In meditation we are putting aside all that the brain is telling us and we are not thinking any more. There is a reason why Yogis and Gurus came to teach this method of ‘checking out’ as the mind can become obsessed with a few negative thoughts or never stop thinking. One thought leading to the next and the whole life becomes one long thought giving the person a headache called stress.
The yogic methods of dealing with stress are meditation, repetition of mantra, Karma yoga the performing of selfless service and other methods I have mentioned on the site under the 6 paths of Yoga. It is not that you stop doing other things but you approach your whole life of work, family and pleasures from a peaceful yogic manner taking up one of the six paths and incorporating the practices and mentality into all that you do.
To relieve stress the mind need to be focused on other peaceful thoughts and at times not thinking at all. This is difficult at the beginning but once learned never forgotten.
The article below might be of interest.
Yogi Cameron
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/science/18angier.html?_r=2&emc=eta1er.php
on Oct 5th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Oh my honeylove Cameron - THANK YOU my precious,magical,loving healer!O love you!
Thank you my electric Cameron.I adore you Cameron.Hugs,Hugs,Hugs & kisses
Darling Cameron for me especially today,on this day,this is exactly the lesson and magical guidance I have required in this moment.!!!I made a new experience today - too valuable & magical - I opened a closed door for myself in the etheral world today!And your guidance is the healing steps to my new me & my new life - being my very self - as I was being in harmony with myself!!
Yes Cameron - YOU are magical my star!!You are my magic star!!!!!!!!!!!I HAVE ALWAYS WISHED UPON!
on Oct 7th, 2009 at 5:53 am
I love you my divine Cameron!
on Oct 7th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Hallo my Yogi Cameron, Rays of Love, other writers and observers. :p
Honeylove, below is what i got in this limit time but from my unlimited mind to uuuuuuuuuu..:p You decorated my life :p
My sister in law is pregnant, i’m so happy and wish for the baby to be boy :p
My mid-day sun, You make my mind filled with joy so much I could cry. :p
“Only merit can help you and is your real refuge which will follow you everywhere you go.
Forgiving makes us free, makes the world free of anger, free of hate, so that there´s only space for love.
Difficult things can happen to anyone, all of them help us to grow and be better persons. If we practice compassion, if we try to understand the others, if we try to be patient, a sparkle of love will shine inside ourselves. And as we practice forgiveness, we will have the power to smile and understand every single situation on our lives.
Meditation is the best tool for awareness and to feel our unconditional love, as Anita says, to be a human being is to be pure love, so, just let it flow!
29/7/2008 The Starting Point to Human Happiness I practiced meditation by visualising a crystal ball in the middle of my stomach and settling my mind at the middle of the ball. I thought of nothing, only maintaining my mind at that point continuously. Then, I got to know ” the plunging feeling”. I felt like I plunged fast to the depth of my stomach like being squeezed into a very long narrow tube which seemed to extend forever.
As I was meditating, I was impressed with Luang Phaw’s warm, gentle ,caring ,yet powerful voice. I was happily listening to his voice while sitting comfortably and relaxing my mind, letting go of all thoughts. Soon after, I felt lighter, roomier , brighter and happier. My mind completely stilled at the centre of the body(the seventh base). Then, a crystal clear Buddha image appeared.
I used to have a feeling that whenever I needed to make a decision, the answer would come right out of the center of my stomach. I felt with confidence that any answer coming out that way would always be right. According to the western,this feeling is called ” Gut feeling” which is like an instinctive feeling arising from intuition. The most important thing is why that intuitive feeling or answer has to come out of the center of the stomach?”
A special someone’s light path :p
“Your father passed away with clear mind because he could recollect all merits he had accrued so he becomes a smart angel having golden heavenly mansion in second level of heaven [Tavatimsa] phase 3. He is very happy and excited by his heavenly treasures. He has received all merits you have dedicated to him and it makes him have more heavenly treasures.
He passes a thank you message to you for being his virtuous friend who makes him able to be at the place he is right now.
2) After passing away, your mother-in-law becomes a beautiful female angel having a golden heavenly mansion in second level of heaven [Tavatimsa] phase 3. It was like she was sleeping and woke up in the middle of golden heavenly mansion, and she did not circumambulate Maha Dhammakaya Cetiya. She can be at this level of heaven because of the wholesomeness she had accrued herself and you have accrued for her.
