Good Morning. Just like every Saturday we practice mindfulness meditation to receive a good energy from all Buddhas and also to purify our energy to rest in a very peaceful life. Time to practice. Let go of everything and just sit down and relax.

Nam Mo Shakyamuni, May Buddha bless all of us, and may all sentient beings be free of suffering and receive energy from all Buddhas from ten directions.

Just put your right hand on top of your left hand. Just keep in mind meditation is the way for us to be ourselves. Activate our compassion to motivate all the energy to flow. Especially to be in touch deeper with the Buddha nature within us.

So, sitting in the position that makes you relax, that is your choice. Keep your backbone straight. Loosen up your shoulders, and just follow the breath. Your breathing technique naturally in and out with your consciousness within to help you know yourself much better. That is a very simple technique and is very helpful. That is why Buddha reminds us to go back to the breathing techniques that exist within us.

I just want to remind our technique also uses the mantra of the compassion Mu A Mu Sa helping us to connect with all the Buddhas and receive the compassion energy. When we recite it every one of us will receive a great energy. The second mantra, Na Mo Ta Mo Ta Mo Da Ra Houng, helps us receive and maintain the wisdom. The more we practice the more wisdom to be lighting up.

Let’s go directly to the breathing techniques and these two mantras. Just relax, humble yourself and receive the energy with me from all the Buddhas.

Breathe in expanding your belly, hold it there for three seconds, concentrate on the heaven gate point, breathe out, sunken your belly, chanting the mantras:

Mu A Mu Sa, Na Mo Ta Mo Ta Mo Da Ra Houng (7x)

Just relax. Just watching your breathing technique in and out. Just listen to the energy flow The connections between one and another always exist within life. That is the cooperation of all things always connect together. So many times we want to separate with all because we suffer, meaning we want to run away, we want to disconnect. We want to escape. Those thoughts that we always have help us to no longer suffer. Facing difficult times or what ever disappoints, dissatisfied, uncomfortable feelings from the environment or from the person. We all get used to running away. We turn around, we walk away or we cut off. That could be safe for a moment, but every time we do so we really hurt ourselves not the other. Buddha says, when the bad Karma or good Karmha have the right condition to form into any form that is being shown and causes the effect for us in good or evil. It is all about our karma, no one injects it into us.

For example someone hits you, or tries to take you down, push you down. That is not because they are bad people, but because your own Karma you created that. Even people who come into your life make you happy, enjoy, talk good about you. That is also your own Karma you created. However, we always choose people who come into our life who bring happiness and sweet, make us feel good, we love to stay with them because it satisfies our feeling. It makes us feel comfortable. It helps us to stay with the comforts we desire. That is natural, nothing wrong. Buddha teaches that we always reject whoever makes us feel uncomfortable, bad or sad. We push them away, or we run away. Buddha says in those situations it is not worse, it is not bad at all if we know how to deal with. It helps us enrich our capacity to live in peacefulness because he said, facing people who hates us, and respond with hate, we cannot transform, but people who hate you are helping you to activate your love, your compassion and forgiveness enrich your power and allow you to look deeper into youself and recognize you can still love even if they hate you. To become the enlightened one, but just run away from those situations, you can not become enlightened, there is no way you could be happy all the time. Because no place on earth or anywhere always has perfect people there for you, but we stay with people no matter what the difference between that we all work out together to perfect ourselves to have a special opportunity to be with that is what we are talking about today. Taking action, not just words.

We waste our time by talking, by memorizing sutras from Buddha or any good quotes we love, and keep repeating just like the radio, repeat it all the time. It seems to be we know, but not, we just record it in our mind and repeat it with our mouths. We never take action sitting down and think about it and practice. Taking action in meditation is really helpful. That is the only way for us to become enlightened. Enlightened means we know how to transform our suffering and flatten down any section of our life which we cannot go beyond. We flatten down, we make it smoother. So we can see beyond. We can walk peacefully on that path. Buddha says, so many lifetimes we have created a lot of bad karma. In this life there is those Karma will form into something that causes struggles for us against our will. But Buddha also said, in this life we have enough good energy and maintain a good connection with the Buddha. It helps us to transform those so there is nothing for us to run away. In order to do so, or in order to connect with the master, the Buddha, all the Bodhisattvas to receive a good energy to motivate us to stand up, to practice, there are certain things that we have to practice first. First practice to let go. Let go of what? Whatsoever happened between you and the other that caused an uncomfortable feeling or made you feel sad. Those kinds of actions create a lot of suffering for you. Don’t turn your back, don’t look down. But look deep into yourself and recognize that there is the Buddha nature within. Open it up and let the energy flow by connecting with all the Buddhas. That energy will purify and transform all of those kinds of uncomfortable kinds of feelings or suffering which is created by that person. Let go to take action to meditate. It is really wonderful.

