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The Source

Bali 2016

The Source is the original state of mind, 原始點, where all thoughts, feelings, sensations, all mental activities arising from here. Immediate after its arrival, it becomes a phenomenon, an object. Stays awhile and it fades away. That's human life.

Nothing is permanent in this state of mind, it is in flux unceasingly, like waterfall. 

Without mindfulness to see the process as it is, one is very easy to collaborate with the arising thought process and take it as my thought, my feeling, etc. Then you fall into the prison of thought-process, totally in the control of the thoughts and senses. It is very difficult to break through the identification of thoughts within its field of awareness. By meditation, you are able to break this identification. Subject and object, these are the two different processes of mental states. If you can recognise the pure subjective field of awareness — the Source — then you are able to stop clinging to the thought process and free from it. That's the purpose of meditation.

You need to witness it first, before you can dis-identify with it.

The Source, is empty, a sense of spacious, it is also the spiritual centre. To be integrated you must be able to  recognise and remember its ever-present space. The world as what it is - going on and on - but you are the observer of world. The Source is your home, before anything happens, you are already eternally here and now. Nothing changes here, nothing happens now. It is empty as the space in open sky, until a cloud afloat and passing by. Human life is alike the floating cloud, appears in the Source of emptiness, just like bird flies through open sky. 
It is just the phenomenal activity  happening, an object rising and falling. Before that, originally we are empty, then thoughts come, we grasp, relate and give meaning to them. That's is how we form relationship by extending them to the outside world. With strong grasping, we hold them dear as permanent by possessing them, then creating the pseudo entity of I am this, I am that. Gradually things or people changed, and we lost them. Suddenly, we are in deep suffering because we have ignorantly forgotten, originally, we are nothing and empty in the first place. We did not possess them in the beginning, and will never possess them. In the end, nothing to gain, nothing to lose. 

It is a delusion to think you ever possess anything. 
Not even your life!

Let’s say, there was a relationship lasting for 6 months. It was originally a thought movement arising with sensational feelings and emotions. Explicitly, they developed and manifested as a loving relationship, then you clung to this relationship as mine love. Six months later, the karmic drama of the relationship exhausted, everything came to a halt and  back to the original point of life, which was devoid of that relationship. At the Source, it is empty, no one there. 

Sky remains empty after cloud drifting away.

The relationship was just a phenomenon which happening within the period of 6 months. It was only a series of thought processes came with its army of sensations and emotions you interpreted, involved and developed deeply as a loving relationship. It is exactly like a bird has flown through the sky and disappeared. Then the sky is empty again. Before the bird appeared, it was empty, so the bird stayed awhile and gone. 

Everything in life, and inclusive of life itself, they come and go, without exception. 

The only thing stays is the Source, the original point which is empty in the first place. So you have nothing to gain and nothing to lose, even the experience of that relationship has no trace to be found and is absolutely gone. You are back to the square one — emptiness. You are always in balance at that point or centre, but you cling and get involved with the arising impermanent phenomenon to make you think you have 'something' as a person. But this is a delusion because in the beginning you are nothing but a pseudo entity. What is there to feel sad and lost when originally, you have nothing, you are empty. You are just back to your original self -- the Source of emptiness. This insight knowledge shows us the profound wisdom to be applied and learned in our life:

We are nothing. We are not something. 
Emptiness is our nature.

Something is only happening in this life. And life itself is also another phenomenon happening. Both life and something happening to life is out of our control and in flux. There is no one there to control and dictate, because it is empty originally. Human being is just a process, a journey to the earth is to live this life in flux. What else you can retain when everything is in the process of changing? In this process of living you are only entitled to use whatever provided to you - temporary - and you are unable to possess them. Whatever provided to you is not belonging to you. I am the Source which is empty and I cannot possess anything. Everything happening within the Source, devoid of entity of me, I, including life. We do not owe anything to anybody.

The Source is responsible for everything, but there is no one there to claim that.

Life itself has no meaning until you put meaning and define the activities of life, and claim it as my life. That is the beginning of suffering. 

Wake up, I am that I am.

