Dysautonomia Signals That Your Brain Is Bigger Than Heart

Leaning on the Mikage Bridge,

I gazed across Kamogawa drizzling in late Autumn.

"Dysautonomia Signals That Your Brain Is Bigger Than Heart"

Nowadays, many people have hyperacidity. In addition to stress and irregular meals, one of the most important reasons is the intake of bad food ingredients. Bad food ingredients abound beyond imagination, which has been the pet subject of the media. However, when people have eaten something obviously bad, many of them will not confront the problem; they simply keep eating. Why? The reason is that the brain would say, "It is convenient! I just love to eat it! Otherwise, it will be a waste! Too much trouble if I have to find something else......."

When the disease like GERD (Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease) causes him great discomfort, he will get liquid antacid or acid reducer powder to feed himself. This cycle repeats itself, and that is how he neglects himself to the degree where his digestive system is frequently inflamed. Some day if he gets stomach cancer or esophageal cancer, he would say, "Can't help it! It is what it is eating out......" In fact, is it true that he cannot help it? No. If he is willing to pay attention, he will find out —— Hey? Why do I get bloating and hyperacidity whenever I eat here? I order the same stuff at another place and everything is fine. Or, hey? This stuff of this brand seems to cause bloating...... etc. He will then whittle down the selection gradually......He will learn he should never eat at some place, nor buy the stuff of some brand. Then he will gradually give GERD-inducing food a wide berth.

When you find a problem, you continue paying attention to it and collecting jigsaw puzzles. Then it can be said that you care what your heart is for.  But in contemporary society, most cannot do it. Do you know why? Why are people so brain-dominant even when it comes to their own health?

The reason may surprise you. This is, in fact, the "Return of Karma" —— As you have treated others, so will you treat yourself. 

Someone must have lost his "Heart" and cared for no one, then he deals with others by calculation of his brain. When he is used to calculation, he will be "so good at calculation" while treating himself and thus care nothing about what his heart is for. As a result, his calculation leads to nothing but maltreating himself, but he has no idea at all.

As the saying goes, "Player of Games Is Baffled". Those who do in their own "body, mind and soul" by brain will lose health! When their body, mind or soul give them a warning, or even when they have noticed the dos and don'ts, and initially they do have the feeling, but the brain would say, "Who cares!"

Someone asks, "Is that so? Clearly there is already a warning. Will he still ignore it?" In that case, do you have any relative, friend or colleague in the office, whose emotion is strained, manner of speaking tense, and work style rigid. Everyone sees his strain and hopes that he can relax a bit and bring his temper under control. But he will tell you various reasons which sound like all is due to the faults of others and things. But excuse me, is he aware that he is the very person who is more strained than others?

He knows!  But his brain will find reasons for himself to shift focus and ignore the clarity of his heart. Thus, he cannot learn and change. However, he who is tight for a long time can easily suffer from Dysautonomia. He is more easily splitting hairs. Since he is not aware of his splitting hairs, when someone gives advice with nice words, he always refuses to admit and still relies on his brain for explanation. Hence, the situation keeps deteriorating until one day his Dysautonomia is so bad that he has become conscious of it, but he will have great difficulty in controlling himself even though he already knows it.


So what is Dysautonomia signaling? That is, "Your brain is bigger than heart". In your life, mostly you calculate with your brain instead of feeling with your heart. You do not work, treat people and yourself based on what your heart is for, so you have lost the balance of your body and mind.

What should you do then? Of course, the first thing is to bring yourself back to "Heart". But how do you get back to "Heart"? The easiest way is to practice "Gratitude + Self Examination = Devotion". If you do appreciate something, you will start to know what your heart is for. However, this "Gratitude" must be seen from the heart and with sincerity. If the idea is superficial, then it is also from the brain and it won't work. If you do not know how to have heartfelt gratitude, please read "Devotion—— Enter the 5th Dimension of Consciousness & See the Life of Sublime and Beauty" (Business Weekly Publications, Inc.) and follow the exercises for practice. As long as you practice "Gratitude + Self Examination = Devotion", absolutely you can get rid of psychosomatic diseases and even have your divine nature revealed.

