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Native American Wisdom, Health, Love, The Shaman, The Creator,…

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1.5.2018

NATIVE AMERICAN WISDOM

(Lecture 1)

HEALTH

(First idea for contemplation)

LOVE

(Lecture 2)

THE SHAMAN

(Second idea for contemplation)

THE CREATOR

(Lecture 3)

WISDOM

(Third idea for contemplation)

Let us do our protective formula.

NATIVE AMERICAN WISDOM

(Lecture 1)

Learn to create colours with your actions.

Learn to interact with the wellspring, with the bird, with the animal, with the flower, with the Sun – these are things, which are Primordially within you.

One Native American says: We were chasing the butterflies in order to become enduring and to gain their swiftness – As a whole, everything in Nature is a School. – We prayed that the butterflies pass on to us a part of their Power. – You know that the butterflies, these are the Souls; the caterpillar, this is the body. And we learn many things from animals, they have very big experience. You know that there are dogs which can sense another dog from 15 kilometres away… We sometimes cannot sense what is going on from 2 metres away. Dogs have such abilities, and not only dogs. I have said: neither saints, nor Sages can produce honey. This is a Secret science of the bees, passed on by the Ancestors, a concealed science. Others can only eat it afterwards. The bees extract it, they see it… They interact with the flowers – they have a Secret intimate world together. And Mohammad says: God has taught them – a Deep Secret science…

Learn to interact with the Sun because the Creator has invested it into your Heart. Your Heart is the Home of the Sun.

If you want to grow spiritually, embrace both joy and sorrow. – You know that it is easy to embrace joy, but sorrow must also be embraced because it is part of the Way – they are a part of the Unity of Life, they must not be separated. In this world we grow through mistakes, through sufferings – in this way humanity learns, through sorrows. What sorrow brings, happiness cannot give at all, happiness is poor.

Seek your solitude, because there Peace is built.

When the wind is the mightiest, it whirls in a circle. – Birds also look for the circle – they make their nest circular. I have explained: the first figure that God drew was the circle. And the Master says: In the moment when I pronounce a Divine thought, it is a circle.- The Deepest things were made to move in a circle by the Force. In the Power of the circle, a big Wisdom is instilled.

Say the Native Americans: Never lose the Purity of your Heart – because through this Purity it withstands the storms of life.

The Wise one walks in the world, but they live with a sharp eye in the Creator because they are captivated only by Him.

Thoughts of light are the lightness of the wind within us. – I would only like to add here: a passing thought may enter your head sometimes – just a thought, one being – and drag your whole life away. Just one thought, not two. This means: what Awakedness is required – to know what to allow, how to meet it and how to set God in motion within yourself.

Thoughts of light are old birds who are friends of our Heart. Thoughts of light are old friends who come to us again.

Truth is within us when it comes from our Depths, from our Essence.

All forms in the world are masks which the spirits put on.

Guard the Quiet within yourself because it is your Ancient Home. – A person who has a Deep Quiet within themselves can overcome all heavy occurrences in the world, including catastrophes. The Quiet is the Secret place of God within the person. In Anciency the Quiet was considered – the Supreme Quiet – to be the Secret Name of God.

The Pure Spirit lives with their Deep reverence towards things. For the Pure Spirit every day is beautiful to live and beautiful to die.

If your striving is Pure you will create Suns around yourself and within yourself.

If you master your passions they turn into your strength.

Words have turned into a sea, into a river, into a wellspring, into a mountain, into wind, into water and into power. These are all words, uttered words in order to teach us and guide us.

Learn to dance with the hardships if you want to walk towards the Creator.

Accept the storm as a Spirit ally – and then it will preserve you within itself. For you it will be a Guardian Spirit.

If, at night, a heavy spirit is bothering you, get up and create within your heart a rainbow. In this beautiful lightness you will remain alone, because the heavy spirit does not understand this lightness.

Saturate your thoughts with life if you want to fly free as the Eagle.

Accept the storm as a Spirit ally – and then it will preserve you within itself. For you it will be a Guardian Spirit.

For the Wise one the storm is a friend, it is like a garden with flowers. – They simply have another approach, another acceptance, completely different perceptions.

Everyone has within themselves the ability to grow Spiritually.

In the wind, another Wind is concealed.

Wisdom teaches us to charge ourselves from a Higher Source.

One Shaman says: I want to know what holds you together, on the inside, when everything else has left you. – Where is your support, do you have the support when everything has left you? Including God. I have given this aphorism from the Elders, One of them, Who says: When you lose the support of your life – gain Certitude. – This is the approach.

HEALTH

(First idea for contemplation)

What the Native Americans say of health:

It is not difficult to heal the person: It is enough to surround them with your Love and to penetrate into them. Then the sickness, which is a living being, will feel this Love and it will back away.

Turn the ill person into something very important for yourself and let your Love flow towards them. – The Mightiest healing Power, no comparison with other powers – this is the Supreme Power, before the Universe, and this is why the Native Americans emphasise it – this is the Secret of healing.

Forget the rest of the world and send the rays of your Love upon the sick person. – You know when the person is ill, who do they want to see? The one who loves them most. They may want to see the doctor a little and some other people, but they want to see the person of Love the most – because there, secretly, this energy flows, which raises them from within.

The Power that heals, this is the Loving Power within you. The Radiating Love is the most acting healing Power.

 What penetrates into everything is Love: its rays know no boundaries.

The sickness is a masked spirit who runs away from the Loving Power.

The Deep Loving feeling always flows as a Pure Stream, as Pure joy. True Love is the overflowing of Pure Water from one person to the other.

Whoever can immerse into themselves, they are healed from their illness easier. The illness is a robber. If you can immerse within, seek your Source, the sickness will teach you some lessons and you will learn some yourself, as well.

Always seek inner healing and on the outside – whatever comes. – Do the Deepest thing internally – and on the outside, sometimes a doctor is admissible – sometimes they are not admissible.

Every cruel soul always falls very heavily ill because it loses its Allies. The Ally is a supporter of the Life force. Whoever has Love towards a sick soul, they can awaken its Ally and resurrect the soul. – First, Love is the mightiest Ally: it is always within the Power, it is always within God.

Love is an invariably acting Power. If you enfold the illness with Love, the illness begins to disappear.

A bad sign is the place, where Love cannot enter.

You must enfold the sickness in such a way, so that it shines as a Sun. – These are Native American methods.

Unite with your Ally! – Which could be many things. For example, healing Word – like the Master has said: I will be healed! – Simple words, repeat them thousands and millions of times and do not ask, do not converse. Do not ask why, just repeat. Words are living beings. The Ally may be an item or a symbol, it may be a pyramid, it may be the Om symbol, it may be a Phoenix, whatever it is – a favourite animal – from it, help flows; it may be a bird… Act with Perseverance!

The measure in eating also determines the inflow of life forces. – I have said: less food gives more energy.

Whoever truly desires to mend themselves, they are able to believe in their Healing.

LOVE

(Lecture 2)

Within you is the place of the biggest Love. For you to love, there is no other place.

Love is within you from Ancient times and you must never lose it. If Love is within you, every moment will come to you as sunrise.

If you look at nature with reverence, your eyes will be a mirror of Love, a mirror of the Creator. The Creator has given us freedom so that we do things with Love.

Love has no past and future – it is always here, within our Heart, and it always shines.

It is Love that upholds and strengthens Creation.

Love is our Eternity – and there is no other Eternity.

Wrap yourself in the Quiet of Love – and you will know the Secrecy of the Unuttered Joy.

If you understand one animal it will give you both its Love and its Power.

Love is the Purest Power within the person: it was given to the person so that they may save the beings.

Without Love you have no wings: then where will your Soul fly to? Without Love you are as a fish, cast out on the shore.

Only Love can Enlighten your silence. Only Love can take away the noise from your silence. – Simply because not every silence is Wisdom. Some think that silence is gold. The Master says: Fish are silent too, but they are not Wise.

Love is something much Deeper than the Universe and the world – and we have descended in order to understand this.

If you do not have Love, for you it will always be winter; if you do have Love, winter becomes soft.

If the Creator has given you a beloved person, this is so that you may convey the Love of the Creator towards them.

Life gives us much more than what is apparent.

A big reward in life is to find the Right answers.

Love is the First feeling of Anciency – the most Ancient feeling.

Love means the Complete Breath of Life.

Love is Boundless – but when we do not love, life becomes brief, short.

Love loves Freedom, but religion does not love free beings.

Love – this is the living connection of the person with the Boundlessness, with the Deep. We are able to understand our Ancient Boundlessness only through Love: only Love can unite us with its Inner Secret: the Boundlessness.

Love is more Ancient than humanity and than religion. – I will explain. Religion has missed Love and it chases this relation. When and how it will achieve it, this is another matter. It is not religion that is important – it is Love that is important.

