We, the disciples at UHBE Vung Tau Meditation Center, together with all our UHBE meditation centers over the world, are very honored to celebrate the 165th birthday of our great grand founding master, Dasira Narada. We also, from the bottom of our hearts, would like to express our deeply appreciation to the Almighty God , who had been giving out his teaching for a heavenly perfection transformation, to the human beings.
By that thought, as a disciple in UHBE Vung Tau meditation center, I would like to share my conception about TO LIVE by our UHBE point of view. This thought also is like a flower dedicated to our great grand founding master, Dasira Narada.
Life is like a non stop flowing stream of water. It never stops changing. To live in that stream, wedon’t know where or when it has to go? Will the journey ahead be straight or full of oppositions. Will it be misdirecting or it will make it stop or the direction it travels. ? Will it lead to the path of completeness? Sometimes, we are nervous and worried by too many obstacles and oppositions in our normal lives and activities. And by the most desperate moments, we might start to think about spirituality.
We should not separate spirituality and reality. Actually they are all in one. Is that right and very practical that if a mindful spirituality path tells us when we eat we realize we are eating, when we stand, we realize we are standing? We should live an initiative active life.
By that thought, destiny led me to join UBHE. I have got a very formal UHBE initiative celebration. I have got all chakras activated. I have been taught on how to meditate by the teachings and guides from our Masters and our senior disciples.
After 7 months of practice, I have meditated and put a lot of thinking into our method. I have realized that UHBE meditation have taken away a lot of things of my life. It took away my cowardliness, my greed, my anger, my desire, my pleasure, my love and my sorrow (tham, sân, si, hỉ, nộ, ái, ố) . The meditation also destroyed my whole monument of old doctrines and old passive thinking. UHBE only gave a unique knowledge for me to get into the spiritual world.
At first, we have to consider that only the Dark Ignorance (Vô Minh) separates people. When Dark Ignorance disappears, separation of people will be disappeared and we will have eternal joy together.
At one dharma speech, master Ngọc Hải has said: “ a spiritual cultivator will wander in a indefinite journey if he/she has no right knowledge. In order to have the right knowledge, he/she must have wisdom. And wisdom is only in a healthy body. A weak sick person can not have wisdom.”
Therefore, the basic of the right knowledge is the study of SELF-EGO (Ngả), the Self-Ego is the conception, the feeling, the selfness (Ta), that everyone has in his own mind. And that’s the root cause for miserable of the whole world.
The self-ego can be viewed by three different ways:The knowledge; the will; and the capacity.
The knowledge is the thing that can be reflected from deep inner of the selfness.
The will is cause of desires
The capacity is the cause of actions.
In a summary, we can say that if we have knowledge, we deduce; if we want, we desire; if we express our capacity, we start our actions. Those three expressions are the combinations of the selfness.This selfness lasts through time and space. A spiritual cultivator must discover the selflessness (Vô Ngả) and develop the nirvana ego (Chân Ngả).Those are the only paths to reach enlightenment.
We, the disciples of Dasira Narada, have inherited the top secret miracle ultimate Dharma Method (Pháp) that can bring all human beings to the higher levels of spirituality.
We should not practice that Dharma Method for our own inactive way, we have to use our ability to help other people like what Master Đức Thuận has taught: “.. UHBE disciples have to sacrifice our lives to help and save all human beings and to increase our knowledge which through our actions, in order to bring our own spiritual level higher..” Our knowledge is also the belief (Đức Tin).
Belief and Knowledge are most importance for UHBE disciples.
Belief: There are Wrong Belief (Mê Tín) and Right Belief (Chánh Tín) .
Wrong Belief is the belief without knowledge and consideration. Wrong Belief made us to depend our own lives to God, stay still and wait for the miracle happening. If no miracles happen, believers might try to do something terrible wrong in the Dark Ignorance (Vô Minh) and hence, to make more bad karma (Nghiệp Quả) for himself.
Right Belief is the belief with the deep through consideration about our mind and consciousness. If one person can really understand the belief by mind and consciousness, he won’t have skeptics and he must have the strong belief in our supreme dharma method from Dasira Narada.The Dasira Narada dharma method is the miracle TRUTH (Chân Lý Kỳ Diệu) for our lives.
To learn about the TRUTH from Dasisa Narada, sometimes, we might feel scared of the sea of miserable of lives that we have realized. Only by the strong belief can help us get over the obstacles of lives. Our Master Đức Thuận has said: “ .. During the time of cultivating, we will face a lot of obstacles, perplexity (Phiền Nảo) and Grieves (Đau Khổ) , Those are the great lessons for us to improve ourselves “ . In the journey of a spiritual cultivating, there are always some challenge conditions (Khảo Đảo) , we have to accept those conditions as parts of spiritual cultivating life.