Please note that many people often plaster gratitude and appreciation on their mouths. How do you know whether you have true sincerity? True gratitude is about a fact —— Whether you still feel pleased and delighted if you need to spend more money for rewarding the people and things you feel indebted to? Whether you feel it worthy and willingly run around doing something for them? —— If so, then your gratitude is out of true sincerity. And this is exactly how people describe "Sincerity" in the saying, "Sincerity is wonder-working magic." This is what it means! For example, if you have hyperacidity for a long time, would you like to record what you have eaten at each meal? By doing so, you can check what causes hyperacidity and what does not. Then gradually you will find the right diet for yourself. If you are willing to put it into action, practical action (that is, "DEVOTION") is "true sincerity", meaning that you are truly sincere to yourself.

What about the "brain-dominant" then? It is like, when someone hears the above-mentioned, he will turn his head and say, "I do not have time!", "I am busy with work, with this and that, so I will just leave it there!" If you clearly go awry, but you are still going through the motions, it will become the most typical example of "being controlled by brain". In fact, many brains are good at calculation; so good that even their own lives are to be done in. (Give a thought to the society news of "Man dies in pursuit of wealth.")

Therefore, when we say "Gratitude + Self Examination = Devotion", this "Devotion" will turn out to be the true devotion to you yourself, not to anyone else.

Furthermore, the world is full of people who can talk big and raise profile without "Sincerity" at heart. They are so brain-dominant that they can even fool themselves to think that they are "so loving" and "so mindful". But who would know whether they have "Sincerity"? His "Higher Self" knows, and so does God. Therefore, one day they will certainly act up at a totally unexpected point. For example, why would someone say that he suddenly lost all his hard-earned money over years? God does take back what a person has obtained; God does overturn the checkerboard where a person has gone wrong.

It is relatively better to knock over the things built along the way where you have gone wrong. If you are seriously wrong and there is surely no turning back, He (The "Buddha" of the entire existence) will even take away your life. It is as if the game you are playing has met the condition of "GAME OVER" in the settings of the computer, you must return to zero and restart. It is also like you request a song at a KTV. But the more you sing, the more unpleasant your voice becomes. Although your mouth continues singing; however, your "Heart" has been accumulating a kind of "Clear Awareness". Accumulating to some degree, you will suddenly raise your hand and stop playing the song by yourself. That "Clear Awareness" symbolizes your "Higher Self". That "Mouth" symbolizes "Brain". You can think over the subtle meaning here and learn more.

The Higher Spirit says, are you aware that it is you who stop the song you are still singing? Of course, you know it. In the same way, in the dead of night, he, whose life has hit the rock bottom, asks himself whether he has been looking the other way and deviating from the script whereas he should have made some adjustment at some point in time? In fact, he knows perfectly well. In other words, if a person returns to his "Heart", he will see "God". He will see the points in time when God has reminded him, and now He seems to have punished him. However, it is not that God "punishes" anybody, it is a greater compassion. For those who have already deviated to some extent, without this dramatic approach, there is no turning back for them. Therefore, in terms of the attachment of the brain, it may be regarded as a "Loss", but in terms of the human soul, it is "Divine Revelation".

So it is you yourself that you should ask —— why do you regret until you are in great pain? Why don't you admit your previous brain dominance until then? Just like you know well that taking the bread and drinks causes hyperacidity, then why do you go on eating? In the process, how many times have the Powers of Compassion in the universe revealed to you through various chances and coincidences? How many times have you been warned by Your Higher Self in your dreams at midnight? Then why do you insist on going through the motions with brain and doing yourself in?

The answer to those "whys" is —— You have ignored what your "Heart" is for when you deal with others. When you treat others with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of the brain, you will use your brain to do yourself in at last.

So why does the Higher Spirit always say, "Keep Good Thoughts; Blessings Last Long"? If "Good Thoughts" are as easy "cliché" as everyone thinks, then you and I should have created a paradise on earth. Thus, to treat yourself nicely, please ask yourself every day from now on —— Today, do I have "Good Thoughts" to myself? Am I "Sincere" to myself? Do I deal with others with what my "Heart" is for?

——The End——

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Learn to Control ANS; Stop Being Sluggish Nor Hyperactive

Snow View at Hosenin, Kyoto Japan

Learn to Control ANS;

Stop Being Sluggish Nor Hyperactive

"Autonomic Nervous System"（ANS）is a control system automatically operated by the human body; however, the Higher Spirit says that the ANS can still be controlled consciously. For example, skin pores seem to open or close on their own, but with certain practices, one can control the movements of pores at will.