Another Half of You

I suppose Wind, as a person living in this world, is inescapable of avoiding that identification as the person, whether I like it or not—the one in the mirror—the form as the person in this world. That identification is very important to Wind’s life, it functions as a person to live in the world. It is essential to connect to the world, to express himself as the precious, and extraordinary being created by God. Wind—particularly through his face, voice, behaviour, and bodily language revealed his unique existence in this life. He is unique and the only one in this universe, no other face and person will behave exactly like him. Billions of people on the earth—and this unique being by the name of Wind, is just one of them—but he has his unique role and unique way to contribute within his particular life.

Wind, on one side, he is in the form of person; as the unique manifestation of Reality or God; on another side, it is in the formless form—the expression of Reality itself—called this the game of God, or Lila. Just like the two sides of a same coin, that’s needed to complete the whole story. It sums up well the relationship of God and men, Reality and its manifestation.

The relationship of the Reality and its manifestation, or God and men, the two is inseparable. If you separate it— mostly by ignorant—you will be led to the road of sufferings. So the ego or the separate self, is the one who only lives on one side of the coin. If your consciousness lives or identifies only with the half of story of the same coin—identify with this person, this world—even how inspiring, successful, valuable you are in this life; still, you are heading to the road of suffering, to the road of Hell. Why is it heading to suffering? Because the little man in the mirror, distinguishes me from all others. Then he becomes isolated, and separate from all others. But

who I really am is the combination of God and its manifestation, which is inseparable in nature.

Habitually, men are so wholeheartedly involved and attached to only one side of their existence of this world and this life, they are totally ignorant to who they really are—the Godly side of existence. Their sufferings; due to not living in totality, not seeing the whole picture. So, once you are out of the equation:

God+men=Totality of Life 

then you are also out of balance in life.

Therefore you are disconnected from your spiritual self, your root, your source and separate from God as well as all others which is the essential to your being. So you are left alone, you become a separate self, ego, fallen soul ... in other words: you are not complete, there is a missing link in life. Obviously, the combination is marvellous, it makes you whole and full circle in life. Nothing left out.

If separate from the two, or out of the equation and you are in deep trouble, you are heading to the endless samsara. You are trapped in the eternal hell of world.

In combination which allows you to join all others where we share the same identification—the Reality or God. This is what we really are. If totally involved with half of the little ‘I’ of ego, a tiny little person, a temporary and impermanent being in this world, which is incomplete in life, and you are always missing something in life. If too much absorbed into another half of spiritual Self of God— which will make you out of humanity, indifferent and out of the ordinariness of human being—which your remnant karma still plays the role in this life. Simply because your birth in this life is human life, there is a role for you to play. But remember, in Reality, or in the perspective of God, all sentient beings are exactly like you. But once you identify with your personality, your ego, your social status and of all worldly things, you separate yourself from the Reality, from God. So that’s how the equation works;

who I really am is the totality of Life,

then you can see the whole picture.

In my reality of who I really am—is exactly who you really are, and all sentient beings really are. For all the phenomenal of Wind in all his life, which is insubstantial, impermanent ego trip lasts a lifetime—and to identify with that alone is just half of the whole picture, is only half the worldly job done, which is incomplete and still leads you round and round in samsara endlessly until you have found another half.

In combination of the two by enquiring who am I; is the God order, is also your destiny for the union of the two, in this life.

Don’t miss it, find the missing link!

There Is No Other

They say today, 14 Feb is a valentine day, a lover's day to express love, is there someone to love? Who am I? When you are the witness, at the soul level, beyond the ego and personality, there is no other. The soul drops away the ego and its story. 

When you are somebody, acts as a separate self then you identify with your story.  It only happens when you are at the ego level of ‘I’ and its story. I am this and that. At this level, your love is a possessive type of love; this ‘body’ loves that ‘body’, therefore it is individualistic and unique love, personal and special love for specific persons. Love with conditions, of course. This kind of love, you still don't know who you really are. Another kind of love, is conscious love, you know who you are. You have found the home of love, that's yourself. So you don't need other to love you, because you are. 