Only Love can penetrate into the Secret of Life, because Love itself is the Secret itself. – The Anciency is Love and not history. Love is not connected to history, but to the Anciency: it is connected to the Priests, to the Primordial beings. History – this is the fallen beings: the word itself history means a fall – and from it, you cannot learn. It is never right to learn from history: you must learn from Truth, this is where the Right experience will come from. History – this is the locked beings, and the Priest is free through Love, through their Anciency. Love has always been present in Anciency because it is a part of it, it is an Essence of Anciency. And society is something separated: it has separated from Love and from here all tragedies start, they flow in abundance, you can hear every day… One friend of mine who comes up with aphorisms, says: “I love to watch the news – many catastrophes, many things – and only this way I am able to go to sleep peacefully, otherwise I cannot”.”

Love is the Ancient lost Essence and Power, and evil only exists as a game, which must restore Love.

The Priest is a being who has outlived the future. – They do not await a future. A person who is living within God, they are not interested in future and past, in a deeper sense – even in the present, because the present is not important, either – only God is important. – So they have outlived the future because they live within this Love and in the so called Third Wellspring.

The Native Americans say: In the Secret of Life there are three Wellsprings:

The first one – Water: the outward, outpouring Love. (As you know, Love, water, is the replacement of God on earth).

The second – Love: the Inner Wellspring, the Essence.

And the third – God: the Secret Itself, the Wellspring Itself, the One flowing out of Himself.

THE SHAMAN

(Second idea for contemplation)

I have said what the word Shaman means: An Ancient person.

The Shamanic vision is attaining the Second Consciousness – the concealed Supreme Consciousness. The True Shaman leans on the Depths of the Pure Perception. We are speaking of the Deep Intuition and not of hunches.

When the world must be changed the Shaman changes their Perception and in this way they transform their correlation to everything around them.

The Shaman is able to pour themselves into and to connect to the Boundless Force. I have said: energy is everywhere, the Force is not. The Force must be summoned.

For the Shaman some mere rules of medicine are not important – here the Spirit is important.

The Shaman is a Sacred person composed of Spirit and Truth.

When the world must be changed the Shaman changes their Perception and in this way they transform their correlation to everything around them.

When the Shaman unites with the Mighty powers of the Spirit, healing happens… And they are allowed to enter there precisely because they are a Sacred person.

The way of acquiring Power is Purification, because through it the Shaman becomes “a pipe”. They call it a pipe, a channel – a channel of the Supreme Powers which become Guides of our aim.

The Shaman sees things through the Eyes of the Supreme Powers, the Shaman is totally open for the Guides and for God – and totally locked for the world and for the inferiour beings. They have been trained this way. This is many reincarnations training in the Sacred Life.

For the Shaman the dream is a real occurrence; and most often they are not asleep while they dream: they are awake and living through and reorganising realities.

The Shaman says: When I cry for someone I touch them with my eyes.

The Shaman is a Guide in the Sacred because they themselves are such.

The True Shaman is touched by God, by the Great Spirit – and people around them feel this. – This is a Real touch. The Great Essence has touched the small essence – the person. We are speaking of just one touch. A small particle – says the Master – one-hundred-millionth… It is already enough to walk in this Way.

The most Supreme Shamans: besides with the Ancestors, they could also meet directly with the Creator Himself when it was especially necessary. They do not seek Him, they have Guides – advanced beings – the Ancestors, i.e. the Gods. But there are exceptional cases when the Gods cannot help and then they guide the Shaman to God, and the Shaman asks for advice and for a method from God.

The Shaman, when they enter Deeply enough within, is given Power, calmness and guidance.

The True Shaman will help you and ask for nothing in return. The Shaman is happy with this – that they have done Good. They receive merit from Good itself, not from you. You could hardly give something to a person like this, who has received their Secret Completeness.

In order to reach True healing, one thing is always required: a Touch from the Supreme Power. This solves the matter – whether this Power wants to touch you and whether you are able to draw it towards yourself in such a way so that it touches you.

The Shaman heals with a boiling energy because the Source is boiling – not with ordinary prayers but with Mighty energy. Spiritual people use this energy to elevate themselves and the Shaman is a Living interaction with the Sacred because they have chosen to serve the Sacred: therefore, there is Real exchange.

THE CREATOR

(Lecture 3)

If you begin to understand your Spirit, the Creator will come to you – the One Who has granted the Spirit. You are Spirit, you are a Secret Deeper than the world.

When a friend of yours dies, then meetings happen Spirit to Spirit – the conversation continues. Beings speak to each other eternally, life and death notwithstanding, despite distances.

The Creator has given you Pure Spirit. The Pure Spirit within you can bring the Sun to you even during winter.

Drink water as golden waves gifted from the Creator. – If you want to drink water with a nice feeling, you can imagine a Bedouin seeking it in the desert like a precious gemstone. And when they drink it, they drink in an exceptionally Sacred way. Sometime I will tell you of the Bedouins, of their Wisdom. They drink in a way which is hard for us to imagine, because they value it so much. And when we have so much of it, we begin to lose it – but we must not lose this feeling…

The Creator has created us in such a way that the funeral is never mourning – it is returning into Freedom.

Deep within us is the Creator – our Centre. This Centre is the Centre of all things.

Every day is Sacred because all days come from the Creator. – The human life is Sacred and not mental. This is not religious life, a confused one. Religion is psyche – I have said – and Spirituality is Soul. And Divinity – this is Spirit.

The Secret of Life is to know the Sound of the Creator.

The Right actions will build you up themselves and they will lead you to the Creator.

It is not knowledge that matters but attitude. – Your attitude, your Reverence towards things – this is what is important.

The primary thing on the Way towards the Creator is not in the ability but in the Secret of the set goal.

All religions are part of the Great Spirit. – They are Unity – and each person, in their own way, in this religion, must correctly understand Purity and their Way.

The Spiritual connection to the Creator is the Power which lets people withstand difficult events.

Without the Great Spirit – says one Shaman – I am nothing.

We all learn from one God. – There are no two gods, there is no Lucifer. Lao Tzu says: In Dao there was never any other Power – Dao is the only One. – this idea of Lucifer has created many headaches – and people think that there is a second will. In the world there acts only one Will and everything else is instruments. – We are all learning from this One God.

If you devote yourself to the Creator everything else will come naturally.

God walks with us on the roads of life.

God does in us that, which we never would have been able to do on our own.

The Creator contains the whole Power within Himself but He likes to share it.

The Creator is an enormous White Light; and when – says the Shaman – I go to Him, I go to visit this enormous White Light.

No one can live in the Right way if they are not in agreement with the Sacred Power given to us by the Creator. This Sacred Power is a special type of Knowledge, alike a Key. This Key sets energy in motion and on a Deeper level – Power as well.

Can the world be healed? Only the Creator can. Without Him – no. – Without Him the world resembles a hospital.

The connection to the Creator is Peace, liberation from the world and from all concerns of fear and survival. – I will remind what the Master says: “A person living for their mere survival can never be my disciple.”– and for a person who really loves Truth very much, very honestly – survival falls away. They enter into the system of God and God takes care of them. And when God is taking care of you and when God is in the first place in your life, it is all the same whether you are in the desert, whether you are ill, or healthy… For God there are no obstacles. He becomes your True friend.

Together with the Creator everything is possible because He adds Power to us from Himself. – We may have some power, but we need His additional Power. He gives it to us naturally, He completes us.

Seeing means letting the Supreme Powers show you things through their Eyes, which are the Eyes of the Creator. There are cases when the Shaman sees something not from the Supreme Powers, but from the Creator Himself – and then the Shaman cries, beholding such Magnificent Beauty. – This is something very beautiful, I know it from experience because I know, in very difficult situations, when the Master was helping me and when there was an intervention from God. These things are discernible – not because we know them; they are simply given through Revelation… They are fine differences and levels.

The Creator is an enormous White Light; and when – says the Shaman – I go to Him, I go to visit this enormous White Light.

Evil is present only through the allowance of the Creator. And we survive only if we believe that we are close to the Creator. Together with the Creator and the Helpers (the Gods) everything is possible.

When the present situation is heavy and hopeless the Creator comes to take it into His own hands. – this happens in many cases.

The Creator and the Ancestors act within us when we really must heal someone. Then a sign appears – a Mighty Power flows into your energy. – You are doing your prayers, your concentration, with your own experience – but He gives you something extraordinary, something exceptional: this is a sign of great Unity, it means that things will happen. This is a living, vibrating, Mighty energy, a peculiar state. There are Beings who have been sent, who are boiling within you because this help is important and it has been allowed by God. This is a Mighty vibration; a Mighty Divinity. This Living Power is support from the Creator, besides from the Gods it comes from Him, as well. And this is transmitted to the sick person and they have no choice already: they are healed. This is a Mighty, Divine vibration and the Power of the Creator Himself. This Power, set in motion, is fearsome. This is His Power – and it does not matter who is opposite – a whole army, or… whatever it is! It has no adversaries. God’s Love never had adversaries.

Healing requires a Mighty energetic saturation of Power. The Creator is the Supreme Overlord and Allower of this Power. – He knows who must be sick, who must be healed and who must not be healed. Woe unto the person who heals someone, who must not be healed.

