Taking Care of the Physical Body

Spiritual and mental development is important. So is emotional health. While much is focused on physical health (proper diet, proper sleep, proper exercise, proper lifestyle), little is known about how the liver plays a critical role in our overall well being. I had thought that eating right is good enough but appartently it is not so. Years of accumulated toxins still remain in our system, and the only way to get of them is by going through a hard-core and thorough liver/gall bladder detox programme by Khun Kop of Tunya Samui. Not until I have tried it did I realised the crucial importance. I have never looked back since. There are plenty of information on it. But I would recommend that you google and read the softcopy book by Andreas Moritz on "The Amazing Liver and Gallbladder Flush". Available for download for free. Your life will never be the same again.  

Radiant Aura for Happiness, Wellness & Prosperity

Many of us would most like to have continued good luck, good blessings, and good karma in our lives.  The secret is to have a healthy heart chakra with love, kindness and compassion. This will open up your crown chakra to have a strong spiritual connection to the Divine source. With a larger downpour of soul energy, it will automatically brighten our aura to make it more dynamic, energetic, and magnetic to attract good people and pleasant situations. But first, we have to get the basics right. In a nutshell, they are as follows:
1) Maintain good physical and energy hygiene through proper diet, proper exercise, and proper sleep;
2) Have a right understanding to have good self image, respect and confidence to develop the strength, courage, and resilence to handle life's challenges, difficulties and problems;
3) Develop the wisdom and discernment to exhibit the right behaviour in the form of good thoughts, words and deeds to generate positive karma;
4) Ability to forgive oneself and others to discard the negative binds so as to bring good luck and blessings in the form of healthy relationships, good health, prosperity and spiritual growth.

Poverty Versus Prosperity Consciousness

Many people believe that to be on the spiritual path, they need to live very simple lives and to have as little material possessions and belongings as possible. The danger is that it might breed poverty consciousness, with the mistaken belief that money is the root of all evil.  On the other hand, renunciation is for spiritual disciples who are seeking full enlightenment. Hence they join the monkhood or nun order.  However for the majority of us, we have family and other responsibilities. Instead we need to cultivate a prosperity consciousness mindset. This is because the more money we have, the more we can provide a decent standard of living for ourselves and our families. And the more we have, the more we can use the wealth to do good deeds, such as service and tithing to generate positive karma.  We need balance and moderation in our lives. The important thing is not to have strong attachment to our money, wealth and status.  Remember that during Lord’s Buddha time, there were many noblemen and women who managed to attain the third stage of enlightenment without renunciation.

Pain and Suffering

Ajahn Jayasaro shared an interesting matrix on pain and suffering.  We all go through all forms of pain, from mental, emotional to physical. And we also face all types of pain in our lifetime, be in lousy relationships, poor health, lack of money etc. Understanding the pain, the cause of pain would be important, but accepting the pain as it is (i.e.that is is impermanent, unsatisfactory, and non-self) would be more critical.  The noble eight-fold path always starts from having the right understanding (viewpoint). That is to have the wisdom and discernment to see things as they are. By doing so, we haveaccurate perception and correct expression to exhaust past negative karma and accumulate positive karma to create a better future. Hence we can "manage" the pain to some extent. Avoid meditating on the negativity as it will only energize the pain. Instead, let us focus on the positivity to generate pain relief.  I believe that with the right understanding, we will not develop high resistance to pain (here it means struggling with pain which causes more tension which then worsens the pain even more). With less resistance to pain coupled with the right understanding to accept pain as it is, and combined with having awareness (mindfulness) to create good karma, I see no reason why we must suffer immensely. Remember it all starts with a positive mindset. As pointed out by Rae Chandran, a spiritual teacher, in his book "DNA of the Spirit Vol 2", we need not have to suffer immensely to exhaust our negative karma. Why and how ? Read the book for this new spiritual technology to change your life.       

Having a Clean Aura to Attract Good Luck

All of us look forward to attract lady luck to shine on us, to give us blessings in the form of good fortune and prosperity. Other than karmic entitlement, we can also attract good luck by keeping our subtle bodies clean with our wholesome thoughts, feelings/emotions, and actions. Another way is through proper energy hygiene, proper diet, proper sleep, proper exercises, and regular meditation. One quick method is to use the power of our mind through intention and visualisation. Here, the above diagram and the instructions is a simple way to have a clean aura so as to attract the finer things into our life. But this is only temporary and not very long lasting. Of  course using the proper techniques will ensure deeper and thorough cleansing of our aura, chakras, and meridians. To ensure that we continue to receive blessings into our lives, we need to do much more. In my opinion, I think this can be done by having the right viewpoint, maintain a positive mindset, and having a happy and optimistic outlook in life. That would then set the pace for the other things to flow and happen. To cap it all, one must have the higher faith and humbly ask for help from the Divine.   

The Ultimate Wisdom

I attended a one-day meditation retreat two weeks ago conducted by Luang Por Tiradharmmo. The key take-away lesson for me was the quotation given above by the Venerable.  From what I understood from his teachings, wisdom is not a matter of choosing and seeing what you like to see and observe. This is because it has very much to do with your likes and desires, Seeking pleasurable sensual delights and pursuing them is not wisdom because one can easily get carried away by craving and attachment. In fact, this could be a form of delusion to be misled into thinking that all good things might last forever.  This only leads to suffering and ensure a long term passport visa to samsara. So to develop wisdom, one should also see how one's mind is exposed to aversion too. Finally to see things as they really are is to see beyond the superficial. That is to see, know and realise that all things are impermanent, unsatisfactory due to their ever changing nature, and also non-self (lack of a permanent substance in there). Anyway, the concept of non-self has a deeper meaning to it which I would share on it another occasion. Just that it was interesting to note after attending a Theosophy talk on the subject of "Self and No-Self". 

The Importance of Light Quotient (LQ)

I was introduced to the concept of light quotient (LQ) by Zhang Yizhao, one of my meditation teachers at a full moon meditation session three nights ago. From what I understand, IQ and EQ are important for us to function well in today's society.  That means having good brains to learn and pick up skills, and also having excellent relationship skills to get along well with people. However, little is known about LQ. It refers to how much light energy we carry or hold in our aura. The more light energy we have, the more brilliant and radiant our aura will become.  So how do we do it ?  It probably has to do with how much divine energy downpour that goes into our crown chakra. This in turn would then depends on how thick our spiritual cord is. The thicker the cord, the stronger the connection and divine energy downpour. If we can have a bright aura, we can attract good luck and good things to happen in our lives. So how do we build and maintain a thick spiritual cord ? In Arhatic Yoga, it is by building the five pillars and practicing the virtues. In Buddhism, it is by learning and living the dharma, doing chanting and meditation.