When you are the soul, the witness--a flow of love occurs, not active loving in nature but natural present of flow. You are nobody although the storyline is still going on as usual but no owner to create a drama between you and me. Just being and with no other. Because you are no longer identifying with it. There is tremendous release on your life! You are no longer binding to the conventional love, which needs somebody to love, and beloved. You no longer need bodily and possessive love; personal of love and hate relationship--always to be reminded to love and to be loved constantly--because there is simply no one to love. It is empty but there is the individual storyline, floating out there. You see it without identifying with it. How can you fall in love or get involved with the characters of a movie script? Because you know it is just a script with the characters playing and moving on a screen, it is not real. That insight of realisation, that understanding extricates you out of the world of duality--the world of love and hate, of personal, possessive and selfish relationship. What a relief!

When there is no other, the life is simple and easygoing, you save yourself for involving with the complicated and messy relationship. As long as you take somebody as the object of love, this personal involvement with possessive love, indicates you identified with the ego level of separate self, where all the world of emotions and feelings are pressing on you and become a burden to your life. You are trapped and not free when intertwined with this kind of love. Your world is limited and narrowed. That's the ego level of love, all the time  you need to sustain this separate self. You are afraid to lose the love, you cling to it tightly. There will be the end of the world when you lost it! It is terribly tiresome to sustain it. But people are so used to live this kind of life--a life of ups and downs, love and hate, pleasure and pain. Although, it is a burdensome and oppressive life, on ego perspective, it is perfectly aright.

What life style do you want to live? It is like choosing a radio channel, you can switch to another channel--the soul channel, one level up from ego--the witness. Your world change, so your love perspective. And you are ready to open up your heart. Then, there is unconditional and conscious love in the air that previously you have not detected or noticed. It pervades and spreads in every part of the universe, every moment you are in love--with tree, plant, dog, cat, even rock and walls of your house ...  Every moment, everywhere, you are expressing your love to everything. You simply feel indebted to the whole universe for no reason. That's love! So everyday is valentine day. Your soulful love is expressing itself because its nature is love. "The love is in the air" -- This is the real meaning deserved for it.  In the soul level,  there is no other, no lover but only the universal love of soul is ever-present, and it is always and already here, why look outside? So no need to look for lover, you are love. Doesn't it Beautiful? 

Still, wishing those who are engaging in conditional love of ego--a happy valentine day! And hope one day you may be able to upgrade yourself, switch to soul level and know who you really are. At the time being, enjoy while you can.

God Is Now

In practice the witness is always here to stay, and to witness all the mental activities. By this way, you realize that the witnessed is outside you, therefore not you. The clinging to the witnessed is what made you deluded to think you are the witnessed. Once remove the veil of this delusion; the trinities of witness, witnessing and witnessed become one — only witnessing left, that’s the only reality, oneness. So the presence of witness means

you are aware of your mental activities, also being aware of yourself in the present moment.

And its absence indicates you either engross to your thoughts (the ego leads you unconsciously) or when you are in deep sleep. (the ego temporary subsided or suspended)

The witness, or more appropriately, the I amness, or the sense of presence, which is the reflected light of the pure consciousness which pervades the whole universe and exists since time immemorial. The witness or the I amness, which associated with the body is obscured by the ego due to the preoccupied mental thoughts. Once the mind is not involved with its own mental activities, the witness is emerged. Like the cloud drifts away and the sunlight shines. The witness is readily present here and now all the time. The God is within you, it is now! It is always with you! You can tune into it if you want. But people are busily preoccupied with their thoughts, and pay no attention to it.

The pure consciousness or the Tao, the Source, the ultimate Truth, the impersonal God, or whatever you can call it, is pervading everywhere, it envelops our whole bodies and minds in and out, yet due to its extreme subtlety and ordinariness, it is also hard to recognize its presence. For any spiritual practice to be effective, it is essential

to notice its presence.

The here and now, the sense of presence, the witness, is pointing to the Source, to our true nature. Therefore, it is the heart of practice, the very essential centre to start first with the investigation of the mind. The practice must be evolved around the witness, the I am, and gradually, the pure consciousness will expand and grow indefinitely, until a sense of detachment of body and mind is felt.

The witness or the I am, is the gate-less gate, the door-less door for opening up our spiritual heart. That’s the self realization, that will liberate us from the torment and tyranny of the ego.

