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2011.02.17 21:30
Zhang, Cheng:
Dear Emmanuel, it was an incredibly joyful day today. You know, I had an unbelievable afternoon. I had a cup of coffee full of bliss. I saw the budding Taiwan golden rain trees lining a baby-blue sky; behind those wonderfully intertwined branches are the glowing-red desert roses, the quiet, beautiful water-lily pond…… and I discovered a blackboard tree with a pet tree in its hole...... so much so incredible beauty and joy, as well as M, who experienced it all with me…...Emma, my heart is full of joyful light. I do not know who else to share it with. I’d like to let you know.
Dear Emma, I love you. I can feel your glow miraculously radiating from my right chest, spiritual light of baby purple in color, and holiness of gold…... You are smiling at me......
Emma:
My child, what else can I say except that I love you? You must have felt it? What are Taiwan golden rain trees saying? What are desert roses saying? What is the baby-blue sky saying? They are saying the same phrase as I am. And this phrase only. What else can we say other than this? The incredible beauty surpasses any man-made replica. These inconceivably ingenious combinations incredibly turn out to be alive, not dead! Why is their beauty making you so happy? What is beauty?
Beauty is that God is saying to you "I love you" ! If beauty is just beauty, how can you feel such joy, peace, and content? Because beauty is that God is exclaiming at you unreservedly, "I love you!!"
Why do you say that such beauty is so incredible? Because you have perceived that no human can reproduce such beauty, which is living, full of life, yet extremely ingenious, and constantly changing, from the smallest to the largest! In fact, this means that no one can create such love, which is incomparably perfect! This is God’s love.
Therefore, the more beauty you feel in any grass and tree in nature, the more God’s love you can feel. The beauty of nature is endless; if you really think about it, you will faint, you will be jolted by that incredible joy. So you know “how much God loves you”, which is by no means a romantic line. When you feel that nature is all beautiful, through a kind of spiritual intuition, you will understand how deeply you are loved by God.
Zhang, Cheng:
Dear Emma, it is so true, and I have experienced it. On the other hand, when passing by a super beautiful green hillside today, M said, “You can take your students here and teach them how to enjoy. It can be designed to be a course.” And I said, “Almost impossible. They cannot feel it the way we can. Dear Emma, in fact, I hope everyone can feel that feeling, but I find it difficult for them. How many can understand the miraculous beauty of a tiny torn paper trembling gently in the wind (a remnant from a notice ripped off from the wall) ! I really paused for it, and M also took the picture of that little piece of paper. But even if this photo is posted on the blog, how many can understand that there is true beauty in it, and the beauty is incredible!
Emma: My dear child, how do you feel when you think this way?
Zhang, Cheng: Emma, I can recognize it now. It is a kind of negativity.
Emma: Is such feeling beautiful?
Zhang, Cheng: The beauty and joy, or the intensity of light has decreased.
Emma: Well, right! So now let’s make a demonstration for the readers. If you focus on feeling me, what words will flow from me here regarding the negative statement of your mind?
Zhang, Cheng:
Dear Emma, I love you. I love you. When I am willing to say I love you, I will feel you, and I am willing to admit your presence. You are alive talking to me here.
Emma:
Yes, child, there is no such word as "difficult" in my dictionary. Because I do not think about it at all. I just think, “I’m so happy, and I can do whatever I want.” There is no "mission" that I want others to understand. I am simply joyful. There is no mission in it, and no task to do because there is no such thing as "after the joy". You must go back to "joy". After joy, still joy. You simply keep this way. This way, you will have your fragrance, and you leave to others the task of whether they can smell the fragrance. It's like the desert rose glowing red wholeheartedly. Just that! The desert rose only needs to do that. If the desert rose thinks, “how can I make more people pause for me?” “Aiya! Why did this person pass by in a hurry!” Then the desert rose began to dim.
When you switch to my channel, you will find everything so simple. Life is really a simple matter. The only thing you need to do is always enjoy life, and forever be joyful. You see, how wonderful a task it is! Not even a task at all! God lives in this way, so God’s task is simply keep shouting at you, “I love you!!” super happily. That’s it, really. Since ancient times, He hasn’t done anything except being super happy there, in an unreserved and ultimate way; that is, He uses everything everywhere, including a small piece of torn paper, to love you without ends.
Zhang, Cheng:
Dear Emma, I believe some readers can see in here how I speak for myself and for you. Without reservation, I will reveal the secret of how to switch the channels. That is:
1. To believe that you are here and alive. I don’t need to match you through any cultural image or concept or memory. "God is alive, right now!!”––––I just need to use these words to awaken my mental state.
2. Next, I am willing to say,” God, I love you!”
When I say so, there is no doubtful cloud in the background of consciousness. It is as if a real person is in front of you, and you just look at him saying, "I love you." Simply in this way, we can connect to God’s channel. In short, "to believe" is the only key. "To believe" is to be able to discover, and after the discovery, you need to slowly become more "familiar" instead of believing.
And yes, let’s get back to your answer just now. You are not "answering" my question, but you throw away “the negative me” with that answer. With your answer, I have become another person, who “awakens” to the state of God's consciousness again. In this state, in the state of God, there is no such question, and I know well that I need no worry. This is the way true God answers people's questions. It is not logical, but non-linear. It is the way of Zen.