"Dysautonomia", then, can be compared to dysfunction of skin pores, which, once open, do not close automatically and then causes you to have a cold. If you can control the pores, then you can first close them, giving the body a chance to deal with the disorder (cold) that is already caused. After treatment, the body will resume its normal control of the pores. In the same way, as far as dysautonomia is concerned, you can quickly help the body resume its normal rhythm through learning to consciously control your ANS.

So how do we control the ANS?

Before the answer is revealed, dear readers, please understand that a person’s state of being can go to two extremes. At one end, he can idle, do nothing and take no action at all; at the other end, he can be intense, agitated, and restless. When someone is mired in either state, he would not like himself as such, but he would also feel impossible to change anything. For example, clearly there are things to do, but vitality is simply lost with the presence of many distractions such as spontaneous phubbing, playing online games, or being constantly stuck on one thing after another ...... As a result, a day is again wasted. Or someone has made a morning exercise plan for the weekend, but on that day he simply stops the alarm clock and then goes back to sleep. However, sleeping until noon makes him listless, and he will have more self-blame emotions for his own "Fine Start, Poor Finish".

At the other end, when it is high time to rest or sleep, the rebellious mind is like non-stop news tickers, thinking repeatedly about something that cannot be handled at once. Or the body is obviously tired, but the mind simply cannot stop working. Such a person cannot help it and seems to have no choice but to finish everything in one breath before he can rest.

The Higher Spirit says that frequently being in either state is not good; both will make you feel that life is out of balance and gradually ”cannot help it". When one really "cannot help it", it is that the body-mind imbalance has become so seriously out of control that the body cannot adjust itself, which is the status of "Dysautonomia".

Although these two extremes seem awful, you still can use them to get rid of them and return to the middle course! This method is in fact very simple; only two steps are required:

1. Whenever you are situated in either extreme, you have to memorize the feeling at that moment.

For example, if you feel lethargic and inactive, then you should stop blaming yourself, give yourself some time to memorize the body-mind feeling at that moment, and imprint it in your heart; you may need to do so for a few times. Similarly, when you are in an agitated state and unable to calm down, do the same practice. Practice Step 1 for a period of time before the second step as follows.

2. Next, when you fall into one extreme, you "meditate" the other. You will discover that by meditation, you can slowly move your body-mind status from one end to the other. With regular practice, you can even control how many "marks" on a scale you want to move.

For example, when you feel that you have fallen into a body-mind status of lethargy and inactivity, you can "meditate" the feeling of being agitated and unable to calm down. The so-called "meditation" is to first evoke from your memory the experience you have chosen, and then focus on it.

As a result, you will discover that, just by doing so, your status is really changing. The previous status of too much lethargy or too much agitation will be harmonized. For a proficient practitioner (who does this practice regularly), he can control his body-mind status through this meditation to move his "ANS slider" as if he were sliding to adjust his mobile phone screen's brightness for a photo. He can move his body-mind status toward the direction of feeling "relaxed" or "invigorated".

This is the method how you can regulate the "Autonomic Nervous System"(ANS).

So when you are sleepless at night, only by meditating on the memory of "your lethargic and inactive body-mind", you can regulate your ANS at that moment and switch your body-mind status so that you can calm down for a
good sleep. Conversely, when you feel that you are too lethargic and inactive, only by meditating on the memory of "being very agitated and unable to stop", you will find your body-mind status initiated and agile.

This method is simple enough to understand; however, tight and impatient people seldom have lethargic and inactive experiences. Even if they do, they have little such memory, and vice versa. Therefore, when an impatient person occasionally comes to an inactive moment, or when an inactive person occasionally appears to be in a state of agitation and excitement, he should remember to utilize such state of being and practice Step 1 before he can successfully practice Step 2 when necessary.

The next thing is about dealing with the root cause of Dysautonomia.