WISDOM

(Third idea for contemplation)

The Native Americans say:

Food has a much more important meaning that this, to simply pass through you. There are spirits in it who keep watch – in the food itself. – This is why there are people who love to eat frequently, because there are also calming spirits. But everything has its measure.

After you have once tried something True, you will never again be satisfied with something else.

The Sacred person loves the Quiet, they wrap it around themselves like a blanket. The Strong Quiet is like the voice of Thunder which discloses to them many Secrets.

If you want to go to the New Land you must make an arrow: and it must be straight, it must be perfect. The arrow – this is yourself.

If you capture the fine words, you have understood many things. Understanding is the sensing of the intangible, of this, which has not been said.

When you possess Spiritual Knowledge you can hear how colours sing, how flowers talk. – In practice, not to some extent – this is given to you.

Pure Spirits speak very Deeply, very Purely and Very clearly, they never leave doubt in the person.

If you connect to a transitory thought (as I said), it can carry you off the path, it can carry you off from life, too.

The Sacred must be present in the ordinary things, as well.

One Shaman says: I love those people who are honourable without laws. I love those people who adhere to the Divine laws without having read them or heard of them. I love those people who honour God without a bible.

Merits are measured by the Pure Loyalty towards God.

What significance do the convictions of the scholar have, once the matter is of God? – What could an educated person say? If they publish 100 books and if they come up with all sorts of terminology, they are not within this system.

The Aymara Indians

I will tell you something about them – a very peculiar tribe. They are the only ones in the world whose future is not ahead of them, but behind them. They believe that the future is backward, behind them. For them the future is something which has not taken place, it is unclear, invisible. For them the past is something in front because it has been lived and because it is ahead of them. It is before their gaze, it can be beheld. Because they behold it, it is in front of them, while the future is unclear – it remains somewhere behind.

They wonder where time is. – Like we spoke last time of Egypt: In the Sacred words there is no time, no createdness. This is another atmosphere, another dimension. –

They wonder where time is, for them it is not important. For them life was never time. For them life is occurrences, lessons, not time. They are not attuned to time, this tribe. They are not attuned to something external but to a wave of events. For them it is events that are important and the Leap within the Spirit. They have no gaze for time, no hearing for it: they see the Spirit and experiences. And their hearing is oriented only towards this: What does the Creator want to say? – So opinions are of no matter at all to them here, especially philosophers, scientists and religious people. They are interested in Wisdom – no opinions whatsoever.

For them the Spirit is the Deep Voice because it comes from the Dawn of Life. They say: We were raised by this Voice. We come from the Dawn.

For them greeting the Dawn means to touch the Wellspring of Life.

By the way, in the Dawn there is something much Deeper than in the sunrise. The sunrise and sunset are something pleasant, but the Dawn is something very Deep, something very Mystical. Exactly then, at the time of Dawn – whoever wants to attain the Mystical Knowledge which is much Deeper than the sunrise – there it is found, in these hours… and one of the Secret Elders, as well.

They say that when this Wellspring touched the world, then the Dawn appeared. – Such is the Origin – the Creator has touched the Dawn.

You cannot paint the Dawn, it is before the world. – Sunrise and sunset you can paint, but in the Dawn, there is something elusive. Like in Egypt, they say of Ahet – Ahet means the horizon – you can see it, but you cannot touch it. Ahet means Elusiveness.

And everything originates from this Great Secret, from the Dawn. This Dawn was the Eternal Path of the Sacred people. This Dawn is the Great Origin of all times: it is before them.

AUM

Translated by Ruah Ezekiel

Buddhism

Bodhidharma, Occult Buddhism, The mind, Symbolic Buddhism, The Buddha…

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BODHIDHARMA

(Lecture 1)

BODHIDHARMA

 (First idea for contemplation)

OCCULT BUDDHISM

(Lecture 2)

THE MIND

(Second idea for contemplation)

SYMBOLIC BUDDHISM

(Lecture 3)

THE BUDDHA STATE

(Third idea for contemplation)

Let us do our protective formula.

BODHIDHARMA

(Lecture 1)

I begin with a Great Master, exceptional, merciless, he belongs to fierce Loyalty: Bodhidharma.

First: Bodhidharma is a Great Warrior and Buddha-Master. A being of Great Clarity, i.e. Pure Sight – no world, no illusions, no other world: Pure, direct sight.

He understood every teaching because he understood himself. – Here starts the understanding of all teachings. I have said: All branches are of the same Tree, all rivers reach to the Sea. – And whoever has not understood themselves, they understand neither their teaching, nor others.

His mind is in the Spirit and not in the mind, i.e. the mind is tied up, mastered, locked: it has become a servant. His mind is Clear, Deep, Void, i.e. Boundless, Mastered, and therefore, he is Spirit and speaks as Spirit – as we will see – and his mind is simply a pure servant, an obedient servant.

He has become Truth from the Inside. This is the approach of the Spirit – there is no mind in It, no world, no createdness, no delusion of any sort. Here the mind is, as I said, a pure instrument. Something more: he has gone beyond all comprehension and incomprehension – he has become The Third Bank of the River. We have spoken of The Third Bank of the River before. He has become Nirvana, the Great Freedom. He does not interpret the occurrences of the world – there are no analyses and delusions here; he penetrates them and surpasses them.

Bodhidharma is an Ancient Spirit, he is the Kingdom of God, this is where he has descended from. The Chinese Sages call him Da Mo, the Japanese Sages – Daruma. A mighty… some of you have seen him: bearded, stern old man with a very Wise and dangerous gaze. His gaze is something like a Sword – The Sword of Truth. He is Absolutely not attached to any world – especially to this long dead world.

He says: I renounced everything and I attained Dao.

This is a being in itself Primordial, in itself The elixir of Life – he is not looking for the Elixir, he has found the Truth within himself. He has led a very Deep life in Dao, i.e. in Dharma, the Great Law, or said another way – The Truth – and not in scriptures, not in quotations, not in arguments. Very simple: when you have become the Truth, all arguments are dead.

He has descended to Earth but he lives with Dao. Such a being you can never approve of or critisise: you can only follow him, and in your own way, because such beings give Freedom. Either you follow him, or you do not follow him.

If you are seeking knowledge you cannot comprehend Bodhidharma. You have but one choice: you must honestly seek Truth – only then will you have a connection to Bodhidharma. With such Truth which is from Dao, hide away all your pitiful knowledge, including pure spiritual knowledge. Listen sincerely, come sincerely and listen carefully, because Bodhidharma has not belonged to this world or the other world since very long ago.

Here, with him, there are no two opinions. As I said, The Third Bank of the River, i.e. it is Depth that is speaking. This is Pure Word from the Abyss. There is no good and evil here, no pitiful philosophy, because – he says: Truth is marvelous! If you are worthy, you will hear It. If you live It, you will understand It.

With this Truth you can have truthful relations and no other kind: there is no meditation here; it is excessive, it is secondary. The question here is: Do you have the right relation with Truth and with Dao? Here meditations also fall away. Here it is important whether you live with the Truth or not… There is no need for faith here, no incense and rituals, as we will see later. Incense is a big tragedy, we will explain later in Symbolic Buddhism – what Buddha said.

If here, on Earth, you understand this Dao, this Truth, you will go to It, and if you argue you will remain in yourself and in your own death, i.e. in your limitations.

If you seek knowledge instead of Truth you are yet far off and in you there are still no conditions for development. Only Dao, i.e. the Truth in you is your Saviour – faith does not save.

I have explained to you before – The Truth is the measure. And this is why the Master says: Be Truthful! –not a believer, not religious, not good. Be Truthful! – I will explain: Faith is only a guiding power, and Love towards Truth – this is already the Way to Salvation. Outside of Truth there is no Salvation – this is the Occult, Deep Buddhism: it is based on Truth, it excludes faith. I have met numerous people with faith: and they live in ignorance. Faith does not help. You must have entered into Love, and Love must have allowed you to seek Wisdom and Truth. This Deep Buddhism (later we will speak of it) – no rituals help here. No charity: charity never saves people. In time, when I speak to you of Islam, you will see that this charity of the world can be punished – it is distant from Truth.

BODHIDHARMA

 (First idea for contemplation)

Bodhidharma says: Good deeds are illusory ghosts. – I will repeat, because these are the Deep Truths: Good deeds are illusory ghosts. – The Sage is saved with or without deeds. If a foolish person helps people a lot – the Sage does not help. The fool continues to perish and die in many incarnations. – The Sage has outgrown the deeds. If the Sage does… If they bring you sorrow, this is something very nice; if the fool brings you happiness, this is something very bad.

