In a playful way, we learn the main principles of Buddhism. Basically, the Buddha oracle is a game which helps us toward positive principles of life and strategies of wisdom.
The Buddha oracle consists of 64 single oracle statements. They can be found via a random generator. Simply enter numbers 1 through 64 and click on generate. You can also write the oracle numbers on several small pieces of paper or create your own oracle cards, mix the cards, and then select a paper from the stack. You can print and play it with friends (left). Interpret the oracle as makes sense for you. Download PDF
Buddha
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1. Search your spiritual role model (Buddha, Guanyin, Socrates, Jesus). It does not matter which model you have. The most important thing is that it symbolizes for you the enlightenment energy (healing, happiness). Connect yourself regularly with your spiritual role model through a meditation, a text or a mantra (prayer). Imagine now over your crown chakra in the sky a big sun. In the sun sits a golden Buddha (or a Goddess as Guanyin). The Buddha (the Goddess) are you ! The Buddha (the Goddess) sees the suffering on earth, and sends all beings light. Move a hand and think: “I send light to (name). May all people be happy. May the world be happy.” What is your deed of love today? Success on the spiritual path. Forward.
Gautama Buddha
A Buddha (literally, “Awakened One”) is a man who got Bodhi (“awakening”, enlightenment). The Tantric Buddhism (Tibet) knows a wealth of transcendent Buddhas (living in a higher dimension), with which you can connect spiritually. Moreover, the term is used for the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, who was the founder of a world religion.
Gautama Buddha was prince from Nepal who lived 560-480 BC. He came from the family of the Shakya and is therefore called Shakyamuni Buddha in Tibetan Buddhism. Gautama Buddha was married. At age 29 he left his wife and son and became a yogi. He saw the worldly life as meaningless and superficial. He meditated for six years in the solitude and then got enlightenment. After his enlightenment, he felt compassion for the suffering people in the world. The remaining 45 years of his life, he lived as a spiritual teacher in India and gave people the wisdom of inner happiness.
The teachings of Buddha are called Dharma. Basis of the Dharma are the Four Noble Truths: 1. Living in the cycle of existence involves suffering. 2nd The cause of suffering is attachment to worldly pleasures, denial of unpleasant situations and ignorance of the deeper meaning of life (inner happiness). 3rd If the causes are dissolved, the suffering disappears. 4th The way to overcome suffering is the Noble Eightfold Path.
The Eightfold Path to enlightenment consists of the right wisdom (living in inner happiness), the right decision (for spiritual practice), the right speech (do not lie), the right action (do not steal, not kill), the right livelihood (do good), the right struts (after enlightenment), the right mindfulness (mental work) and the right concentration (meditation).
Buddhism
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2. There are three ways to develop enlightenment. There is the path of spiritual practice (yoga, meditation, reading, walking). There is the way of all-embracing love (do good, the bodhisattva path). And there is the path of rest (inner peace). The main path to inner happiness is to live in the rest. The essence of a Buddha is the inner seclusion from the world. A Buddha enshrined his soul in the transcendence (in a higher dimension of consciousness, in the Nirvana, in pure being, in the void / unit, in inner peace and happiness).
Who lives secluded and constantly does his spiritual practice is growing five times as fast as other people to enlightenment. Most people in today’s time flee the silence. They are fleeing the inner happiness. Take every opportunity to get rest. Do your spiritual exercises. Go through the uncomfortable feelings of boredom and get an enlightened state of consciousness (unity consciousness, inner harmony, inner positivity).
Buddhism
The Buddhism is a philosophy that has its origins in India. We can summarize the essence of Buddhism in mental work (inner peace, wisdom and love) and meditation. The meditation consists of lying, sitting, standing and walking. The main meditation Buddhas are the four stages of contemplation: thinking about life, inner peace, happiness, dissolving the ego / enlightenment. The fourth stage of meditation is difficult to achieve for an untrained person. It comes by grace (by itself). The more a man is walking the spiritual path, the sooner he can reach a life in the light (Nirvana, God).
There are three main directions of Buddhism (Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana) and many sub-forms (for example the Amitabha Buddhism and Zen Buddhism). The Theravada Buddhism focuses on the original teachings of Buddha. It is all about one’s own enlightenment. The main goal is to be a saint (arhat) and to live in Nirvana (God).
The Mahayana Buddhism is the way of all-embracing love. The main goal is not one’s own enlightenment, but the happiness of all beings. A Mahayana Buddhist does not see himself separated from his fellow beings, but sees himself as part of the world. He wants to bring all beings to enlightenment. He wants a happy world and a happy cosmos. The ideal of the Mahayana is to be a Bodhisattva. A Bodhisattva is working simultaneously for his own enlightenment and for the enlightenment of all beings. Usually he incarnates on earth some more times.
The Vajrayana (“Diamond Vehicle”) is known in the West as the Tibetan Buddhism. It is based on the philosophical foundations of Mahayana, but supplemented by a variety of spiritual techniques. These include yoga, visualization, mantra and initiations (energy transfers from enlightened masters). In Vajrayana we find a mixture of Buddhism and Hinduism. Many spiritual techniques of Vajrayana came from Hinduism and were changed more or less into Buddhism. This refers in particular to the model-yoga (visualization of the deities), the yoga techniques (Hatha Yoga, Mantra Yoga, Karma Yoga, Tantra Yoga) and the veneration of the enlightened master (Guru Yoga, Lamaism).
The difference between Buddhism and Hinduism with respect to the ultimate goal is that the term Nirvana emphasizes on the emptiness (the ego-dissolution) and the term Brahman on the unit (unit consciousness, abundance, light). In the state of enlightenment both perceptions exist simultaneously. They are two sides of same coin. Some people need to focus on the one side and some on the other side of the coin, to arrive in the state of enlightenment.
Happiness
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3. Go your way with joy. What do you need to feel comfortable today? A little pleasure (eating, drinking), some social contacts (internet forums), some slowness, some beauty (music, flowers) and some fun? If you live the joy on the spiritual path in the right amount (not too much and not too little), it helps you to get spiritual victory. “My way of pleasure is …” Forwards. Success.
The flower of joy
Saint Anthony the Great is the founder of Christian Yoga. He lived in the third century in Egypt. As a young man he had a vision in a church. Out of the empty space a voice spoke to him: “Do you want inner happiness, go into the desert and live as a hermit.” Anthony had to go through many spiritual crises and cleaning processes, but after a few years he reached enlightenment.
