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Within Complete Love, there is no distinction between self and others.

Within Eternal Love, there is no arising of past or future.

Within the Peace of Love, there are no illusions of birth, death, or reincarnation.

The ultimate and perfect Love is the original nature of primordial Life.

Love is the starting point of faith.
Love is the birthplace of Light.

Love is the eternity that dissolves suffering.
Love is the fearlessness that relinquishes the self.

Therefore:

The most pure and unwavering faith can reach Love.

The Light that forgives darkness can restore Love.

The relinquishment that accepts suffering can merge into Love.

The selflessness that bears destruction can awaken Love.

Forgiveness, this path is truly difficult, and the journey can be painful.

But through Forgiveness, all suffering will ultimately be transformed into Peace and happiness.

Within Complete Love, there is no distinction between self and others.

Within Eternal Love, there is no arising of past or future.

Within the Peace of Love, there are no illusions of birth, death, or reincarnation.

The ultimate and perfect Love is the original nature of primordial Life.

Love is the starting point of faith.
Love is the birthplace of Light.

Love is the eternity that dissolves suffering.
Love is the fearlessness that relinquishes the self.

Therefore:

The most pure and unwavering faith can reach Love.

The Light that forgives darkness can restore Love.

The relinquishment that accepts suffering can merge into Love.

The selflessness that bears destruction can awaken Love.

Forgiveness, this path is truly difficult, and the journey can be painful.

But through Forgiveness, all suffering will ultimately be transformed into Peace and happiness.

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When painful memories from the past come flooding back, and your heart begins to stir,
forgive him.

When the hatred of the past rises within you, and the mind of resentment takes hold,
forgive him.

When feelings of grievance and indignation overwhelm you, and your heart becomes filled with a sense of injustice,
forgive him.

When memories of humiliation and fear surround you, and your heart feels suffocated by anxiety and restlessness,
forgive him.

When you are overwhelmed by the suffering of reality, and all you can see is despair,
forgive him.

When you are betrayed by someone you trusted and entrusted yourself to, leaving you shocked, angry, and disappointed,
forgive him.

All of this will pass. Yes, everything will pass.

What you are forgiving is nothing more than the memory that “you” have kept within your heart.

Forgive the darkness within your heart. It is the ignorance and mistakes that you yourself once carried.

Free yourself from fear and anxiety, and allow your heart to return to purity, bringing an end to the suffering of body and mind.

When the heart is carried away by memories, that is reincarnation.

When the heart is liberated from memories, that is eternal Life.

Within the memories that have been forgiven, the heart awakens through Forgiveness.

A heart saved through Forgiveness will reveal its primordial purity.

Within purity is radiant Light.
Within Light is the vastness of the Divine.

The Divine is the freedom of Wisdom.
Pure clarity is the perfection of supreme bliss.

Shadows cannot remain beneath the sunlight,
and death cannot hold the Divine.

Let the karmic burdens of your heart that once carried you through birth and death, making you weary as you moved forward, together with the memories of grievances, love and hatred, resentment and attachment, become transparent through Forgiveness.

Let them soften and melt through kindness.

Let them shatter and dissolve into nothingness through forgetting.

When your heart, passing beyond self-consciousness, directly sees the heart itself,

that will be the beginning of your new Life.

No matter what happens, this lifetime will eventually pass.

At the moment of death, the pure Light inherent within the heart—
the Light that penetrates body, mind, and consciousness,
illuminates the thoughts of the mind,
and releases itself from experiences and feelings—

will not be carried by self-consciousness, desires, experiences, or memories of this life into the next dream.

Just as a shadow cannot carry the sunlight with it.

When you forgive everything, everything forgives you.

When you let go of everything, you are liberated from everything.

When you accept everything, everything blesses you.

In the present moment, Forgiveness touches nothing;
in the present moment, birth and death have never occurred.

In the present moment, reincarnation has never touched you;
in the present moment, the Three Times and Ten Directions are like a dream.

Neither arising nor ceasing, Perfect Awareness is eternal.

Neither defiled nor pure, Purity is the Tathagata.

Deepest blessings to you all, my brothers and sisters.

When painful memories from the past come flooding back, and your heart begins to stir,
forgive him.

When the hatred of the past rises within you, and the mind of resentment takes hold,
forgive him.

