Qian Kun 8 Sun Awakening Part 3: You are not your experience.
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You are not your experience.
Last part of the philosophy was teaching us that our self is not whatever the experience we have.
And we take the experience we have and the one aware of the experience is called number 7 consciousness, I consciousness
But whatever we experience we think THAT ONE is I
So whatever the I is, united with all of those experience and the power receive that experience – these two are number 7 and number 8 consciousness.
SO one is called ‘whatever create the I’ which is the experience
And one is capability to accept that creation.
And we think that is ourselves as well.
And so our experience is generally have many different layers.
- Some are feelings in an emotion way,
- some are feelings in a moody way,
- some are feelings in a strong desire way,
- some are feelings in a strong mental way,
- some are feelings in a physical way,
- some are feelings in an intuition way,
But they all belong to feelings.
And those different types of feelings all beyond to experience.
So your experience will received and hidden in a super computer. Much more than your brain could remember, every detail, go back to see every present. You receive subconsciousnessly every detail.
So when you are out of your body it will all play back for your own judgement.
Because you are aware of more now to judge.
Like I say, it’s not like you have an I judgement, yourself don’t even judge, actually aware of all and then it will mix and become a colour like blue and yellow and become green.
And this colour is a force for reincarnation.
Out of reincarnation
And if we want to goto Amitabha Buddha Pure Land we want to make sure we mix a lot of pure water. Make all the pollution steam out with a filter, come out only pure water.
The more we do that, the more we have a filter system or lotus system, change muddy dirt into beautiful flower the more we add in that power, then number 7 and number 8, whatever we receive from this lifetime or past lifetimes they start to change to become Amitabha Buddha system.
If we don’t do that then we will create more dirt and then all colours together become dirty colour.
So all the mixture come from your 1 – 6 consciousness.
1 – 5 is all automatic system from eyes, ears, nose, tongue, all the way to body touching, six is to analyse and to have a name, use names to create language and then use language to analyse everything.
Number 7 is a power of feel you are different from others, you are not others. and that power receive all the six sense information, and then say that is my experience, I am so. Some of those experiences your brain consciousness will not even be aware of. But your feeling, subconsciousness, all your deeper I consciousness will aware.
Example: Like sometimes you don’t have a lot of self confidence, your brain don’t even think about it. But lack of self-confidence already there. And sometimes you are fearful, and your brain say I don’t want to show it. So you have to tell yourself, “I’m going to show smiling, joy and self-confidence.” Your brain will do that and body will do that BUT your I consciousness will have fear and worry underneath.
And then all of this can be contradiction. Doesn’t matter which one. They all go as a memory in your number 8 consciousness. What memory? “You are doing a contradiction” memory. 1-6 cover your weakness. Number 8 is 100% clear, your true one, your fake one, both illusion anyway.
Whatever is called the true one is the one you take a true. And the fake one is when you don’t like the true one, and pretend it is true.
Take one blindly as truth. Pretending another is truth. Both of them recorded as number 8.
Like people who love to fight and show them how big they are. But underneath so weak. Because they are not trying to convince other people, they are trying to convince themselves. Many big tough guys are like this, that’s how they become aggressive. Show 1 – 6 as strong, but 7 a lot of self-doubt and weak.
Really strong people will never want to prove to the others, because they know they are going to win anyway! Their skill, knowledge and wisdom to make stronger so there is no need to show off.
This kind of contradiction will all be stored in number 8.
Number 8 will show how you have this and how you react to other people, in every second what you experience inside and outside and yourself connected to others, it will all become a precise 3d information recorded, hidden installed in your number 8 consciousness.
So 1 – 8 consciousness are 8 different you.
And then they multiply to create even more between.
Some of them connect, eyes and mouth connect together become big stomach! Eyes searching for ice cream and pizza and beer taste, “I want that taste, where is it!” Then create a big stomach. Brain join in, “No, no, whatever the mouth is searching for right now make big stomach, no! Then there is a recalculate, and whoever win become a result. The taste win? Stomach bigger, brain win, stomach smaller. If brain win, eyes will change, “Don’t look at the cakes!”
If stomach win then brain will say “I will love weight tomorrow!” And then tomorrow say same thing.
So they are fighting there.
Awakening
The Qian Kun 8 Sun awakening is to make each consciousness, each I, become eternal wisdom I.
And when they all become eternal wisdom I, then suddenly they become awakened together, you will become Bodhisattva.
And then through whatever one is the leading, stronger, you will from there become Buddha.
So receive and create unlimited Dharma joyful smell is from nose. To aware, all the smell are illusion and come from our consciousness blindly create it and if you are spiritual you will try to create a smell which will bring harmony. Bring joy for yourself and others, sensitive from that. And then receive all the kindness good intention, beautiful smell for yourself and unlimited life. Through that you create a Pure Land, incredible Dharma Joy smell universe. Many Universe together become Pure Land. And finally become Buddha through that.
