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Dharma Talk read in English by a native speaker

Hope Warriors Dharma Talk-No need to practice?

No need to practice?

“So, what is it that I am sharing, the mantra chanting with prayers, with sitting or prostration..etc?, It is the transference of the Light and the Great Love of the Great Spirit of the Universe to the world.  

So this is the altruistic way and action. 

To those unsaved spirits who need to be rescued with the prayers we transfer to them the light and Great Love of all Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and Devas and pray that  these unsaved spirits be rescued. Those sacred beings respond to our prayers and those unsaved spirits will be rescued. 

There are not only those unsaved spirits but also the negative evil spirits who try to stop the good will of humans, so we have to make them disappear and purify them with our chanting and prayers. All those Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and Devas respond to our prayers making the evil spirits disappear, to protect our good will to the world and also help those unsaved spirits to be rescued.

That is why we are calling this ”spiritual transference” because it is an action of giving, an altruistic action. An altruistic action, so that is why it is not practice but something necessary to do as a human being, because human beings are living in both worlds, external physical world and the spiritual world.  We have to live both equally.”

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Music and text by Ryokyu Endo

Voice by Belén Rodilla Celestino

Hope Warriors Dharma Talks-The Light and the Devas are Always with You

There are two main aspects of the structure of the Universe. 

One is the aspect of emptiness. Actually, emptiness sounds like nothing exists but the meaning is a little different even though as a sensation, yes.

As a sensation, the matter of existence is a totally different sensation if you compare non emptiness with emptiness. 

The sensation of the emptiness comes from the shallowness of the touch sense. 

We recognized the world based on our touch sense. When we touch something, we feel that something is solid or soft etc and based on this experience even if we just see something we can imagine it’s soft, cold, hot and so on.. 

But, imagine, if there is no touch sense!

I know that it’s not easy to imagine because we are stuck with the touch sense. But when the touch sense becomes shallow, shallower and shallower by the practice, I use the word practice and mean by chanting mantra repeatedly, prostrations, etc….

All those spiritual activities will bring you the shallow touch sense, the sensation of the physical body becomes shallow.. 

Then what happens? 

One day you will lose the recognition of duality. You will know that the true reality of the world is non duality. It’s a totally different recognition…

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Hope Warriors Dharma Talk-Phenomenon is the Grinding Stone to let your  Spirit Shine  

“……… in this modern age just about everyone is thinking this way  “Everybody except Me is Doing Great”. Most people have this tendency in their heart. Why is this? …………..

I had been thinking that the reason for this was because of television  commercials, even though I don’t actually watch television. I thought this  because the purpose of television commercials is to show, and to let  people think that “ all my unhappiness will be solved by buying this”, or to let the consumer believe that if they don’t have this then you are not happy but if you buy this you will be happy. But then I realised that television was not the cause because television is  rather old fashioned. Why people think that everybody is doing great  except for me is because of the social network service…………….

Even though the bright part of life is shown it seems that this bright part does not exist for 24 hours 7 days a week, ……

. The bright part, even if it does happen, is only  a few percent, only 2 to 3 percent of one’s whole life but people are showing this and those who see it think that it is the whole life, the daily life, 24/7 of that person. This kind of misunderstanding comes from where? This misunderstanding comes from or depends on what you put as the  purpose of life……..

So, what is the purpose of life? The purpose of life is to……….”  

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“Phenomenon is the Grinding Stone to let your Spirit Shine”

Hope Warriors Dharma Talk-Walk Towards the Small Light in the Heart

Walk Towards the Small Light in the Heart

“Whoever really deeply thinks, “I want to change myself, I want to change the world and determine to walk the path, the practice and to really live the way of the altruistic practice and walk towards the light”, to get out from this Samsara, journey of the six worlds. 

By the way, How is the journey of your life and how is the journey of this Samsara, the world of the human, heavenly state or hell, fasting hell, these six worlds? 

I wish someday in the future, future means some time in this life or some other lifetime, it could be seven lifes after. Anyway, someday I wish to meet you and walk towards the light together, to get out of this Samsara and go into the place of the light, which is Pure Land, the Infinite Joy, every moment increases the richness, every moment increases the Great Love, every moment increases the comfort, the joy.

May you, people around you and people in the world find the light in the heart, walk towards it and encounter the light, the world of Infinite Joy, outside of Samsara.“

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Music and text by Ryokyu Endo

Voice by Belén Rodilla Celestino

Hope Warriors Dharma Talk-What is the Role of Spirituality?

What is the Role of Spirituality?

“Emotion without spirituality is just self love based on the comfort of the physical body. Even though they call it love it is “the extension of physical comfort”.

However, if the feeling or spirituality manifests from the emotion it will be transformed into Love, I mean Love without the self love based on ego. Then true self love will appear. 

What is true self love? For example” I can forgive myself”, “I can like myself while loving others, while loving the world”, this is the appearance of the Great Love. Great Love includes all the Guardian Devas, Bodhisattvas, Buddhas or Angels, the source is the Great Spirit of the Universe.

But if spirituality manifests through will, then this will is not stubborn at all, any moment it can change for the best direction, going towards the right direction.Then, What is the right direction?  It is the stream or the movement of the whole Universe, the Whole Universe has a direction “the Infinite Development”. 

The Will through spirituality knows subconsciously or consciously what is the right direction, therefore is never discouraged whatever happens, no matter what. 