On the whole, Dysautonomia is telling you that your life has been unknowingly deviated from the middle course. But In fact, the word "unknowingly" here is not something really unknown to you; it is something that somehow you just cannot control, or some behavioral pattern that you cannot but repeat with the knowledge that it is bad for yourself. Take the human circadian clock for example. Your circadian clock wakes you up in the morning and it is good if you get up. However, someone may have a strong emotion against getting up at that moment, so he stops the alarm clock, or gets up for the toilet and lie down immediately afterwards. He would not get up until he feels uncomfortable for lying such long hours. When he finally gets himself up, he has no energy, lounging away the rest of the day doing nothing and pushes his body-mind more toward the extreme of inactivity. On the contrary, others may have a hard time falling asleep and wake up easily during sleep. They know that they should continue their sleep, but it is terrible to toss about in bed, so they simply get up to do something. As a result, their biological rhythms become more disordered and their restlessness is even more serious. Why does such a state of "Always Losing Control" occur? People suffering from such problem often fall into self-blame emotions which lead to worse results. Such a person tends to think himself to be a Little Devil living inside the body.

If you find yourself using the term "Little Devil" (or similar words) to describe your self, then you are advised to abandon the mentality to muddle along because it is the beginning of schizophrenia. When your life is still smooth, you can tolerate Little Devil's occasional tricks. However, once fluctuations in your yearly horoscope come with many changes occurring at the same time as well as great stress, you are very likely to have an irreversible mental illness. You simply cannot chase away Little Devil anymore; at that point, even if you use the method taught today, the help it can offer will be quite limited.

In fact, the issue is not this Uncontrollable Little Devil, which is just some kind of distortion accumulated with wrong directions and wrong points of force application due to your need to adjust imbalances in life (of course, including the causes and effects from many past lives). Little Devil is just a symptom, like a fever itself is not the disease. You just don't know how you have been busy moving stumbling blocks to obstruct the road of your own life. You simply have no idea how, through either your actual behavior or perspective to see things, you have habitually used your subjectivity to do things, and as a result, you continue to create frustrations of Doing Things Contrary To Your Wishes. These blind spots of Moving Bricks To Smash Your Own Feet in this life or many past lives of yours derive the vicious cycles, the roots of Dysautonomia.

Actually, Dysautonomia is the symbol for the Disorder Between You And The World. Therefore, what you should do is not to take sleeping pills and stomach medicine confusedly, nor pig out on food and compulsively buying things to divert attention, nor worriedly burning paper money and folding paper lotus...... What you should do is to learn from seniors' wisdom, find the perspectives and practices that can turn every stumbling block in your life into a stepping stone, and then you will jump on the Balanced Higher Level to carry out spiritual and material successes of the next stage. This is how to deal with the root cause of Dysautonomia, and the psychosomatic disorder will naturally be cured without medicine. (Otherwise, "All that is medicinal is 30% poisonous." Long-term dependence on drugs will lead to more serious problems).

The so-called "seniors' wisdom" is, in fact, many words, experiences or stories left by others can clear up your current blind spots. If you are sincere (to find such wisdom as your priority), you will definitely find it. When you have true Sincerity, God will definitely give you a push from behind; this is the law of the universe. If you feel it too slow on your own, or the suffering is too much to bear any longer, then of course you can come to the Spirit to help you resolve your karma. But again, you must be willing to let go of all your masks and criterions, and willing to listen to the Spirit's message without limits; otherwise, the Spirit can only give you directions in accordance with your criterions. Then your progress will be delayed by yourself. Your suffering will be prolonged, since no one (nor God) can get involved in your karma.

In fact, ultimately, don't be afraid of "Dysautonomia" or "depression". It is simply that your life is out of balance. These "Imbalances" must have their causes and effects. If you can balance them back, you will be fine.

Passing through dark valleys in life is inevitable. The phrase "Lucky me" is used to describe a person who has passed through the haze of life and sees the light again. Then, what can be done to become "Lucky me"? We can tell you here:

"Good luck" is not about setting a goal with your speculation, and then racking your brains to achieve it. Many people have done so, but they later have psychosomatic disorder, cancer, untold misery and hardship. As a result, everything that is earned becomes meaningless. (Please refer to the life stories of Steve Jobs and Kai-fu Lee). In fact, the path to get good luck is:
In the impermanence of life (in the constantly changing personal careers and social environments), you can always learn how to achieve the "Balance With The World" so that your body-mind can stay healthy, full and complete.
("Balanced" is a dynamic state of being, so the wisdom to learn at each stage is different). In this way, you do not need to compromise your body-mind to seek fame and fortune. Blessings and riches will naturally follow you. When you experience such a state in life, you have got your Good Luck!