There is always one you create stronger, and through that become Buddha.
And some is from ideas to purify all the others. Then wisdom ideas will become the strongest and then you will become a brightness aware, observing eternal wisdom Buddha and there is unlimited wisdom you can teach every life in unlimited way. If you are on this planet, your suffering is created through this way and then how you are stuck in that suffering and how you can release it, and you can teach many wisdom ideas as a philosophy help them understand them and free from suffering.
Awaken number 7 Consciousness
And if some are living in number 7 consciousness realise, whatever we call I is not really physical I, because whatever is a mix is not our true self. Because it is mixed from others, and other not yourself anyway. So your body is 100% mixed, so it is not you. Your blindness collects them, and creates a temporary connection to them, and you blindly connect and then you cannot be aware of your true self anymore. So you understand, if you actually understand your heart through meditation observe and understand that truth and free from connected to your body your I still exists, but you back to your eternal true self and through that, you will become awakened, become no-I bright awareness Buddha. The bright awareness is the awakened consciousness without limited in physical I, and through that make all the other senses follow it and become free. So there is one you will develop stronger and through that make all the other consciousness follow.
So if you observe from number 8, of all the experience are just experience and not me either, all experience mixed so not you, body mixed so not you. Mixed body need mixed experience to receive from many causes mixed together. Dream of dreams.
Those information change anyway and if you don’t follow them then you can recreate them.
For example, somebody feel anxious. You can be stuck there with that anxious feeling and say oh that is me I’m an anxious person. That’s double blindness. Or say I’m anxious, okay, what cause it? Of I drink too much coffee, caffeine and not enough food so my stomach to make the blood go there, so I’m super-hyper, so anxious was not you.
Same for fear, worry, try hard, negative experience is also not you.
Same for all positive experience as well if it through ego, then eventually will become negative. Because the ego creates a blind belief “that is positive.” It’s not true positive, it is fake positive.
I’m going to do my best to follow something incredible meaningful to follow Buddhism, all positive, underneath is just ego. It’s not see through there is no such thing as an I, “I’m going to….” it’s bullshit. Actually aware Buddhism is 100% correct just calm, peace, joy, willing heart ah to aware that philosophy and because you are totally aware of that philosophy you become that philosophy with joy. You follow with joy, you become it with joy, no try hard at all.
Try hard I will make you stuck in try hard. No wisdom to get. If there is something to get then try hard I appear there.
Pure positive don’t have I want to get wisdom. Don’t have I want to reach anywhere. Pure willing heart, joyful heart, aware through all these wisdom, equal heart, we are all equal, equally want to be free from suffering, equally want to enjoy life.
Kindness-Being Heart
Through that understanding become a kindness-being heart. That is through eternal wisdom so equal heart not going to change. Nobody want suffering its just they don’t know how to create joy. Deeply suffering is not what they are looking for either. They want to feel free to understand everything to enjoy life.
So the foundation all the same that’s why it is equal heart, just development is different.
That is why Bodhisattva aware equal heart and also aware the difference without judgemental.
Aware different is “oh that’s different.”
Judgemental is you have an I there to do judgement.
For example:
Seanpig and Belen are different.
Seanpig eat a lot with joy.
Belen can cook a lot with joy.
That’s different.
Personal… oh… if Seanpig there I will eat less! So better I choose Belen. Now my greedy ego involved want to eat more food myself.
Aware the difference don’t need all that mental, ego, greedy I judgement.
That is why Bodhisattva aware equal heart and also aware the difference without judgemental habit.
Awaken Number 8 Consciousness
Through that you awaken.
You understand all the experience you have is not you either.
Then your heart becomes more free from everything.
The true essence I is not to get something and not to blindly follow all your feeling, mental, or physical, or your desire. This is all part of your experience.
Actually see through all of them that power is your true I.
Then you see through the illusion and realise your power doesn’t belong to any of this illusion.
You are free, you are not any of this limitation.
At that moment, all the suffering from feeling you are trapped will suddenly disappear, they are just illusion anyway, they come and go, all mixed together, from others.
This is the most powerful, when this number 8 awaken all the others will awaken also.
So hidden consciousness is the most difficult to be awaken but it is the strongest. When this one awaken you become Bodhisattva. From there become Buddha very quickly.
Aware your experience is not you, they are mixed, come from others, they are not you and your true heart aware of that and free from them/that. From there you will right away into an unlimited Dharma joy zone. If you can remain in that wisdom.
The first level of Bodhisattva is called Grounded Eternal Dharma Unlimited Joy, and they have one special ability, that they can stay in unlimited Dharma Joy, steady, because they understand life is illusion.
Like when someone explains a negative habit you have and you get heavy and down. You take personal. You can’t understand life is illusion yet! Appreciate chance to improve.
If you understand life is illusion you will want to understand the truth, no good or bad. You will calm down to communicate, understand logically. If you don’t think so then say so. So don’t right away put personal, create calm neutral gear to communicate.
