Universal Meditation

Here is a poem to describe the meditation. So you can get a feeling of the ability this meditation describes.

Sifu talking about his lifestyle is a meditation, ‘lifestyle meditation.’

Because of his will, choice to appear and be whatever Sifu each student needs, that how he appears.

But you can’t directly go into this meditation without many foundations first.

Because the universal meditation describes directly how to go into the meditation, there is so many deep wisdoms you need to have absorbed by heart to develop before you can use this technique.

Basically you can’t try to go into it. Only once you aware of so much wisdom you are naturally into it.

Universal Meditation

• If you accept everything in life is moving and changing, you are right away, not, whatever you accept.
• Everything you accept is moving and changing.
• And the power to accept is not part of that moving changing anymore.
• And whatever is not moving and changing is right away like empty space and open to accept everything.
• So basically it is the word ‘accept’

Poem about Accept 

 [Note: The groupings / breaks at the start I put in by myself to help the reader and are not part of Sifu’s explanation. Later levels are as indicated. They represent levels I have experienced, blockages in my own observation and practice of this philosophy, including a detailed follow-up where I read the poem back to Sifu (2017) and he added more details. His pre-Bodhisattva level can understand one time no problem. The detail is for the rest of us 🙂 Hopefully the levels will help break down the steps for you to practice. ]

Level: Ego, blind heart

• Accept that you don’t even know how to accept;
• Accept you start to realize you protect yourself and refuse to accept;
• Accept you start awakening, you are trapped in the first two and not willing to accept anything;

Level: Willing Heart

• Accept there is a chance you can break that intention and learn accepting;
• Accept it is not that easy, even if you are willing to learn, you still will be trapped not accepting anything;
• Accept you are not going to be patient, and give up want to develop accepting;
• Accept you will win your patience and step by step start to understand more, what is it to accept;
• Accept you can sometimes accept and sometimes you will lose that power to accept;

Level: Sincere Heart – Concentration breaks contradiction

• Accept you accept only from mind not even from your heart, and then contradiction appear, and then you learn to accept your contradiction;
• Accept that contradiction is not easy to win so you are trapped in that contradiction, once again, you refuse to accept;
• Accept you learn more wisdom, and because you learn more wisdom you find new ways to break your contradiction, again you have more power to accept;

Level:  Ego games – Try and Want never work

• Accept you are blindly “trying” to accept, but you don’t even know why you are “trying” to accept;
• Accept you finally learn enough wisdom, and knowing what is the power of accepting and what you are accepting about;
• Accept you realize your ‘TRYING to accept’ itself, is just a game. It’s like, you play try to accept, not try to accept, so you accept you are making a theatre, of trying to accept
• Accept you wake up from this theatre, and realise you will never reach any accept through that theatre;
• Accept you don’t “want” to accept anymore because you are awakened, either “try” to accept, or “want” to accept, you will never accept;
  • Want will not work
  • Try will not work
  • Because you are stuck in want, stuck in try, you never truly accept anything.
• Accept because you don’t want to accept anymore, so you don’t have, ‘don’t want to accept’ either, finally you back to the point there is no accept and no not-accept
  • If you still have don’t want that means you still have that wanting
  • Don’t want come from aware wanting
  • The true true don’t care about any fake. Fake it until you make it, have to fake it because you’re not;

[Levels from now on are from Sifu.]

Level: Life is illusion, that is why accept is not accept. No good, No bad, Back to the Essence. 

• Accept that because you don’t have accept or not-accept, you finally start to aware what does that word mean, accept.
  • At this point it is equal to the Buddhism definition of No good, No bad, Back to the Essence.
  • When you really have no good, no bad, accept all the illusions and let them be, you don’t bother with it, good or bad either way, it’s all illusion.
  • Finally you accept it is all illusion and don’t have personal to judge either way.

Level: No ego, being empty, no I to judge anything. Open heart. Empty space.

• Accept that once you start be aware what the word accept is, without, try to accept or not try to accept, then you start to aware, AH, accept is not accept, it is just a name we call “accept”, to guide you, to change your attitude, learn to have open heart to understand life.
  • More deep explanation, accept or not accept, illusion is illusion, accept is illusion, not accept still illusion,
  • But if you awaken, really know it’s illusion you won’t need either one anymore.
  • That is why accept is not accept.
  • Open heart don’t have such thing as accept or not accept.
  • Empty space don’t have accept or not accept.
  • There is no I to accept or not accept. That’s ego.

