--- Summary ----(Claire)

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to read this very interesting book! Below is my summary and thoughts to share with you:

The author leads the readers to learn how to expand from limited life experiences to infinity, so that we can live in unconditional love and joy. This book gives us an opportunity to look at the world from a different perspective and think about the essence of life. Besides the world created by the ego and the voice of the mind, is there a deeper value of life that allows us to live in happiness, love, peace, and eternity?

The content of the book can be summed up in three key points: 

-參 Who am I?

-臣服Surrender (learning how to let go)

- Living life in unconditional happiness

1.     You are that underlying awareness.

2.     Learn to control your inner world

3.     It’s impossible to control the outside world, so focus on controlling your inner world.

4.     See pain as an opportunity to free yourself. When things trigger your negative emotions, it is an opportunity for you to heal yourself. From this point of view, if you dont have lingering emotions when dealing with the problem, things will be resolved naturally. As the Master said: face the problem, accept the problem , deal with the problem, let go of the problem聖嚴法師，當遇到問題的處理的心法:  面對他、接受他、處理他、放下他 

5.     Return from the subject to the object, regard yourself as the soul, and experience life through this body; the soul wants to experience all things, the “good” and the “bad”, feel the love and pain, feel the light and darkness. Without labeling our experiences, you can truly be free.

6.     Looking at everything from the height of the universe, you will no longer label everything as “good” or “bad”, you just let everything flow by and enjoy every experience, tolerate people with different opinions, and let go of past trauma

7.     Every time you encounter painful things, you have to remind yourself that you have encountered the boundary of restrictive thinking, just like a dog touching his electronic fence. Learn not to avoid pain, but instead to feel and let the pain flow through, which will help you live your finite life to infinite potential and expand your experiences.

8.     If you want to be immersed in awareness, you can practice meditation, yoga and remind yourself of who you are.

9.     Use death as a tool for growth instead of fearing it.

10.  Trying to navigate your life in the middle way (中道) will lead you to fully experience life and miracles will happen everywhere.

---- Q&A ----

1. Have you ever tried to separate yourself from “The Voice Inside Your Head”? Have you ever asked the Question : “Who am I”?

I injoy the self-reflection, I believe hooponopono, I

2. What is the benefit of controlling your inner self and immersed in awareness?

Body(meditation、Gigong、food)、mind(posotive，negative via five senses)、spirit (wisdom、hooponopono)

3.Have you ever experience the “The Lucid Self“?

Focus on here and now, breah in and out，

《reference by Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyis famous investigations of“optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life.》

4. Please share your method of calming down and detaching from the voice of the head.

Everynight, meditate with your mind, and do hooponopono with family, ancestor, enemy.

5. Do you believe you are perfect? That You are light and love? Perhaps an Angel or the Future Buddha? Your life is full of Abundance and Enlightenment!

I believe through meditation, Gigong, I feel the power from the nature mother connected with me, it makes me feel warm and inspired.

6. Do you agree with these concepts?

- Consciousness-only ;

- Buddhism: Everything is created by the mind; 

- You create your reality; 

- Law of Attraction

Please share your experiences about how you achieve your goals.

All the encounters with specific lessones are our divine calling

7. On the other hand, do you agree that when you experience anxiety, fear, anger and other situations that trigger your negative emotions, the problems do not come from the outside and instead, it comes from your inner world?

《An ancient poem :  As within, so without; as above, so below.》

如其在內，如其在外；如其在上，如其在下

I do believe The answer to life, water knows，they memorize all your emotional tatoo

8. How to let go? How to forgive? How to release blocked energy from past trauma? How to clean up and remove the wall of negative thoughts、dark clouds?

-Use the concept of death as a tool for growth instead of fearing it

- Meditation, yoga, breathing, exercise, close to nature, sunbathing

- Most importantly, know who you are. So that you can let the higher self forgive, let the light in your heart release the negative energy

I do believe hoopnopono is the best cureall.

9. How to live in balance ?  The secret of middle way : Chinese Tao

道生一、一生二、二生三、三生萬物

N dimension philosophy and puzzles. Depends on how you see it

10. After reading this book, what have you gained? Do you think that spiritual learning can help you to expand your life?  Can you accept that you are not just an ego identity as you think, but you are an angel, just coming through this body to experience life? Your life can be full of love and compassion, inner peace and unconditional happiness.

