Category Archives: In English

“Jesus said: “Love your neighbour”. The Lotus Sutra, one of the Buddhist Sutras says: “Rescue all beings”. One side says that, love your neighbour or one person and the other says, all. What is the difference?. Actually there is no difference.

The person who is wishing to rescue them all, really cares for the person who is in front of them. And the person who cares who is in front of them of course subconsciously cares about all humankind………….

When Jesus says the good shepherd will look for the one missing sheep, even though 99 sheep are waiting for the shepherd, it means how much God is loving and caring each single person as one child of God. The same meaning is in the Mahayana Buddhism Philosophy, one includes the whole, the whole Universe. One tiny bit of dust includes the whole Universe. It is the reality of the Universe and it means that you will care about one person as the whole Universe. There is no difference between one single person and the whole Universe. …………..

I am talking about this because of the importance of how important it is to care about the person in front of you. One reason is because the person in front of you is a projection of your subconscious, it is another aspect of yourself, it is yourself living deep inside. So if you care about another person it means the same as you are caring about yourself subconsciously.  Also there is no separation, the subconscious does not recognize the difference between self and others. The one who cares about others is the one who cares about oneself…………. “

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“To live as a human being, in life you sometimes experience that sadness happening or and the feeling of sadness arises but even if you had a sad experience, don’t take it personally.

If it happened, it is not because you are the cause, don’t take it personally, it is not because of yourself.  The sad experiences, and there are so many people who are in this situation in the world and those feelings of the sadness, are reflecting to you and you’re feeling it or it happens because those other existences subconsciously wish somebody to catch it and pray for them.

So, if you have any sadness, if you have that sad experience then you need to understand that this is the chance to pray for others who are experiencing the same sadness as you are feeling. Because without having the same experience and the same feeling you cannot understand others…………….

………and if we take this opportunity to empathise with other people who had the same sadness and to care for them and pray for them, then it opens up the door to be dwelt by the warm Great Love which makes your life shine and be embraced by happiness”.

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“In the Buddhist Sutra called the “Heart Sutra” it is written about the six  practices of Bodhisattva.……..

The six practices are called Paramita which means to awaken to  wisdom. The first is giving, the second is to suppress and disappear  ego and the third is to be patient. Actually originally in the Japanese  text of the Sutra it is written as Ninniku which is usually translated or  interpreted as “patient”. But what does this patient, Ninniku, actually  mean ? What is the content of this for a practitioner giving merit to  others.? In today’s Dharma talk I would like to start to clarify the  meaning of this “be patient”. ………”

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“…….Basically  people who live to give merit to others are living at least  2 or 3 times happier than those who do not. Do you  know why? It’s because of giving merit to others,  because the motivation is that they like to see the happy  face of others , therefore, those people who live to give  merit to others or not ,are those who like to see the  happy face of others.

If the motivation is to see the happy face of others,even  before you take action, you imagine the happy faces of  others. It makes you feel happy, even just by imagining  the happy faces of others, because that’s what you like.  And you do an action and they show you a happy  face, the smile, because of what you have done. Then  you feel happy again. And even after that, the image of  the happy face of others will echo in your  subconsciousness. So subconsciously you feel happy.  This is the reason why the people who give merit to  others are at least 2 to 3 times happier than those who  don’t do this.……..

To forget about yourself, the best way is to use your  heart and action to make others happy and that will  create a happy life. In your heart and in your  phenomenon…………..” 

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“Since you were little, you must have had pain in your heart ……What was this pain? This pain might be that you were feeling that you’re not enough as a child of your parents. Or you must have the feeling of loneliness, that no one understands your pain , your loneliness, your care for others. If you are  spiritually strong you might have carried this since your youth. To carry the  pain in your heart is not because of your weakness, actually it is the strength  from your spirituality. It’s not because you are weak or because you’re not  good enough or something. It is because you were or are receiving the pain  of all beings in the Universe. It’s the pain of others that is reflecting to your heart…. 

You might be thinking that or feeling that this pain of the heart is only your  own trauma but it is not. The reason that you have to experience such  sadness in your life, since childhood it has been an arrangement by the Great Spirit of the Universe. Why? Because only through the pain of the heart you will be able to empathise with the pain of others. If you don’t feel or have not  experienced such sadness in your life you are not really able to empathise  and understand other people’s pain……..  

All of us are, our life is arranged in this way because we human beings have  a mission to love and care for others. Mission means that we are born to live  this way. But many people when they become adults forget. They forget the mission of their life, why they were born. And they are just busy, struggling to  survive, to fulfil their ego or to overcome their fear. But they will never be able  to overcome their fear unless they live their life to fulfil the mission of their life…..”

