Congratulations for both of you! I am very happy of your conquerer. You have found the balance between your energies and opened the gates to let the mind of your positive seed Karma to enter in Jen’s body, passing through the inner channels and all chakras.

That’s a very important time for both of you, your collective Karma is flourishing and giving some fruits.

About your last post, I can say YES you are right we always, every single moment, we get involved and distracted by everyday things, duties and toughts. You are distracted in essence.

And sure, we use all excuses to not do what we want to do, sometimes we use excuses to not work, to not get up, to not exercise, to not read, to not relax, to not meditate and so forth.But can you imagine a Yogui or a Highest Buddha, they can do everything by their minds, they can do everything at the same time, they do not need to finish one task to start another, actualy for them, remember, there is no beggining and no ending. Is it not incredible?

You are so concentrate on the true nature of all phenomena that nothing can distracte us. Without understanding the true nature of all phenomena you will remain forever in the distracted world. Lossing our life, time, wishes, dreams, desires, aspirations by our self-grasping.

From Shantideva book “Guide to the Bodhisattva’s way of Life, we can have this instructions:

“…It is suffering and its causes that need to be abandoned,
And it is the ignorance of self-grasping that causes delusions and sufferings to increase.
“But there is no way to abandon self-grasping so that it will never recur.”
On the contrary, meditation on selflessness, or empitness, is the supreme method for accomplishing this.

Neither the feet nor the calves are the body,
Nor are the thighs or the loins.
Neither the front nor the back of the abdomen is the body,
Nor are the chest or the shouolders.

Neither the sides nor the hands are the body,
Nor are the arms or the armpits.
None of the inner organs is the body,
Nor is the head or the neck.
So where is the body to be found?

If you say that the body is distributed
Among all its different parts,
Although we can say that the parts exist in the parts,
Where does a separate possessor of these parts abide?

And if you say that the entire body exists
Within each part, such as the hand,
It follows that there are as many bodies
As there are different parts!”

Buddha says, there is no body neither its parts, we are not an unit nor a colection of them. The day we start to understand empitness and put its knowledge into practice, we will be permanent happy and there will not be any distraction, because there is no parts to get involved with and also there will be not unit to be stocked in.

You will never get me wrong. Do not worry, if I cannot understand whatever you are telling me it is because my selg-grasping ignorance and my karma, not because you are not being clear enough.

Love & Kindness

Marcelo

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Food for thought that is! Wow!!!

Emptiness is the subtle way of understanding and living? Does that mean inner peace and relaxation? Does that mean the answer to all our questions?

So is meditation the way to move forward and experience emptiness – btw, I started meditating. Not as regular as I want but I got started.

If you say you perceive the wake state with a dream mind, does that mean we run around like zombies? Apologies, do not want to sound silly but are we less caring and less participating in that state? Have you had this state of emptiness?

I will look into the books, here are the links to the respective Amazon sites if anyone is interested:

Heart of Wisdom: An Explanation of the Heart Sutra

Clear Light of Bliss: Tantric Meditation Manual

Ocean of Nectar: Commentary to Chandrakirti’s “Guide to the Middle Way”

I will have to practise a bit more and then come back to more books. There are still a few you recommended. It is heavy stuff, hard to understand but good. It helps me!

You also wrote:
We are here together, you from Germany I am from Brazil, we have met in 2006 in London, Why? How could it be possible? I am very declined to say: Our Karma, we have lived and developed some common karma before. Otherwise why can I not have with other the same experience as I am having with you right now?

Isn’t that interesting. We are far apart but so close. I remember first meeting you (sounds like a love story) and I thought “this man is interesting, there is something about him”. Maybe I should confess now, watching you coming into the session at Covent Garden and when you sat down, you prepared for meditation. There is something about the way you prepare that was different to other Buddhist Monks. I cannot put my finger on it.
As if we had met before, in another life?

Maybe you have to teach me things and I have to teach you things so that in the next life we are getting closer to where we should be? Or, there is more to come and we might be able to achieve something for some people in this life.

I often wonder how many people read this blog – I mean I can count the visitors to this blog but I cannot see how many people actually read it.

You out there – do you enjoy what you read?
Marpa left a message the other day, his blog is here. Maybe more people could let us know.

I believe, Marcelo, that we will be up for something good soon – and soon can mean anything before I turn 40
Why 40. Because I have a (master) plan of things I want to achieve before I am 40. And part of it will have to do with Buddhism, Charity and the greater goods in life. But we discuss that some other time.

Love and Kindness from the Big Smoke,
Volker

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That is a lot of input.

You are saying that emptiness is the ultimate nature of everything. The ultimate nature of everything is emptiness. Does that make sense? Does that mean, we are nothing, come from nothing and go nowhere. Is it that? Why are we here and how are we doing the right things being here (earth?)?

If nothing is self-existent, everything is created from Karma/wisdom – and if there is a greater unconscious (see Jung) where we all have access to, who is it that determines that a certain Karma/thought comes to us. Are we accessing this “bundle of thoughts”?

Pointing you to my mind – that was your other question. Hmm, another difficult one. Did we not speak about it before. Is it in our chakra, the “enlightenment chakra” above our head?

Marcelo, I am not sure if I answered your question, neither am I sure whether I can answer your question. What is happening with us? Are we just puppets that connect via an imaginary cable to the clouds of unconsciousness? And, who determines what we “download” from there?

What do you think?

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