Exciting at St. Anthony is the fact that he got on his spiritual path in contact with his former lifes. In Christianity, the doctrine of the rebirth was later rejected largely. But only if St. Anthony had resolved all tension from his previous lifes, he was able to attain enlightenment. In the texts it is said that in his mind appeared wild animals, which torn him with their teeth. Even with his sexual wishes he had to fight. With his will power and his spiritual exercises (prayers), he overcame his worldly attachments and reached a life in the light.
The main principle of St. Anthony was, “Sit down in your hut, and your hut will teach you everything.” Feel inside the right way of your daily spiritual practice. What triggers on your inner tensions? How can you overcome your fears and desires? What exercises brings you best into the light? His second principle was, “Some yogis need a flower in their hut, and some do not need a flower.” Who needs a little pleasure on his way, should give it himself every day.
Small Steps
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4. Little people win with small steps, cleverness and endurance. Forward with small steps. Success.
The sick farmer
There once was a farmer in India who had a large goiter on his neck. The goiter looked very ugly and was very painful. The farmer was desperate. He asked many doctors. But no one could help him. In his distress he went on pilgrimage to a holy place where an enlightened master lived. The farmer was called Kukcipa. The name of the enlightened master was Nagarjuna. Nagarjuna is one of the founders of Mahayana Buddhism, the connection of the path of enlightenment with the way of all-embracing love (karma yoga).
Nagarjuna instructed the farmer to meditate every day on his crop. He should dissolve the tensions in his throat chacra with yoga exercises. He should envelop it with light and send healing energy to all people over the world. He should think the mantra “light” until his mind is completely at rest. Then he should spend some time in the rest. Kucipa practiced for many years as a yogi. First, the pain in his throat grew bigger and bigger. Prior to healing often comes a phase of energization. Then the pain became less, the goiter disappeared and Kucipa was healed. He was outwardly and inwardly healed. Outwardly he got a healthy body and inwardly peace and happiness.
Self-realization
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5. Realise yourself! What do you want to achieve in your life? What are your goals? Feel exactly into you. What do your inner truth and wisdom say? You can find the way of your truth through the combination of clear thinking with good inner feeling. Go the way of your inner wisdom. Your inner wisdom will guide you to your true self, to self-realization and inner happiness. Who’s going the way of his inner wisdom in the depths of his soul is in accordance with himself. He has the feeling to be on the right track. He feels good with himself and his life. Are you on the right way of life?
The path of inner happiness
What hinders a person to be happy at a deep level, primarily are his inner tensions. They rob him his power, they destroy his well-being, they damage his inner peace and they reduce his mental positivity. A person with many inner conflicts tends to have negative thoughts. The love to himself and to his fellow man is blocked. The internal stresses are often created already in the childhood. In a tensed society, which is based on work pressure and rivalry, tension is passed down from parents in the upbringing of their children. The parents live out their fears, aggression and addictions and thus influence the psychological development of their children. Many children’s tensions are also came from the capitalistic TV. It focuses on fears, aggressions and addictions to get many viewers, and therefore destroys the happiness in the children. Tenseness in a person can also be caused by big stress events or by a permanent stress at school, at work or in partnership.
If internal stresses can be built up, they also in principle can be broken down again. That’s the good news for all tensed people. The not so good news is that this may take quite a long time. The structure of the tension is built up over many years. We need, therefore, usually many years to reduce the tension again. But the effort is always worthwhile. We thus avoid many diseases in old age. And we get a happy life filled with peace, power and positivity. The amount of inner happiness of a man is defined by the number of tensions in the body and in his spirit. The less we are tensed, the more inner energy (life force, well-being) we have. Every person has an intrinsic happiness potential. Every human being can attain enlightenment. What blocks our enlightenment, are only our inner tensions.
A wise life is to make every day so many spiritual exercises, that the internal tensions become always less. We have to live in a way that we grow into the light and not into the darkness. Most people in today’s time march in the wrong direction. They live selfishly and stressed. They build up in the course of life more and more tensions. They end up in the burn-out, in sickness, negativity and depression. Tensions can sit in the body and in the spirit. Basically the two are linked. Thus we free ourselves from our internal tensions, if we do spiritual exercises for both areas. Inner happiness comes at a deep level only when the body and the mind are purified from the tension. People are different from their personalities and have different tensions. Everyone should therefore find the exercises that are suited best for him. He should develop the practice of happiness that leads him at the best to his goal.
Difficulties
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6. Difficulties. There is some pain in your life. Flow flexible through the situation. Consistently follow your inner wisdom (the sense of correctness). Stabilize your mind through yoga, meditation and positive thinking. Stop your negative thoughts. Think the mantra: “Om all enlightened Masters. Please guide and help me on my way.” Use the mantra with the name of your personal role model (Buddha, Jesus, Shiva, Tara, Guanyin). Feel yourself really connected with your role model. Visualize it in the heaven or in front of you. Then his spiritual energy flows into you and strengthen you on your way. All ends well. Optimism. Success!
The enlightened master
A great treasure in life is it to have an enlightened master. Who do you trust? Whose spiritual teachings do you like? Anyone who goes her or his way every day with an enlightened master (prayer, meditation, reading), grows into the light.
According to Amritanandamayi (Amma) there are fully enlightened souls in the afterworld. They posses a cosmic consciousness which is at one with the cosmos (with he light) and through this they are also one with one another. One could view this as a mass of souls who see themselves as one (God, Buddha, Amitabha), or a mass of souls who view one another as friends. We can therefore pray to Buddha (Amitabha, Jesus), to a Bodhisattva (Avalokiteśvara, Tara, Guanyin) or to all enlightened souls in the afterlife. It is also possible that an enlightened master is simultaneously present on the earth in a body and as a soul in the afterlife. As a soul he or she can always see us and help us.
According to Amma, a prayer is always heard and reacted to or upon by one of these higher beings. It doesn’t matter what name humans use in the process, whether it be God, Jesus, Krishna, Shiva or Buddha, it is all the same. The only point of importance is that the person praying would like help from a higher force in the cosmos. God is often described as a cloud in Christianity. This image goes well with the idea of the aforementioned great enlightened force of souls. We could consider these souls as an energy cloud of highly developed consciousness. They are capable of affecting every dimension of the cosmos with beams of light. This often transpires via symbols such as books, images, and statues which appear in certain locations. More spiritually developed humans are able to sense these beams of energy which emanate symbolically through the statues and images. People can focus and turn this energy into inner power, peace, or positive thoughts.
