of Buddha internally…..
Well, the practice has to be based on the prayers. If you are not realising that you have ten different worlds internally, the prayers won’t happen or even if there are prayers they become shallow.……….
The reason why people don’t find it easy to focus on the prayers in the practice is because if you do altruistic prayers in your heart you realise the other parts of your heart. The other nine worlds exist inside of your heart, the heart of hell, hungry ghost, whatever, but actually this is the key to make your practice real and make your life for the prayers……….
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“…Today I would like to talk about how to deal with the spiritual world, what you need to be aware of because there is a way to deal with it but sometimes it is dangerous.
The spiritual world is a subject which is very sensitive and at the same there is danger, do you know why? Buddhism teaches about the “Super- Nature Power of Evil and the Super- Nature Power of Buddha” Evil has five super- nature powers but Buddha has six super nature powers. Five are the same, do you know what those five super nature powers are?…………..
These five super -nature powers are the same for both evil spirits and Buddha. But there is one super -nature power, spiritual power that Buddha has but evil doesn’t and that is not leaking Jaki, not leaking ego from the very existence. This is called “Ro-jinzu”in Japanese and this is what Buddha has but evil doesn’t have……
We need a healthy relationship to deal with the spiritual world, not to be used by a strange cult Guru, not to be used by the dogma of religion. We need to deal with and have a healthy relationship with the spiritual world………
…….anything that tries to stimulate your ego, don’t deal with it, even if it is something spiritual. For example, it makes you a special person, you are told you can gain super -nature power, the Guru can see your past life and you have to follow him or her because you can depend on him or her, and so on…… You also have to be careful of anything that stimulates your fear. For example, you have to follow this dogma otherwise you will go to hell.
These are all things you need to be careful about. So, the basic things that you need to put in your mind is….
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