Here is the Kingdom of the Pure Spirits; from here, many degrees up begin. Here Bodhidharma guides you towards Dao, he corners you: you either choose Truth, or delusions…

Bodhidharma is Depth – and many Buddhist scholars were perturbed because he is odd. Very simple: Truth is never scientific, as many expect – it never was scientific. Bodhidharma has sliced both science and religion to pieces. Truth – this is what he upholds, there he sees Perfection. Here science and religion have no access. Here only Divine Beings enter: not scientific, not religious, not some other… Divine Beings only. Here the lowest level, in this world – the world of Truth – the lowest level is Purity. Here is the Kingdom of the Pure Spirits; from here many degrees up begin. Here Bodhidharma guides you towards Dao, he corners you: you either choose Truth, or delusions…

But let me explain. The Truth – this is the Way of huge, raw discipline, self-discipline. You create it for yourself, you choose it. You do not wait for someone to impose it upon you – you begin to shape it yourself.

Bodhidharma does not speak – he resounds. And his Quiet is also sometimes resounding and cutting because of the big Depth. You have heard people say that silence is gold – it is not so. Fish are silent, too – says the Master – but they are no Sages. The fool, even if they remain quiet their whole life, their silence is noisy. We are speaking here of an entirely different type of Quiet – Bodhidharma has attained the Truth and It has allowed him to enter into the Supreme Truth. There is no silence there, even. If I must… I shall explain another time.

Bodhidharma – of him they say, like of Lao Tzu: As if a Dragon. He is a Diamond in the rough.

He says: Either the Truth, or remain in karma and in the world.

He admits that Buddha was his Master, but he himself is such fierce Loyalty that many have said that Buddha himself marveled at him – such Loyalty, such a rare diamond.

Bodhidharma is self-created, a rock, indestructible – Truth in body. He evinces a Mighty and Pure Speechlessness… unless he disturbs you.

He moves as a Storm: he comes to shake you. There is no quiet knocking on the Heart, like Christ – Bodhidharma does not knock on the door of the Heart. He differs from Buddha and from Christ both – he is a Living Sword. Of course, Softness is a Sword as well, but Bodhidharma is something else: he comes Mightily, as a whirlwind. Sometimes in life God comes in the same way. God Himself comes as sharpness and as softness. Truth itself has within It huge sharpness so that nothing impure can enter inside It.

When the Emperor of China saw him – there had to be a meeting – when he saw him he was immediately disturbed. – As a whole, everything impure, everything of the mind is immediately disturbed, regardless of whether there are reasons or not. The quality of the mind is disturbance and worry. – Bodhidharma had one shoe on his head and the other one – on his foot. An Approach: if you accept him like this, he will reveal to you Deep things… A drop of criticism and you are already far: far in your delusions, far away from Truth. He wanted to tell the Emperor: Are you looking at me externally? – the approach was such. – “Do you accept me as I am? Because God has accepted me as I am. How do you accept me?”. Absurd – he is absurd, illogical – such is Truth. Life itself has no logic, it is above logic – such is Truth.

And says Bodhidharma: Because I have come in order to destroy the world within you, to destroy the mind, time, creation.

Bodhidharma is a peculiar world, but very Pure if you study him in the right way, and very veiled. The tiniest criticism, and you can no longer understand him – you have missed it.

And the Master says: If you diverge with only a hundred millionth part from the norm, you can no longer understand me. – here the matter is of an even deeper measure.

OCCULT BUDDHISM

(Lecture 2)

All the practices you do are in your mind – and these are never True practices. – I will repeat: Whatever you practice, all the practices you do are in your mind. These are never True practices. – What is the main practice of the world, which people deviated from? Mastering the mind. This is the most important practice in the world: control. This means: control over thoughts, feelings, deeds and secret inner deeds. This is the Supreme practice.

This means also mastering the Word, because the Word is God. One slipped word (I will repeat, as before) – you can lose 20 years from your development, you can lose 20 000 years… Control! Bodhidharma observes this, he emphasises here. There is no Brotherhood here, no wheat diet*, no colour rays of light**.

*Translator’s note: Known as “Wheat regimen”- a wheat diet combined with spiritual practices given by the Master Peter Deunov to His then disciples over 100 years ago.

**Translator’s note: “The Testament of the Colour Rays of Light” – A collection of specially arranged Bible verses given by the Master Peter Deunov to His disciples in 1912.

The Master Himself told me that these things are obsolete, but for some people – they simply must do something. They wanted me to present a lecture on the colour rays of light, I said: There will be no such lecture. Because I have understood from the Master: On a Deep level Truth has no colours. These are limitations. Focus on Truth! Otherwise you can occupy yourself with many other lateral things: growing einkorn wheat etc – it will help with nothing. Not long ago in the interview on vegetarianism, there I said on the conference: Nothing can replace Love towards God: no vegetarianism, no pure eating… No pure eating! Something else is required because the times are intense! So.

Those who understand the Truth, they overcome evil because they only perceive Dao and the Truth: then their Truth swallows evil.

The most important practice is this. Everything else is only exercise, not practices. Breathing: breathe as much as you want – this is not a practice. If you have mastered your mind you are already No-mind, you are walking towards the Spirit, you are already Pure; then all other practices become Pure. So after this practice, afterwards – practice whatever you want, sense is already brought into it, and if you have the right attitude it will be in its proper place – otherwise you are playing mind games and exercises.

Those who do not understand Dao, the Truth – they swallow evil, i.e. they perceive evil. Evil will be imposed upon them. Those who understand the Truth, they overcome evil because they only perceive Dao and the Truth: then their Truth swallows evil.

The ones who do not understand seek the known; the ones who do understand seek the Unknown, and in this way they feed on Dao and the Truth.

The matter of mastering the mind is Sublime: a Sublime, Essential practice because only from here on, you embark towards Self-knowledge and Dao – this is the Great, Substantial matter. All other practices are games of an exceptionally cunning mind. Centuries and thousands of years of rituals, incense, ritual sacrifices – instead of sacrificing yourself… The Master says: You slaughter the sheep and you say “No problem” when the knife passes through its throat, but when the knife passes through your throat you say “Wait a minute, not so”.

This mind loves everything which is without Spirit and without Soul. It loves to do whatever, just so that the person may die and the mind can trick them. This mind – this is no philosophical matter (to solve), it is not for priests, not for scientists, because they are all in the mind themselves. The mind means the world and humanity, the fallen Adam. They are all in the mind and they cannot get out of it. This matter is Deeply occult and Essential, a Deeply Internal matter. Only Sages and Greatly Devoted ones master the mind and become Pure Spirits and Souls – Released Essences. Or, as the Atlanteans call it, they become Free Wind. Clever ones can talk of the mind for thousands of years – and not solve the Secret of the mind. The mind proves to be deeper than them and they are left enclosed within it.

What is the mind? The Master says: the snake of olden times, Satan. It is not easy to outgrow it – this is a Cherub. He wields such subtleties, that people have no notion. You can only overcome it through fierce Loyalty towards God – and in one moment, God will allow you to understand it. The Master says: What is the mind? Something very clever and well-played: an old, wise Cherub, a very experienced spirit – you can never overcome it easily, unless through fierce Loyalty towards God and a special and distinct attitude towards Truth. A half-attitude towards Truth does not help.

The Emperor asks Bodhidharma:

-I have done many good deeds, I have built temples, I have given food to many monks, money for translations of sacred books, etc.

Bodhidharma says:

-Let us examine this enormous ignorance…

Bodhidharma simply looked at him, disturbed him again and said to him:

-But how can you do these deeds? You have no Dharma, you do not have Truth within yourself. What deeds can you even do, as a whole?

Bodhidharma was laughing unrestrained. The Emperor was perturbed because he had a big entourage, right – he thought there will be a king’s reception, a friendly conversation. Bodhidharma is mercilessly honest. He directly says to the Emperor:

-You are truly a fool. You have not built anything, until you have built the Truth in yourself. You do not have Dao within you.

The Emperor was sweating and he asked:

-So then, is there anything holy or not?

Bodhidharma tells him:

-There is nothing holy and unholy, there is only Truth and Boundlessness!

Again, another blow against the ones who do not understand. I have explained, holiness is also a sin. Saints are to be pitied – sometime I will especially present that matter. And you will truly understand it, because this matter is explained through Divine logic and not through human things, in human ways. So!

–Holiness and unholiness are mind games, just like good and evil. You truly are a real fool!

The Emperor was just stunned. If he could run away, he would, but he had never heard such direct Word. He had never met such a Master in his life. Bodhidharma is a fragrance from this Great Truth – but if you are not ready for this Truth then it is torture for you. Bodhidharma is Truth in action, Spirit in action. He has gone beyond the mind and all its numerous many thousands of games a long time ago.

The Emperor asks him:

-Who am I speaking with?

Bodhidharma says:

-I do not know.

I will explain. Because Bodhidharma comes from the Unknown, he says “I do not know”. He does not come from the known. All Wise Masters from Anciency, who know God, know Him exactly as the Unknown One – this is why this answer is very precise.

THE MIND

(Second idea for contemplation)

What Bodhidharma tells us of the mind:

When the mind lives in illusions – this is simply hell. – Some seek hell… The world has been hell for a very long time, the pit is something deeper – there, underground, with the demons.