When feelings of grievance and indignation overwhelm you, and your heart becomes filled with a sense of injustice,
forgive him.

When memories of humiliation and fear surround you, and your heart feels suffocated by anxiety and restlessness,
forgive him.

When you are overwhelmed by the suffering of reality, and all you can see is despair,
forgive him.

When you are betrayed by someone you trusted and entrusted yourself to, leaving you shocked, angry, and disappointed,
forgive him.

All of this will pass. Yes, everything will pass.

What you are forgiving is nothing more than the memory that “you” have kept within your heart.

Forgive the darkness within your heart. It is the ignorance and mistakes that you yourself once carried.

Free yourself from fear and anxiety, and allow your heart to return to purity, bringing an end to the suffering of body and mind.

When the heart is carried away by memories, that is reincarnation.

When the heart is liberated from memories, that is eternal Life.

Within the memories that have been forgiven, the heart awakens through Forgiveness.

A heart saved through Forgiveness will reveal its primordial purity.

Within purity is radiant Light.
Within Light is the vastness of the Divine.

The Divine is the freedom of Wisdom.
Pure clarity is the perfection of supreme bliss.

Shadows cannot remain beneath the sunlight,
and death cannot hold the Divine.

Let the karmic burdens of your heart that once carried you through birth and death, making you weary as you moved forward, together with the memories of grievances, love and hatred, resentment and attachment, become transparent through Forgiveness.

Let them soften and melt through kindness.

Let them shatter and dissolve into nothingness through forgetting.

When your heart, passing beyond self-consciousness, directly sees the heart itself,

that will be the beginning of your new Life.

No matter what happens, this lifetime will eventually pass.

At the moment of death, the pure Light inherent within the heart—
the Light that penetrates body, mind, and consciousness,
illuminates the thoughts of the mind,
and releases itself from experiences and feelings—

will not be carried by self-consciousness, desires, experiences, or memories of this life into the next dream.

Just as a shadow cannot carry the sunlight with it.

When you forgive everything, everything forgives you.

When you let go of everything, you are liberated from everything.

When you accept everything, everything blesses you.

In the present moment, Forgiveness touches nothing;
in the present moment, birth and death have never occurred.

In the present moment, reincarnation has never touched you;
in the present moment, the Three Times and Ten Directions are like a dream.

Neither arising nor ceasing, Perfect Awareness is eternal.

Neither defiled nor pure, Purity is the Tathagata.

Only Love can warm the Spirit.
Only Love can melt fear.
Only Love can bring understanding to all grievances and resentments.

Love ourselves.
Forgive ourselves.
Accept ourselves.
Embrace ourselves with Forgiveness, compassion, and warmth.
Bless ourselves.
Embrace ourselves.

And then, with a heart that has learned to warm and embrace itself, embrace everyone.

This is the aspiration for renunciation.

At every moment, in every situation, embrace your karmic habits and feelings with the purity of Forgiveness and unconditional Love, allowing your body, mind, and Spirit to remain in a state of boundless warmth and the purity of eternal Love.

Love has forgotten no one.

Only Love can warm the Spirit.
Only Love can melt fear.
Only Love can bring understanding to all grievances and resentments.

Love ourselves.
Forgive ourselves.
Accept ourselves.
Embrace ourselves with Forgiveness, compassion, and warmth.
Bless ourselves.
Embrace ourselves.

And then, with a heart that has learned to warm and embrace itself, embrace everyone.

This is the aspiration for renunciation.

At every moment, in every situation, embrace your karmic habits and feelings with the purity of Forgiveness and unconditional Love, allowing your body, mind, and Spirit to remain in a state of boundless warmth and the purity of eternal Love.

Only Love can warm the Spirit.
Only Love can melt fear.
Only Love can bring understanding to all grievances and resentments.

Love ourselves.
Forgive ourselves.
Accept ourselves.
Embrace ourselves with Forgiveness, compassion, and warmth.
Bless ourselves.
Embrace ourselves.

And then, with a heart that has learned to warm and embrace itself, embrace everyone.

This is the aspiration for renunciation.

At every moment, in every situation, embrace your karmic habits and feelings with the purity of Forgiveness and unconditional Love, allowing your body, mind, and Spirit to remain in a state of boundless warmth and the purity of eternal Love.

Love has forgotten no one.