3) Your husband’s sister collected money that your husband’s mother asked your husband to make merits for her and the money was donated to Kathina for almost 200,000 Baht. The fruit of the wholesomeness makes your mother-in-law have more heavenly treasures considerably.
She passes a thank you message to you for dedicating merits to her. The merits make her happy. She is smilingly admiring her heavenly treasures now.
4) After passing away, your uncle recollected the merit he cast Buddha image. These merits close the door to hell but open the door to heaven for him.
He was born as an air-sprite having a medium-sized golden heavenly mansion from merits he cast Dhammakaya image and merits he had occasionally accrued in tradition. He has received merits you have dedicated to him and these merits make his living condition better.
5) You were seriously ill and almost died without a reason because of your past kamma. In one of your past lives, you were born as a young girl of good behavior in a wealthy family with lots of slaves and retinues. You liked to regularly over use labors from both human and animals because you were afraid that it would not be worth with their wages you paid. As a result of these, you had heart valve disease, were easily panted and exhausted and almost died without knowing any reasons.
You recover from illness because of your past wholesomeness that you offered food and medicines to Buddhist monks and all merits you have presently accrued with Dhammakaya community as well as your retributions are lessened; so any doctor can cure you easily.
6) You dreamt about Dhammakaya image because of wholesomeness that you cast your own personal Dhammakaya image and persuaded others to cast their own Dhammakaya image with your fullest efforts. These merits create wholesome mental object which makes your dream so real.
7) Your oldest son ordained for your father. Fruits of his ordination can be summarized as followings. He will have his own renunciation perfection and this wholesomeness made his grandfather recollect his merits easily; as well as this is a major cause that makes your father to become an angel in second level of heaven [Tavatimsa] phase 3 because scenes of unwholesomeness he had made did not have a chance to slip through.
He used to pursue perfection with Dhammakaya community in the last Buddha aeon. Then, he was a young boy of good behavior whose duty was a provider with regular capable efforts.
As a result of his past wholesomeness, he will continuously have treasures and will not have hard life. Therefore, in this life, he should intend to pursue perfection better than before.
Therefore, in this life, he should intend to pursue perfection better than before.
When your youngest son was 7 years-old, he dreamt that Luang Pu visited him at his home. This was a wholesome mental object influenced by wholesomeness that he followed his parents to accrue merits with Dhammakaya community.
9) In the last Buddha aeon, your teaching monk was a soldier of a king who ordained. He ordained to follow the king, and had duties to spread Dhamma his entire life time. His meditation progress was at the level that he attained inner Dhammakaya and survived to return back to special merit zone of the fourth level of heaven [Tusita]. He came down to pursue perfection both the times.
He made a wish to be a leader of spreading Dhamma, and he used to be virtuous friend to your family before.
10) The feeling that you want to be a man so that you can ordain in Buddhism came up when you saw your son’s teaching monk in Prajeenburi province because the teaching monk had preached you before about harms of being householder in the past life and this inspires you to feel like that.
If you really want to be like that, you should serve your husband like an angel and try to observe 8 precepts every quarter moon day. Once you have accrued all merits, and then make a wish to be a man. It is possible that your wish will come true.
11) Your husband has accrued merits with you every time and financially supports your meritorious projects. As a consequence of his actions, he will receive all merits with you and these merits will completely demolish your poverty blueprint as well as create wealthy blueprint at a certain level in this life.:p
Since we have met each other in this life, therefore you must try to pursue perfection in all merits with fullest efforts and make a wish to follow the Dhammakaya community to Tusita (fourth level of heaven), in the special merit zone – bodhisatta as well as do not be apart from each other again.”
Sweet Pea, thank you for reading my comment, i respect your nonjudemental serene brain and may i rejoice in your peace, pure wisdom , love and bliss :p
It is so cool to “know what i want”, fruit of merit in Tusita heaven :p xxoo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlgF0oAxmO8&feature=related
on Oct 8th, 2009 at 3:27 am
Morning sweetheart Cameron - my angel!Hey love - the following video I have since months now & wanted to share it with you as it slightly confuses & entertains me.