The Way of Victory
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7. Your way is difficult, but you will win. You have a good feel for the right way. Go your way forward in a constant contact with your inner wisdom (correctness). What are your goals? What are your internal or external obstacles? On which way can you achieve your goals? The cosmos offers you today the gift of success. Think the mantra: “Om all enlightened Masters. Please guide and help me on my way.” Use the mantra with the name of your personal role model (Buddha, Jesus, Shiva, Tara, Guanyin). Feel yourself really connected with your role model. Visualize it in the heaven or in front of you. Then his spiritual energy flows into you and strengthen you on your way. You will have enough power to succeed. At the right moment the right thought will come to you. You will win. Forward with optimism. Success.
The soul (atman and anatta)
Atman is a term used in Indian philosophy. It refers to the individual self and is often translated as soul. According to Hindu philosophy man is in his innermost being an immortal soul (atman), who reincarnates after the death of the body. The Buddhist doctrine of anatman (Anatta) explains the absence of a permanent and unchanging self, a solid core or essence of an unchanging soul. What is usually regarded as the “self” is then just a collection of constantly changing, physical and psychological components.
The doctrine of rebirth (reincarnation), exists in Hinduism and Buddhism. If there is no fixed self, no permanent essence of a person according to Buddhism, what is reborn? It is the karmic impulse (the thought patterns), which establishes the link between the individual lifes. The self is like a burning candle. At the moment of extinction, a new candle is lit from the flame. The flame (the character) is preserved, but the candle (the man) is a new one. Hinduism emphasizes the continuity of the soul, and Buddhism the autonomy of the individual incarnations. Both is true simultaneously. There is continuity associated with independence. A man’s character is preserved, but each incarnation feels as its own self.
A soul can continue to develop. You can practice meditation and train positive values, and thus change your nature to enlightenment. Then the soul finds out that it is a non-self (anatman, anatta). It dissolves its ego and then recognizes it as part of the cosmos (unity awareness). The enlightened soul is a relatively independent consciousness (energy cloud), and has simultaneously no feeling of a self (no ego, unity consciousness). The enlightened soul rests in pure existence (Nirvana), and can act in the outside world if it want. There may are so many dimensions in the afterlife, that an enlightened soul can evolve forever and ever rising higher and higher. It increasingly becomes more and more one with the highest dimension of consciousness in the cosmos and gains greater and greater abilities (omnipresence, knowledge, power, love, serenity).
A big question is what happens to a Buddha (fully enlightened beings) after his death. Buddha has considered this question as speculative and not answered. If all the vibrations of consciousness (thoughts pulses) come to rest, the soul dissolves into the great sea of consciousness (the highest cosmic dimension). Only the teachings of a Buddha, his symbolic role model and his followers (Sangha) remain on the earth. An enlightened one can make the decision not to dissolve completly into the highest happiness (Nirvana), but to continue to exist as a soul out of love to his fellow beings.
—> For advanced: the great discussion about Wikipedia: Ātman (Buddhism)
—> See also: Wikipedia: Buddhism and Hinduism
Good Relationship
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8. A good relationship. Which relationship to other people means this card today? Live positive relationships with your fellow man. Success! Send a friend light. Send him a positive sentence. “I send light to (name). May all people be happy. May the world be happy.”
The Secret of Tantra
On the way of Tantric Yoga we live in the conflict of outer pleasure and inner happiness. Both paths are exactly opposite. The path of the outer pleasure leads to the growth of attachment to the world and reinforces inner tensions. The more we live in the outer pleasures, the more our attachment grows. The internal tensions become more and more and shrink the inner happiness. We are losing our inner peace, our strength and our inner harmony. On the way of inner happiness we solve systematically all inner tensions. We free us from all attachments to external things. Enlightenment ist the ultimately freedom from the outer world. And thus we can keep our inner happiness in all outer circumstances. The less inner tensions we have, the greater is the inner happiness. Until we live permanently in the light, in the enlightenment and in the unity (God, Nirvana).
One can say that there is ego-realization and self-realization. The long-term the ego-realization basically leads to inner unhappiness and the self-realization to inner happiness. The ego-realization is easy at the beginning and suffering at the end. The self-realization is difficult at the beginning and an incredible grace at the end. The ego-realization consists of good food, lots of sex, nice travel, extreme consumption, and external praise. It follows the sloth (tamas), or the exaggerated activity (rajas). The self-realization consists of daily work on yourself and constant mental effort. We don´t set the ego (our external desires), but the self (the freed psyche) in the center of our life.
In Tantric Yoga, we solve the conflict between the outer and the inner path by flowing with wisdom with the things of life. We live the outer pleasures so that they bring us forward into the light. We live them sensitively, in due measure and with the right mental attitude. We put the spiritual goal in the focus of our lives. We use the positive potential of the external pleasures, without getting lost in them. We solve all attachments again and again with our spiritual technics (meditation and mind work) and always get back into the light (to inner harmony). We live primarily in rest, in our spiritual practice and in the all-embracing love.
If we do not see the problem of attachment, we go into the big trap of Tantra. We are strengthening our attachment and block our enlightenment. We come into the dynamics of self-indulgence. Our needs are constantly increasing, we see more and more the negative sites of our partner, and the satisfaction with our relationship is decreasing more and more. We want love from others and not to give love. We do not live primarily out of the spirituality. Then the development of attachment and negativity can not be controlled. A happy relationship arises when we live our relationship with wisdom and love. We should practise our relationship so that both partners grow in their inner happiness. We should put the happiness of all beings in the center of our lives. Then we will succeed in our relationships and our lifes.
The Master
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9. You are good. Recognize yourself as strong, wise and successful. Save spiritually the people who confide you. Give them the path of wisdom and universal love. Bring them into the light. Live as a spiritual Master (Teacher of wisdom, Mother and Father of all beings). Give your children (students, supporters, friends, relatives) the spiritual knowledge so that they can accept it. Be a skillful spiritual mother (father) of your people. Success!