Only Love can warm the Spirit.
Only Love can melt fear.
Only Love can bring understanding to all grievances and resentments.

Love ourselves.
Forgive ourselves.
Accept ourselves.
Embrace ourselves with Forgiveness, compassion, and warmth.
Bless ourselves.
Embrace ourselves.

And then, with a heart that has learned to warm and embrace itself, embrace everyone.

This is the aspiration for renunciation.

At every moment, in every situation, embrace your karmic habits and feelings with the purity of Forgiveness and unconditional Love, allowing your body, mind, and Spirit to remain in a state of boundless warmth and the purity of eternal Love.

When a person cannot find their true self, they will keep changing as they continue searching.

For a while, you may find health and believe that this healthy state is your true self. But as that health gradually declines with age, that version of yourself will disappear, and you will once again become lost.

You may think that being a good person—one who embodies truth, goodness, and beauty—is your true self. But as your standards of truth, goodness, and beauty change, that version of yourself will also become lost.

And so, because your consciousness is constantly searching, your heart can never truly come to rest throughout this process of searching.

If it cannot come to rest, your Spirit cannot awaken.

Without awakening, your search becomes endless.

That is reincarnation.

This is why there is a saying in Buddhism: “Rest, and there is Bodhi.”

What does “rest” mean?

It means allowing your heart to come to rest.

At the very moment when your heart truly comes to rest, your Bodhi mind awakens.

That is when the quality of the seeing within your spiritual perception awakens.

I AM not this body, nor the self that cognizes the body.

In stillness, accept that body, mind, and consciousness are not I AM.

I AM not perceptual memory, nor the self that perceives experience.

In Peace, warm and blissful Light reveals the abundance and eternity of Life.

I AM not the Awareness of existence, nor the states within body and mind.

In purity, the infinitely compassionate Peace Nature has never arisen.

I AM not this body, nor the self that cognizes the body.

In stillness, accept that body, mind, and consciousness are not I AM.

I AM not perceptual memory, nor the self that perceives experience.

In Peace, warm and blissful Light reveals the abundance and eternity of Life.

I AM not the Awareness of existence, nor the states within body and mind.

In purity, the infinitely compassionate Peace Nature has never arisen.

Jesus, the only Son of God, atoned for the sins of all sentient beings. He was crucified by the religious elders.

He did not use His miracles to establish “Christianity” in the human world.

He simply left behind the path of love and Forgiveness.

He urged humanity to return to the Heaven of the Holy Lord through His path of love and Forgiveness.

What are the teachings of Jesus?

The teachings of Jesus are a state of embracing Life through the Forgiveness of pure Love.

Forgive the harm this world has inflicted upon you.
Forgive the temptations this world has placed before you.
Forgive the undeserved suffering this world has imposed upon you, an innocent and blameless being.

Forgive all of it.

Forgive everything that is “happening” before your eyes.

Forgiveness means accepting the world as the true “self.”

Christianity was established after the death of Jesus as an administrative organization created by political power to control believers.

I believe in Jesus; I do not believe in Christianity. These are two completely incompatible domains.

Jesus is the Truth. Christianity is a human institution.

The teachings of Jesus Christ bring happiness and joy to people. Through a sunny and open state of mind, one leaves the dream of birth and death.

To practice the teachings of Jesus, one must take the Buddha’s pure spiritual practice as the foundation.

When a practitioner’s body and mind become pure, and Awareness-Nature becomes clear and radiant, the seeing-essence of the heart becomes lucid and pure.

On the stable foundation of this clear seeing-essence, one practices Forgiveness.

What is forgiven is no longer the specific “words and actions” of human life. Rather, what is forgiven is the “names and forms of the world” appearing before one’s eyes, as well as the self that is being “lived by” those names and forms of the world.

Jesus also said that whoever believes in Him can go to Heaven.

But what does it mean to believe?

If someone commits murder, sets fires, does every kind of evil, and still constantly claims to believe in Jesus, can such a person go to Heaven?

God does not refer to the name and form of Christ Jesus.

God refers to Love and Forgiveness.

God has no name or form, you see?

The true God has no name or form.

He is Light.

When this Light is manifested through the body and mind of Christ Jesus, He becomes the Savior of the West.

This same Light is manifested through Shakyamuni Buddha, Guanyin Bodhisattva, and the various great Bodhisattvas of the East.