Sweetheart do you think this is true or is this a joke?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-aycZUmwTE
Ought not to be obsessed by anything.Things like strange & wondrous ‘midnight passions’.
on Oct 8th, 2009 at 8:21 am
”To me it is ‘ youthfulness ‘ which i want to keep all my life long.For me,it seems to be the key to feel young.When our thoughts are happy then our hearts are happy and a joyous heart will radiate a youthful nature.There is just one thing there,Yogi Cameron,and that is it is sometimes very difficult to only think happy thoughts because sometimes even when one wants so bad to think happy thoughts something may be going on at that time in one’s life which make a person feel unhappy,distressed and displeased and maybe frustrated.But i guess that this is the big reason we have to also learn to control and balance our minds so we can control our thoughts.Because controlling the thoughts is difficult and it needs a lot of training to master it.”
Darling Cameron,I was reading your artilce on HOW TO LOOK YOUNGER & the above is from the comment I had written.Well?Just that….it fits in here too,right now.
”To relieve stress the mind need to be focused on other peaceful thoughts and at times not thinking at all. This is difficult at the beginning but once learned never forgotten.”
This is difficult to do.In the moment when one is in the stress situation,this has happened to me since some years consciously when I have tried very hard to focus on positive thoughts in the moment,but I’m mostly so terrified because I know I am being attacked and I know that I am totally ‘unprotected’.Even thinking that God is protecting me doesn’t help because I have tried it several times in the moment and the disruptive stress situation would only worsen,sometimes even become life-threatening.This is wierd Cameron,when these things are happening and they are quite unexplainable.Some years ago,here I had gone to one spiritual healer who could ’see things’ - invisible things around one.And this person told me there is a huge swarm of terrible insects all dashing into my face,trying to make me lose my grounding and protection.And she told me the way to protect myself was by grounding myself firmly,rooting myself to the earth!
ooh you make the sun shine in my heart baby!!! :):):)
These negative thoughts and stress situations are the same like terrible invisible insect swarms.By the way,it is true because during those years and it had become so bad,to the extent that even walking on the street outside anywhere was a torture because people would look at me and staring at me from just about a meter & a half start walking right into me without moving away,straight into me,staring at me,you know when we walk,if there is someone coming from the opposite direction a person instinctively takes a few steps aside & avoids banging into the other person.This situation went on for years and it only worsened for me.I could not understand that why people cannot see me or what - had I become invisible?I became very wounded you know.These things are so ‘abnormal’ to life.
And in the specific stress situations which are disruptive situations cause by someone,I have tried to focus on praying and chanting mantras to ward of the negativity,but inspite of that it went on.I don’t know what else to do & sometimes the sitatuations are such that one would not just walk away from there,for example if one is in the middle of a class,dancing,whatever,or anything else - where one does not really think about walking away from the lesson, - maybe one has paid for it and wants to attend it like everyone else!Quite a trap.I have always had these situations and they have not yet stopped.
Cameron,if I’m here everyday,I want your help.Teach me how to end this evil.
And I love you too Cameron.
on Oct 9th, 2009 at 2:31 am
Goodmorning my funkycandypop Cameron!
Darling tomcat…about the brain and the mind….well - the brain is only a part of the biological body whereas the mind is eternal & immortal.And this implies that the brain & the mind are seperate things.
But our minds do make us think and we say that our brains are thinking.But when we control our minds, - we begin controlling our brains!This means we begin controlling the functioning of our brains.So this means we control the biological functioning of our brains and our body - we regulate the impulses sent to our brains and thus our body reacts to our brains.
So the Yogis n Gurus developed ‘natural medicine’ in the form of yoga,meditation,chanting of mantras (because of sound vibrations which influence the impulses to our brains) so we remain naturallly healthy beings! wow
To think a little further than conditioned mice in experimental science is a GREAT DEAL.Yeah I’m mean - a ‘mean & honest’ person I know! - uuh - coz I speak the truth - and I like it! YAY
And yeah baby….I sure will practise what I preach.Hope that comforts the little souls out there.
Oh darling Cameron - did I drift of in my little movie dialogue out there?So angel - I’m BACK.
Right now the biggest ‘emotion’ I feel is HAVE A GREAT DAY.
:):):) smack my cool ass honey …. kisses
on Oct 9th, 2009 at 3:09 am
Thank you for sharing your midnight sweet dreamsLove and floating popcornRayrolling…:p :p :p
“The Nine Lives of Li Ching-Yun.