Worldly minds constantly cause illusions. – This is a way of life, a way of thinking. In this way they naturally live in hell, regardless of whether they are in this world or the other one: hell continues. Because they are always… they remain in the impure mind – this is hell itself, you need not look for another hell. As Al Hallaj says: If you possess worldly thinking you do not need another failure – this is enough.

The mind has two manifestations – says Bodhidharma – pure and impure. – The impure, the worldly, the ordinary mind – this is simply madness. All kinds of desires, conflict, nonsense: today you are agitated, tomorrow you are sad, then you are joyful, pessimistic, optimistic, desperate and confused – the mind is the master of illusions, the impure mind – an exceptional master, a sculptor of delusions. Endless mind games… Here everything is the opposite of the Primary State, the Buddha State, of which we will speak later.

This is also called the No-Mind, i.e. your True nature, and whether you call it Spirit, Buddha, Christ – this is of no matter. This is all One… It is all Dao, this is the Primordial State.

The other mind, the Pure mind, the mastered mind –there is Immutability here, there is Reality, Liberation, Essence. Here the mind does not create any world because it does not create illusions: it is conquered. Here the mind is transformed: it has become Pure Consciousness, with no impurities. This is also called the No-Mind, i.e. your True nature, and whether you call it Spirit, Buddha, Christ – this is of no matter. This is all One… It is all Dao, this is the Primordial State.

And so: with their earthly mind the earthly people create more and more world for themselves, more illusions – building endless illusions, endless castles in the air. This is an old, dead game from thousands and millions of years and it renews with every incarnation. The impure mind walks from one hell into another. That, which is impure will never receive Peace: it has no such nature, Peace cannot be given to it. If you are silent, but you have not mastered the mind then your silence is also poor and vain. It is the unmastered mind that creates karma and reincarnates with its karma. The mortal ones create karma and they wrongly think that there is no retribution – but can they deny suffering? Because it will always chase them. You sow and you reap. How can you avoid this? You cannot. If you are sowing, you cannot. All those, who have fallen into their impure mind are dependent on their own karma. They are mortal and they pass through countless sorrows because they have darkened their own Essence.

The root of ignorance is the impure mind and from here countless evils originate. They sprout like leaves and branches – from the tree. Mortal people who do not understand the Truthful Practice and do good deeds – in their next deeds they will be blind, i.e. they are in blind karma. They do good but the mind remains impure and ignorant, i.e. nothing changes. Under a special type of pressure from God these people become monsters. They are otherwise polite, seem nice, right – and quiet – all of a sudden they turn out to be murderers and whatever else. If evil attacks these blindly good people their impure mind is seen immediately, but it was always inside them and in their blind good. Liberation from the mind is a big purification and mastering because heavy, painful reincarnations always await the impure mind.

SYMBOLIC BUDDHISM

(Lecture 3)

A disciple asks Bodhidharma:

-Buddha has allowed lighting incense?

Bodhidharma says to him:

-This has nothing to do with the material incense. This means To ignite the Truth within yourself. Because only in this way will you burn the evil inside you and your big impurity. And with the external lighting of incense you remain in ignorance.

So Bodhidharma tells him:

-Light the Truth within yourself, and the other incense – tie it up, it is false practice.

But people to this day still do not understand the Wisdom of Buddha, even today they interpret it literally. They use an external flame and pray for future blessing which they will never attain.

It is the same nonsense with flower offerings. Here the matter is, according to Bodhidharma: Are you offering virtues? – Because according to Buddha these True Virtues never wilt, but they blossom eternally – and only through these True Virtues do you truly receive many blessings, not because you want them, but because you are Pure. And if you think of hurting flowers – this is another type of ignorance, another impurity of the mind. Buddha never harms the forms of life, not even by mistake. Buddha has said: “If you pick a flower, even by mistake, suffering awaits you.” – Even by mistake. “How can you await a blessing – says Bodhidharma – when you have brought sorrow to the flowers?” The Master says the same: “When you pick a flower, it will wilt – in time you will also resemble a wilted flower.” Nothing more! When you pick a flower you have done a violation. This is the impure mind – and Bodhidharma says: You are in karma. – This is enough. One flower and you are already in karma.

Another matter, Buddha said: Ignite your lanterns. Buddha wanted to say, explains Bodhidharma: Acquire the True Knowledge, the Sublimely Pure Knowledge, because only it enlightens the Way. The light of the external lantern will never bring you Freedom. This is one elementary, simple lantern. Ignite within yourself the Power of Wisdom – this is a Flame, and the other, external one is only smoke, fume and illusion. With the external lantern for millions of years you are unable to disperse the darkness of karma, for millions of years you are unable to disperse the darkness in the consciousnesses of the impure minds. The external remains transitory… Whoever has become Buddha, they can light the lantern, the consciousness of others… They can pass the Truth on to others – and this is Dharma, the Great Law. In this way others become lanterns – and in their turn can ignite other consciousnesses. Buddha has ignited millions of people and there is no need for baptism at all here, because this is another form of ignorance. Simply – Life within Truth. In this way all the Light is transmitted.

Buddha has also said: Build monasteries! Bodhidharma explains: This was also misunderstood.  – But in the impure minds everything is murky. And Bodhidharma explains: Monastery means to build your own, personal discipline. This is the idea of the monastery. This means that if you have such discipline you do not need an external monastery – you are already in the monastery, you are already in Truth. If you do not have discipline, in the monastery you are not in the monastery. But all these impure minds roam some monasteries and wander in vanity. This is why Priest Bogomil said, time ago, of churches: Clever foxes (of the monks) – they hid away in the monasteries, they ran from the world but they understood nothing.

The idea of fasting: this means an exceptional decisiveness to pursue Purity. This is guarding your mind from any pollution – this is fasting. Otherwise you may fast as much as you want to – not a problem, but it will not solve anything. So: You must guard your mind against any pollution! If you do not purify yourself, fasting is false – you remain again in the impure mind, in the fall. If you feed on delusions what sort of fasting will help you? Fasting cannot help for delusions, for delusions there is no blessing.

Bows have also remained misunderstood – because what deserves bowing is only the Pure actions of the person. The rest is some fitness programme, some exercise: one thousand bows, three thousand bows – a tragedy. “Whoever understands Pure actions – says Bodhidharma – they follow the Truth”. And bows are from the fallen minds. To bow means reverence and humility towards Truth – this is bowing. External bows always speak of ignorance of the mind: these bows are poses in the world. Of course, a person with deep respect and reverence, this is another matter, but they instill Heart there, i.e. there is no mind. Wherever the Pure Heart acts, there the mind cannot act. This vain thinking means heavier and heavier reincarnations. Only discernment frees the person from evil deeds. The more you master yourself, the more you purify yourself.

And says Bodhidharma: Must you look for meaning? – Again a Deep answer: No. While you are looking for meaning you will find nothing. – This is philosophical delusions of a different kind. But while you are purifying yourself, you yourself will become sense itself more and more because sense is your Buddha nature. It starts from Purity upwards. There are about six degrees, but Purity is the lowest degree of the Spiritual world, this is where you start. This is the meaning – purification, your Buddha nature. People foolishly occupy themselves with building temples and statues but they are not able to ascend into their Buddha nature, in their own Truth, in their own Essence.

THE BUDDHA STATE

(Third idea for contemplation)

Some people look for origin. Bodhidharma says: Truth has no origin. – The Absolute never had an origin. It created other things, they originated from it: Gods etc, they have an origin. The Absolute, the Sublime Truth, never had an origin. It has always been. Truth has no origin: It has always been, it always will be. And what has an origin, it has descended in order to learn that there is no origin: there is only Dao, there is only Boundlessness – Sublime Truth. Beings of Dao, of the Truth, descend among people in order to explain what No-Origin and Buddha nature is.

The Buddha State is the Primordial State, the State of No-Origin. It is before any origin. There is no seeking Dao here, there is no seeking God here even: there is only disappearance, or as Sufis call it: Fana – dissolving into God – you become a Primordial Being. You still have independence, your Higher Self, but of a completely different kind, i.e. now God in you is your Higher Self, and not your self, which is on a lower level. I am speaking of your Supreme Self – it is on a high level. Here we are speaking of the instilling of God, which is much more than the Higher self and this is why Christ says “Into Your hands I commend my Spirit”. Yes, there is the Truth – in God. So there is only disappearance, as I said, and dissolving.

Dao is bottomless and nameless. Origin has an end. Dao has no bottom, no origin – not a beginning, not an end. Dao is boundless, free and independent. The Truth within you is Deeper than any miracle and It surpasses the whole history of the world.

I have explained: the word history means a fall. We are before history, as Spirits, way before it. This is precisely why the Atlanteans erase their biography, erase themselves – because they return, they wish to return into Truth and not in some world. They give up on names because one person has hundreds and thousands of names in all their incarnations. In the end, which one is their name? Who are their parents? Which is their country? Only one: the Boundlessness – this is their country, this is their Homeland. This is where millions of Atlanteans have returned to, millions of Sufis, etc.