As a child growing, so the emergence of the ego. Once the ego takes over and controls the body, it clings to the body as mine, and is fascinated and engrossed with the outside world, hence the attention goes outwardly to look for excitements. That’s why all the time, the witness or the pure consciousness is left unnoticed. As the result, it seems to be our only tool in life is the ego or the mind. By this perception, we miss out the reality of life. Therefore our life is limited and constrained.

Although the witness is there all the time, the ego is being busy with its thoughts, ideas, feelings, and worldly pleasures, that it loses in touch with its creator—the pure consciousness. As originally,

the Father and the son are one. Now, the ego becomes the lost soul, as the son that is separated from its Father.

The ego is left alone and to dominate our life, that’s the beginning of delusion, and results in suffering simply because of separateness from the pure consciousness, the pure soul. To go home, or to its Source is simple. You know, you are the pure consciousness, it is always here and now, never leave you. All you have  to do is to get

your mind silent, let the ego and its thoughts subside. That is!

Then, the witness emerged, like the morning sun rises after the night of darkness. Allowing the pure consciousness embraces your whole being once your ego is subdued and subsided. That’s the emergence of your true nature. God says:

surrender or give me your ego, I will give back your true self.

This is a barter trade with God. That’s the deal!

End of the day, it is the application of the reality that matters. No matter how much we talk, we still have to come back to apply what we learned. The ego and the body has its destiny and karma, that’s the reason it is born for. You can’t stop the flow of waterfall from falling down, similarly, the script of your life which is unfolding beyond your control. The reality already reveals:

the mind-body process is always going unceasingly, unless you are able to split it out, become the witness and the witnessed. And act as the witness.

That’s no way out when you cling to your mind and body. Until the witness is emerged, then you are able to be free from its entanglement. Then the real spiritual practice begins. But to make your life different depending on whether you have the determination to apply the new found reality or wisdom. If not, it is just another wonderful concept to talk about.

The application and the conviction to the insight is essential for the daily application and practice. Until the full realization, that knowledge or insight will flow within your blood and marrow, to the core of your being. Before that, practice with the necessary earnestness and conviction will surely enhance the speed of realization and deepening it. The secret lies here, as Maharaj, the great spiritual master says:

The door that locks you in, is also the door that lets you out.

The ‘I am’ (the witness) is the door. Stay at it until it opens. 

Beyond the Person

Untrained mind identifies with bodies, thoughts, ideas, I am this, I am that, usually it is called the ego, which is no difference from the mind. You are persons, individuals, then you are egos. The ego is the mind-body process, and also the personality-based entity, as a whole it is called a person, simply a bundle of what you cling, remember or identify to be. That’s the delusion of mind that caused you attached or identified with what you think or feel.

When the attention focuses on the mental and bodily activities, that related to a person, he claims the ownership of all doings and being responsible for them. There is an ‘I’ of doing, the doer. This is the root cause of all miseries and sufferings of human beings. The wrong identification with ‘I’, is ignorantly and responsibly for inflicting all the world of sufferings to the mankind as long as they attach or identify with the ‘I’, or taking themselves as persons. By meditation, when the attention shifts  away from body-mind process, such as thoughts, feelings, there is also a shift of consciousness away from the mind. Now you are switching to a new channel. On this layer of consciousness, the attention now focuses on the one who is habitually paying attention to the mental activities of outside world. It means the attention shifts attention to itself, and which is the witness itself. (it can be the observer, knower, or seer, etc)

The shifting is like tuning the radio channel, by turning the attention inwardly, to its source. Habitually, our attention inclines to indulge itself outwardly, attached to the manifest world of mind, such as thoughts, ideas, sensations, sensual pleasures, excitements, hence becoming I am this and I am that. Therefore the personal world is limited only to the sensual sphere of the person. But once you turn inwardly, you are looking for the source, then, there is another unlimited world, beyond your imagination of your senses. By searching, you find there is nothing inwardly, but only the existence of the witness. That’s your true self. It is always and already here and now, but you never pay attention to notice it.

All your life you look for things outside, but overlook your true nature, which is YOU.

Since you have found it, simply rest the attention as the witness. Being as the witness,

you are neutral, natural, non-attached, you don’t identify with the arising thoughts,

you merely play the role of witnessing, as a calm and indifferent witness. At this stage of consciousness, you are transcending yourself

as the ego to the witness; as the person to beyond the person.