Mahakaccana in Avanti
Mahakaccana was a disciple of Buddha. He lived as a spiritual master in the country Avanti. The climate in Avanti was rough. People were more secular and less spiritual minded. Mahakaccana had to modify the teachings of the Buddha so that the people in his country could successfully practice. A total of his teaching was half as severe as those of Buddha. As a main road, he taught the spiritual life in a relationship (partner, family). He advised only individuals to a life as a yogi.
Mahakaccana himself was an undogmatic Yogi. Although he lived alone he took his seclusion but less seriously than other disciples of Buddha. He taught the unity of all religions, because the truth is finally over all spiritual systems. He advocated harmony between the religions. Buddha praised Mahakaccana for his excellence in explaining sophisticated dharma (dhamma) in an easily and correctly understandable manner. Particularly noteworthy was his honey-ball speech, “Nirvana is like a honey ball. Who lives in nirvana, whose life is steeped in the sweetness of inner happiness.”
The Cosmos
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10. Live in harmony with the laws of the cosmos. Use your lifetime. The cosmos is a system to develop inner happiness. From life to life we can grow in enlightenment. Often leads the way to enlightenment through outward suffering. Who sacrifices his ego directly into the pain and meditates on the suffering, transforms himself to inner happiness. Avoid the disaster as far as possible. Develop your happiness through your spiritual exercises. Live according to a wise plan of your life. Walk step by step towards enlightenment. “My wise life plan is …” Success.
Tibetan Buddhism
The Tibetan Buddhism is also called Vajrayana (Diamond Vehicle). It is a complex spiritual system. It is based on the teachings of Buddha, but were extended by the mahayana path of love and by a lot of techniques from Indian yoga. Monks developed in the Middle Ages a comprehensive system of teaching that is imparted in a long-term training and tailored to the needs of people in Tibet. Advanced monks and nuns is recommended a three-year meditation as a yogi in seclusion.
A major problem is the adaptation of Tibetan Buddhism in the modern world and in particular to the needs and possibilities of people in the west. The Dalai Lama tries to create a modern Buddhism based on the equalty of men and women, democracy and less strict sexual rules. He permits masturbation for monks and accepts homosexuality (Luise Rinser, Compassion as a way to peace, 1995, page 80).
In principle the Tibetan Buddhism is very simple. It consists of the Kundalini Yoga, the meditation in silence and the path of all-embracing love. With Kundalini Yoga the kundalini energy (enlightenment energy, happiness energy) is awakened through yoga postures, breathing exercises, mantras and visualizations. The center of tibetian meditation is the deity yoga. Through the visualization of various deities the energy channels are cleaned, the chakras are activated and the enlightenment consciousness is created. By special methods the ego will be dissolved and the Yogi enters into the bliss of nirvana.
A key element of Tibetan Buddhism is the work with an enlightened Master. The enlightened Master transmits enlightenment energy to his students after an initiation. The great advantage of Tibetan Buddhism is that there are many enlightened Masters who regularly travel to their western groups. Also possesses the Tibetan Buddhism with the Dalai Lama an inspiring leader who is often seen by Western television. The Dalai Lama represents the cooperation of all religions and initiates also people who do not belong to the Tibetan Buddhism.
In Tibetan Buddhism there are five major lineages: the Gelugpa (emphasis on compassion and spiritual training), the Kagyupa (emphasis on meditation), the Sakya (emphasis on the wisdom), the Bonpo (traditional shamanism) and the Nyingma (the non-dogmatic way). The Nyingma emphasize the spiritual development from the inside. They teach the individual path. Nyingma yogis may also live in a relationship.
The founder of Tibetan Buddhism is Padmasambhava. He lived some 1200 years ago as a yogi in India and was invited by the Tibetian King Trisong Detsen. He knew a lot of spiritual methods and taught a diverse mix of yoga techniques (Hatha Yoga, Karma Yoga, Mantra Yoga, Tantra Yoga and Guru Yoga). He said, “Practise so that you feel comfortable. Whenever there is a doubt on your way, then pray to the enlightened Masters, think for yourself and follow the voice of your inner wisdom. This is the voice of the enlightened Masters. If you do this, you will win on your spiritual path.”
—> For advanced see also: Wikipedia Tantra techniques (Vajrayana) (Deity Yoga, Guru Yoga, Clear Light Yoga, Death Yoga, Tantric Sādhana)
Unobtrusiveness
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11. The unobtrusive Master. You can keep your energy best when you act from rest. Practice mouna (silence). Speech only when it is necessary and helpful. In the midst of a group of people stay more in the background. Position yourself small, unobtrusive and modest. See you as insignificant, less than your people. Look at yourself primarily as a servant of your people. Put not yourself, but the great treasure (the doctrine of enlightenment) at the center. Live like a secret Yogi (small, inconspicuous, modest) and as a worshiper of the wisdom of inner happiness and all-embracing love. Then you will be victorious.
The unassuming monk
Ananda was one of Buddha’s chief disciples. 25 years he lived as Buddha’s personal servant, and accompanied his master on all trips. He knew all the speeches and all the teachings of Buddha. After the death of Buddha, he shared his vast knowledge with the Buddhist community. He received the Buddha’s wisdom for the posterity.
Ananda was a gentle monk with a lot of love for his fellow man. His greatest deed was the opening of the Buddhist order for the women. Buddha did not want any women in his community. He probably was still suffering from the separation from his family and therefore had a tendency to displace the existence of women. Ananda had compassion for the women. He argued so long for the women, untill Buddha permitted women in his community.
After the founding of the Order of nuns, Ananda was the spiritual teacher of the women. He cared for them like a mother. For this he was very loved by the women. Sometimes even a few women fell in love with Ananda. He had to be very careful that he not strayed from the path of wisdom. He succeeded after some emotional entanglements.
The name “Ananda” indicates that Ananda was a man with inner happiness. If you stay a lot with other people, you can easily lose your spiritual energy. Living in a group robs you easily your energie. Ananda maintained his energy by keeping himself in the background. He cultivated his servant consciousness and lived as a worshiper of the wisdom of enlightenment. He was always discreet, modest and a friend of all people. At the same time he was also a master of inspiring speech. He was able to motivate his fellow man well and strengthened them on their spiritual path.