Li’s youthful appearance, noted in a 1928 article from the New York Times. Visually and physically, he appeared to look like a typical 60 year-old.”
These happy Superstarsongs love you….:p
“We are the miracle ,
I’ve been searching for the miracle all around the world
i used to look upon the moonlight
and the shining stars as a wonder of miracle
oneday i gave up on searching,
so i close my eyes and still my mind.
i finally found the greatest miracle
inside of me and everyone.
my dreams came true when i found you inside of me,
just close your eyes and you will find another you
sheltering inside and shining.
the wonder of the world is in you.
we ate the miracle of the world.
if you just close your eyes and learn to still your mind,
the greatest miracle is waiting for you.
my dreams came true when i found you inside of me,
just close you eyes and you will find another you
sheltering inside and shining.
the wonder of the world is in you.”
“Oneself indeed is master of oneself,
Who else could other master be?
With oneself perfectly trained,
One obtains a refuge hard to gain.”
Well.. i may think…”it’s so easy..ah-ha
first. comes the light
then comes the (family) :p stars
that’s so bright
sister stars
brother stars
mother star
father star
and nephew star
they all come out
for you to see
and that’s the door
to your destiny
There’s a place on earth
a place of destiny
a place of happiness
a place of peacefulness
you don’t have
to go too far
’cause it’s right here
where you are
all you have to do
is close your eyes
and you’ll see
Next step with You…:p
we can replace the deepest sadness with a new hope to carry on
We can rise above our grief by quietly reaching within,
and find a Centered peace and a new life will begin.
Death is part of life and so the seasons turn,
how much more suffering must we know, before we can act
on what we learn. Death is part of life
As one family with one heart and mind.
whose goal is simple and true, let us ease all pain.
and creat happiness, and an inner peace that is true
Death is part of life.
Death is part of life and so the seasons turn,
the deepest peace, unity and love from disasters,
we can learn. Death is part of life
On the wings of the morning there comes a new day,
a chance to begin and start a new way
‘Cause you are happy stars
Whose beauties surpassing all
Like the assembled devas
Smiling in the heavenly hall
With a heart so brave
You’re faithful to the ideal goal
Fighting through the winds and waves
Until the day of the triumphed soul
This seminar
The lamp enlightening the earth
For mankind to reach the highest
With our pure while determination.”
Sharing your time with me?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPx9ejBGHqs&feature=related
on Oct 10th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
Zinnias Cameron and readers :p
We knew that Japanese commit suicide 4people/hour. So i Thank you for showing me the art of yoga and the art of thinking and doing nothing. :p
In corners of the the world…
“Haju Sunim said that, in a Buddhist context, meditation is much more than a coping strategy.
“We’re not meditating for the sake of meditating; we’re meditating to have some deep understanding of life and death,” she said.
She said that meditating in the Zen Buddhist Temple is qualitatively different than taking a college course or a meditation class at a recreation center.
“Something very precious about our particular place is that it is a residential temple,” she said. “Residents… keep a schedule in the mornings and evenings so members can come in and practice if they want to.”
She said that in Asia, village life is affected by proximity to Buddhist temples, where morning prayers and bells rung for evening services set the rhythm of life. She said she hopes that the Ann Arbor Temple has a similar influence on its neighbors.
“We try to set up a rhythm of morning and evening practice. I hope that just by virtue of osmosis… our presence here will be a little more helpful day by day.”
Cheers!! To the most beautiful,peaceful and useful building for all. xoxo
http://www.youtube.com/user/eq072#p/a/0/VVmJi–SqWo
on Oct 11th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
The story of Humming Birds…
“They would take a moment from their activity and enter a state of quiet meditation thanking this relative for the visit. Sometimes the meditation would take on the form of a prayer for assistance to solve some perplexing difficulty, or the conversation might take on the form of a simple sharing of what was causing joy. They communicated to this ancestor much like they would talk to a living relative who they held in high esteem.”
