“……….In the Buddhist scriptures it says that a Bodhisattva will be the friend of others even though not asked. We shouldn’t be stingy to give care and love to others. We need to be generous. All Bodhisattva, Buddhas, the Great Spirit, how much they are wishing that you receive the Great Love. Once you notice that you will never be able to treat yourself in a bad way. You are such an important person as the one child, the only child of the Great Spirit, of God…..”
“I often talk about altruism, which we usually recognise and understand as doing something for others.
However, in fact, simply doing something for others is not altruism in the true sense of the word. Or perhaps it could be said that altruism is not complete.
What do I mean by that?
The altruist inputs the message into his or her unconscious mind that he or she is so rich that he or she can give away so much, that he or she can practice altruism. Therefore, they themselves become richer.
However, it is not impossible that the recipient of altruism may input the message “I have to receive” into their subconscious.
If you receive altruism in this way and do not give, at first glance it may seem that the recipient benefits. But in fact, it is unconsciously inputted into your mind that you are the one who has to receive.
This is true whether it is spiritual or material.
If it is a spiritual level, you think that you are the one who has to be cared for.
As a result, they give up their efforts to ‘give’, to move towards altruism, and become spoiled. In fact, pampering is a variant of using others.
In this way, altruism becomes rather negative.
It means that if you are only receiving all the time, it becomes a negative thing.….”
“At first glance, it may seem that altruism and health have nothing to do with each other at all. In fact, they do, but I would like to analyse how they are related.
Altruism can be an action of some kind, but before that, it is first of all a state of Ki, so it is a kind of unconscious state.
What kind of unconscious state is the unconscious state of altruism?
It’s a state of ‘always trying to give’, of being on standby to give something to other people, to the people in the field or to the world as you perceive it.……….
In fact, there are only two kinds of unconscious states in the world.
One is, as I said, the state of being on standby, trying to give.
The other is the state of unconsciousness, which is always on standby to receive, to receive from other people and the world.
Unfortunately, the majority of people in the world today are in a state of being on standby, trying to receive.
Are you trying to give or are you trying to receive?
There is no state that is neither of those.
People who are trying to give, always receive energy from the Universe.
That’s why they look energetic, and in fact they are energetic.
In other words, they are healthy.………..
On the other hand, a person in an unconscious state who is trying to receive from others has somewhat low energy.…………..
The more you drop your energy, the further away from health you are.……….”
“In general people say that Buddhism is the religion of Wisdom. But what is Wisdom? Well, wisdom is the eyes to see your own heart, including your subconsciousness.
Buddhism says that there are 10 spiritual worlds. Which are from hell to Pure Land: Hell, Hungry ghost, fasting hell, animals, fighting hell, humans, heavenly world, small enlightened world, Bodhisattva and Buddha.
We all have these 10 worlds in our own heart. There is no exception, every single person has.
Therefore if your heart is more awakened to the Pure land, which is Bodhisattva and Buddhas, you will start to be more aware of the opposite heart of Buddha in your own heart, which is like hell, fasting hell…………
Wisdom is to know and see that all the world is in one’s heart, including heaven and also the world of enlightenment, the Pure Land.
How is it that all the existences of the whole universe are reflecting to you every moment? ………….
“People feel that they are loved when they feel that they are understood or when they feel that they are accepted. In Japanese there is the expression “even if it goes into your eyes you don’t feel pain”, we use this expression when someone really loves like a baby, takes others into their heart completely and accepts others into their own existence. This is the action of loving. It is different from the attitude of observing objectively, where there is no love. People just feel like they are being seen as material.
People need to be treated as an existence of the spirit. That’s why you need effort to accept into your own heart. Accept another existence into the heart 100%. When this happens other people feel they are accepted, they feel relaxed and they feel warmth, and this means that there is an action of loving. Usually people don’t want to do this, because there is a lot of subconscious fear of each other in this modern society. People are having relationships not because of love, but because of the calculation of the merit and demerit. It is a commodity but this is not an easy relationship.………………
How you treat others, it is actually how you are treating yourself. If you are kicking out other people from your heart it means you are kicking yourself out of the heaven inside of your heart. ………….
