What is Buddhism for? Sharing creates emotion. Humans can’t survive without sharing, so they have very strong emotions. There aren’t many animals that take care of their children for as long as humans do. We feed them by hand for two or three years, we house and protect them until they are adults. Many animals
Knowing by Mind Whenever you think that you know something by mind, it’s actually a sign that you aren’t aware by heart; when you aware by heart, you don’t use your brain to think. When your heart is aware, you don’t have to use your brain anymore; you just do it, perfectly, by intuition. Your
Child Heart Inside your heart there’s a natural power that makes you want to feel perfect, that life is great, that every second is fresh and joyful and happy, and that the future is exciting. Your heart is always searching for this feeling, especially when you are a child. As a child, your only goal
What does “Spiritual” mean to a child? Sifu: When you heard the words “spiritual reality” or “Spirits” when you were a child, what did you think of? Tim Pig: Magic. Michelle: Ghosts. JC: The essence of something: its soul. Simon: Some kind of power. Scott: I thought of angels. Sean Rat: The power that is
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
Life can be very clear if you understand the wisdom that life comes from cause and effect. Everything which happens surely has a cause. A wise person observes that reality, and understands the whole system of life; how life works. The key point is to use your observing power to observe your life and all
What are the true and fake values of life? To make the true value of life appear you have to learn to refuse all negative character traits. Your character comes from your intention, thinking, and action. These come from your heart. If you are aware of life in the wrong direction, your intention becomes like
Knowledge Before you can understand Will, you must remove the Blind Ego Habit of “I know” from your brain consciousness and start using wisdom with the awareness from your heart. If you live in this blind habit of “I know”, your mind is too lazy to stay sharp all the time. When your heart can
Summary of the Five Developments Listen here: Also known as the: Five Aggregates, Five Skandhas, Five Sources of clinging Five developments are Empty Because Illusion being is Empty So our feelings,thinking, Actions, and experience are all Empty In Empty , Heart is free and Joy , out of Ego Dream illusion and relief all suffering
Human wisdom is low because there are many limitations at our level of existence. These restrictions come from blindness. Our consciousness thinks, “I am the most important, more important than the entire universe.” That is our ego. (Sifu:) At 46, my martial art technique is more explosive than all of you students. Zhang Seng Feng
Reincarnation is blindness. The first form of Tai Chi teaches centre power and explosion power. Once learned, you can use light, sensitive moves. Even when light, joyful, sensitive, and abstract, Tai Chi still looks powerful. Without centre rotation power from your foot exploding in a light, sensitive and free way, you can’t join your whole
Fake Value is Personal Desire: this brings you suffering. Why? Personal desire is rooted in greed; greed makes you a slave to that power: getting stressed because you don’t have enough possessions, trying hard to acquire them, being afraid of losing them. By contrast, wisdom and compassion do not bring you suffering because they take
Zhang Sanfeng – Tai Ji Awareness To have a life means to be sensitive, to be aware of more. If you can’t be delicately and sensitively aware of your body, then you are not aware of life. If you don’t take awareness of your body as your main value, you are blind to the principal
True Release System: How to stop your blind-creation heart, awaken your amazing, spiritual willing-heart and be sincere to follow it “Because you never have a habit to check your heart, your spiritual willing heart never appears. Talk to your heart.” – Forever Wisdom-Forest Part One – Stopping your blind-creation heart The philosophy of One