Cameron, Ray and Love, i thank Steve for sending me this…
“I created the humming bird paintings to help remember this. I have several Martial Arts teachers, friends, a close aunt, a father, and a brother who have all forever left their bodies. And yet, surprisingly, from time to time I sense their presence in my life. Shortly after my father died, I remember sitting on the couch in my living room. I turned on a video-Shrek. I needed to smile. No one was in the house but me. Suddenly, I sensed someone sitting next to me. I turned to look and saw the empty space. At that moment for reasons I cannot find words for, I knew that it was my father. In my mind I heard my thoughts thank him for showing up. The response was surprising. I could almost hear him saying that he loved good movies and he loved me. Why not show up. I only have one father who holds a place in my heart that no one else can fill. On that day my heart was filled. That feeling of him being near me comes to me on a frequent basis now. And not just from my father, but from several teachers and relatives I knew while they lived in human form. Each time I sense their presence I feel as though some strength they possess has been given to me. If I need courage, bravery I get. If I need income, money I get. If I need love, a deep and satisfying sense of connection to someone near me I get. If I need wisdom and direction, my thoughts become concise and inspired, enabling me to take action. Mostly though, I have come to understand that I am a part of a very large family and whatever I need, want and desire they have plenty of. I only need to decide what I want and then ask. As I get older it has less and less to do with getting anything, and more and more to do with the experience of being part of other’s lives.
There is a family of humming birds that circle the trees of my house. Sometimes they come right up to the window as I write my thoughts down. The feeling of my ancestors being near comes to me now.
I love to watch humming birds.”
It makes me understand people, their thoughts and action . :p
Out of meditation, the master answered of someone’s life. :p
“Your maternal grandfather had stomach cancer because he was a courtier in his past life; there was a struggle for the throne between two princes. He backed up one of them and sent someone to poison and kill the other prince.
After his death, he became an Earth Sprite. Initially, he was hanging around the house. After he received the merit dedicated to him, he then became the air sprite.
3. After your paternal grandparents’ death, they went to Tavatimsa (2nd level of heaven) phase 3. They have a heavenly mansion that is right next to each other due to their love and attachment for each other.
Your paternal grandmother had throat cancer because in her past life, she was born as a woman in an agricultural society; she ordered her subordinates to slit the animals’ throat, in particularly those big animals such as cows and buffalos, and also she had verbally abused her workers and slaves.
4. You mother had accrued merits with the community for many lives. Sometimes, she met the community and she was a supporter.
She had stomach cancer because in the past life she was the Prince, your maternal grandfather supported to succeed to the throne. She sent someone to poison and kill the other Prince. Hence, in this life, she and your maternal grandfather were very close.
The kamma caused both of them to have stomach cancer and they also had adultery kamma.
Your mother’s death was like sleeping and then waking up in her golden mansion in Tusita (4th level of heaven), special merit zone for the supporters. This was because of her relationships with Luang Pu Wat Paknam and your maternal grandmother. She thought of the Buddha before she died.้
our mother met the community in only some of her lives. Hence, she has the tendency to make various merits widely. Sometimes, she accrued merits with the community. Sometimes, she didn’t, she made merit as according to her mood. Sometimes, she thought that the temple was rich so she decided to accrue merits elsewhere.
5. She got very great merit through taking part in Kathina Offering in 2005 with Luang Phaw and building the Crystal Pillar of the Grand Meditation Stadium. These merit sent her to Tusita (4th level of heaven).
She is currently very excited with her heavenly treasures. She has a message for everyone that she is now in the special merit zone in Tusita and so do not worry. And everyone should live to accrue merits wholeheartedly with the Dhammakaya community. She’d like everyone to know those merits that we accrued throughout our lives will really come to fruition in the afterlife. The merit doesn’t go away; we’ll receive merit if we continue to make it.
6. She is not angry with you or your brother. She really forgave you both and was wishing both of you happiness and prosperity.
7. Your uncle is paralysed, can’t speak clearly, can’t walk, and can’t remember things because of his kamma from slaughtering animals for food and fighting and beating his enemies in his past lives. The remnants of past retribution of lying from several lives also came to fruition and caused him to lose his memory. It would be difficult to recover in this life.
8. Your mother and her close friend were very much attached and love each other because they were also close friends in their past lives. In some lives, they were siblings or relatives.
9. You don’t have any children because you are older now. Also in your past lives when you had a difficult child, you resolved to be childless in future lives, when you had a good child then you wanted to have more in future lives. You were fickle minded.
You can still have children but it would be difficult because you are older It’s alright if you don’t have any children. Just continue to pursue perfection wholeheartedly with your husband. With the merits, you could be close to your mother in Tusita, the special merit zone, after your death.