There is no seeking Dao here, there is no seeking God here even: there is only disappearance, or as Sufis call it: Fana – dissolving into God – you become a Primordial Being.

Through the Truth you are in the Buddha State, in Dao, and there is no bigger miracle than this. A miracle is a poor event compared to the person of Truth. Your totally purified mind is your Buddha nature. This means that this entirely purified mind is your liberation. Here you are not waiting for “Judgment day”, you are not even waiting for Resurrection. You are within yourself, free. If you have the Truth and live in It you need no other salvation. This free mind, this is the Way itself, the True Way, and this is why they say: What is Tathagata (i.e. Buddha, the Buddha-Essence)? The one Who comes from nowhere and is going nowhere – they are always within Themselves. They are themselves – this is the Ancient, Primordial Buddha State. In the bible this is called, and spoken as: “I am Who I am”.

What is Buddha? The One Who has reached Dharma, the Great Completeness, the Truth. What is Dharma, or the Truth? That which has never originated and it never ends. This is why It is called Dharma or The Greatest Law, The Law of the Universe and The Law beyond the Universe. All those who do not comply with it will always reincarnate in heavy karma – regardless of whether they believe in karma and retribution: this is of no matter.

The Mind of Buddha – this is the No-Mind, i.e. the Pure Spirit, the Primordial: in this way He has entered into the Boundlessness. Even while He was on Earth, He was in the Boundlessness. He comes with the Boundlessness in Himself, He lives in the Boundless like Lao Tzu and He returns to the Boundless. He was not in the present because He is deeper than the present: He was in the Boundlessness. Because if you are in the present but you are not in Truth, you are far from Dao.

Whoever practices the Truth, they do not act deeds: they act Purity, they act Voidness – this is the Sublime Practice. Said another way: Whoever practices God, they do not need any other practices – absolutely no other practices.

The Buddha State – this is the Absolutely Pure Consciousness which does not allow even the smallest evil to arise in itself. And the Master says it: If you have even microscopic evil inside you, you are already in death. – this evil may become big. Here (in the Buddha State) the person is awakened both within and without.

The Buddha State is the state of Striking Awareness. Bodhidharma says: I follow the One Who has never been born, Who has never walked the earth, Who has never spoken through words – but through presence… – he follows Him, the Truthful Buddha – …and everything else which you call “history” is nothing more than a dream, dreamt by the people asleep. – The ones who have not seen Dao, i.e. the Truth, in themselves, are meditating in vain. (I am not saying to not meditate – let them meditate, but reduce meditation to a few minutes and devote themselves to Truth because in time meditation will outsmart them – it will turn out so that it will not help them).

The Buddha State – this is the Primordial Human, the Pure Spirit. Whether it is in a body or without one – this is Spirit. If Buddha had said… if some worldly people had asked Him “Do you believe in spirits?”, he would have said: Here I am, in front of you! – but the earthly person cannot see anything. So this is Pure Spirit, the Primordial Spirit. It resembles a void space, it resembles the Boundlessness – and this is why people wonder at such a person: are they here, are they not. It is so. They are both here and they are not.

Buddha says: Because people are deluded by their mind, their actions are endless reincarnations. – No faith can save the delusional person, i.e. the impure mind. Their faith only helps them enter into new, even heavier reincarnations. The Buddha State, i.e. the Deeply mastered mind – this is the Primordial Spirit. Even in Anciency it was not in Purity. Purity is a much lower level. Of course, then it descends into Purity to do something, but it is much deeper than Purity.  But it was – such Spirit – it always has been within the Truth, within the Great Law. It has lived in the Great Spirit, in Brahman, in God.

AUM

Translated by Ruah Ezekiel

Lectures

Martial Arts, Aikido, Softness, Zen – 2.6.2015

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02.06.2015

MARTIAL ARTS

(Lecture 1)

MARTIAL ARTS

(First idea for contemplation)

AIKIDO

(Lecture 2)

SOFTNESS

(Second idea for contemplation)

ZEN

(Lecture 3)

ZEN

(Third idea for contemplation)

Let us do our protective formula.

MARTIAL ARTS

(Lecture 1)

The True martial art is resolving the primary question: Returning into the Primordial Life. Whoever has achieved the Essence, they do not manifest: they are in the Way and have success in everything. They live like everyone else but have nothing in common with them. Such a person lives in Pure Joy – they do not even have a choice. They live in Pure Joy and within it there is no gain and loss. Such a Sage is something Truthful – and when you see them, you have complete Trust in them. They create relations of silent Trust.

The person of Trust is a Master of life. You may have faith, but still not have this total Trust. They apply their power in an absolutely nonviolent way. In Daoism this is called The Great Way. No violence! They only share – and others listen to them; they never impose. This is The Great Way. The Great Way means Completeness coming into realisation.

Today, as a whole, martial arts are rules and methods – and lack of knowledge of the Essence. The Essence is not there, Wisdom is not there, because Truth is lost. There are rules for health: techniques, methods etc.

In time we will talk about another special martial art: Wing Chun. It is something very special, beyond arts. It is such an art that it does not need martial arts – but they have turned it into techniques and methods, too. But it started from a nun who had the ability to secretly observe life. She saw the Secret energy of spring; and she saw that when spring comes, winter energy has no resistance: it has nothing to show in return. And she… We will talk about her in time, because within her is the martial art and later it was distorted as well.

This Essence, this wondrous Completeness remains yet unresolved – it is a secret even to many martial arts teachers. This Completeness does not belong to techniques and created things, nor to the created world.

People who look for some sort of gain in martial arts – they are lamentable people, they never achieve Completeness and Unity.

The True Warrior knows that everything is in its right place, but everything that is human has wandered off the Right Path.

Completeness is a Great Virtue – without any evil.

The Supreme martial art is hidden in Pure moral traits. The True Warrior does not let some mere pleasures, gains and profits capture them and divert them from the Great Way.

The Samurai say: One who is successful in good times, bears misfortune in difficult times – this means in Truthful times.

The most secure support of a person is their own Virtues. High Virtues are the strongest internal fist.

When you have an aim in your life, you are no longer without protection.

The martial art is important because of Purposefulness, because of mastering yourself and because of the Way of discipline. If this discipline reaches all the way to the end, a Pure energy and Power is achieved – this is the Goal. Then all techniques fall behind–Pure Spirit fights.

“To master” means to put your internal powers in order.

The partner is never an adversary. They allow us to work on ourselves. They are never a foe, an enemy.

Life does not forgive carelessness.

It is considered that fear is also a saviour – but if you understand it. Fear shows that you have to find your internal Way towards Yourself – and there exactly is the Goal. The Goal is achieving Truth through experiences. Of course, after one peculiar experience you will again be looking for the Truth, but now in a different way. You will have something given by Truth – and this is Completeness.

It is important to understand that if you have searched for Truth in the right way, you will be transformed: you will be Initiated, you will be Truthful. The Truth is within, in the forbidden Depths – and one has to originate from these Depths.

Every martial art is only a means – and in this intent the Mastery is concealed: it is a means and intent. And in this intent – if the intent is Pure! – you will find the Mastery. If it is not Pure, you will train and train.

What you have to remove from yourself is the unclear thinking.

The Good Warrior is never combative – this is a sign, a diagnosis. The Good Warrior is never angry. They do not have this ability, to be angered.

MARTIAL ARTS

Continued

(First idea for contemplation)

Qi energy has to turn into Shen, i.e. energy has to turn into Spirit.

When energy hardened, it became matter. The Goal, though, is Completeness. And Completeness – this is the Eternally Enlightened Life. And this is why the Masters say: Deliver a blow to your flaws, make them lose individuality – this is the Way of the True martial art.

The Art of the Warrior is a peculiar attitude towards the Void, towards the Boundlessness. In this Pure thinking something Superb and Great moves. This is what handles all enemies, all obstacles – no exceptions. It handles everything, but follows its own laws.

The Void, or the Boundlessness – this is something more alive than all forms, because all forms originated from It; and whoever knows It is filled with Love for all things existing.

Fighting – against anything – is a sickness. The fighting itself! I have said: life is not a fight; life is not questions and answers. Life is Depth, but you have to enter into that Depth.

The way you express yourself is also a type of martial art. It is also a Path that leads you towards Truth – or, if you do not express yourself in the right way, leads you away from Truth.

The True martial art is defined by the Secret appearance of your behaviour.

The Secret of martial arts is concealed deep within the treasure of the Pure Heart. Within the Pure Heart the Secret tradition is locked. For example Morihei, later we will talk about him – he is simply an old disciple of the White Brotherhood who also descended to show these things.

The right striving increases the Inner Sight.

The Master is a Supreme Sage, but among ordinary people they live like a buried Sage: they conceal themselves.

A Sage teaches not knowledge, but the Truthful, Enlightened Life.

It is all in the qualities of the Inner energy.

The Pure Wisdom in martial arts is never mental: it is a purely Spiritual Approach.

On the oppposite side there is a Master Spirit gazing upon you, not a person.