Anything that can be witnessed, observed is NOT you, because it is outside you, which is changeable, unreliable. So the proof is in the pudding. At this ascended consciousness, it is verified and proven that you are not the ego, the person as what you think to be, instead, you are just the witness. Resting on the witness is the beginning of the true spiritual practice of meditation.

The true practice is to look beyond

the objects of mind.

So, thoroughly investigate the meditator, that’s YOU, the source: it lies the way, to get you out of the eternal sufferings. The liberation is within YOU.

Start from YOU, the witness.

Initially, the witnessing process involved the trinities: witness, witnessing and witnessed. Or seer, seeing and seen. But when you stay or rest on it long enough, the three becomes one, only witnessing is left behind. Even the witness or seer, is the creation of mind, which is false and non-existent. Witnessing, without objects to witness, is the pure consciousness, so the identity of a person is gone, then no one claims to be the witness or being witnessed. Only witnessing exists.

Witnessing is the expanse of consciousness, it means you are not the body nor the ego, but the whole universe is within you. Just like diving into the ocean, leaving the surface waves on the top of ocean. You are no longer your body or ego. You are the free agent, without boundary and identity of ownership.

Witnessing is autonomous and independent, there is no self to dictate it. It is simply BEING.

When witnessing expands to objectless, or outside the pull of the duality, it becomes pure consciousness, beingness. It is like a sleep-like state, a ‘black out’ or ‘blank’, in a void but not a void, which is timeless and spaceless state and beyond verbal description. The experience is like that: you may feel like in the deep sleep, but actually you are stepping out of the mind and its functions. That’s the real spiritual moment!

The power of witnessing, as it goes further, is eventually to weaken the duality of mind. The mind inherent power is to separate and attach. It creates the delusion of separateness. The mind is very tricky, when you look for it, it disappears, and becomes empty. Only when the mind subsided or transcended, the veil of delusion is lifted, there is only pure awareness without identification of this and that. So what so called reality is for you to see things as what they REALLY are. It is not easy to get over the mind, due to its strong built-in habitual tendency. Just like the strong pull of gravity, we strongly cling to the mind, live with it for whole life without knowing it. Of course, with the deeper understanding, the mind or the ego, can be used as the vehicle to help us for the daily life living. But the witnessing power must always maintained in the practice, and acts as the purifier agent, which is able to purify the mind, so the actions.

The practice is progressive and spiritual, providing the opportunity for deepening the understanding that the mind is not you, it is limited. And finally it goes beyond the ego when witnessing power getting stronger and leading consciousness further to the subtle state. So in daily life, the mind still comes back, so the veil of delusion follows. The ego is emerged, so the sense of separation. But now you know, it is no longer fooling you, you are no longer dictated by it. In fact, it is just the spiritual vehicle to serve you, rather than you serve it. This is the real spiritual practice, as you will feel released and relieved, as the mind or the ego having lesser power to control you. You are freer.

To sum up the process of meditation: first; as long as there is the ego or the mind, there is the ‘I’, which identifying with the world of mental activities, it acts as the person living in the world and take the world as my world; second; by resting on the emerged witness, it means you are tuning the attention by stepping out of the mind. So you are witnessing and dissociating from all the mental activities, third; to stay longer, by deepening the consciousness, until the witness and the witnessed also gone, only the witnessing left. Like diving into the deep ocean, the waves gone, left only the silence of the deep ocean. Here and now, only

YOU, alone without any identity. The pure consciousness without object,

losing the sense of time and space, that alone shines, exists. 

Life Is A Script

Life is a script. The ego is the main actor in the script. The soul is the witness, it silently observes the acting of the ego. But unfortunately, in most of human life, the consciousness is so

involved with the ego that it cannot

notice the presence of the soul.

Like an audience watching a movie, getting so involved to the play of the script on the screen, that makes him crying and laughing without knowing that this is just a movie— the actors are not real, but merely a sequence of light and picture-reflections on a screen.

Why so caught up?

