Question from Simon:

What is emotion? If emotion is an awareness of your surroundings, then if you’re only aware of your desire self, does that lead to blind emotions, and if your aware of your true self are they spiritual emotions.

 

Answer from Sifu:

You’re aware of your illusion self first. But when that power becomes true will and true wisdom, only then true self appear.

When you don’t have emotion you feel lonely.

When it is blocked emotion it is because you don’t trust yourself or others.

So to understand emotion we must understand trust.

Trust

Life is being open heart.

Learn to open heart, to observe, to learn, to share, to develop more, to connect, to be aware of the essence, function and goal of life.

Most people only open their greedy, illusion heart. They just want to be possessive.

Instead open your heart to develop wisdom.

Emotion is perfect

Emotional wisdom between you and others comes from 4 types of trust:

1. Wise trust
   1. ability to choose who to trust and not to get lost by their mistakes. With strangers, are you sharp to feel people, make friends, not to be scared, be confident and sharp to be aware of them. Wise trust can still be greedy because your wisdom is not complete yet. So keep it separate from ‘spiritual trust.’
2. Blind trust
   1. Trusting people without knowing them.
3. No trust
   1. Trust no one, not even yourself.
4. Spiritual trust
   1. Trust in a spiritual direction – trust with eternal perfect wisdom.

You recognize illusion I, must recognize true I

Illusion I comes from anything outside of you: Knowledge, other people, your emotions from illusion being. These are all causes from thousands of years. Look at clothing, and how many causation so that now today you can have a t-shirt on.

Every feeling you have come from outside, therefore your illusion I connects to all the illusion so you don’t know the truth of life.

But True I connects to outside, through purify illusion I system – Amitabha system. So you don’t have to find it, once you clean out illusion I, it will appear itself.

Follow 3 conditions. Understand the truth of life. Choose life in a perfect direction, pure kind, pure care, pure joy, pure free without being trapped by the trick of greed.

When you have wisdom to choose these in every moment in life then wisdom right away appear.

Challenge is that everyone is in a different position in life – even caring can be so difficult.

How can you make 4 eternal hearts appear?

How can you avoid the 4 devils?

That is your wisdom.

That ability is true self – the way how you create awareness power to help you clean out.

That ability does not go away. I’m born with this power as proof of this. Talent power.

Talents In a true spiritual direction you don’t lose

What is spiritual?

1. Aware Truthful
   1. Aware of truthful
   2. Don’t tell everyone the truth – that’s ego – Intention – like being Sifu without them asking
   3. Good lie – helps release suffering bring joy – eg keep harmony – convenient protect yourself or others – self defense
   4. Bad lie – all others – eg own greed
2. Aware of pure kindness: compassion
3. Aware of art power of life
   1. Example a way to talk to people – make them scared, or match perfectly to help them understand and to match someone is art power
   2. How to do this?
      1. Stay harmony – Not against
      2. Not get influenced – don’t follow blindly
      3. Go back and influence in a wise direction
4. Aware of freedom – first 3 creates free itself

Example: Freedom develops over time. Like Cheese – must develop patiently 🙂

Example: Character – Learn to clean out bad character and strengthen good ones eternally

43:07 – TBC

From a class given by Forever Wisdom Forest on 13th Jan, 2012 at the Sydney, Surry Hills Dojo.