After the Crisis
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12. After the crisis. A difficult phase is completed. Recover yourself. Build up your positive energy again. You have won a great victory. Go positively into your future. Forward with optimism.
Buddha Meditation
The fastest way into light is to visualize oneself as an enlightened being (Buddha, Yogi, Goddess) (deity yoga).
Buddha = We visualize in the sky above our crown chakra our happiness model (Buddha, a Goddess, ourselves enlightened). We rub our palms over our head and think, “Om Buddha. Om all enlightened Masters. Om inner wisdom. Please guide and help me on my way.” We think the mantra until our crown chakra opens and the energy from the sky flows down to us and fills our body with happiness.
Light = We move a hand in blessing before the heart chakra and think: “I send light to (name). May all people be happy. May the world be happy.” We feel really connected with all beings in the world.
Cosmos = We visualize the cosmos with all stars around us. We put our hands in the lap, circle with the thumbs, move the toes and think: “I live in a cosmic consiousness. I take all things the way they are. I flow positive with my life.”
Mantra = All movements come to rest. The back is straight and the belly is relaxed. We think and visualize the numbers from 1 to 20 in our head, thorax, abdomen, legs, feet and in the earth. We think and visualize the numbers in the entire universe around us.
Stop = We stop a minute all thoughts completely. When thoughts arise, we push them away.
Relax = We relax. The thoughts and feelings may come and go as they want. Our body and our mind clean themselves by their own. We just watch our internal affairs and remain in the meditation. At this stage of meditation, there are two big mistakes. The first mistake is that we meditate too strong. Then no thoughts appear and no inner tensions resolves. The second error is to force thinking. We solve our problems or fall into daydreams. The proper way is just to be a passive observer of our own emotions and thoughts. We do not control things. We only watch everything that emerges from our inner self. We stay in a state of inner silence, everything dissolve by itself and suddenly we’re happy.
Keep = Keep your inner happiness. Make the right spiritual exercises at the right moment. Bring the light of peace, love and happiness in the world. Forward with wisdom, love and inner peace.
Transformation
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13. Something is changing. Bring yourself with your spiritual practices from the darkness into the light. Awaken your happiness energy (kundalini energy). What exercises do you need? Yoga, meditation, reading, walking, doing good, having pleasure? Forward with wisdom, creativity and power! Success!
Kankaripa
There once was a man who had a beautiful woman. The two loved each other dearly. They thought positively and therefore could lead a happy relationship for many years. The man was Kankaripa. Kankaripa had a successful career in his job and a happy relationship. He was very happy with his life.
But nothing lasts forever in the outer life. One day his woman died. Kankaripa was inconsolable. He depended entirely on his deceased wife. He could not rid himself of the attachment. So he went to a spiritual Master and asked him for advice. The Master said, that at a great love the emotional connection is very strong. It can be resolved only through spiritual exercises over a long period of time. The Master recommended Kankaripa to make three hours every day spiritual exercises. He should take a walk, do yoga, mental work, meditation and read in a spiritual book. He should practice his profession in focus as a Karma Yogi for the goal of a happy world. He should concentrate more on the happiness of his fellow man than his own happiness.
In addition, he should practice every day mentally Tantra Yoga. He should visualize himself in a sexual union with his wife, enjoy the happiness, think the mantra “light”, envelop both in light and then resolve both persons in the unity of the cosmos. He should visualize the universe full of stars around him, thinking the mantra “stars”. Then he should stop three minutes his thoughts and after that he should linger in a relaxed meditation and let his thoughts and feelings flow.
This Kankaripa did a few years and then he was cured of his relationship addiction. He could now live a new relationship and also good to be alone, just like life it brought with it. His firm roots in spirituality allowed him to flow positive with all the changes in his life and always to preserve his inner happiness.
Pleasure Principle
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14. Bring joy into your life today. What do you need to go your spiritual way positively? Go with the pleasure principle through the day. Follow your spontaneous needs. What do you need now? What do you want now? “My way of happiness is today …(living in accordance with the pleasure principle).”
The God of Happiness Ganesha
Ganesha is a thick Yogi (Buddha) with an elephant head (wisdom and power). He has a big belly. He concentrates his energy in his belly. This happens because he is living at rest (doing nothing, pure existence in nirvana), in the all-embracing love and with the pleasure principle. He works for the happiness of all beings, but he does it out of the pleasure principle. He feels every day exactly what is good for him and for his fellow people. He does not work too much und not too less. He gives himself every day the outer pleasure that he needs for his inner balance.
Ganesha wears on his head the crown of wisdom. In his hands he holds the axe of spiritual self-discipline, a rope to be always connected with his spiritual goal, and a bowl of sweets. With his right hand he blesses us with inner happiness. Ganesha sits on a lotus flower. He is well grounded. He lives in a cosmic consciousness. He remains, even in difficult situations, in inner peace, because he flows intelligent with the life. With the five qualities of wisdom, peace, love, strength and joy he is a Master of the connection of life with spirituality.
Some years ago the little Yogi Nils felt bad. In order to gain his balance again, he ate lots of sweets. His spirit brightened more and more. Unfortunately, after some time his abdomen was completely full. And yet his mind was not totally happy. Our little Yogi visualized the sweets in his belly and through this his kundalini energy awakened. Within him arose a strong happiness energy, which quickly brought him into the light. Our Yogi learned from it, to connect external pleasure and spiritual exercises. Then you don´t need to eat so many sweets. Some external pleasure is enough for the path of inner happiness.
Vow
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15. It is good to remember regularly his positive goals and to affirm them by an vow. So we get willpower. We acquire endurance on the spiritual path. Step by step we become a Buddha. We realize a life in the light. We always stay on our path of wisdom, health and self-realization. What do you want to promise yourself today? Formulate your personal vow, “My vow is … (I go the way of wisdom, love and happiness. I achieve my goals. I have endurance. I live as a winner.)”
Bodhidharma
Bodhidharma is the founder of Zen Buddhism. In the sixth century he brought the Buddhism from India to China. There were already some Buddhists in China. But they dealt mainly with the theory. They regularly read their holy books, and then predominantly lived a secular life. Bodhidharma explained to them that it is not enough to talk about Buddhism, but only the consistent practice leads to enlightenment. Zen means to meditate consistently. It means rigorous spiritual practice. Then you get to spiritual progress. Bodhidharmas clarity convinced the people. Zen Buddhism spread first in China, then Japan, Korea and today in the West.