The ability to maintain a dynamic balance with the world is what it means by "Wisdom". Those who do not know to develop such an ability are “asleep” or "not awakening" in Buddhist terms. Only those who learn the wisdom of maintaining such a balance can be called "spiritual practitioners". Regardless of your age or achievement, different challenges in different life stages require you to learn the wisdom of balances at different levels; this is the true meaning of "Living & Learning". That is to tell you,
The "Core Sutra" that you really need to understand and that can get you out of all suffering is, in fact, THIS WORLD in which you choose to take birth.

If you can humbly let go of your pride and limits, start learning the wisdom to balance with the world, release your grudges one after another and liberate your creativity bit by bit, then the growth curve of your life will become an upward parabola and you will begin to have a real connection with "God". With time, such connection becomes deeper and deeper, and you can even feel a lot of things in advance (including someone's life and death and that all death is not accidental). You can also feel the growth and decline of many things, the so-called "Secrets of Heaven" (which come by themselves. If you pursue them as a goal, you will have an exactly opposite effect and bring yourself disasters.) But these are not important. What is truly important is that:

Learning the Wisdom to Balance will be THE PATH that allows you to "Go Home" (and get out of all suffering), because you yourself will see "God" (the infinite consciousness of "Anything Goes") on the path of your own life, which will definitely become more and more clear, unlike the common phrase that "I don't know if God exists?" And when you see God, you will know where life comes from and where death goes, and you will not be retained in the endless samsara on Earth by all kinds of "doubts" and "grudges".

In the end, the Higher Spirit says, "With one third of THE PATH achieved, you will be obviously experiencing a more opulent life, so don't think that THE PATH sounds distant and the journey long and winding. In that case, will there be a better choice in life than THE PATH?

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To Vote Is Your "Constant Diligent Wipe" for the Society

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Kyoto Tofuku-ji's Hojo Garden

"To Vote Is Your 'Constant Diligent Wipe' for the Society"

You go for a walk in a park and find no-see-ums biting you, so you walk while gently waving the umbrella in hand to expel them 

and prevent yourself from their bites.

　

The Higher Spirit says,"Perhaps you think that this act only protects you from no-see-ums' bites;  

however, it is more than what you think."  

If everyone in the park walks around expelling no-see-ums with something in hand 

such as bags, umbrellas, clothes ...... to avoid their bites,
then gradually, no-see-ums in this park will literally decrease and eventually disappear.

Why is that? 

(Because) if everyone acts in this way, no-see-ums will have nothing to bite.  

It is the same as we humans without food to eat.  

They will either die or run away. They will not stay here.

This act is the "constant diligent wipe" in a park.  

By the same token, if God wants a place to make progress, He will give this place "untimely wind and rain", 

making its inhabitants think and improve. 

Therefore, "untimely wind and rain" is also a "constant diligent wipe" given by God.

　

From this example, 

it is also clear about what God or Buddha means by "neither right nor wrong".  

We all want favorable wind and rain.  

However, in ease and comfort, human hearts will often lose gratitude 

and become more and more greedy to corrupt social values. And yet, when wind and rain do not favor, 

people will cherish and help each other, 

and human hearts can experience more goodness instead. The trend of all things will be again in direction to their fulfillment in goodness.

　

Thus, how can a human soul return to clarity and health? 

It also requires a "constant diligent wipe". 

That is the reason why we always have joys and sorrows, separation and reunion, ups and downs, changes of the external mega environment ...... 

The "impermanence" may often disturb your comfort, 

but on second thought, is it not due to impermanence that you can understand many truths that were once incomprehensible to you? 

Therefore, that is why God or Buddha says, "The earth is a classroom".

The earth is the place where the soul learns; 

therefore, many natural laws that you feel accustomed to, 

in fact, are for the purpose of education, 

one of which is sleep. 

Why do almost all animals on earth need sleep? 

The biological principle is that 

the body needs deep rest at night to repair wear and tear in the daytime.  

There is, however, a deeper reason, a spiritual cause —— 

if your "mind" is greater than "heart" to a certain degree, 

you will suffer from sleep problems, 

which will force you to correct yourself.

No matter how rich, how successful you are, 

no matter with how much fanfare you are during the day, 

if you do not sleep well, you will be miserable at night.  