As Master Ngọc Hải has taught: “ Dasira Narada had said – Disciples of UHBE must not be afraid of obstacles and challenge conditions, there will be a lot of challenge conditions in our path,…. If we fail to get over, it’s not because of the conditions, but because of our own weakness. A spiritual cultivator who likes to study Transcendental Doctrine (Minh Triết) and get enlightened should not be afraid of challenge conditions or even dangers….”
For those particular cases, only the strong belief can help us. The strong belief is like the weapon to help us to get into the war of inner –self . Strong belief will make our mind stronger to get over all challenge conditions. Anyway, by our strong belief, our great grand founding master, Dasira Narada can connect and support us spiritually.
The transformation of consciousness:We are living in the TRUTH and by the TRUTH of Dasira Narada, We have completely understood the teachings of our Masters. We know and realize that nothing and nobody can make our lives miserable. Only we can make our lives miserable. One single moment of consciousness (niệm) of greed, of hate, of desire which raises in our mind, miserable will come up right after that; Stop thinking about greed, hate or desire, miserable stops right away.
Therefore, we have to get out of the sticky situations of hell, of lies, of craziness, of stupidity, of all false rules and restrictions of human that had constraint our lives. The miracle of Dharma method of Dasira Narada has given us the transformation of consciousness.
The transformation of consciousness is the complete revolution. We also need to discuss about time. Time is very importance. Time is the destroyer for our transformation of consciousness.
We have to have action right away, as soon as possible. It’s now or never.Hell or Heaven, Happy or Miserable, Grief or Joy, they are all only from our mind and heart.
We are parts of the society and the whole universe. Our work and actions also are the parts of what to form our world. We will get from what we give or do to the society and universe by the universal rules of attraction.We have to contribute our share to the society and spreading out our dharma method to everyone in the world instead of just trying to practice for ourselves.We have to uproot the old thinking and transform ourselves consciousness completely and also help to transform the whole world. That’s also the purpose of our method - To serve all human beings.
The comprehension of meditation:What is meditation? Actually, there is no correct written interpretation or correct meaning of meditation. There is no correct analysis of meditation either. Meditation is the truly, really experience of the practitioner who has to use his body and mind to reach through the different status by his own practice. There are no words can explain the right feelings of meditation. Meditation helps us to understand the true meaning of Presence and hence, liberate ourselves out of anxiety, worrying, scariness. It will improve the quality of our lives and bring joy to ourselves and others.
The basic conditions of Meditation are Reflection (Niệm), Perfect absorption of thought (Định) and Wisdom (Tuệ). In meditation, we have to realize that the chaos is from our selfness. As long as we still have our selfness which is the root cause of greed, hate, and desire we could never get to the status of perfect absorption of thought (Định). We have to get rid of the selfness. We stay on meditation to stay awaken, to watch our flow of thought which is also our consciousness. We have to stay on alert reflection; do not “go” with the flow of thought. When we remove completely our selfness, we will reach to the perfect absorption of thought and hence, the wisdom also appears right after that. To stay on meditation, we will realize the Selflessness (Vô Ngả), the Impermanence (Vô thường). If we live in that status, then wisdom will come to us and we will see the TRUTH.
…The TRUTH that everyone can accept.There is no border, no class, no race for the TRUTH.The TRUTH with love for all human beings,The TRUTH without selfishness, without desire, without benefit.That’s the real TRUTH… (Dasira Narada)
By the basic understanding of our belief, by the transformation of consciousness, we can get to the TRUTH of UHBE. We don’t have to look for the TRUTH anywhere because the one that looks for the TRUTH would never find the TRUTH.We might want to look for the miracle LOVE. We should forget about the past, don’t care about the future. We should only care about this right miracle moment of Presence where we can find the awake of the mindfulness.
We should come back to “watch” ourselves inner mind in order to understand the purpose of life. Why do we have to change our lives? Is it because our lives are so boring with the repetitiveness with hate, anger, love, desire, miserable. We have to change our lives to get the joyfulness for our mind. Our UHBE dharma method will help us to change our bad karma for our body (thân), our speech ((khẩu), our mind ( ý). We should come back to our origination status, look back to our mind. Do not avoid our mind but watch it, realize it. We should serve all human beings by our TRUE love. That’s the TRUTH of our lives and the purpose of our meditation method.
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