Because he is forgetting his real identity as an audience, his role is supposed to sit back relaxed, to watch and enjoy the movie. Similarly, with the movie of life, one is getting so

involved with the ego of life,

that he is completely forgetting he is the soul, and the ego is just playing its part in the script of life. The ego is just the reflection of life. As the karma unfolds in this world, so the sequence of karma of life needs to be processed in a complex way—actions need to taken, things need to be happened—in this life. You are just a witness, and since the ego is not real, so the world of karma. Then, who is the one watching the movie of life in silence and behind the ego? It is 

YOU!

It is the soul, the witness watching over this life’s movie.

Each one’s script in this life is different, but it is always the same old soul with the unchanged witness that witnessing one’s whole life. The difference is that someone with the discernible and quiet mind

is able to jump out of the ego’s operating system,

and becomes a witness, a soul, that can directly see and live with one’s own life independently, without attachment to the ego. It means you are no longer chained by your ego which is merely your own shadows reflected on the wall. Your own shadows that reflected on the wall have been frightening and torturing you for whole life. But you still believe and identify with these reflected shadows—that’s your false self of ego.

Your false self of ego has the chance to fool you only when you are clinging to the world and look outside to seek for truth. Once you look within, inwardly, you will find that the ego is just the temporary and impermanent human tool to assist this body for basic surviving in this life. The ego in this samsara of life has its own karmic role to play. But your real identity is the soul, the witness of the ego. Your source of timeless and eternal life lies here—with your soul, your silent witness, and not your ego. Your soul, your spirit is your home. When you identify with the soul or the spirit as the witness, you are free, liberated and at home. You feel safe and step out of this mad, mad world. So your life will flow its natural course without the ego’s interference. Then, why worry some-more?

Things are destined to happen,

it will happen. Things are not supposed to happen, it will not.

With this understanding, let the life be free as you are merely an observer. Then you will put down the burden and worry, as a traveller puts down his heavy luggage on the floor of a moving train. And you sit back enjoying the scenery as the train moving forward. Just like standing on top of a bridge and watching the flow of river beneath the bridge. Nothing you can change, except watching quietly. Rather than blindly and ignorantly follow your ego, you train yourself to jump out of the ego’s box, which is the world of samsara, it goes round and round, never ending. You can’t stop the cyclone of samsara in life. But you can choose

to jump out of it anytime!

As your ego is in the level of samsara, which is the huge, horrible and never ending cyclone. Don’t fight with the ego but transcend it by lifting yourself to the higher level of the soul. Here, at soul level, you are out of danger, as the cyclone of samsara cannot catch and reach you. You are safe here. You can say goodbye to the ego and the world. Being the witnessing consciousness, you identify with the soul, that’s so called spiritual practice, embodying the wisdom.

That’s the only protector in

 this life!

So, when one coupled with this wisdom, and

transcending the life of ego, your life is becoming easier, lighter, less burden and more fun to live.

Don’t look outside, your home is here and now, it always with you, even before you are born! 

Welcome To 2016 ...

The most inspired and enlightened New Year message:

You cannot suffer the past or future because they do not exist. 

What you are suffering is your memory and your imagination.

You exist Now, or Never!

Three Months Retreat at Kyunpin Meditation Center

Kyunpin Meditation Center 

As planned this year, to have a long retreat in some where ... yet, don't know where, until last month, in September, the mind said, "Ok, go that place!" ...  It is the first time having retreat at this center, Kyunpin,  in Mandalay, athough in 2005, had one also in Yangon, Burma. It is almost 10 years ago. Time flies, waits for no man! Better make best use of it.

Retreat schedule: 10 Oct 2014 to 6 Jan 2015. Just a plan anyway (as proposed by man), who knows, might be shorter, or another extension of 3 months; just like what had been happened in 2005, ended up six months there. So, you will never know! That is the good part of life, always mysterious and exciting too, what important is: 

Whatever will happen, it happens, Que sera sera, whatever will be, will be, and enjoy the process ...

Some photos from the Internet, show the place, a very lovely, quiet, and scenic place. It is at a very remote area of Burma. Just imagine: 12 hours over night bus ride from Yangon to Mandalay, then another 5 hours of boat ride, from Mandalay to reach the center! Wow, that's good chance to explore and have some experience in this part of world. 

A strong intuition, the mind will have a good time there, let it go deep and dive into the Source ... for good! Again, Que Sera, Sera ... just to enjoy Life! Haha ...