The Spirit is an escape from the enchanted circle of createdness. This is why the martial art has to free you from the mind, or from the big enslavement. And this is why the Way is such: Find within you the Essence – this is overcoming the mind.

Pure energy is beyond the world and beyond Creation. It can enter the world, but it is outside of it.

I am remembering something here. For example, if someone is sick, what is the sign that they are to be cured? It depends on what energy is directed towards them: if it is human – there will be no real healing; if it is Divine energy, then it already does not matter what doctors and specialists say. I will say this in a different way: if a person is sick but they have a tremendous desire to live – then even modern medicine cannot stop them; if they are in complete desperation, then even God cannot help them – God has concealed Himself. So: it depends on this tremendous desire and, of course, on choosing the Path of purification. Upon this depends what energy will be directed – whether it will be healing. Otherwise no money is going to help, no medicine, no doctors.

The Pure energy is that energy, which turns into Spirit. An enormous thirst for purification is needed so that you reach Self-knowledge – the Living Reality. It is exactly here that Completeness is born. It has been searching and waiting for you for a long time. It has waited for the Truth within the person – this Truth – in order to ripen. And then Completeness appears, it forms from the inside: it is there, but it forms specifically now. Completeness cannot be explained to the external, to the created beings.

AIKIDO

(Lecture 2)

Morihei – the main Master, as I said, is a disciple of the White Brotherhood. At the same time he is a great Master and a Being with Great striving, an extraordinary striving. This is a Being with Deep Spirituality and big diligence. He got up early at 5 AM, he greeted the Sun and he prayed constantly.

He says: My altar is the Divine. I believe in the total Unity with the Divine.

Upon one meeting with God he became a changed man. Truly, when you seek Him for long in the right way, upon a meeting you become a completely changed person.

And so, he gained the Pure Secret, the Pure and Concealed Intuition. Not some hunches, not some half-feelings, but the Concealed accurate Intuition – because the Intuition is never wrong. Hunches are wrong – the Intuition is never wrong. He could see his enemies internally – this is how he became a great and undefeatable Master.

He says: The Right Way to know the Great Spirit is to become One with It.

Morihei appeared as a man, but he was Spirit in action. He has achieved the most Supreme level of Pure energy. He possessed  inhuman strength and despite that – very fragile health. Odd combination, but it was so.

A Great Master with great Humility – and he says: I am but a mere guidepost, and you learn for yourself.

When his end was near, he said: God is calling me. Some of his last words were: Love is for all the world.

The power of Morihei was in the so called Kuki Shinito – this is not explained, but it approximately means Secret exercises: they are never shown on display. Approximately the following can be said: fasting, prayers, purification, a deep realisation of all techniques and an attainment of Secret exercises without them being expressed. There are such Secret mudras – they will never enter the books.

God, God’s Love, has no opponents – there is no effort, it defeats without effort.

And so: Aikido.

Aikido is non-resistance, because whoever resists, always wins – and this is also a defeat. Morihei says: This non-resistance, this non-attacking is acknowledged as the most difficult in the world, but it is the most conquering.

I can say this in a different way: God, God’s Love, has no opponents – there is no effort, it defeats without effort. No one can defeat it. There is no need for God to make even the slightest gesture. God simply has no opponents, because He is a total lack of attack, a non-resisting – but in the Purest and Supreme way.

Aikido is a difficult Art. It is an inner thing: this is Zen in motion, i.e. Pure Spirit in motion. There is no mind, ho arms, no body.

In Aikido the calm consciousness is the Eternal place of victory. This means: this is a Pure consciousness which can be defeated by nothing – it does not depend on losses and victories.

Aikido is the martial art of Love. It is a manifestation of the Creator of the Universe, but He has to have allowed you to enter into Him and to know Him – then this martial art becomes Supreme Mastery. He has to have allowed you to merge with Him. Said in a different way: only a great Purity accomplishes Eternal meditation.

The expression of an aikido ka must be Love: not aggression, not attack, but Love – from there every victory starts.

The person of Love has not physical strength, but strength of energy – Spiritual strength. Aikido is the Way of energy through Love.

The Truth about Aikido is not in argument, not in the fight, but in Love – because Love resolves the Essential things.

The person of Love always has a Secret within them.

And Morihei says: Do not look for the differences, but understand what is mutual.

To purify yourself – this is the Way.

There is an old saying: The God of martial arts never kills.

The meaning in Aikido is Pure Spiritual Travel.

People with impure intentions and malicious thoughts – they are defeated beforehand. It does not matter how they train: they are defeated beforehand. They have started with a wrong move. They are defeated – for the simple reason that they are outside of Love.

The Essence of God is Love – and everyone who is within Love, is led by God.

And Morihei says: Attack resistance with Love.

SOFTNESS

Continued

(Second idea for contemplation)

The second idea from Aikido is Softness. You have heard that Lao Tzu says: Softness defeats the hard. Water defeats the rock. As much as the rock resists, the persevering drop penetrates it. This means that the drop is harder: within itself it has something from the True Ancient Warrior – it is Penetration.

When I perform Aikido – says Morihei, – I forget myself.

Radiating Love and Softness is the victory over any situation.

Aikido is a Teaching not of how to defeat someone, but of how to overpower yourself, how to overcome yourself.

This is why our last book, one of the best books we have published, is about the so called Divine Teaching about overcoming the dark side within you*. A collected, concentrated book from about 90 books of the Master – one of the best things, by the way…

*Translator’s note: The exact title of the published book is “The Divine Teaching of the Dark side we must enlighten”

Softness is a door of the Supreme world. It is a Guardian, and a Guard, and at the same time it is also Strictness. Softness is a thing of the Boundlessness. Softness is a Spiritual Power which has conquered the mind – it is not mental power. Hardness is a power of the mind – Softness is a Spiritual Power. The person of softness knows when to be soft and when to be strict – meaning when to defend the Principles of Truth. A mental person does not know.

In Softness a very strict Truth is working. In Softness, there flows a Supreme, Spiritual neutralising power. This Softness is something deeper than any practice. It is an art, and practices are only training.

Softness is at the same time strict and very gentle. Aikido is not a fight, it is not a victory – it is Softness.

Non-resistance – this leads to mastering yourself, and this is where the True Warrior is traveling towards: they are a Master of themselves. 

Here I will say this, just by the way: Whoever desires to rule over others, they will be ruled over by dark forces. Whoever rules over themselves, in time God will become their Master. But whoever wants to rule over others, they will find their own master – said in another way.

Aikido is not a fight, it is not a victory – it is Softness.

The one who has mastered themselves has a Supreme Power working within them, which turns into the Real Warrior, the so called True Warrior.

In Aikido there is no rivalry: everything is victory over one’s self.

Aikido is the art of pacifying everything, and Softness is a peculiar kind of Strictness – like Evil is a peculiar kind of Good.

Softness is Primordial, while aggression is created and it is something external. Aggression is secondary: it is a failed consciousness, it is something like a black hole – Softness is Primordial. Aggression has a beginning, Softness has no beginning.

And the Master says: Softness is a Great quality.

The one who is soft can influence even the hardest and harshest person, even the angriest person.

Softness is a peculiar type of mighty weapon.

And the Master says: Softness is strength of character. Without Softness life is heavy.

There is a softness though – says the Master – of mud. In this softness a person perishes – this is the misunderstood softness.

Softness is set in motion by, according to the Master, two qualities: Graciousness  and Reasonableness.

The True Warrior is something internal. Essence is what is fighting within them, and not them. Essence is the sharpest Sword – this means Pure Spirit.

Aikido is before all else, a Way of life. And here exactly Love acts – and Love, according to the Master, this is God in action. Within Love God has provided our protection – but this is Love as a Principle. Not human love, not the warped love – but Love as a Principle.

And the Master says: There is only one security – this is God within the person.

ZEN

(Lecture 3)

Zen is the natural, Primordial Nature. Zen is a Belief in our Primordial Superb Nature. As you know, the Church says that in the past we were all innately sinful. This is completely wrong. Zen says that we were all innately immaculate – we just have to go back. And if we come from that point of view, we will strive to act as impeccably as possible.

Zen is the Ancient form of our life – this is what Zen means.

Zen says: Where is the answer of life? The answer is within your Absolute sense of Peace.

If you have reached the point where you have nothing to ask God – you have achieved Zen. If you have even the smallest question, microscopic – you will wait: Zen has not yet come.

Zen – this is simply an Awakeness and Lightness. Here the Awakened one lives naturally within their Eternity. They do not seek it – they live it.

Imagine that to such a person of Zen, goes someone from the Church (it has happened) to preach to them. Not only is it futile… It is just stupid to not be able to feel… Like when they asked the Master – one evangelist: Do you know the Gospel? – No, I live it – what is there to know about! – There is no need for knowledge at all…

One man went to a Zen Master to convert him to the faith and the Master said: Who is your Master? – Christ. – What does Christ say? -Well, so and so… -Enough! He thinks like me. – That’s it! No need for more conversations, no need for any excess words.

According to Zen all that is Pure must be respected, and the impure must simply be purified.