He manifests as the warmth of Love expressed through Wisdom.

This, too, is the state of God.

Jesus, the only Son of God, atoned for the sins of all sentient beings. He was crucified by the religious elders.

He did not use His miracles to establish “Christianity” in the human world.

He simply left behind the path of love and Forgiveness.

He urged humanity to return to the Heaven of the Holy Lord through His path of love and Forgiveness.

What are the teachings of Jesus?

The teachings of Jesus are a state of embracing Life through the Forgiveness of pure Love.

Forgive the harm this world has inflicted upon you.
Forgive the temptations this world has placed before you.
Forgive the undeserved suffering this world has imposed upon you, an innocent and blameless being.

Forgive all of it.

Forgive everything that is “happening” before your eyes.

Forgiveness means accepting the world as the true “self.”

Christianity was established after the death of Jesus as an administrative organization created by political power to control believers.

I believe in Jesus; I do not believe in Christianity. These are two completely incompatible domains.

Jesus is the Truth. Christianity is a human institution.

The teachings of Jesus Christ bring happiness and joy to people. Through a sunny and open state of mind, one leaves the dream of birth and death.

To practice the teachings of Jesus, one must take the Buddha’s pure spiritual practice as the foundation.

When a practitioner’s body and mind become pure, and Awareness-Nature becomes clear and radiant, the seeing-essence of the heart becomes lucid and pure.

On the stable foundation of this clear seeing-essence, one practices Forgiveness.

What is forgiven is no longer the specific “words and actions” of human life. Rather, what is forgiven is the “names and forms of the world” appearing before one’s eyes, as well as the self that is being “lived by” those names and forms of the world.

Jesus also said that whoever believes in Him can go to Heaven.

But what does it mean to believe?

If someone commits murder, sets fires, does every kind of evil, and still constantly claims to believe in Jesus, can such a person go to Heaven?

God does not refer to the name and form of Christ Jesus.

God refers to Love and Forgiveness.

God has no name or form, you see?

The true God has no name or form.

He is Light.

When this Light is manifested through the body and mind of Christ Jesus, He becomes the Savior of the West.

This same Light is manifested through Shakyamuni Buddha, Guanyin Bodhisattva, and the various great Bodhisattvas of the East.

He manifests as the warmth of Love expressed through Wisdom.

This, too, is the state of God.

No matter how dark and ignorant the human mind may become, no matter how cold or malicious the souls of the human world may be, the purity and warmth of the Truth will never change in the slightest because of humanity’s darkness.

The Truth is the reappearance of the Wisdom, compassion, and grace of the Buddhas and sages of the Dharma Realm. It possesses an infinite and magnificent spiritual power of boundless Light. The radiance of the Truth shines universally throughout the human world. It is a vast and immense power, like a colossal source of nuclear energy, that no force within the human world can obstruct.

Today, in writing these words, I want to make this post a testimony:

The Truth will surely, with the overwhelming power of its boundless Light, sweep away the barriers of religion with unstoppable force.

It will awaken the souls within religions who sincerely seek the Truth, opening the eyes of their hearts so that they may witness the True Dharma Eye Treasury of Shakyamuni Buddha once again shining throughout the Three Realms and Six Paths, saving true Buddhists and enabling them to be reborn in the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss.

And for the souls outside religion who are searching for the meaning of Life, it will grant them the opportunity for liberation from the cycle of birth, death, and reincarnation.

It will destroy the religious barriers that prevent souls from accepting and receiving the Truth.

Whether they are Buddhists, Christians, or followers of other religions, all souls will be able, within the Truth, to understand the mind and see their true nature, attain liberation from the cycle of birth, death, and reincarnation, and be reborn into the spiritual universe.

They may even attain realization within this very body and ascend to become sages and worthy beings of the Dharma Realm.

---Spirit Guide

To live is not to serve this body, to make this garment exist in ever-better condition.

Rather, it is to nourish the love inherent in the nature of the heart.

Love is life.
Love is the Holy Lord.
Love is truth.
Love is light.
Love is hope.
Love is strength.

Within love, there is no self-preservation.

Through ultimate acceptance, one comes to witness the eternal peace of the Holy Lord—the blissful Kingdom of Heaven.

After having children, my greatest sense of frustration came from the feeling that nothing was ever “clean.”