All Zen Buddhists vow every day, morning and evening: “There are masses of creatures, I vow to save them all. Anxiety and hate, delusive-desires inexhaustible, I vow to break them all. Dharma gates beyond measure, I vow to learn them all. Buddha Way, nothing higher, I vow to accomplish it.”
Succeed by Self-discipline
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16. Think about your problem. What solves your problem. Meet a clear decision. Go ahead with power, wisdom and endurance. “My goal is … My path of victory is …” Forward with self-discipline. Success!
Healing Meditation
Sun = We visualize a beautiful sun about us, raise both hands to the side at head level and think several times the mantra “sun”. We let the sunlight flowing down on us and massage it into our body. We continue to think the mantra “sun”.
Earth = We visualize the earth beneath us, rub our feet at the earth and think, “I send light to the whole earth. May all people of the world be happy.”
Sick neighbor = We focus on a person who is physically or the mentally ill. We feel real connected with him. We move one hand in blessing and think: “I send light to (name).” We wrap him with light and let light flow into him. We think several times the mantra “light”.
Therapeutic Massage = We consider, which part of our body needs healing in the moment. We massage him circeling, let light flow into him and think some times the word “light” as a mantra. We can also rub sequentially light in several parts of the body.
Cosmos = We visualize the universe around us full of stars. We make big circles with our arms and think: “Om cosmos. I take things as they are. I flow positiv with my life. I go consistent my way of healing and health.”
Buddha of Healing = We visualize the Buddha of Healing above or in front of us. We rub our palms and say, “Om Buddha of Healing. Om inner wisdom. Please guide and help me on my way.”
Healing Question = We focus on our personal problem or on the body area which needs healing. We think about our problem. What solves our problem? What is the way of our healing? What does our inner wisdom say? We think for a so long time until we are satisfied with the result. When we hear no reply, we are either blocked (we do not want to see the true causes of the problem) or we have no good contact to ourselves. The best way then is it to come slowly into thinking about our problem.
Sick people = We move a hand, bless all people with light and think, “My problem is … The way of healing is … May all the people who have the same problem as I be healed.”
Meditation = We breathe deeply several times in our belly and think the mantra “Om”. We stop one minute every thought. Then we linger in a slight meditation. All thoughts and feelings may come and go as they please. We relax. We go forward with optimismus. We can trust our inner wisdom.
Day of Grace
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17. What are your goals in your life? “My life goals are … Om all enlightened Masters. Om inner wisdom. Please guide and help me on my way.” Consistently go the way of your inner wisdom. You’ll achieve your goals. Great success. The light is with you. Forwards. Today is a day of grace. It happens something good. Recognize the grace in your life and be thankful for it.
Sun Meditation
We sit or lay down comfortably. We can turn on a beautiful meditation music (for example Enya with a right click on new tab).
1. Relaxation = We tense the muscles of the legs and feet. We keep the tension, stop all thoughts and breathe three times into the legs. Then we relax briefly. We tighten the muscles of the arms and hands. We breathe three times into the arms and hands. We relax. We tighten the muscles of the head and face. We breathe three times into the face. We relax. We tighten the muscles of the whole body. We breathe three times into the whole body. We relax.
2. Numbers = We count the numbers from 1 to 10 several times in the head, concentrate on the head and breathe into the head. Our mind becomes quiet. We focus on your chest, breathe into the chest and count the numbers 1 to 10 in the chest. We breathe in the stomach and there we count the numbers 1 to 10. We concentrate on the legs and feet, and count the numbers 1 to 10. We visualize a large ball under our feet and count the numbers from 1 to 10 in the ball.
3. Sun = We visualize a beautiful sun in the sky above us. The sun sends its rays down on us. We feel the light and warmth on our skin. It is as if we lie on holiday in the sun. We enjoy the sunlight. We think several times the mantra “light”.
4. Envelop with light = We wrap our whole body with the light. We take a golden ray of sun and let the sunlight circle around us. We think the mantra of “light”. We let the sunlight flow into us and fill us with light. We think the mantra “light”.
5. Send light = We send light to another person. We wrap him with light and let the light flow into him. Whom you will now send light? Think some times his name as a mantra. Then we send the light all over the world. We envelop the whole world with light and fill it with light. We want all beings to be happy and think several times the mantra “world”.
6. Om Shanti = We breathe in and think “Om”. We exhale and think “Shanti” (peace). We do this some times. We stop all other thoughts. Slowly serenity, peace and silence are emerging in us.
7. Stop = We stop a minute every thought. When thoughts arise, we always push them away. We move gently the feet and toes. We focus on our feet and move on, until our mind comes to rest completely.
8. Relax = Then we relax for a few minutes. Thoughts and feelings may come and go as they please. We come back slowly. We move our feet and hands. We stretch and loll us. We are there again. Life may come. We are ready to victory.
Chaos
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18. The Master of dancing with the life. Difficult situations come and go. Dance with the chaos. Look exact at each situation and then find the right spiritual technic to keep your inner balance. Do Yoga, meditation, reading, walking or mental work (positive thinking). What is your positive sentence now? “My positiv thought is … (I am a Master of Life. I flow positiv with each difficcult situation.)” Flexible forward. Success.
Tenzin Palmo
Tenzin Palmo is a Western woman who has decided to become a female Buddha. She was born in 1943 in London as Diane Perry. After graduation, she worked in a library. She liked to read. One day she discovered a Buddhist book and was impressed by the teachings contained therein. She traveled to northern India and met her Master, the 8th Khamtrul Rinpoche. She became a Buddhist nun in the tradition of Kagyupa (Kundalini Yoga and Meditation).
She noticed that there are very few female Tibetan Buddhist Masters. She therefore put off the vow to attain Buddhahood as a woman – no matter how many lifetimes it would take. She saw this as her contribution to the emancipation of women. The 16th Karmapa blessed her and said. “You are the first Western woman I ordain. You have to be strong and vigilant. It is very important that the beginning of a new movement is purely. In the coming years there will be many western women who go the Buddha-way.
On the night she had a vision of the Goddess Tara, who smiled happily and gave her a flower. That was a good ohmen. Buddha gave his successor also a flower. Tenzin Palmo spent several years in a monastery. She learned that there is in Tibetan Buddhism a nearly extinct line of female yogis, the Togdenmas. Tenzin Palmo wanted to restore the tradition of the Togdenmas. She moved into a cave in the Himalayas and meditated there for twelve years intensively.