“What will your future be like? How will your life be in the future?
It depends on what you determine. What you believe. What you repeat subconsciously, repeat the words subconsciously in your heart.
What do you believe about your future?
Do you believe your future will be good?
Or you are anxious or worried about the future. Slightly believing that something wrong will happen.
Where does this belief come from?
Belief comes from a wish. If the wish becomes strong you will transform it to belief. …………………….
what you wish for others and pray for people in the world is such an important practice to live a happy life and to create a good future.
Even though we have the infinite potential, without effort, without practice to pray for people in the world and to wish for a good future for other people, the heart of giving or subconsciously wishing for a good future for others will not spring out. This heart will not spring out from you.
Look at diamonds, if diamonds are not polished they will not shine..
Our hearts are the same.
All flowers are produced from mud. The beautiful lotus flowers are from the muddy water. We need to let our heart produce the flower from its karmatic mud.
We need to polish our heart to let it shine as a diamond. Let your heart shine as a diamond to the Universe with your giving heart, with the wish that people in the world will have a good future and so will you and the people you meet in your life.
The heart of how much you wish for others, the heart of how much you have faith in a good future for yourself and others, this is truly your real property. ……..”
“Wisdom means that you are able to see your own heart. You can see your own heart as if it were transparent. Without this wisdom you can not see what is happening in your subconsciousness, which is deep in your heart, this is because you are not responsible to your own life, to your future. Responsible means that all the phenomena happening in your life are caused by, or are the result of your subconsciousness that you carry from the past. …………
So what is the cause of your future life, the phenomena, what is happening in your life? Is it because of the external world, that somebody did something or is it from the projection of your subconsciousness to the phenomena world?
As long as you are thinking that the cause is the external world you will not be able to create your future, because then everything depends on the external world and you are powerless. But if you accept the responsibility of your future then you can have a choice to create your life. All you need is to determine what that life will be, visualise it, keep telling yourself and then act with also wishing the best for others. This takes much more effort than putting the external world as the cause of your life, your future. ……….”
“We human beings are at a turning point of the crisis of this planet. What I am saying here is not about the environmental issues that people usually talk about these days but about the crisis of a more spiritual aspect of human beings.
The cause of all physical phenomena, including environmental issues, is also a reflection of our spirituality, and the spiritual level of human beings is revealed by the development of our technology. Do you know what this means?………………. “
“Are you not giving any power to the external world? Giving power to the external world is to let the external world influence your feelings, your ambition and so on. Who can lift up your ambition so your life shines.? Also who can bring down your ambition as well?.
There is no one else but yourself who can lift up your ambition so that it shines in your life and shines to the people around you. And there is no one else but yourself who can bring your ambition down or create your bright future. But once you give permission to let other people’s words influence your feeling, your ambition, it means that you are giving them the power, it means that you are giving up your freedom to create your future……….”
“Jesus said go enter into the narrow gate. The gate of ruin or destruction is wide but the gate to life is narrow.
The gate to life means the gate to enlightenment, and the gate to ruin means the gate to the ego.
Many people might be interested in the practice of Buddhism, but how many people are aware that the way of Buddhism is to suppress ego to disappear?
Suppress ego to disappear means not to try to gain anything, even enlightenment. It is also the way of the Bodhisattva, benefiting all beings, letting all beings be rescued and to be in the enlightenment state, and at the same time disappearing the ego of oneself………………
As you wish more for others, benefit others, you are less interested in yourself, it is the way of the disappearing ego. Human beings’ have an interest in only one or the other, self or others. If you are interested in the benefits of all beings then your self interest will be much less. If you are fully focused on the benefit of all others, not for yourself, you will be in a state of emptiness….”
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