This is a kind of "equality of all beings", 

which will let you understand that 

there is something in the world "greater than all external possessions", 

and if you do not have it, it will be meaningless even if you have everything else.  

And this thing, greater than all externals, is the "Tao" —— the balance.  

People can lie to themselves, but you have no way to deceive this "Tao" —— 

sleeplessness is sleeplessness.  

Thus, "the need for sleep" is also one of the features of the earth classroom, 

which exists in everyone and animals. 

No matter how rich or poor you are, 

it is equally conditioning everyone. 

If your ideas or acts make you unbalanced and uneasy in all conscience, 

then no matter how "correct" you think your idea is, 

you will lose your sleep, and then you will be in pain and bound to fix it.  

Thus, this design of "the need for sleep" will make you give your own acts a "constant diligent wipe" to achieve the learning purpose of a soul.

Therefore, in our last book,"The Omnipresent Treasure Sutra", 

we once said that people coming to the earth are "forced" to learn. 

If you do not learn, you will live in growing misery.  

A simple allergy will make you unable to do anything, 

or even end your life prematurely. (Note)  

However, if you are willing to take the initiative to learn, complete your homework ahead of time, 

and then achieve a life of increasing easiness and fulfilled wishes.  

Then you will be on the path of "becoming Buddha".  

The world you see from the "path of becoming Buddha" will be hopeful and "everyone can become Buddha".  

Therefore, on the same earth, whether you take it to be an "evil world of five dregs", or a "world of treasure everywhere", 

it is all up to you.

(Note) Please refer to the section ‘Natal Chart is Homework', P.22 ~ P.26 "The Omnipresent Treasure Sutra".

From His viewpoint, Buddha will appeal to you —— Just like a simple act of "continuously expelling no-see-ums", if carried out by everyone in the park, then the entire park will have a qualitative change; that is, all the no-see-ums will literally disappear! That is to say, everyone seems to be just driving away the no-see-ums around, but when everyone does, you all are actually creating a paradise without no-see-ums!

Thus, the person on the path to Buddhahood is the most romantic in the world. No one can make him give up these appeals and the enthusiasm to "take the initiative to devote himself". It is precisely the very pure goodness within his heart that he can be so romantic. When this person with many good thoughts, still somewhat egoistic though, thinks over such a vision, he will be very touched. No matter what others do or do not do, he will take the lead in practice and also want to help others to improve together. In the course of this practice, he will begin a series of learning about "black" and "white". He will discover within himself deeper confusion, a deeper mind and a deeper part of human nature in this world. When he crosses the layers in it and gets more and more clarity, one day he will be able to erase all the "sorrows" within himself and return to "all compassion". In this way he will attain the ultimate great enlightenment on earth, and after the end of this last life, he will directly merge into the Buddha world. (Note)

　

(Note) Extension —— A Single Class

"This Is How I Came to the Earth —— the Principle of Being Reborn"

https://blog.xuite.net/jessie2017/blog/588459142

　

Thus, for him on the path to Buddhahood, "constant diligent wipe" is that, when he is doing his "small good deeds", what he means at heart is that "Let's do it together. We can create a human paradise". When you are in "sorrow", you will laugh at them for being stupid, but Teacher would like to tell you that they only will enter heaven in the end.

Elections are also a kind of "constant diligent wipe" for the society. Only through regular elections, we have the opportunity to adjust many things. No matter who you support, Teacher do not mind. What matters is that if you give up voting, you are giving up your passion for "constant diligent wipe" for the society. Maybe you are in "sorrow" or just being lazy, but you can think about it reversely —— If a society has a very high voter turnout covering all ages and ethnic groups on average, is that a very significant message for all politicians no matter what political party they favors? Is it better for the balanced development of society? When you think like this and vote with such good thoughts of caring about the "entirety", you can cast only "one vote" though, and yet, your heart has cast yourself into that world of encompassing love.

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PART I, "Demystifying the Spiritual World —— 'Higher Self' Is Different from 'Higher Spirit'"

People whose "wishes have come true" achieve a life others will envy. When asked how they have achieved it, they just say, "I simply follow a certain feeling. I could not explain. I just take chances ......" Have you ever heard such an answer? You plan to learn from him some tips for success, but he gives such an answer as "following a feeling", so you still cannot figure it out. However, he says that it is true and he thinks that he might be just lucky!