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“There are so many people who don’t know the  secret of the Universe. How your wish will be  realised, as the principle of the Universe………….

When you determine the future, whatever future,  whatever you wish that you want to be realised,…………

Everybody has some kind of wish,a life wish.Everybody has this, otherwise , it is  just a life of desperation. And if you want to really realize it you have to  have a certain attitude to that wish. Because  many people don’t seriously decide that that wish will be realized because they don’t want to get disappointed if it isn’t realized. So they try to put  it as insurance in case it doesn’t happen as they wished. So they aren’t really serious about how  to realise that wish….. 

Life will happen how you have visualized the  future, consciously or subconsciously. And you  need to gain the freedom to visualize your future  freely.….

Life depends on what you imagine. Because this  principle is the base of existence. Then why not  keep visualizing what you want, what you are  wishing for in the future. Don’t prepare for  situations where your wish may not happen or  might happen negatively…….  

Trust this principle. Have faith in this principle.  Don’t forget that It, the principle , is always  always trying to let you realize what you wish for. Accept this, the wish of the Universe……

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“The Universe is not something physical. The Universe is not something  material. It is a spirit. It is enlightenment, an enlightened spirit and it is  infinite development, infinitely developing moment to moment. However  it is not easy for us human beings to imagine something that is infinite  development. Moment to moment developing. Moment to moment the  joyfulness increases. Moment to moment happiness increases.  Moment to moment beauty increases. This is all for us who live in  the human world. 

It is difficult for us to imagine because we are living in a world that is  opposite. Moment to moment the beauty decreases. Moment to  moment physically everything goes down, goes down physically as  time goes by. We get old as time goes by. Food we are no longer able  to eat after a few days, maybe even a day or two because it decays. 

Actually there is only one thing that increases materialistically in this  human world. Do you know what it is? It is money. If you put money in  the bank it increases with interest and you can see the numbers  increasing. That is why people are attached to money, it is a projection  of the wishes for something opposite to the human world. Something  that increases every moment because we are living in an opposite  world…………” 

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“………..I think the stupidest thing about humans is that we don’t think about the future.

Perhaps we don’t think,or we don’t imagine it. In not imagining the future, includes also that you don’t imagine what you would do if it were you when you look at another person. Interestingly, not imagining the future……..

Simply talking about it, people cannot or will not imagine the situation that will result from the actions that they have just taken or are about to take.

For example, we eat food that is full of additives, sugar and pesticides.

People think that this is good enough for now. The idea is that it’s okay because there are no immediate results…………..

What will happen in the future if you do this action, or what would happen in the future if you did another action? The other thing is what would you think if you were the other person…………..”

 

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“One of the biggest problems of human beings is that we still don’t have a  definition of certain words, for example happiness, wisdom. What is  happiness? What is wisdom? I dare to tell you now that wisdom is the heart of  “you will be able to see your own heart including your subconsciousness”.

The reason why human beings haven’t got the definition of wisdom is because  there are not so many people who are able to see their own heart including  their subconsciousness. So, many people think that each one of us belongs to  the physical body and that the objective world is material and concrete, and  that we have to be passive to what is happening in the outside world. All we  can do is to follow the situation. Many people are living with this view of the  world……. …..

We are not belonging to something physical. All the objective world belongs to one’s heart. The heart of one person, each person is receiving all the  reflection of all the existence of the whole universe, and at the same time, the  heart of one person, each person is directly affecting the existence of the  whole universe…………..”

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“People have been discussing: 

Should we go with “Self Force”?  

 or  

Should we go with “Other Force”?  

Other Force means the force or the power of the Buddha. Receive  enlightenment by the power of the Buddha. Self Force is to attain  enlightenment by your own practice. Some people say “I go with Self Force”  and some people say “No, I go with Other Force because in this time era it is not possible to achieve enlightenment by Self Force 1,500 years after the  death of Shakyamuni Buddha”. So, what do you think, Self Force or Other  Force? 

But just remember that no-one can live with or by their own force, their own  power. You can not control life, you can not control when you are born, you couldn’t, and you can not control when you die. Some one might say “what about suicide?”  But Including suicide, anything that is happening in your life is not being  controlled by your own power, it is an arrangement. 

Anyway, the reason why people had to separate these things, Self Force and  Other Force, is because when they say Self Force, the aim of the practice was to gain their own enlightenment and they don’t realise that it is not possible  to get enlightenment by your own power. ……………….”

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