And also enjoy the song attached here: the evergreen song, Que Sera Sera, one of my favourite songs.

Wish the world and all of you, well and happy
And having a very fruitful year - 2015!
Happy New Year - in advance! 

The Natural Self

Meditation is to search for the natural self, simply being aware of yourself, your being, and eventually to merge with it. 

Self-awareness is like the water in an ocean, the thought process is like the wave on the surface of the ocean. We attach to the thought (the wave) and take it as my, me, I … etc, and forget the real thing is the self-awareness (the ocean). It is similar to a fish that has forgotten the ocean it has lived since its birth. 

In real practice, awareness is a sense of self, the I amness, that is always present together with this body-mind process, but we are unaware of it. So self-awareness is the primal consciousness before all mental states are formed. It is the original thought - I amness. It can also be called the observer, the witness, or simply Consciousness, and many other names. It is timeless, space-less, quiescence, blissful and always has the nature of harmony. 

Resting on this timeless Consciousness, it just like diving into the ocean, the active mind becomes quiet, and relaxed. As everything comes out from the Consciousness, so it is also the platform where, all external objects are formed. The external objects with its own created world, has the nature of impermanence: arising, existing and passing away. Obviously, all external objects are NOT me. So left behind only the self-awareness, the observer, the witness, which is always there, and never leave us.

The self-awareness, or our natural self/consciousness, it can be compared to the vast ocean, where all kinds of fish swim freely, but they are not aware of the ocean where they are born and died there. So exactly the same, we are not aware of our natural self, because it is so quiet, simple and too ordinary to catch our attention. Like fish in the ocean, we are not aware of our ocean - the natural self, our existence, or I amness. Instead, we are so preoccupied and attached to our wave - our thoughts, which are not us.

Obviously, the mind (the wave) is just an object of the self-awareness (the ocean). So called the different mental states or the mind, simply a tiny aspect of the timeless awareness. And this awareness is a platform where all the thought process going through, it is unstable and changeable. Hence, meditation is to be aware of the self awareness, the natural self/consciousness, the observer, the witness, or the sense of self … which is stable, timeless and blissful.

Rest or soak in the ocean of Consciousness as long as you can. With Grace, and finally, merging your mind with it, then you are one with it.

Happy Birthday Lady, Beautiful Mind, Joyous Heart

Wayne Dryer &  Louise: 
Joyous Heart - Filled the Joy of Good Memory - With LOVE!

By Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Tomorrow one of my greatest role models will celebrate her 88th birthday. The beautiful, vibrant, sprightly, wise, and witty Louise Hay has made it her life mission to help and encourage us all to live our best lives. Louise has been celebrating her life ever since she discovered at around 50 years old that your thoughts can change the way you experience things. Want more happiness, peace, joy, health, love, and abundance in your life? Think on these things. Louise says, “I return to the basics of life: forgiveness, courage, gratitude, love, and humour.”

Using these principles in the form of daily positive affirmations, it is possible to program your thoughts and transform your life. We are connected to a Source of infinite love within that we can use to heal our lives and help others do the same. Louise teaches mirror work—looking at yourself with love and gratitude always. Giving back, moving ahead, loving life, learning, and growing—this is Louise’s program for a long and happy experience here on this earthly plane. At 88, Louise is in the midst of the kind of joy-filled and vital life that comes from being hopeful, grateful, and ready to smile. 

Not only is Louise celebrating a landmark birthday tomorrow, she is also launching a brilliant and powerful new book. With two of her favorite health and wellness practitioners, Ahlea Khadro and Heather Dane, Louise has created a guidebook for healthy living that contains many of her lifestyle secrets for staying well and feeling good into your mature years. Louise’s book is called, Loving Yourself to Great Health: Thoughts & Food—The Ultimate Diet (http://www.hayhouse.com/loving-yourself-to-great-health). In it, you’ll find everything you need to keep your mind, body, and spirit in health and harmony. People ask Louise how she manages to look so well and feel so good at 88. This book, she says, contains all that she would love to share with you on the subject.

Do we have to accept the notion that aging must involve deterioration of body and mind? I’ve always said “no” to that idea and Louise agrees. I don’t believe in “thinking” old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies—a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult—my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life. Don’t program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that “decline is inevitable.” Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.