10. You and your brother have pursued perfection with the Dhammakaya community for several lifetimes as supporters.
It doesn’t matter whether you are long or short-lived. Everyone must die. Even if you are 100 years old and don’t accrue merits, you are not better than a person who is short-lived but make merit wholeheartedly.
Keep doing the ten home works daily as taught in the Dream in Dream Kindergarten. You should pursue perfections wholeheartedly, so that you can meet with the community again in every lifetime until the uttermost Dhamma.”
Create the cause and enjoy the effect. :p :p :p :p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jOqKnwoPFg&feature=related
on Oct 12th, 2009 at 10:26 am
The brain is the cause of stress.Because we have sent our brains far too many impulses and signals to ’cause stress’,to create stress in our bodies and then through this stress,whatever we see happening to us in our life is ‘misery and stress’.
So the best remedy is to change and control the impulses we send to our brains.To CONTROL the impulses personally is like playing the big boss or doctor to our own selves.
So we control the invisible electro-magnetic waves being sent to our brains and create our aura thus.We do this through yoga and meditation.Sound vibrations are vitally important because they influence our brains directly as the impulse of the sound sends impulses to our brains.
Once we learn to manouver these impulses sent to our brains,then our thoughts and body become controlled and this will help in achieving the following yogic golden habit :
”To relieve stress the mind need to be focused on other peaceful thoughts and at times not thinking at all. This is difficult at the beginning but once learned never forgotten.”
There are also several techniques which are useful in stopping ’stressful thoughts’.One such technique is to do oppostie thinking by opposing the stressful thought.When the stressful thought arises,it should be stopped instantly and instantly replaced by an opposite POSITIVE thought.Then the positive thought should be held onto,and amplified in the mind as though it were a real life situation in that very moment,with positive emotions!
When one keeps doing this till a habit is formed,it re-programs the brain.One has thus changed the impulses one had sent to one’s brain and thus controlled it!This is focus.When this is a habit,then it is a lifestyle and then it is part of oneself,then it is YOU.A positive,stress-free,HAPPY & healthy you!
on Oct 12th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
“Scientists say that, at best, the poles might change location by one degree over a million years, with no sign that it would start in 2012.”
My conciousness about life :
“At the last period of your father’s life, he has to live in a nursing home because he, in his past life, did not perform many meritorious actions, so he is lacking of merit about taking care of his parents. The present life is close to his past pictures that he only sent money to his parents and did not visit them himself because he was busy working.
2. Your mother likes to accumulate merit so much and had the chance to make merit with Luang Pu when he was still alive because she has had a meritorious relation with Luang Pu and the merit-making group for lives. Also, she liked to make wishes after performing meritorious actions to meet Luang Pu and every great master. Her place is in the provisions division.
At the last period of your mother’s life, she suffers with blood pressure, rheumatoid, thyroid and tumbles so many times that her ankles become weak which obstruct her from coming to the temple because she, in her past life, killed petty animals for many times and in many lives. These retributions take action together and cause her to suffer with many diseases at the last period of her life.
She does not have gum edge, so she cannot use false teeth. This gives her difficulties to eat and defecate. It is because of her own speech retribution in her past life. In one life, when she was a kid, she liked to gossip her grandparents and old relatives who taught her. Besides, she, in that life, was stubborn and tough to the senior people who were mentioned. These retributions take action together which gives her a difficulty to defecate as well.
3. You and your mother have made merit since your very young age because you both, in your past, were mother and child. You made merit with our merit-making group before and made wishes carefully to make merit since your very young age with your mother.
That you have to take care of your mother which obstructs you from coming to the temple for years is not because of any retribution. It is just your special merit that you get the chance to take care of your mother for years. Even though you have not come to the temple for years, you still do not miss any single merit. And the merit that you take care of your mother bears these brief fruits, i.e. you will be born in a family that takes good care of you, your life will be prosperous and never goes down, your descendants will listen to you and take good care of you like what you are doing now.
4. After your grandfather died, he became a handsome male angel owning a gold heavenly mansion in phase 2 of Tavatimsa (the 2nd level of heaven) due to the merits he made in Buddhism. Receiving the merits transferred to him, he gains more heavenly property.
5. That your grandmother felt like something speedily came into her body was only her imagination because she was worried. But actually, nothing got into her body. It was only a symptom of the disease.