My time was never intact—it was constantly being torn into pieces.

My emotions were never settled—I was often frustrated, overwhelmed, and irritable.

And my home was never clean—toys and clothes piled up everywhere.

I always felt like I wasn't doing “enough,”

until I read these words:

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And I felt God gently saying to me:

A home without an ox naturally has a clean manger.

But you have an ox. You are plowing the fields.

You are storing up food for another life.

The manger is not messy because you have failed.

**The mess is the cost of the harvest.**

If you are also exhausted by the “messiness” of raising children, I want you to know this:

You are not simply spinning your wheels in chaos.

**You are “increasing the harvest.”**

Those broken-up hours,

that exhausted patience,

those hands that are constantly getting dirty—

they are all storing up food for a little life to make it through the winter.

**You can choose between a clean manger and a harvest.**

**And you chose the more costly one.**

Religion has nothing to do with truth. A true practitioner focuses only on the awakening within body and mind and never clings to religious rituals. When Shakyamuni Buddha was alive, there was only the practice and conduct of the Sangha; there were not the elaborate religious rituals that later became associated with Buddhism. Religious forms have nothing to do with truth.

Jesus, during his lifetime, simply taught the Dharma together with his twelve disciples. He walked through the world in the form of an ordinary human being. Until the time before he was crucified, he had not established a religious organization. Christianity, as an organized institution, emerged after Jesus’ death and was later shaped as an administrative structure of political power and religious authority.

Religion teaches people how to “fear.”
Truth teaches people how to “forgive.”

Religion was originally established to worship God, yet it can, in its distorted forms, become an instrument opposed to God.

Religion teaches people how to protect themselves and how to perfect the self. Yet in the ultimate reality of life, there has never been an independent “individual” that truly existed. As the Buddhist teaching says, “All sages and worthies differ only through the unconditioned Dharma.” Even the self belongs to the realm of illusion. If there is no independent self, then what could ultimately serve as the basis for possessing merit and blessings?

Truth is directed toward the soul, not the personality; toward life, not the human world. Therefore, truth can awaken the soul and awaken the Buddhas within.

Religion, when directed toward personality rather than the soul, and toward the worldly rather than toward life itself, can bind the soul and perpetuate the cycle of birth and death.

Spiritual practice is not religion.

Religion projects the fears hidden deep within the mind.

Spiritual practice is a return to the stillness of one’s true nature.

Therefore, spiritual practice has no single prescribed form. Reading scriptures, meditating, practicing walking meditation, chanting the Buddha’s name, or following a vegetarian diet does not, by itself, constitute spiritual practice.

Spiritual practice is the process by which consciousness returns inward to the heart, the heart returns to pure awareness, pure awareness merges into spirit, spirit awakens life, and life becomes fully immersed in awakened awareness.

The entire process is completed within body and mind. It has nothing whatsoever to do with any external form or action.

Love is a profound and infinite light. Within that light, all names, forms, distinctions, and judgments will ultimately dissolve.

God is not the radiant figure of “Christ Jesus” appearing in the sky. Nor is God the image of “Shakyamuni Buddha” seated upon a golden lotus in the void. It is not that kind of image.

God is the unchanging clarity and peace behind your heart, within the perception of your soul. That is the true God.

That is the channel, the platform through which you communicate with God. It is the channel through which the love of Christ Jesus and the wisdom of Shakyamuni Buddha merge within you.

God is simply love.

God is simply love. Through the complex system of human karma, this love reveals itself through several qualities: selflessness, forgiveness, pardon, devotion, and purity.

The inner experience behind these qualities, when brought together, is the quality of pure life manifesting as the light of Heaven.

God unconditionally loves, accepts, bears, protects, purifies, and embraces every soul.

God is love, and love is God.

Regardless of the form through which God manifests, the essence of life behind that form, the state of consciousness behind it, and the quality of its perception must ultimately be the same.

It must be a warmth that is completely selfless and without ego.

It must be the ultimate purity of peace.

It must be an unconditional love and salvation extended toward all sentient beings, undisturbed by the self of this physical body.

It must be willing to bear the hardships and suffering of sentient beings without being controlled by the pain of one’s own personality and thoughts, without the slightest expectation or complaint.

This is God.

Only one who reaches such a state, such a state of the heart and mind, is God.