Welcome to the
seventeenth
issue of Light-Up-Your-Life
Newsletter.
The aim of this newsletter is to guide you as you discover
the very source of Happiness and Wisdom. This source is
so deep that it is unaffected by the conditions of your
environment, your body, and mind.
Many people participate in the human potential movement.
But you may be surprised to learn what your real potential
is.
And don't forget to read the last article in this newsletter,
How can I overcome anger. When you get to the root
cause, your tendency to react with anger will disappear.
See our new e-book, "Making Your Wisdom Come Alive."
for a guide that will take you to the core of the universe.
In “Making Your Wisdom Come Alive” we take you, step by step,
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to your own true nature, so that you can stand in this Freedom
and Bliss without interruption.
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You've all assembled here before daybreak to listen
to what I have to say. I'm going to tell you about the
Buddha-mind, the mind of the Unborn. You've come
here this early in the morning because you expected
to hear something quite out of the ordinary. You
wouldn't be here if you didn't.
Those of you who have reached the age of fifty have
lived your fifty years totally unaware that you've had
a Buddha-mind. If you're thirty, you've been ignorant
of your Buddha - mind for thirty years, right up till
this morning. You've all been slumbering the years
away. But today at this gathering, if you come to
understand thoroughly that you have an unborn
Buddha-mind and go on to live in the Unborn, at
that moment you become a living Buddha for
countless future ages.
My only reason for speaking to people like this is
because I want to make everyone know about the
marvelously illuminating clarity of the unborn
Buddha-mind. When you've confirmed it for yourself,
you're the Buddha-mind from then on. No different
from Shakamuni himself. The Buddha-body is yours
once and for all, for endless ages, and you won't ever
fall into the evil ways again.
The Unborn, The Life and Teachings of Zen Master Bankei,
Translated by Norman Waddell
Copyright © by Norman Waddell
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Often I hear people talk about the human potential
movement. How can a human being get to his or her
ultimate potential? Many people when they think of
human potential ask, “How can I have a better
relationship?” or “How far can I advance in my job or
business?” or “How can I sharpen my skills for living
a better life?”
Human nature has no limits
But I say that if this is all that people want out of life
they are selling themselves short. That's because
human nature has no limitations.
But how can this be true? It doesn't seem to add up.
There is no way that a limited person can create a
state without limitations. A limited person doing a
limited action, or thinking some limited thoughts,
or not thinking any thoughts for a limited amount
of time, cannot equal infinity.
Are you really infinite
This leaves one other option. If there is a state of
infinity it must be right here for you to discover. Not
something that you would have to obtain, but rather
who you are right now.
Or can you limit infinity
If there was a separate "you" trying to get to infinity,
then by definition you would never arrive. That's
because the sense of “you" would limit infinity. If
there was a separate “you” apart from infinity then
there would be "you" and infinity. Infinity would no
longer include everything seen and unseen and that's
why it would become limited.
What is this infinity
But if it turned out that at your core you were just a
huge limitless blob, it might be very big, but it still
wouldn't be very satisfying. So let’s make a list of
what our human potential would have to include so
that it would be satisfying.
What would you need to be satisfied
First your human potential would have to include
Awareness because without Awareness it would
seem dead.
Second, it would have to include joy, or a deep sense
of peace. There is no way that I wound want to spend
forever in most peoples concept of heaven. Boring
could not be an option.
Third, it would have to be free of the ups and downs
in life and even death itself.
Fourth, it also would have to be free of physical,
mental and any nonphysical or energetic limitations.
Fifth you would have to be able to experience your
potential directly. A theoretical enlightenment would
do you no good.
And finally you would have to be able to experience
this whether you were sitting quietly, or in the middle
of a hectic work day, where you simply did not have
time to think about this.
Is all this inside of you
I think that you would agree that if all of this, described
above, was really inside of you, you would have a real
diamond at your center. But the next obvious question
is, “Michael, how can I access all of this potential that
you say is inside of me?"
The secret of Awareness
Here is the secret to free yourself from limitation
and find out who you really are. Trace your Awareness
to its source.
Did you know that you are not limited by anything
you see? This was a real revelation for me. I thought
that if I saw limitation it was proof that I was stuck in
limitation. But it turned out that what I thought was a
limitation actually pointed to my freedom.
How can you be free of limitation
In this regard you might say, “Michael, you say that
we are free from limitation, but you can’t walk through
walls, can you?” I agree that there aren't many bodies
that can walk through walls. But let’s see if there is a
way that you are not limited to your body?