Your grandmother’s hip was inflamed and painful because she, in her past life, liked to punish her servants by hanging them with crossbeams and hit their hips hard with some wood due to her anger in order to punish them for their guilt.
6. That the doctor at your neighborhood said that your grandmother was addicted to drugs which caused the nurse to give her the wrong medication was because of her own retribution from the same past life. In that life, a slave in her house was sick, and she diagnosed the sickness by herself and gave that slave a wrong medication until that slave’s symptom turned worse and he later passed away.
She was tired and kept sitting down and standing up repeatedly throughout the whole night because she took the wrong medication, and the fire element in her body was destroyed because her life had come to the end.
After your grandmother died, she was around for 7 days and later became a beautiful female angel owning a gold heavenly mansion in phase 2 of Tavatimsa (the 2nd level of heaven) due to merits she regularly made in Buddhism. Receiving merits transferred to her, she gains more heavenly property.
7. Water got into your eldest brother’s ears which destroyed their hearing ability, and he had to get many surgeries, but nothing turned better, because he, in his past life, did not listen to his parents when they taught him or told him to do works.
Your eldest brother is a nice guy, but he had to be tricked by his friend until he was sued for bankruptcy, and this lawsuit is still unfinished up to now because he, in his past life, also borrowed somebody’s money and did not pay it back. He had his friend get some loan for him, and he did not make a payment until that friend had to take this responsibility. This incident does not match his present good deeds, but it matches his mentioned past deed.
8. Your youngest sister was good-looking and liked to make merit since her very young age because she performed meritorious actions in Buddhism in her past life, and that gave her beautiful appearance and good parents who recommended her to walk on the virtuous path. Besides, she herself likes to walk on this path too.
But she passed away when she was 5 years old due to dengue fever because she, in one past life, liked to kill baby animals, e.g. baby pigs, baby ducks, baby chickens, calves for food.
*****After death, she is already reincarnated as a human, so she cannot receive merit.
9. Your uncle has suffered from asthma and bad health since when he was first born because he, in his past life, liked to torture animals, e.g. making them work too much, teasing kittens and puppies for many times, especially, he liked to throw baby chickens into water to see if they could swim like baby ducks or not.
He is so orderly and clean that he becomes worried about everything because of his past deeds, i.e. mental deed that he liked to think about wicked things, speech deed that he liked to speak bad things, methodic habit and the habit that he liked to catch others’ faults. These are principle retribution. Drinking retribution is only a supportive retribution. A person who gets worried so easily that he cannot sleep easily and tightly throughout the whole night until he becomes tired is affected by drinking retribution as a supportive retribution.
10. Your uncle and his wife do not have a child because your uncle, in his past life, liked to eat eggs which had chicken that hens were hatching due to the thought that they were elixir or tonic.
He has to take care of his wife who suffers from neurosis because they both have drinking retribution from their past lifetime. Especially, your uncle liked to give others alcohol as a gift. These retributions take action together.
11. Your right ankle is very inflamed, and the pain is on and off all the time because you, in your past life, liked to chain your servants to iron to punish them for their faults, so that they would be chastened.
To solve it, you need to accumulate every merit like donation, precept observance and meditation and make a wish to be free from this retribution, as well as transfer merits to people whom you punished too.
12. You and your mother pursed perfection in the provisions division of our merit-making group persistently. You both could attain the clear crystal ball and the crystal Buddha image which was enough to bring you back to Tusita (the 4th level of heaven). Your siblings have meritorious relation with our merit-making group in the provisions division. Some of them made merit persistently, but some did not.
They gave your mother money, and she spends that money to make merit. The brief fruits they will get are they will become mother and children again and will have meritorious relation with our merit-making group. When the group comes back to the world again to pursue perfection, they will come to the world to pursue perfection with the group as well.
Since we have met again in this life, you need to pursue perfection with all your might and make a wish to follow our group to the special merit zone of Tusita, the land of Bodhisatta , and never stray away from our group.”
“Knowledge Within
Through meditation, the mind will be cheerful and satisfied, a mental state unparallel to any satisfaction received from material or external actions or thoughts.”
Thank you my Superman under the red sheet. :p for making me smile and supporting me on the path of peace and happiness. :p
First time in the world after the Lord Buddha went into Nirvana. :p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uBONWeo-T4