Zen naturally lives in the Golden Age. It does not wait for it, but it lives in the Golden Age, i.e. within Truthfulness – this is the Golden Age. In a different way, if I have to say this: Truthfulness – i.e. in the Timeless, in the Eternal, in the Boundless; and others search for it and call it “Promised land”… well for some it is still only promised.

In this Zen Awakening – there is the only real education. Because the Awakened one acts according to the laws of Truth and to the laws of Peace.

For the awakened ones, Zen – this is the meaning of life. The Way of Zen is the Self-awakening of the own Truthfulness, the own Essence – which means that Zen does not make this mistake of waiting for a Saviour, because it will be too late. You have to save yourself – otherwise you will be waiting for a very long time. If the Second Coming comes or the Third Coming – you will regret.

Zen is very direct. Its nature is the nature of God: very simple, very honest – so simple, you may not understand what it wants to say to you.

Zen acts like the Truth.

Zen – this is the method that leads to Self-knowledge.

Zen is very direct. Its nature is the nature of God: very simple, very honest – so simple, you may not understand what it wants to say to you.

Zen is the same as selling water by the wellspring – an easy task! I want to say: Zen is very clear and very elusive. It is both clear and concealed.

And so, The Wisdom of Zen:

The most important thing – according to Zen – is to figure out what the most important thing is.

When you are deluded and full of doubt even a thousand books of sacred scriptures are not enough. A thousand books of sacred scriptures are not enough when you are impure and deluded. When you have achieved an understanding of things, even one word – not writings – even a single word is too much. See how Zen talks: one word, one hint, one unspoken silence – and that is already too much.

Not knowing how close Truth is, people are looking for it far away. Zen says: What a pity.

A disciple said to his Master: I am very discouraged, in total desperation! He said: Encourage others – and you will be encouraged.

The seekers of Truth find the Quiet of the Way, the Quiet of their own Eternal Path.

The enemy, according to Zen – this is ourselves, not the world surrounding us.

Our fulfilled wishes do not give us security, they do not give us this Simplicity which is Primordial and is also Clarity.

Complicatedness is a false state of being. A person who has lost the simple understanding – they have lost a lot. If they cannot understand the simple things – this means the person is in trouble, it might be too late to help them.

Simplicity is beautiful – says Zen, – and complicatedness is in a rut.

You have heard this saying: “Do not make an elephant out of a fly’’.*

*Translator’s note: An equivalent of ‘’Making a mountain out of a molehill’’

Some people make a few elephants and a few whales out of a fly. But from these elephants not only must you make a fly, but the fly must also disappear. This is the Right Way.

Simplicity is a Sword of wind.

Purity is a voice composed of Silence.

Zen is a Manuscript of Light. There are no sacred scriptures here, in Zen. Just Simplicity is enough – it is the Clarity which is the Right Way. There is no need for any authority, any holy books. So, Zen is a Manuscript of Light – a Pure Scripture with no impurities, which is why it is so difficult to understand: because it is so simple, like pure water. A brother said to me: But I do not understand what is this – Purity. – I used to talk to him about Purity, he said: I do not understand. – Okay, if I give you water from a swamp and water from a wellspring? – He still said nothing. It’s okay!

Within Zen is the Peace. There Enlightenment is found as well. Only Peace can see the Boundlessness – and naturally at that. You cannot travel the Way until you have become the Way itself, Simplicity itself. Walking on the Way, you are walking within yourself – not somewhere. There is no sensibility in walking somewhere: you are walking within yourself – this is the Way. The question is, have you started walking in the Right Way.

In what is the Way? Zen says: in everyday, healthy sense. Note this: no need for teachings, books, authorities, writings: the everyday healthy sense. You have it written in your heart. Even if you do not have it, you still have it.

The ultimate purpose of Zen is achieving the Self.

The Zen gaze is very peculiar. It sees Beauty even in the ruined life. Note this: Beauty in the ruined life too! It is there. Whether you will see it depends on whether you are in Zen.

Zen sees Beauty even in disappointments. They are full of charm! Sometime I might explain this in particular. Now I am saying what Zen says.

Zen sees Beauty in failures as well, because in Zen everything is uniquely beautiful – uniquely beautiful:  such Beauty cannot be repeated any more.

Zen lives in the undying Light. And this is the Bible verse: ‘’Hallowed be Thy Name’’*.

*Translator’s note: In Bulgarian, the word for ‘’hallowed’’ and the word for ‘’light’’ have the same origin.

Here this verse is fulfilled completely. It is not interpreted, it is not understood, it is not practiced – you simply live in it.

ZEN

Continued

(Third idea for contemplation)

What is the Way? Chuang Tzu says: Everyday life is the Way.  Meaning: You do not look for it in books – your everyday life is the Way.

What is Zen? Chuang Tzu says: Can a cloud be nailed to the sky? Meaning: Your natural Travelling – this is the Way.

You will not be punished for your anger – you will be punished by your anger. So says Zen. So: You will not be punished for your anger, but by your anger.

Do not let others confuse you.

If there is no ego, there is no worry.

What has been left unspoken is also important.

When passions are under control, external temptations are weak. No matter how much they tempt you – they are weak. If they come – welcome! I say: rob their strength! This is why they come.

Human planning is always hopeless. As a whole, all human plans, including security, are something very pitiful. Because, it comes to mind: A reasonable person never tries to secure themselves. They never look for security: God secures them. But they know Who they have devoted themselves to, as a Principle – they do not have this idea at all, it is not their job. According to the Master it is the task of Supreme Beings. But, it is asked: Are you within your Primordial Way? This is according to the Master, Love, Wisdom and Truth. If you are within this Way, the Master says: You have been secured 250 billion years ago. This matter has been resolved a very long time ago, it is not of the present.

If you understand the Truth, your home becomes a Sacred Sanctuary. So says Zen.

To find that seeking happiness can bring you evil is perceptiveness. Again, we understand that happiness is a wrong aim. Truth is the aim, not happiness. And whether or not happiness is going to chase you afterwards… because if you become a person of Truth, happiness will chase you. Whether or not you accept it – this is another matter… But it is not to be accepted. Happiness can truly bring you evil, if you go down that road. Like when a daughter asked her father: I want to be happy. – You will be, my daughter. You will get married, you will be happy – but it will be too late.

The slight change in the way of thinking leads to an unexpected change of circumstances. So: the slightest change in the way of thinking leads to a change in the circumstances.

There, where you are – there exactly is your life. And there is Zen.

The Place of Self-knowledge – this is the message of the blade of grass in Zen.

The blade of grass in Zen is a manifestation of fine energy – the concealed Nature beyond the gaze of the world. The harsh wind breaks down the trees, but the blade of grass is joyful and dances, as if it is out on a walk. So says Zen. It withstands, it plays. It merges with the wind and the wind cannot do anything to harm it. The tree is showing off, it wants to have a special place – on a high street – there it is cut down, and in the forest it is broken down. The wind breaks down big trees and the blade of grass breaks the wind – i.e. the wind’s illusion.

And so, big things – religions, sciences, political parties – will be demolished: they are trees, and the blade of grass – this is Zen. This is that quiet, humble, Truthful and Sacred Life: it will withstand. The rest will wait for a Second Coming and whatever else – it will withstand. This is not about an external survival, but about an inner Centre. The Place of Self-knowledge – this is the message of the blade of grass in Zen.

A Zen Master is not interested in whether there is a God or not, is there Heaven, is there Hell, is there afterlife. They do not waste their time with those things. They are aimed only towards Truth – and it teaches them silently and introduces them into the Great Completeness. Is there a God, is there not – does not matter: they accomplish the Goal. No arguments, no conversations, they are focused on Truth. And if there is something else, it must come after Truth. So says Zen: if there is anything else, it must come after Truth – and, of course, God is there. Whatever the Truth says – that is what Zen believes.

In Zen, God is not a person – but Boundlessness Itself, the wondrous Life itself: natural, simple, honest, meaningful Life. This is the Wondrous Life which is always in the Boundlessness. Here it is in the Boundlessness, and in the Afterlife it is again in the Boundlessness. Reality, according to Zen, is not the person, but it is the Boundlessness.

In Zen there is no Creator God and Divine Beginning – this is stupid and unthinkable in Zen.

Zen does not argue: it lives within the Unthinkable, it lives within God without arguing about Him and without talking about Him.

The West is thinking, and Zen is not thinking. Zen is Pure Spirituality, Pure civilisation, living within the Spirit of Truth. While there is thinking, there are contradictions – there is God and there is a Devil. In Zen there is neither God, nor Devil, but only Completeness, Truth and Boundlessness. This is the approach of Zen. There are never contradictions there. When Truth comes, Zen says: contradictions simply disappear. The West thinks in contradictions, with its mind. Zen thinks with its Spirit and lives within its Spirit.

In Zen all thinking has disappeared: it has merged with Peace, it is buried. Zen is inside the Great No Beginning, the other name of God, the other name of Truth.

AUM

Translated by Ruah Ezekiel

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