What is The Definition of Heart in Buddhism?

Sifu: What is the temporary heart? What is the true heart? Are they different? Are they the same? Do they both exist? Or do both not exist? Or does one exist? Which one is our heart? Ok, I will cover all!

In this post we will talk about the definition of heart in Buddhist philosophy.

What is the Temporary Heart in Buddhist Philosophy?

A temporary heart is what we live in every second.

Which comes from, what they call, an awareness boundary.

What does that mean?

You can only experience whatever you are aware of.

Whatever you are aware of, that is what you will experience.

And you will take that as an equal idea as that’s life, that’s you.

But truly, whatever your awareness boundary, it’s never you. But it is never your life.

It’s just a combination-force that keeps changing from many causes.

So many different causes that your feeling follows that changing too.

And you take that feeling as that’s life and that’s you.

So they call that:

“fish in the ocean never know what water is.”

They are born in the ocean and don’t know what water is.

You are limited by this awareness boundary.

It’s like from a keyhole to see the sky.

Or from a frog in a well-looking at heaven.

So that’s how we think/see ourselves and life

It’s from the beginning already wrong. That is why it is difficult for us to find the definition of heart, of consciousness.

We are living in a blindness of illusion.

So whatever we are aware of, including ourselves, because it comes from a combination of everything, is constantly changing.

So that, of course, is temporary.

But that is not even truly ourselves anyway.

It is a feeling that we feel ourselves. But not our true selves.

But because we cannot awaken from that feeling. We are so addicted to that feeling.

We become limited like a jail in that’s the only feeling we know.

We cannot even know what else is behind after that.

 

Awaken True Heart

After you take out all this pollution connection from every influence to create your feeling of life and your feeling of self.

When you take out all of that… what’s left?

You take out all the influence from the world on you.

And when you can feel yourself, without all the influences, then you are awake.

Then for the first time, you understand who you truly are.

Then True Heart awakens.

Your True Heart never want to get influenced.

So True Heart is looking to be free.

Combination power awareness boundary, there is no freedom.

True self never enjoys this blindness.

That is why there is fear.

Because we allow ourselves to enjoy blindness.

We create suffering by doing that.

Allow ourselves to keep being blind.

We receive and take all the experiences and information without a deep thought to observe what it is.

And just take the way that everybody thinks so.

And that is how blind we are.

You never actually carefully want to be aware:

What does it mean to self? What does it mean ‘I’?

And because we never truly understand that, we already think we know who we are.

Each self, what is the difference? And each self exists in a different way we already start to have all this judgemental without even knowing what they are.

So we live in a judgemental world without knowing anything.

And we are still able to judge so many things!

So we are living in an illusion of illusions.

The blindness of blindness.

And that is why temporary-I is not our True Self.

And that is the temporary heart.

And that is the awareness boundary you experience.

From the day you start to feel the space, from the day you start to feel yourself exist until now.

Wise awakened consciousness is aware of all the experiences. All the form you see comes from the creation of everybody’s blind illusion.

So the world we receive is a mix of blind illusions.

And then we experience all the creation of those blind illusions.

And then take that experience as life. Take it as ourselves.

Awakened Consciousness

Awakened consciousness does not go away from the situation.

The difference is the fish now knows what water is.

Now knows what it wants. The fish awakens. Jump out of the water, jump back.

The fish are aware of who they are.

Once the True Heart awakens, True heart doesn’t want any of this blind influence from anything anymore.

Want to stay sharp and clear. Know what it truly wants.

When it truly knows what it wants, that’s how the True Self appears.

True Self is only potential ability. It’s a strength.

Like a seed, you can put it in the dirt.

What will grow? You don’t know.

But that is what is exciting about it!

And what kind of seed is planted? You can know.

And that is where the wise awakened consciousness is different.

They know what kind of seeds they want to put.

They don’t want to waste their strength in all the illusions, lifetime after lifetime.

They want their strength into eternity.

They want their strength into aware of all the tricks and illusions.

And want their ability to stay eternal.

Every lifetime they are born, and their awareness ability goes with them.

They stay awakened.

No more want to get foolish and tricked by creating temporary I ego illusions of illusions and awareness boundaries.

 

What is meditation?

All the form you see is the temporary illusion of light from everything, by energy as a wave.

Who created those waves to become your body and space?

Those waves are the waves of our hearts.

So in fact, the whole universe is the heart.

It’s like using pure gold to create a devil, a pig, or a Buddha.

One is an animal, one is the devil, and one is a spirit.

But that is only from ego to look at it.

Gold never becomes Buddha. Gold never becomes a devil or animal.

It is just the form appearance that makes the illusion, so we are used to taking all the illusion form as reality.

And because we only know that, we don’t know anything else.

But the awakened consciousness starts to feel all the form is an illusion. All the form is a combination of changing power.

Their heart stops searching.

And when it stops searching, that is the idea of meditation.

Meditation is to be free. Free from blind searching.

Blind searching, you can get nothing. Except for being stressed, work hard as a slave.

And that blind searching-I, we take it as our true self.

 

How to awaken?

But it is only when the wise-I appears.

Let it go.

Let the thinking power go.

Buddhism doesn’t try to teach you how to think; it teaches you how to observe. How to ‘not think.’

Because all our thinking is from the illusion of an illusion.

And the blindness can be destroyed.

It is like darkness. You put a light on, and darkness disappears.

You form your heart in a direction. No more want to let others ones influence you.

That becomes lights.

Breaking all the darkness.

What is darkness? All the blind influence.

And when awakened consciousness forms that strength with precise, perfect meaning and understanding that life is an illusion, understand that there is no-I in all this temporary-I.