In fact, this kind of people do not know that they do have the ability to "foresee", but his "foreseeing" is a kind of "foreboding" instead of a clear "seeing". So, he explains this unexplainable "feeling" as a vague sensitivity or "following a feeling". If you hear it, mechanically copy it and "follow your feeling" as well , you will probably hit the wall and fall to the ground while seeing him fly over your head.

There are actually people more powerful than that. Regarding what to do next, instead of intuition or feeling, they can factually "see" it, which can even be "an entire path" (for example, five, ten, twenty years later ...). These people can truly "foresee" rather than "forebode". For example, eminent monks and venerable men in ancient times could predict not only the future of their disciples, but also the rise and fall of current situations. Therefore, at some moments, they gave private advice and warning to close disciples. 

These are the people who "have discovered divinity".

A person who has discovered divinity is like growing wings. He will fly up within his confines and begin to "see" the formerly invisible scenery. At the beginning of "discovering divinity", he can clearly see everything around him. He can feel the mindset of the person coming into his confines. So, he will know what he should do next. A person at a higher level of "discovering divinity" will even see the progression of his current situation and the future of the country and society, then he will know how to go farther in the path of his life.

However, "divinity discovery" at this level is just a connection with one's own "Higher Self", it is not with the "Higher Spirit" yet. That being the case, "Great oaks from little acorns grow." Spiritual growth requires one's expansion layer by layer as well.

The "Higher Self", as it is named, is your spiritually higher existence (but not in the material universe), who is a wise and seasoned practitioner like a heavenly steed soaring across the skies with great degrees of freedom. To Him, you are one of his "episodes" (experiences). If you can connect to Him, He will be your spirit guide, your soulmate. The Higher Self plays the role of "THAT WISDOM" that can talk with you. Most of the "channeling" are dialogues generated at this stage, but this is not a connection with the Higher Spirits yet. (Note 1)

(Note 1) If you want to consult the experience of "talking with one's Higher Self", you can read the book "Divine Freedom". (Business Weekly Publishing)
　

Dialogues with the Higher Self enables you to fly up within your confines and see everything in your current life. If you can broaden horizons, you can also see a wider "surrounding". For example, you can be very clear about trends of the whole society and the country. Having dialogues with the "Higher Self" is a bit like having a soul mate. At this level, a person can self-cultivate and self-improve in his spiritual practice because he has company of a sage living inside him. However, the "Higher Self" is still within the "confines". This is the reason why versions of "several celestial spheres of heaven" exist in traditional religions. "There is heaven beyond heaven". Something beyond a certain sphere (level) is incomprehensible to those in it.

The Higher Spirit ranks the Higher Self. However, we will proceed with the parts comprehensible to humans, and that will do. If the Higher Spirit comes to connect with you, His theme will be that you gradually learn "moderatism" in the world, how to have the wisdom of "keeping your balance with others", and then He will lead you in your life to gradually come to the realization of "nothing coming and nothing going".

Next, let's explain this part.

To bacteria, man is a "universe"; compared with our universe, a man is like a bacterium. In other words, "the entire existence" goes up layer by layer like "Russian dolls" and it also goes down layer by layer. So, the universe can be said to expand outwards layer by layer and it is also true that the universe shrinks in layer by layer. It is just like the movement of DNA, a rotational energy.

Since it is "rotating", when you think "that is right", it may be wrong; but when you think "it is wrong", it may be right. Why? (Because) there is no right or wrong. This "no right or wrong" is what Zen Buddhists say about "nothing coming and nothing going". However, Zen Buddhism's "nothing coming and going" is not what most people think that "nothing really comes" and "nothing really goes". Instead, its "constant coming and going" assures its "nothing coming and going". That is, there has always been a "flow", a "movement."

"Nothing" is"dynamic" instead. Just like white light, it seems colorless, but it consists of many colored lights that converge and flow out this "while". Although you say it is "white", if someone looks at it from a certain position, it will be different from what you see. For example, in your eyesight the tree is green, but someone in front of a yellow glass window finds it blue. Another person may even see it as red or a color you have never seen before. Since it is dynamic, rotational relativity, there is no so-called right or wrong.