I do wish that you and the peoples of the world manifest the spirituality which is the basis of the Great Spirit of the Universe. You and all people in the world transform Reasoning into Wisdom and that emotion be transformed into Love and the Will be transformed into the Ambition that nothing will be taken away from anybody, no matter what.“

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Music and text by Ryokyu Endo

Voice by Belén Rodilla Celestino

Hope Warriors Dharma Talk-How can your Life be Supported by Devas?

“…..Devas will dwell in anything you create with the heart  of giving, with the altruistic heart.. Anything you created based on the giving heart, including relationships that you created, Devas will dwell there……..

Devas will dwell in anything that you created with a giving heart and they will support your life. Supporting your life means that………………..

Life is a creation, life is an art work and as you create more with the  giving heart so will more Devas dwell in your life. The number of  Devas will increase and the life supported by Devas will create a  bright future, will create your bright life in the future, no matter what  the situation is that you are facing. Just keep going, keep building the  creation, one by one, day by day………..” 

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“How can you Life be Supported by Devas?”

Hope Warriors Dharma Talk -Tough Times Are an Opportunity to Increase Your Property

I would like to broadcast this Dharma talk today, with the wish for you and people in the world that you are going to have a better life.

In old times , there was an American baseball player called Babe Ruth. He was a number one player with home runs. 

He was called the king of the homerun. There is an interesting quote of his. 

He said “ What I am proud about of myself is not that I became a number one home run player, it’s that  every time I got in a slump , I didn’t give up and I overcame and  that is what I am proud of about myself. 

People see only the result so they praise that bright part of the result and people think that he must be proud of that but actually, he is proud of himself because of how he overcame his tough times.

By the way, I have two  things that I care about in my life. One is that I don’t want to do things that I can’t be proud of and I don’t want to be ashamed of myself when I die. Actually these two things are the same. 

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Hope Warriors Dharma Talk-The Premonition of Happiness Pure Land = Infinite Joy

The Premonition of Happiness. Pure Land = Infinite Joy

“Actually we have to know that in any miserable or desperate situation of life, either small or big, clear or unclear, there is a light, even a small light, that shows you the way, it is a window to the Pure Land, the window to the Happy Future. 

If you have the premonition of Pure Land, where the Infinite Joy World exists, this premonition is the window, this is the light to show you the way towards the happy future, towards the Infinite Joy, Pure Land. 

If you live a life a desperate situation could happen, sometimes you could feel so much pain that your chest is splitting open and you feel misery. 

But feel and see there is a light, there is a window that leads you to the world of  Infinite Joy. If the light becomes clear, then there is the premonition of the happy future, the existence of the Pure Land and The Great Spirit of the Universe and suffering will be transformed into Joy. This separation will transform into the whole. 
Even getting old and death will be transformed into the rebirth to the Pure Land, the Infinite Joy. No matter what the situation is, if you have this premonition and see the light through the window of your heart, you are walking the path of happiness, Pure Land, the world of Infinite Joy. No matter what happens you can still like the people and the world. You can feel the gratitude and can appreciate that you can still feel love for the people and world.”

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Music and text by Ryokyu Endo

Voice by Belén Rodilla

Hope Warriors Dharma Talk-How does your Existence Influence the Universe?

“……….“no dark person exists, however there is a person who makes those around them dark. There is no person who is bright but there is the person that exists who makes other people bright”………….  

You don’t have to change yourself because there is no individual existence. What you need to do is just change what influence you are giving, what influence you  are giving to the people around you……… 

What is the tendency of your heart? 

If the tendency of your heart is not something positive then it is the  appearance of the karma of human beings and this is why you need a  strong ambition and light to transform it. It is almost like killing your  ego and it is reborn as a spirit. Ego has to transform to the spirit……..” 

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“How does your Existence Influence the Universe?”

Hope Warriors Dharma Talk-Wisdom Leads you to Happiness

Wisdom Leads you to Happiness

“When I read the Heart Sutra for the first time, when I was about 18 years old, I was surprised and I felt so peaceful. It was a very short translation of the Heart Sutra in Japanese. 

If I remember, if I look back at  what part made me feel so at peace, it is where it says “the phenomenon has no actual existence”. 

I think it is a translation of Shikisoku Zeku, which is usually translated as “phenomenon is emptiness”. The phenomenon has no actual existence. 

Well, we have been educated that reality is concrete and that we cannot move or give any influence, that we are just passive and we have to follow. That has been the education and it  was strongly tied up with the view of life and I was suffering so much about it, this reality that adults say you have to live with. Usually they say that the reality is to go to school, make money, get a job, go to work and get money. 
But if the phenomenon is not reality, actual existence, then we don’t need to be tied up. If we don’t need to be tied up by the phenomenon, by what they say “the concrete reality“, then what can we do? It is to create the phenomenon, create the reality that we want to make.

So, what does the Heart Sutra teach us so that we are able to be enlightened and see that the phenomenon is not actual existence and that we are able to create? 

How to be able to reach this state? There are six practices, six wisdom practices. This is what the Heart Sutra is teaching. The first one says that The Heart Sutra Is Dana in Japanese, which means to Give Merit to others, in order to let others receive The Great Love of the Great Spirit of the Universe. The purpose of Dana, which is altruism, is to let others realize the Great Love of the Great Spirit of the Universe. 

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Music and text by Ryokyu Endo

Voice by Belén Rodilla Celestino