Introduction Sifu: From my studies and even before I began to study, I understood two things that match each other perfectly. The first thing I learned comes from Buddhism: life is perfect. Before I learned this, back when I was born, I carried a deep awareness by heart, a feeling of life: life is perfect.
What Is Fake Vain? Simon: It’s like being proud of something you should be ashamed of. Sifu: That’s an overly strong way to put it, but it’s essentially correct. Sean Pig: Pretending you’re sure and that you know something you really know nothing about. Sifu: That’s also part of it. Sean Rat: Putting importance in
Heart Sutra Summary – What is the Heart Sutra about? Foundational Philosophy Heart Sutra belongs to the entry part of bodhisattva level. It’s the foundation to develop to the highest. Buddhism is unlimited deep, describes unlimited meaning, function and essence of life. So the Heart Sutra makes it as short as possible
Having Good Character In Buddhism you have to have good character to learn Spirits because a spiritual consciousness will only share their wisdom with someone who has good character. You wouldn’t want to give your wise, strong self-defence power to people who are aggressive, selfish, egotistical, or bullies. You also don’t want to give them
Bowing We are going to bow to give thanks to the image of Siddhartha Buddha. The statue is not Buddha; it’s just a piece of wood. Bowing to the image has several functions. What are they? Answer (Andrew) One function is to get rid of your ego. Comment (Sifu) Yes. You want to learn from
Question and answer Question (Shona): How do I apply Buddhist philosophy to my life? If I try to analyse my feelings the way you described, I sometimes get trapped in the psychology and make the emotions stronger. How can I stop doing this? Answer (JC) I can relate to the question because that’s what I
The history of Buddhism Tai Chi power is a perfect philosophy: it teaches you how to bring your energy together into any point. The longer you train, the more detailed philosophy you know – how to connect the energy, how to release tension, how to have better posture, how to concentrate, how to put emotion
The difference between Buddhism and religion Buddhism teaches us what dharma is. Dharma is a word that represents The system of life The complete truth of life The complete awareness of life The essence, function, and goal of life Why did Siddhartha Buddha bring dharma to Earth? Because he knew that there were consciousness –
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