Because there is no-I, in that temporary illusion-I, they find freedom.

They find that freedom is True Self-I and experience joy.

Connect to all the illusion-I but still feel separate and feel the freedom of True-I.

And then give strength to help themselves and every-I not to be blind, not to have bad intention.

Blindness creates fear.

Fear creates the bad intention.

That’s why our world has so much mess. We stay blind. We stay in fear.

From there, we create walls, and we pretend every second.

And underneath the pretend is just fear. It is just blind. That creates stress and insecurity.

The awakened heart knows they are illusions as well.

Whatever we are afraid of in a blind way is itself an illusion.

Awakened consciousness understands this world makes no sense.

Make no sense, doesn’t need to make sense.

But from there, freedom appears.

You start to be free from whatever controls you. Make you believe that makes sense.

If you deeply observe it, you will know it’s nonsense.

But, if you have an ego to want to go against them, that is just the same nonsense as everyone.

So awakened consciousness understands life is an illusion. What is created is nonsense. But will not want to go against it either.

It’s like when a little kid has a nightmare. And his mother tells him, “Hey, don’t get scared, come on, it’s just a nightmare, it’s just a dream, come on, it’s not real.”

But the little kid wakes up to his mother yelling, screaming in a psycho way at him… he won’t take that logic… the kid just screams even more.

So it you want to have an ego to against any ego, you are just like that crazy mother.

Because in the world, even the meanest consciousness, you can never find anywhere.

So instead of being against anyone, against all this system, True awakened consciousness against nothing.

Just be in harmony, and take care of the baby. Comfort, calm them down.

And that is compassion.

That is from awakened compassion.

 

Potential I becomes True Heart.

Once consciousness understands the truth of life. Not take this temporary appearing-I as my True self.

Take care inside your True Heart. The will you want to represent your true self, the great intention you want to create.

The potential-I becomes your True Heart.

True Heart is now not only the potential for every life, it can be awakened. But for it to awaken it has to clean out all the fear, all the darkness.

And then become the lights for themselves and others.

When they find a way for their power to become sure, they make it so sure. That sure heart, the way they make it sure,  that’s the way that true heart appears.

Because no one can make your true-I, true heart to be born, only your own true heart can create that strength. And be that strength.

So once you can clean out all the influences by every life to you. What can you find about yourself?

Including me, including all of Buddhism, including all of the universe, what can you find? What is left?

Try to feel.

It is still there.

It is still inside of you.

It is deep memory before you get influenced by all this information.

You can go back there.

And that is the idea of meditation, Back to the Essence.

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No names, no labels

Sifu: When I was autistic, I saw the world, but I don’t see the world. My heart was empty. Everything I saw had no name. And I don’t even know there is separation.

I don’t even know the difference between me / I and them.

That memory is not just one that I have. Everyone has this.

Every time you are born, the essence comes back again to pure. Give you another chance. No pollution. No judgemental.

Pure again.

But that memory is like a mirror. When there is dust, the mirror seems to disappear.

You can find it by cleaning out the dust.

And when you do that, you stop searching, stop thinking, and close your eyes.

That looking and that searching and that judging is never you. It is a habit, influenced, educated-I.

The memory before you can think, that freedom.

There is no responsibility. No judgemental. Not any understanding.

So there is no pollution.

Because everything you are going to understand later.. is all pollution. It’s all illusions, fake names.

And that is why it is temporary. It keeps changing. It keeps tricking me.

But there is someone who always gets tricked.

That will never change.

That is your true self.

Back to an innocent child, you will reach everything naturally in control. Every breath is different.

The way you sit down is different.

All the mental character stress, how you support and hold your whole body will disappear.

A child, because there heart is not polluted, they don’t want to have any stress, so their body also naturally soft. No stress.

And for that, they are not searching for anything.

Their body is naturally the same as every animal, every newborn baby. So soft. No tension at all.

Because their body is non-stop willing to mix:

In harmony with gravity.

In harmony with each breath.

In harmony with moving, without moving

In harmony of joy and curiosity.

In harmony of open heart

Observing the one who is open heart.

 

Philosophy-I

 

Slowly open your eyes. It sounds easy, but hard to back to Essence, no judgement, no connection, no good, no bad, no stress, open, sensitive, pure observation.

The power you are not used to because since you are a baby until now, once you learn the language and I, that power disappears.

When you are not trying to create a future when you don’t try to remember the past, will you disappear? No.

When you stop doing this, you truly appear.

True Heart can live, don’t even care about the past, don’t even know what’s the future.

But, we are in a habit of feeling we have to remember the past, and know the future.

But that is part of the training.

From each breath, ah, you don’t know the past, don’t care the past, don’t know the future. And once you are in that stage. You enter a relaxing stage:

Not searching the future. Now, remember the past, you have no I, feel the philosophy of Tai Chi and it’s different.

It’s not the past I want to reach somewhere and make you learn Tai Chi. It is not the future I try to prove you reach somewhere and make you try to do Tai Chi.

It is your true self, no-I, no past, no future, in present, feel gravity, feel stress, let it go.

And from that, no stress creates stress from the spring point into the spine through rotation.

Tai Chi appears.

Then you create true-I, philosophy-I.

Any philosophy-I doesn’t matter if it is Buddhism or Daoism.

You always have to back to that pureness.

Without that pureness, no tension, no philosophy-I cannot appear.

Then you will continue to get influenced by combination power.

And stay creating in that jail of combination I.

True-I is eternal. But it is only when you learn eternal power it becomes eternal.

But you will have to clean out the pollution back to the essence, nonstop, Ah, let the habit of stress go.

Create joy, innocent, no tension, charge the power, and follow the philosophy.

The philosophy-I appear!

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