Emma:
My dear child, so have you understood? When you are writing about these dialogues, more or less you are concerned about how to present these words as materials for a book, but for me, I would invite you to let go of these worries and calculations. We are simply two joyful persons meeting, chatting, and conversing together. We chat for a period of time when the two of us are enjoying an incredible life, just as you go for a walk and view flowers. As for the readers, they are like observers, so let them take care of themselves! You yourself simply talk to me with relish and joy. Some may come and watch because they think our chat is fun. Just let them come and go! It is totally like a flower in blossom. It is impossible to care whether others understand that it is blooming. Whatever!
Zhang Cheng:
Well, it is almost habitual. I used to say that it is my "communicative personality", that is, whatever I say or write, I always wonder if others can understand it. I even think about what questions I should ask you for everyone else?
Emma:
Haha! When you think of "everyone", your unique personality is gone. Don’t you always want to feel your own "uniqueness"? But I can say that you were in the wrong about the so-called "uniqueness"! The uniqueness you used to long for was the uniqueness in the eyes of others. My Lord! Can't you see a big loophole here? If this uniqueness is "what everyone agrees”, is it still unique? Obviously, what you want is not "uniqueness" at all; what you really want is nothing but everyone's approval! Therefore, the true "uniqueness" is that there is no "others" or "everyone" in your consciousness. When you enjoy your present moment with a pure heart, the way you enjoy it is unique! That is true uniqueness. Do you know that even if there are already 10,000 cosmos in the wilderness, any new cosmos bud will never say, "OH MY GOD! I have become mundane! I don't want to be a cosmos plant." Only humans say such words. Such uniqueness that involves worries about the viewers is not true uniqueness.
Zhang Cheng:
I understand, so I need not worry about what others want to know and what they would ask if Emma is here. Nor how I can "use" this conversation to meet their needs? If I have worries about it, the first thing I lose is my own joy! What I should be thinking is how “I” interact with you. When I remove "I" and keep “I am sharing” in mind, the joy of that moment is actually reduced because I deviate from my true way of flowing. For example, maybe I just want to say “Emma, I love you”, or I simply want to silently feel you, and that is the best way I enjoy it and delight myself at that moment.
Emma:
Yes, my child, it is very, very correct. If you start to worry about others, even if you say nice words as “I am sharing”, your joy will decrease in the moment. With such reduced frequency, you cannot match my frequency. A dialogue will go on, but it will be one at another level of the consciousness stream––––it will not be so pure, so bright. And this reduction can happen smoothly and unknowingly, that is, to others, these conversations are still smooth, even more logically, but in fact its level has been declining.
Zhang Cheng:
I understand, again, this is what it means “using God” instead of “following God”. In fact, once we want to "use God," our connection with God has already broken off.
Emma:
Let our conversation be something that makes you happy! Joy is always your top priority because when you really feel joyful, you are connected with God. Joy proves yourself being loved by God.
Zhang Cheng: It would be a joy to be loved by people!
Emma: Yes! The “person” giving you love is “God” at the moment while giving love. If this is unacceptable to you, a "fragment of God" might sound better!
Zhang Cheng:
I can accept it now because I understand that “The Self” is not “A Self”. When we hate, we are Devil; when we love, we are God; when we speak Chinese, we are the Chinese stream of consciousness ...... Here the point that has not been made is “When I know that I am not a self, I also know that God is not a God.” In fact, we are simply a stream of consciousness without boundaries. My thoughts are never “Mine” because there is no “Me”. Therefore, God is not “A God”. Then I suddenly understood why I was not sure of the existence of God–––––because I thought I needed to find “a great someone who shines and glows” other than “myself.” Since I have never had such experience, I felt that I never experienced the complete, real, true God.
Emma:
Now you should know if you really have such experience, it must be an illusion; it must be a projection!
Zhang Cheng:
Haha! Yes, in fact, I have been practicing meditation, so I cannot absorb such an idea. However, honestly speaking, part of me retains the belief that “God is a certain person”, which is the reason why I always have doubts about God’s authenticity.
Emma:
Only when you finally understand that "God is not a God" will you see God truly alive!
Zhang Cheng:
Right. God is a burst of joy blown by the wind, a surprise sent by flowers, the incredible beauty of the blue sky lined by branches, and any positive but non-linear thought that pops up in my mind. They are all God Himself! Himself! They are definitely not “God's forces”, “God's expansions”, “God's influences” or “God's inspiration”. No, They are not! They are God Himself, Alive!!
Aiya! I am glad that I can utter my understanding correctly. Apart from these, you will never find God! God is not a source with a distance from you, shining and touching you with His divine power. No. God is “everywhere” because He is everything! Because He is everything, He is not everything! If He is a bodhisattva, then He cannot be an angel; if He is spring, He cannot be winter. Because He is not everything, everything can be He!
Emma:
So how is the dialogue with God achieved?
Zhang Cheng:
It is to take away the idea that God is “a God” and that I am “a self”. If this idea is taken away, you will become one with God. If you really try to live this way, even for a few seconds only, you will find that when you are empty, you will be directly one with God. When entering God consciousness, everything is empty. You can say that they exist, or that they do not.
Dear Emma, it is not happiness that I feel in this moment; it is peace. There is joy at the time of oneness, and after oneness, it is like nothingness.