We can make a decision to live fully each day, and smile rather than shudder at the passage of time. Our primary identification is not with time, but with the timelessness of truth, peace, and love. Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all. Time has only leased them to you. Make peace with time. Laugh at its work, and know your laughter does not make you a victim. Live the truth that resonates with you as Louise has always done. Decide to always choose that which brings you and others a sense of both inner and outer peace. Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface. As Louise guides us to affirm: Life loves me!

Happy Birthday, Louise, and many more to come!

Namaste, Wayne W. Dyer

Soaking in the Transcended Ocean of Love

There are many terms to describe the mind. First of all, one must be able to differentiate the two basic aspects of mind: the static and the dynamic, or the passive and the active. Yin (陰) and Yang (陽). In meditation, it is the subject and the object.

Terms often used in various traditions to describe static aspect of mind like the pure Awareness, formless Heart, Soul, Spirit, the witness, God, Buddha Nature, the observer, knowing mind, pure Consciousness, the Source, Home, Tao, Emptiness, the Self, samadhi, Reality, Silence,  and more. These are the terms to describe the passive or static side of the mind. There is just One Consciousness, the rests are just labels and for namesake only.

The mind is like a spectrum, the static part is in one end and in a dormant mode, it is the source of consciousness. The goal of spiritual seeker is to reach the source. Since it is a spectrum, whether it is static or dynamic, it is still within the same consciousness. Like the subject, it is the Source, the passive mind; and watching over an object, the active mind which is just an extension or a manifestation from the Source. Subject and object are within the same spectrum of consciousness, but the Source, the static mind, is the 'blueprint' or 'template' from which the active mind, the object to arise, exist and disappear by itself. So it is obvious, meditation is not on the object, or on the active mind, but on the subject, the static mind or the Source. The subjective approach of meditation practice is the key to liberate the objective mind, which is always changing and unstable.

From this spectrum of consciousness; the Source, the subject, the self-awareness, or Reality ... that is our own self, our being, our existence - the I amness consciousness: is the essence of meditation subject. Hence, greatest attention should be paid to the subject, and NOT to the object.

We also use the word Heart, as the Source, implied Yin (陰) aspect of the mind. The active mind represents Yang (陽), which is always active, like the thinking mind. It generates actions, implies karma making. So the active mind is also the karma creator. On contrary, when the mind is transformed to the Heart; it is transcended, detached, quiet down, all the mental activities to be dissolving into the ocean of Love, like a river merging with the Ocean. In this aspect, Heart or Soul, is the purifier, it purifies the mind, stabilizes the mind, dissolves the mind, and slow down the karma making. Eventually it liberates the mind. 

Heart, its true nature is harmonious, timeless, blissful, peaceful, detached and existential. It is contrast to the nature of mind which are impermanent, inconstant, agitation, changing, clinging, involving with time and addicted to all sorts habitual tendencies. So the active mind is not reliable, but a source of  suffering. When mind is active and dominated our existence or our life, then we cling to the external worldly experiences, that sustains our rebirths and Samsara becomes our eternal home! Meditation is to dissolve, get rid of the active mind and going back to the Source. So the transformation from the mind to the Heart, becomes a transcended state, being one with the Source. That is to end the incessant rebirths; also the goal of the spiritual practice. 

The main theme of practice is always resting our active mind on the observer or the witness, let the mind soaked itself in the ocean of Love, in the pure Awareness, or in the Soul realm. The longer the mind stays at the Source, the more chances to transform the mind to the nature of the Heart. It takes time and effort to practice for this transformation to take place. Once the mind is tame and it is able to ride itself Home.

And with this level of practice, mind has found its Home, its Source, its Love, and it is transcended. At this stage, meditation is effortless, because it can directly contact with the Source itself. By simply ‘parking’ or resting the mind onto the Source, the formless Heart, then the mind is soaked into this infinite pure Awareness. 

Gradually, the previous habitual patterns of the active mind, like restlessness, unceasing thinking habit, other negative aspects of the mind, started to loosen. The mind nature is changing and slow down the mental process. Now the mind is more like the Heart.

In all: the mind is letting go its previous self, or identity, the roles, the images, that previously it has clung so tight, and finally, is able to let go off and free itself.