[Personal note: I told Sifu I learned after many years that the idea of the poem was not to try to accept anything. That, that was adding personal. He laughed and said “Not to try to do, means you already trying to do. Basically you still stuck in it.] 

Level: Natural Being, See through illusion. 

• Accept once you truly understand that, and the truth is in front of you, you already naturally accept, without have to try to accept.
  • Not pass through thinking anymore. Pre-Bodhisattva ability.

Level: Accept you are pre-Bodhisattva

• Accept to that stage, you finally have wisdom of being accept without try to accept;
  • First you have that ability but don’t realise you are pre-Bodhisattva. Then you realise that ability is so natural in you, you are pre-Bodhisattva.

• Accept once you already have wisdom naturally being accept, you still have to learn you will lose that wisdom, by many other blindness influence you and many other blindness inside of you;
  • Because you want to help others you will still get lost, developing journey of compassion.

Level: Convenient wisdom

• Accept that the wisdom will need to develop more, so you will again have to go back through all the tricks and analyse, and clean out, all the blindness and to develop new wisdom, to reach new ways to being accept with a power that does not get polluted;
  • Try to help people, they accept you come to help them;
  • Find convenient new ways to help them:
    • Build credit and trust for them to follow
    • To be humble,
    • Purify themselves,
    • Out of ego or you can’t learn anymore
    • observing you really want to learn or not,
    • willing heart
    • sincere heart
  • One side student wants to learn, but other side they don’t want to be taught.
• Accept that because new pollution always coming, you always developing higher wisdom, at a quicker speed to pass through all those steps;
  • Example Sifu gives is he can teach without bamboo stick anymore 🙂

Level: Develop wisdom to be all the other wisdom

• Accept you are developing the wisdom power to directly be all the other wisdom power;
  • You are developing wisdom power to adopt new wisdom power. New power is not easy to adopt. So you develop wisdom to help you learn all of them.
  • Wisdom to be that wisdom.

Level: All the accepting is to develop your Willing Heart. Willing heart has to be your true heart.

• Accept being that wisdom power is being what? Accepting your true heart.
  • Because you are truly willing to.

Level: Willing Heart becomes Direct heart

• Accept that finally you accept without you having to pretend;
  • Successful through convenient wisdom to help everybody, everybody know your intention, trust you, being their spiritual teacher.
  • Pretend means convenient wisdom

Level: No beginning, no end patience, Direct Heart becomes Deep Heart

• Accept knowing how to pretend, for necessary to pretend, but not because you like to pretend;
  • Direct Heart to all the students that know you, you don’t have to go back to pretending.
  • But still new students new cases and learn more about convenient wisdom.
  • Direct Heart to help each student, deep heart to handle all. Older students teach newer ones. In that case, direct heart will not work with the very new student, but patient deep heart will work.

Level: Future face all the blind people.

• Accept to pretend what? Pretend to face all other pollution consciousness with their blind games. You don’t want to pretend but you have to accept they are all lost playing games, accept middle-way to face that game for harmony so you are learning to accept being harmony.
  • Note Sifu says he hasn’t reached this level.
  • Create middle-way, understand so many angles, what they learn, what they not learn, how they attack you if you do wrong way, calculate everything.
  • You’re heart is open want to help everyone, but you are not hurried to want to do it.
  • Step by step: 1:01hr, Middle Way wisdom.

• Accept at the same time, you start going to accept you want to live with your true heart, no more pretend, no more this nonsense game so you will reduce accept, reduce accept anything else, except some case you must have harmony with blind people. Like in a kindergarten you have to play kindergarten game. So you start to create middle way accepting.
• Accept middle way of waterman style – same time able to accept being awake with your true heart with wisdom to understand the truth of like, same time still cover your wisdom and play you are blind like them, to be humble with them, but same time have wisdom to protect yourself, not get lost
• Accept you don’t waste time harmony for nothing, middle way for nothing
• Accepting you are going to develop sharper, higher wisdom.
• Accept now play different game middle way plus compassion game, convenient wisdom game
• Accepting you are going to patiently play the kindergarten game, trick them step by step and bring them to grow up with you out of this pretending

That is a lot, a lot to accept.