Meditation Sequence – Back to Essence Special thank you to Red Bull for guiding an amazing meditation for everyone. Joyful smiles all around! Meditation Setup Go to a beautiful location in nature – cliffs with some gentle wind and easy temperature is great. Meditation Goal To calm your heart and mind, to absorb some beautiful
What is Illusion? Illusion is a power that can make a trick appear true and the true appear to be a trick, but can’t change what a trick is or what is true. Ego is Illusion Ego is illusion because it comes from your senses; whatever you take as ego and call “I” is actually
The Heart Sutra is a test that teaches you how to become a bodhisattva or Buddha. It’s the true philosophy for learning Buddhism. Buddhism has many levels, some of which are called warm-ups. These are temporary-time Buddhist philosophies. It’s like when you have to trick a child into taking medicine. To trick them, you tell
Sifu The first part of the title is “The greatest news to all life” and the second is “Life is perfect”. That is truly the greatest news, but in reality we all know that all life is not perfect. We all experience a lot of suffering. I passed through a lot of suffering with broken
What is the cause of suffering? Suffering is created by your blindness and then received by your consciousness. If your food is hot, but you are hungry and eat it, then your mouth gets burnt. Suffering has no form, you cannot describe its colour, you cannot point at the suffering itself. Suffering comes from your
The Six Bodhisattva Characters are Generosity, Discipline, Patience, Concentration, Meditation, and Wisdom. For more details, please see this explanation of the Heart Sutra. Patience Patience is staying calm, or take things easy while seeing different points of view, or doing things step by step without involving our ambition or ego. Most people confuse patience with
Each awareness you are aware of limits your ability to be aware of all the other awareness. Whatever we value is what we will be aware of, but it is also our limitation until our value is unlimited, until we value all life equally, and until we have no more greed in life. Then there is
