Hour is already set, so please sit down comfortably and be together. We start to practice now.
Na Mo Shakyamuni. Together we pray, may all the sentient beings be free of suffering and receive a compassion, wisdom, and awakened energy from all Buddhas from ten directions. May all be blessed. Be happy, healthy, and now just put your right hand on top of your left hand and sit down.
Our meditation is, to enrich the inner peace within the Buddha nature. By meditating on mindfulness and also with the mantra which helps us to connect with all the Buddhas. While we connect with the Buddha through the mantra while we receive the energy. So for us, we are just sitting relaxed. Watching our bodies, and filling with the energy flowing within us.
We make no judgements, but just receive. So now we are ready to practice. I want to share with any new people who just happen to see, and join with us today. When you breathe in, you breathe in through your nose, carry down to the lower body and expanding your belly, hold it there for three seconds, and concentrate on the heaven gate point which is in the front of your tail bone. Then you breathe out, sunken your belly, chanting the mantras: The compassion mantra, Mu A Mu Sa, the wisdom mantra, Na Mo Ta Mo Ta MO Da Ra Houng, and the awakened, Ma Sa Op Ue.
Just follow, and allow ourselves to fill with the energy, that is all.
Let’s do it.
Breathe in, expanding the belly, hold it there for three seconds, concentrate on the heaven gate point, breathe out. Sunken our belly, chanting the mantras, just keep going like that every time we chant the mantra:
Mu A Mu Sa, Na Mo Ta Mo Ta Mo Da Ra Houng, Ma Sa Op Ue. (7x)
We always say to ourselves, “I don’t feel like it.” That is what we always say to others. We allow our sensations to interfere with our life. What feels good, we are happy, what doesn’t feel good, we are unhappy. We don’t even know when, from what time we suddenly have a feeling of good or bad. What we don’t feel good could be good for the other because we are totally different. The differences between us create problems, then we always make a judgement depending on our feelings. If we look deeply in our lives a lot of trouble created because we are looking for something to satisfy our feelings. The way we do meditation, according to the Buddhas teaching we have o understand that all kinds of feelings are impermanent, and also rises up depending on the conditions, and by what you have been feeding yourself depending on your background, education, or observation from living among each other. We spend too much time on what is good for us, and what we don’t like, or reject, and spend a lot of energy to push it away. The mantras we chant connect with all the Buddhas so we receive a greater vibration. The energy lights up the wisdom to let us know all things are impermanent. What is true that those things that are impermanent make us unhappy. There is not enough time to push away what we don’t like.
Have you ever meditated on your feeling? It is very little because we allow our feeling to drive us crazy. So every Saturday if you take a little time to sit down with me and practice, to be mindful with the feelings, breathing slowly and chanting the mantras to increase up the energy from all the Buddhas blessing. Then just look at the felling, don’t try to only select the good feelings and reject the bad. Feelings are just feelings, sensations are just sensation. When they arise, you just watch, Depending on what feeling you use a different mantra like a vitamin to help you be stronger. Not just while you do meditation, but every second of your life. For example, we practice the compassion Mu A Mu Sa, so we can love each other more, and share our merits to all, no matter who. So if the feeling like someone you don’t like or something happened you don’t like, irritated you, made you feel uncomfortable, don’t jump into it and make it bigger, but look deep into that who, what, how, by chanting Mu A Mu Sa, so you receive more compassion energy from the Buddha, then you can focus on that feeling with Mu A Mu Sa, the energy will take care of it right away. What you feel and don’t like, if you keep carrying on it makes you down, and it is also creates more negative thoughts. Question? Why do we have to live with those kinds of feeling? Mu A Mu Sa, Compassion is the healing. As a human we always get trapped in the then we don’t like and we are just there to fight. So when you breathe in with Mu a MU Sa every one of us receive s a compassion energy that flows within us. Also, the second mantra Na Mo Ta Mo Ta Mo Da Ra Houng, it is lighting up our wisdom to see through all the feelings that happen within us. When we associate with our friends, our community, or people who surround us. It is very easy for us to get upset or sad. When someone looks at us that makes u feel we don’t like it at all, someone says something, someone does something, that makes us feel I don’t like it. I don’t like that kind of looking, acting, behaving.
Have you ever asked the question that do people have to do things to satisfy you? Do they have to do that, or do they have the right to do whatever they want, say whatever they want to say. We cannot go out an control how people should talk, or act, or interact with others, how they should look.
People have the right to do whatever they want no matter what. We also have the right to live happily and to not let whatever others are doing to make us suffer. By not jumping to stop them, but by being peaceful, mindful. The only way you can be peaceful and mindful is that you have to practice. You cannot just wish, you have to practice.
The three mantras we practice help us very much, the compassion, wisdom, and the awakened mantra, just need to practice and practice and practice. The more you practice the more energy you receive could help you to transform all the negative you body feels it doesn’t like at all.
Nor do we try to convert people to do what we want, but be with yourself, empty your mind, and receive more compassion energy. Receive more energy to light up the wisdom to see through. That will help you transform your attachment and help you be more peaceful You cannot control others, but yes we could transform to be stronger and to take control of ourselves.
Don’t try to much to make people to be different, but practice to transform ourselves to make us be better. Meditation is not just practicing on Saturday or once a day or once a week. But need to be consistent every moment of our lives. Sitting position is one of the ways we practice, but meditation doesn’t mean sitting like this all the time. Yes, we need to spend time in the sitting position, but then after that no matter where, we are mindful and be awake, be compassionate, and bey clear to see through all things. Right thought, right action, right speech.
We could perform all the time. That means for ourselves, try not to make people do the right thing for what we think, but we should be aware of what we do right. By doing the right thing based upon the mantra we practice our energy will flow not just to ourselves but reach out to a lot of other people. Then we can offer that energy for all people we care about and love. No matter what they do or how they treat us. But make sure we treat people in a good way. That is how to be happy. If you get into the feeling that you don’t like, it is ok. But don’t try to let that feeling create a strong reaction that cures suffering for yourself and the other. Buddha says, meditate lie the universe, very empty, but everything within. No matter what blow up, the universe still is as it it. The more we empty our minds to rejoin with the universe, the more, no matter what happens, we are still stable and happy all the time. So, make sure we practice and make sure we receive a good energy from the Buddha all the time. Compassion, wisdom and awakened energy is wonderful. Let yourself have a chance to take on the practice for you to enjoy your life rather than just be there to suffer yourself because you try to hard to make people do what you want.
Let’s return back to the breathing techniques, and be humble ourselves. Buddha, we all know, we always get into those kinds of feeling that we dislike and makes us feel uncomfortable. We also know that w need to practice more to be stronger, to transform ourselves, to be with others.
May all of us understand clearly and take on the practice. We also offer our great energy our merit energy to all our loved ones who are sick, that they be healed, those who suffer, will be happy. Let’s breathe in, expanding our bellies, hold it right there for three seconds, concentrate on the heaven gate points, breathe out, chanting the mantra, receiving the energy and offer to all our loved ones.
Mu A Mu Sa, Na Mo Ta Mo Ta Mo Da Ra Houng, Ma Sa Op Ue. (7x)
Thank you, that is all we do this Saturday. May all of you be blessed by the Buddha and receive a good energy, and keep practicing. Make sure feelings are just feeling, don’t let them harm you down, push you back, but let the positive energy flow so you can have a good life.