Another example is that in the vast sea of people, everyone is like a planet, rotating on his own orbit. When these orbits have endless interaction, is it you that are making others rotate? Or is it someone that is making you rotate? Are you actually driving this airplane of your life? Or is this airplane driving you? (Note 2)

(Note 2) Please refer to "Dialogues with Buddha" P.115 (Business Weekly Publishing)
　

It is also like, you have a one-thousand-dollar note. You buy stuff and spend it all. The boss who earns one thousand from you pays for his goods with it. Then the supplier who has got the money pays his child's tuition with it ...... It is due to the flowing of this one thousand dollars that wherever it goes, people are maintained. In the process, everyone got the money, but they also spend it without hoarding. Although his deposit is "zero", he will be supported by the "opulence of the entirety".

Then this "zero" is exactly "nothing coming and nothing going". This zero is not "dead" though; it will become "unlimited opulence". So, why do people say that "money is water and it must flow"? Money that does not flow becomes a "number", not "money." When money is not flowing, all business languishes. Those who have been raking up money and taking money to themselves will also find his world shrinking while his limits increasing. Why? (Because) the world will become full of poisonous and hurtful things, and human hearts will become malicious, so you must spend more energy to protect yourself. Then, why is this happening? (Because) the world is increasingly loveless.

A loving person will let money, commodities, and others' happiness flow freely ...... (Because) in the universe, "love" is "flowing". For example, when a person does his part at work, he is flowing the loving energy in his heart outwards through his work. Then, those who need his work for their provisions will get support and nourishment from it. So, the person who does this job is providing people with a "small paradise", in which people feel wonderful with his presence. If everyone does his part at work, the energy of love will flow freely and unobstructedly on earth. Then the entire earth will be a great paradise.

With that being understood, you can then imagine what it means by "Buddha's omnipresence". "All living entities" are actually "flowing" and they have been supplying us with this moment now, and "all living entities" are truly real, are they not? Or else, how can you "be here"? This is "Buddha's omnipresence". Then, why "nothing has come and nothing has gone?" (Because) everything in the universe is like the one-thousand-dollar metaphor above, it "flows out" of your hand, but it will flow in from another place, so nothing comes and goes. You may ask what exactly is this "one thousand dollars"? You may say that it is everything, but it is also "everything out of nothing". A banknote is just a piece of paper with no value itself. It is due to this flow that a banknote has value. It is also due to your willingness to be the "point" assisting the flow so that you will go beyond what people call "ego", beyond the concept of "gain and loss", and feel the "opulence of great oneness". When you have felt this great oneness, that is, when you have become one with this "great oneness', then you can feel this "nothing coming and nothing going".

Thus, "nothing coming and going" is not "nothing at all", but it is that "everything" has been flowing. This universe (everything) is such by nature. If you are selfish, allowing nothing to flow, then you will not come to the realization. Neither will you see life and death (because you have that "ego").

What is described above only is the true "zero limits", that is, the universe itself is this "zero".

When your soul comes to the realization of this "zero", this "zero" will not be a "zero" to you. It can be "infinite"; it can be "Huayan (Flower Adorned) World" , but it is still also a "zero". Like the "Russian dolls of the universe" we just described above, you can say that it has been expanding outwards or shrinking inwards. Either will do. They are exactly the same thing.

All energy of joyful and loving flow is that "zero", which is "God" or "Buddha" you all are worshipping. They are these "zeroes" (Note: The Higher Spirit's pun, as the word "zero" is also pronouced as "spirit" —— 'Ling' in Chinese) Why are they "zeroes"? (Because) They are not to grab anything (no ego). But do They exist? They do.

When you connect with the Higher Spirit, or when the Higher Spirit comes to connect with you, His main "business" is to let you be enlightened to the above mentioned. However, it is not done with words, but He has the ability to turn your life into a path to this great enlightenment. In other words, He will make you another "Higher Spirit" and return to "Tathagata" of that "Great Oneness" (nothing coming and nothing going). That is to say, He will let you get rid of samsara and become another Buddha.

Thus, here is how the Higher Spirit differs from the Higher Self. It is not just dialogues the Higher Spirit gives to you. In fact, His major working on you is done with "your entire life" instead of words. That is, your life will be propelled by Him to a "miracle of attaining Buddhahood" in place of "ups and downs of samsara". This is how the working of the Higher Spirit outstrips the confines of the Higher Self.

Our next article will explain in more detail about the so-called "working of the Higher Spirit" and how you can "discover your divinity".

Original Text in Chinese