At the age of about fifty years she came back to the West. She radiated happiness, peace and light. She founded a convent and traveled throughout the West, to raise money for her monastery. Wherever she went, people were enthusiastic. Her teaching was authentic, non-dogmatic and suitable to the needs of western women.
—> Video: Tenzin Palmo
Renunciation
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19. Who wants to develop inner happiness, therefor needs much time and energy. He must remember every day his spiritual goals and practice consistent. The more time and energy he invested in the spiritual path, the faster he is moving forward. On what do you want to renounce so you can reach your spiritual goals? What worldly things you can let go, and how much? What positive thought helps you to provide the necessary waiver? “Today, I waive ….” Start with little things. Forward. Success.
Khema and Uppalavanna
Khema and Uppalavanna were two girlfriends. They were the two female chief disciples of Buddha. Khema had a lot of wisdom. Uppalavanna had a lot of inner strength. Khema was good at motivating their people spiritually. Uppalavanna could exert persistent and well go through difficult times. Khema had been an indian queen. She clung to their worldly pleasures. But she was also very clever. She knew that inner happiness is more important than outer pleasure. Khema knew that a life in the light (in enlightenment) is a thousand times happier than the best secular life. The best way of happiness is the spiritual self-realization. One day Buddha met the Queen Khema and showed her the way of spiritual practice. She renounced all her worldly wealth and became a nun. This was a great sacrifice, which led to a big win. May we all have the power to waive in the right moment the right thing and win the great happiness.
Sacrifice
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20. Inner happiness is created by the resolution of the tensions in the body and in the spirit. The greatest tension is the ego (I-attachment). Anyone who takes himself and his personal desires too important gets much inner tension, as a result. The I-attachment may be dissolved by the spiritual technique of sacrifice. Today is a day of sacrifice. You have to accept or let go of something. “My sacrifice is today …”
To sacrifice effectively is a great art. The sacrifice must be dosed just right so that it optimally solves the inner tensions. Too small a sacrifice does not work (it has to feel as a sacrifice), and a too great sacrifice creates tensions by itself. The best way of sacrifice is the way of all-embracing love. Sacrifice your ego for the goal of a happy world. Live in the center of your life as a Karma Yogi (Bodhisattva) and not for your own enjoyment. But care also good for yourself. A Karma Yogi is only successful in the long term, if he is well anchored in himself (in rest, in his own happiness).
The king and the five sacrifices
There was once a king who wanted to realize his inner happiness. A priest told him that a five-fold renunciation is necessary. The king had a lot of wisdom and a strong will. He was willing to perform a sacrifice, if it was necessary to achieve his goal. First, the king renounced his kingdom. He moved to a secluded forest and lived as a yogi. Second, the king renounced on sexuality. He lived without a relationship to better focus his energy on his spiritual exercises. That was for him the greatest sacrifice.
Third, the king renounced on his thoughts. He meditated a lot and lived in great peace. Fourth, he renounced his ego. He let go of his ego, went through the vast emptiness (becomming internal nothing, no feeling of an independend self) and came into the light. It feels uncomfortable when the ego dissolves. But behind this is waiting the inner happiness. Who knows this, can easily sacrifice his ego. The king enjoyed some time in the happiness of enlightenment. Then he thought of the suffering of his people. They needed an enlightened Master who guided them along their way. The king renounced so fifthly on the happiness of seclusion and went back to his kingdom. He lived as a Hatha Yogi (physical exercises, meditation), as a Karma Yogi (love to all) and as a Bhogi Yogi (much external pleasure) permanently in the light (in unity consciousness, Nirvana). The five sacrifice were found to be the greatest grace in his life.
Fortune
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21. You can look optimistically into the future. You will win. You’ll be happy. Who works for the happiness of the world and of his fellow man, one day gets a good harvest. This is the law of karma. Celebrate your happy life. Optimism. Good karma. Fortune awaits you. Forward !!
Mother Meera
Mother Meera is an enlightened master who lives in Germany. She was born on 26/12/1960 in India. 1982 she married a German. She now lives in Thalheim near Frankfurt. On weekends, she gives satsang (meeting) in the castle Balduinstein. Everyone can visit her and receive her free blessings (darshan). She gives darshan also in the USA and Canada. A darshan is an important purification step on the spiritual path. Often enlightenment energy is transfered, which one day develops in a great grace.
Mother Meera receives thousands of visitors for darshan which she conducts in total silence. Her darshan consists of a ritual, where she will touch a person’s head, and then look into his eyes. During this process, she reportedly ‘unties knots’ in the person’s subtle system and permeates them with light. She teaches the unity of all religions. Everyone can go his own way. It is only important to be connected with the light (the personal spiritual role model) by praying, reading or meditating.
Mother Meera has lived some time in the ashram of Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo was one of the great Indian saint of modern times. He taught the Integral Yoga, the combination of meditation and Karma Yoga (doing good). Mother Meera has said that she works together on a spiritual level with the Dalai Lama for the good of the world.
Statements of Mother Meera: “Each religion has its basic books. It is helpful to read these major works of religions.” “Everything comes out of silence. In silence more work can be done.” “You may enjoy material life, but centering yourself in spirituality.” (Live the joy as part of the spiritual path.) (…) “Whoever comes to me for darshan, receives always what he needs.” “I look at everything within you to see where I can help, heal and give strength.” “I take anyone who comes sincere to me.” “The grace works automatically when the quest is sincere.” “Prayer always helps.” “Many souls go after death directly into the highest nirvana (God), some advanced souls keep their subtle bodies, to help others.”
Negative Qualities
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22. Inner happiness is created by the development of positive qualities (love, peace, self-discipline, wisdom) and by reducing the negative characteristics. All the negative characteristics are ultimately based on attachment (to external pleasures, other people, to his ego) or rejection (of suffering situations, pain). If we accept the suffering in our lifes and let go of our worldly desires and longings, the tensions in our minds resolve. Our inner happiness creates a positiv feeling of life. We get into a life in the light (in a paradise view of life).