That will make you judge your habits clearer. Understand life is illusion means it’s our teacher.
GD shares a philosophy
“If life is not illusion, nothing would change, no changing no life.”
What does illusion mean here?
Illusion is constantly changing, the changing comes from others, the way it constantly changes is it never repeats. If it didn’t change, it would be fixed, there is no way to talk right now!
It has to change.
Way it changes is from others, can’t change by itself, it has to interact with others. If it didn’t interact with others it would be stuck in that way not changing.
Because it comes from others, it has no individual self (it is always from combinations of others.)
Yet individual self still appears, so that’s why we say it is illusion. Appear as separate individual but never separate, individual.
If it didn’t change there is no life then.
If one thing stops, then it sets off chain reaction to break the chain of causation. But causation never stop, so you can say life is unlimited.
Our consciousness work the same way, it is constantly searching, wanting something different and new, faster, shinier, it also keeps this changing going and keeps us stuck in the cycle of reincarnation.
So if we obscure the essence, then that is the only power that is not changing. So what is aware of all the changing, doesn’t change.
Sifu explains no-I
Appearing form come from other appearing form.
Consciousness creates all the appearing form.
So others also means consciousness.
But True self consciousness has no form.
So when they say no-I, doesn’t mean no-I.
It just mean when you take appearing form as I, that I, is fake.
There is no I.
Like in a dream, you dream of many I there, but truly no I there.
No-I, means dream illusion has no I.
Now we learn 8 consciousness so we know there are 8 I.
But all 8 can unite together so still just one I.
And one I has no form so Zero I, empty I.
But empty I can create unlimited I, divide through meditation, like Bodhisattva in one second can create one trillion I, in one galaxy, and do that in 100 billion galaxies, higher level can do in 100 billion universe, become their body I, creation Dharma Pure Land I. Universal Bodhisattva I. They purify those universes.
Create a wise dream
No I means whatever you connect and create as a dream I.
Understand what does illusion mean. It means choose a good dream.
Create a wise dream intention for yourself to awaken.
- Choose Pure Land;
- Choose follow Amitabha Buddha wisdom and will;
- Make this life a pure heart and pure intention,
- no ego intention,
- equal heart intention,
- harmony intention,
- natural kindness-being intention,
- care without stress or worry intention,
- never want to be lazy intention,
- never want to be anxious try hard intention,
- see through all the blind greedy illusion intention,
- awaken all this incredible wisdom heart and kindness heart intention.
Then you are observing wise choice create your own land in every present then you will of course will connect to Amitabha Buddha, then life is not just going to be perfect, or now perfect or sometimes in the past perfect, you will feel life is totally perfect. Past help you learn wisdom and future you will continue to develop even higher level wisdom ability.
No matter whether past, present or future as time doesn’t even bother you, doesn’t exist, they all equally perfect now, no comparing heart, unlimited perfect. By time, by intention, thinking, speaking, action will all grow perfect. Life is unlimited eternal perfect become always joyful natural being, and that is becoming Bodhisattva.
No doubt any consciousness choose to develop Bodhisattva system will go to Amitabha Buddha Pure Land.
So we use both systems together to make sure our incredible lucky karma to learn both goto Amitabha Buddha Pure Land for sure.
Pure Land is never in the past, present or future. Pure Land is inside your heart. When your heart purify with eternal wisdom, Pure Land starts, no beginning no end, to shine all the way help you connect to Amitabha Buddha, become Bodhisattva and Buddha and create Pure Land help unlimited life.
And that is the Unlimited Light, Unlimited Dharma Joy, Unlimited kindness eternal force in all of us hidden.
That is why we learn Pure Land system, to open up this Pure Land force, the unlimited perfect seed in our true heart.
Practical take aways:
1. Practice to create calm neutral gear to communicate clearly and logically, not right away take heavy and personal ego involved. Appreciation needs practice as well;
2. Practice to observe “You are not your experience.” Experience is mixed and come from others. Include body and surroundings. Experience is changing. Eternal wisdom remain eternally true. Recreate equal heart to every life, a kindness-being heart to everyone;
3. Practice “Aware the difference.” Means two things are different, but not good or bad, no personal-I involved for judgement;
4. Practice to observe “Whatever you connect to is whatever you are.” See through try hard character, even towards Buddhism. If you connect with joy, you can be it with joy;
5. Practice observing “Life is illusion means it is our teacher for learning life.” Whatever happens, enjoy to practice an attitude of appreciation to learn from it.
6. Meditation practice: “Life is illusion, constantly changing. And what is aware of all the changing, your essence, doesn’t change.”
7. Practice observing when they say no-I in philosophy it doesn’t mean no-I at all, otherwise who is learning? It means like in a dream we create many I, but none of them can be found, that kind of no-I. Our True Self consciousness has no form but is always there.