What we repeat will become. The energy will be there within you. So we try not to repeat what is negative, wrong, or hate in another. Using the repeat technique we repeat a good action, a good word. That is why we are chanting a good mantra. We repeat it, but not the negative thing. Repeat the positive thing. Our meditation is mindfulness meditation repeating the mantra Mu A Mu Sa means compassion, love. If you say compassion and love without forgiveness it is not true compassion and love. The second mantra, Na Mo Ta Mo Ta Mo Da Ra Houng, is the mantra of the wisdom that is for us to know the truth that all things are impermanent, suffering and no I. Taking action to practice, not connecting the word and repeat it. Taking action to practice every day, not just remembering the information and saying it out loud for people to know that we know it doesn’t help. Talking about impermanence in the second mantra really helps if we practice and take action. It helps us to be peaceful and happy and for us to be healthier every day.

There is a story, a true story in Buddhas life. There was a guy who came to Buddha while Buddha was sitting under the tree teaching his students. That man came to the Buddha, he talked bad about the Buddha. He pointed his finger at the Buddha. Very bad. Buddha didn’t react or show anger. He kept smiling in a peaceful energy and asked that man what was next. That confused the man, he could not even move, because he was shocked by Buddhas question. He was shocked. He didn’t know what to do. He just turned around and went away. All night long he didn’t know what to do. He kept thinking that the Buddha who was supposed to be good did bad things to him, and why Buddha asked him what is next. He couldn’t sleep. The next day he realized that he was wrong, he went back to the Buddha and asked the Buddha for forgiveness. Buddha said, the man yesterday did something to the man who was sitting. He is gone. You are not the man who was here yesterday, and I am not the man who was sitting here yesterday. Today you are who you are, be here with me very respectful and today I am here as the awakened one witness the very peaceful energy with you.

That point is that he is showing that all things are impermanent. We don’t take action to practice to think because we all ourselves to recycle and repeat what is wrong and wrong and wrong. What is negative is negative. We tie up ourselves with those kinds of thinking. We tie up ourselves, we cannot even move because we don’t know things are impermanent. We hold ourselves back by the past. We make ourselves crazy. We keep tossing ourselves until we burn and we die. Not just that we are also tossing each other. We try to break down each other. If we are not peaceful, we have to make someone suffer for us to enjoy. Yes, they suffer like us. That is not good. Taking action to practice meditation we really need the second mantra. Na Mo Ta Mo Ta Mo Da Ra Houng and know all things are impermanent. All things are caused in our life because of what we have done for ourselves. Under the right conditions it all comes back. We have the opportunity to transform it, don’t store it in our minds and shake it all the time to hurt ourselves and to break the other down. That is the way we create more bad karma and motivate more negative energy and it causes us more suffering every day.

Today I remind myself and all of you who have the right time to practice meditation with me on line and those friends I have been teaching for many, many years to remind us all, don’t forget to take action, practice, practice, practice. Not just the words, or talk, take real action to practice means we are not wasting our life. Time goes by very fast, never comes back. Almost gone, I mean, February is almost gone. It is just the new year, now the second month of the year already. The question is why do we tie ourselves up with negative actions that happens because of our own bad Karma. Practicing Buddhism means taking action, not just words. Not recording all the words or information. Not just talk nice, but practice to transform. I challenge all of you to take on the action and practice. Don’t be lazy and waste your time by talking nice but not taking action to practice. It doesn’t benefit at all.

Let’s go back to the breathing techniques. We practice together as a network. We all receive a good energy from all the Buddhas in the ten directions. Let’s humble ourselves and receive the energy from all the Buddhas. Let’s take real action, and transform our lives.

May all sentient beings be free of suffering, may all our family members be peaceful, healthy and may all people who harm us, who hate us, who have done something wrong to us always be protected by the Buddha. May we always take on the action to practice day after day.

Breathe in, expanding the belly. Hold it there for three seconds. Concentrate on the heaven gate point. Breathe out. Sunken our belly, chanting the mantra:

Mu A Mu Sa,  Na Mo Ta Mo Ta Mo Da Ra Houng. (7x)

Thank you for practicing with me every Saturday. Make sure you are taking actions, not just words. Thank you very much. See you next Saturday.