The most serious negative property of a man in spirituality is pride. Even enlightened yogis can fall deeply. Pride is a tension, which hinders one from realizing the unity (oneness) of all beings. Pride can be overcome through Karma Yoga (to wish all people happy), through the practice of humility (modesty) and by the suffering. Who lives in suffering, is humble. Be constantly aware of the suffering in your life, accept it, kill your pride and awake your inner happiness by positiv thinking. The main way to overcome the negative qualities is to focus on the positive qualities of wisdom, self-discipline, peace, love and happiness. It is also helpful to work directly on the negative qualities. “My negative quality is … (pride, anger, fear, sadness, envy, addiction, desire or unwisdom). My way to overcome it is…”
Ambapali
Ambapali was a prostitute. All the men were lying to her feet. She was beautiful, rich and intelligent. Ambapali was very proud of herself and her body. When she heard a sermon of Buddha one day, she realized that all outer wealth and also her beautiful body were transient. Only her soul would always exist. To have a happy soul, one has to cultivate his inner happiness. Ambapali changed her life radically. She became a yogini. She practiced intensively. She resolved systematic the proud of her beautiful body. She meditated constantly on the transience of all things on earth. She visualized herself as an old woman, a suffering woman, the death of her body and her transformation into a buddha and a life in nirvana. After a few years she realized enlightenment. All of her negative qualities disappeared. A prostitute became a saint. In spiriuality it is not important what job a person has, but what inner spirit he or she has.
Great Victory
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23. A great success. A great victory. You have fought a lot. And you have won. The Buddha’s cheer. What is your victory today? Celebrate the day. Rejoice over your victory. Enjoy your success.
The five principles of health
The main principles of health are healthy diet, no drugs (alcohol, smoking, drugs, eating too much), regular exercise, adequate rest and positive thinking. These five principles of health give us a long, healthy and happy life. We can integrate them into our everyday lifes if we want it. If we live by these principles, we can avoid most diseases. If we are sick, we become significantly faster healthy.
1. Eat healthy. A healthy diet consists of fruits, vegetables, etc. It is advised to eat little or no meat and much raw food (raw fruits and vegetables). Raw food gives the body lots of vitamins and minerals that protect him from disease.
2. Avoid drugs, smoking and alcohol. That causes many diseases and usually shorten your life significantly. Too many sweets (sugar), fat, lots of salt and lots of meat are also unfavorable. Don´t eat too much calories. You live longer, if you eat less (but not too less). Hear to your body. He knows what is good for you. Live wisely and stay healthy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caloric_restriction
3. Do sports. Go walking, jogging, cycling, swimming once or twice a day (one half to one hour), to keep the body strong and healthy. It is also sufficient to train on an exercise bike (bicycle, treadmill) or to do dynamic yoga for half an hour a day. Or to go for a walk on the weekend for an hour. It is important, that the body is well warmed through (practice until a slight sweating). It kills disease germs.
4. Relax sufficiently. Stress should always be put away by adequate recovery periods, yoga or meditation. For the inner happiness, it is important to live in the right proportion of personal activity (work) and rest (relaxation).
5. Think positive. Avoid negative thoughts. Keep your mind through conscious control predominantly positive. Positive thoughts lead to positive feelings and positive emotions have a positive effect on your body. Motivate yourself with positive phrases and ideas. Read positive books and have a positive task (hobby).
“Who eats properly, may live up to 20 years longer,” says the Jena nutritionist Michael Ristow. Ristow warns to take vitamin tablets. No matter how high-dose vitamin capsule you take, it cannot replace an apple with its hundreds of individual substances. (Quote Welt online, Germany 2011)
Four simple rules of conduct extend life by an average of 14 years: Do not smoke, do some sports, drink no (or little) alcohol, eat fruit and (raw) vegetables daily. British researchers studied since 1993 the fate of more than 20 000 subjects aged over 45 years. The EPIC study extends over a total of ten European countries. (Quote Online Focus, 2008)
—> Interview about Correct Nutrition
Self-reflection
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24. A day of introspection. Reflect on yourself, to what you really want. Think about yourself, your life and your way of life. What are your goals? What do you want to achieve in your life? What is your way of a happy life? How do you get a fulfilling life? “My goals are … Unwisdom is … My way of wisdom is …” Forwards. Success.
The Four Stages of Life
Jada Bharata was the first great king in India. He united the whole country under his rule and gave him a common religion. Jada Bharata called his religion the Sanatana Dharma (eternal truth). Sanatana Dharma can be called the science of happiness. In the west the Sanatana Dharma is called Hinduism. Neo-Hinduism is the predominant form of Hinduism of today. Neo-Hinduism emphasizes the all-embracing love, the unity of all religions and the spiritual practice. Important representatives of Neo-Hinduism are Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, Ramana Maharshi, Anandamayi Ma, Mahatma Gandhi, Yogananda, Swami Sivananda, Sai Baba, Mata Amritanandamayi and Mother Meera.
Jada Bharata taught the way of the four stages of life. In youth, one acquires spiritual and professional knowledge. Then do you set up a family. If the kids are grown up, you concentrate on the spiritual practice. The age is then spent in inner happiness and after death you move up into the world of light. Simplified one can say that a wise man should devide his life into two parts. The first half of life on earth we explore the world outside and enjoy it´s pleasures. In the second half we realize our inner happiness. One lives first mainly as Bhogi (hedonist) and then as a Yogi (happy man). This is from the perspective of yoga a fullfilled life. Buddha also followed this dichotomy. Until about the age of 30 years he lived with his wife and son. And then he transformed from a secular to a spiritual person and lived the second part of his life as a Buddha (enlightened).
Jada Bharata himself became a yogi and realized the inner happiness. Shortly before his death, he thought about if he now should stay permanently in the world of light, or return to earth again. Each enlightened yogi has in the moment of his death the choice. With his last thought (mantra), he decides his fate. Jada Bharata saw the many suffering in the world and opted for a rebirth as a spiritual Master. In his next life as a human he became a yogi, and quickly reached the enlightenment. He lived as Jivanmukta (liberated soul, Buddha) in the big nothing (nirvana, happiness). One day, “by chance” the new Indian king visited him. Jade Bharata initiated him into the path of universal love. The Indian religion was temporarily paralyzed in a formal way of practicing and preserving the power of the ruling class. The king gave the Sanatana Dharma the real spirituality back and transformed India into a happy country.
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