Are you limited to a body
You would never mistake me for you, would you? The
reason is that you are Aware of me, right? If we were
in a room together you would see me. And you know
that what you see is other than you. So you are the
subject and I am an object in your Awareness, right?
If I went around declaring that I was Peter or Debby
instead of Michael you would consider me insane,
wouldn't you?
But what I am saying here is that in the same way
you see me as an object in your Awareness, you also
see your own body. And you hear it and smell it too.
You are Aware of your body
So you are the subject, Awareness, and your body is
just another object in your Awareness, isn't it? So
while I have to agree that your body can't walk through
walls, you as the seer are already free of the limitations
of the body, aren't you? The body is limited to this
side of the wall. But what limits Awareness?
To imagine space might give you a clearer idea of what
I am talking about. Pots, walls, rooms and buildings
do not limit space. The space is in the walls, on both
sides of them, above them and below them.
Because you are Awareness and not limited to this
little, short lived container called a body, you like
space are not limited to this side of your walls.
This may be hard to imagine but because you are
already Awareness, it is easy to experience.
If you see them you are free
If, as in this example, you use every limitation
whether physical, or mental to trace Awareness back
to its source, you will find Awareness, peace and joy,
without limitation. This is just what I listed above.
If fact you will find the satisfaction that people look
for in a million different ways and that always seems
to allude them.
There will be no time when you won’t experience
this Awareness. That’s because Awareness is
unencumbered by the motion of your mind and
the world
.
Awareness is not an object
But you won’t know Awareness as a separate thing.
You will know it because it is just who you are.
Standing free of anything that could possibly limit
you, you will have reached your full human potential.
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In this second article I will answer questions that some
of
you have asked me.
This month a person asked, “Because I get worried
and feel lots of tension I often get angry. How can I
overcome this anger?”
Meditation is not to make rocks
When I answer a question like this, I like to start by
reminding you that I am not trying to make you into
a rock. You have many emotional tools and when
they are used as a response to an appropriate
situation they are useful tools. Anger is one of these
tools.
In fact, Christ responded with anger to the money
lenders in the temple, because they did not belong
there.
But when you find that your anger is eating you up
inside and coming out like a volcano against your
loved ones and friends, it is time, in your meditation,
to find an answer for your anger.
Don't resolve it on the level that it occurs
If you try to resolve the anger at the same level that
it occurs by doing something to your mind you will
find yourself in a constant struggle. You will feel split.
Half of your mind will be ready to explode while the
other half tries to stop your anger by applying this or
that meditation technique. You already feel enough
tension in your life, so I don't want to add more.
Get to the cause
The key then is to get to the cause of your anger. There
you can easily resolve it at a deeper level than it occurs.
The sign that you got to the cause of your anger is that
situations, which before would cause you to explode,
now have no effect on you.
I remember that when I got to the source of my
frustration I was very surprised by this. I didn't try
to anticipate or control my reactions.
But the thing that amazed me was that my response
to these situations, that before caused me much pain,
was now new and fresh. I felt a lot more alive and
open in my response and most important I didn't feel
the least desire to get angry.
So here I will show the very root cause. In most cases
this will resolve your problem.
What is the root cause of anger
If you've read www.light-up-your-life.com, you know
that the source of happiness is right where you
experience it in your heart. Not recognizing this,
people take their innate happiness and throw it
outside, blaming their happiness on objects and
situations in the world.
You might for instance think, "I'll be happy when I
get a new car, a new house, a new husband or wife,
or a new job etc."
Of course when you throw your happiness outside
you run into obstacles to being happy. These
obstacles could be your boss, your husband or wife,
your environment, or lack of money etc.
You need happiness
This sense of happiness or peace is so compelling that
people will do practically anything to destroy their
imagined obstacles. So your anger is the energy to
destroy the obstacles to your happiness.
No obstacles = no anger
By returning happiness to its source, however, you
will overcome all of the obstacles that seem to limit
your happiness.
You will find a freedom and aliveness
that you cannot anticipate in advance. You will also
see amazing changes in your life, and most important
in most situations, your tendency to react with
anger will disappear.
Finding the source of happiness is the great cure for
for most human problems.
Please feel free to contact me with questions or comments
at: Michael@light-up-your-life.com.
Sincerely,
Michael Gluckman