Let ourselves be the fireflies, you never what the sharing come back to you, you will keep your arms open and wait for the surprise of the frisbee

---- Reference -----

There is some reference material can share with everyone:

Part 2: Experiencing Energy: voice of the mind VS the power of heart

✔       The mind helps us survive in this dualistic world and helps us escape from danger, but it also causes us a lot of troubles. In many cases, the emotions generated by the mind make us live in a cage, limiting our potential and talent, lacking Action, creativity. Even mental illness, anxiety and panic. Anxiety is the worst experience in the past, and fear is worrying about things in the future that have not yet happened.

✔       Live in the moment, let the power of the heart surface, and naturally create a lot of energy. The following is the energy table produced by German scientists based on research, from high to low. Representing different situations, the doctor has measured, once again the highest energy level is Mother Teresa, she is full of wisdom and joy, when she appears, all negative energy disappears.

✔       The most important thing in life is your inner energy. If you’re always tired and never enthused, then life is no fun. But if you’re always inspired and filled with energy, then every minute of every day is an exciting experience. Learn to work with these things. Through meditation, through awareness and willful efforts, you can learn to keep your centers open. You do this by just relaxing and releasing. You do this by not buying into the concept that there is anything worth closing over. Remember, if you love life, nothing is worth closing over. Nothing, ever, is worth closing your heart over.

Power VS. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior

Life’s Energy Chat by Sir David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.

Sir David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., is an internationally renowned psychiatrist, consciousness researcher, spiritual lecturer, and mystic. Author of more than eight books, including the bestseller Power vs. Force, Dr. Hawkins’s work has been translated into more than 17 languages.

Conclusion:

1.We follow our intuition instead of knowledge, you will find yourself and free yourself. We will stop blaming others. And start to appreciate yourself and respect the world.

2.The best way to stop the incessant chatter is just to listen to it. Be objective!

3.Be with your inner roommate in silence

4.Be aware of your lucid dream, a status of conscious, focus. And you will figure out mental, emotional and physical status and when the emotion flare up to dominate your awareness.

5.infinite energy turn into bundle of light, gush up from inside and restores again.

6.The secret of spiritual heart, like a valve, electronic sensing devices can either allow the flow of energy to pass through, or it can restrict the flow of energy from passing through, What you will find is that the heart closes because it becomes blocked by stored, unfinished energy patterns from your past. You need only examine your everyday experiences to understand this.

7. transcending the tendency to close: inner force field—Chi,

Shakti, or Spirit—it is an underlying energy that flows in particular patterns through your inner being. You protect yourself and can’t yourself free for your idiosyncrasies

8.Let go or fall! you’ll have to face the fear, jealousnes, hate that was causing you to fight and control you

9.Remove our inner thorn: You want to have relationships with

people because you genuinely like them, not because you need for them to like you. If you have low identify root , you will seek someone or something to cover it up. You will hide behind finances, people, fame, and adoration. If you try to find the perfect person to

love and adore you, and you manage to succeed, then you have actually failed. You did not solve your problem.

10. pain, the price of freedom

One of the essential requirements for true spiritual growth and deep personal trasformation is

coming to peace with pain

11. taking down the walls

參考霍普金斯能量表

https://catwang0717.pixnet.net/blog/post/310441667-%E5%A4%A7%E8%A1%9B%E9%9C%8D%E9%87%91%E6%96%AF%E8%83%BD%E9%87%8F%E5%9C%96%E8%A1%A8%EF%BC%9A%E4%B8%80%E5%80%8B%E4%BA%BA%E7%9A%84%E8%83%BD%E9%87%8F%E5%B1%A4%E7%B4%9A%E6%B1%BA%E5%AE%9A

https://www.amazon.com/Power-vs-Force-David-Hawkins-ebook/dp/B00EJBABS2

Part 3 心流 FLOW

Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyis famous investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life.

https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Perennial-Classics/dp/0061339202

Part 5 :  The Path of Unconditional Happiness

Happiness

by Priscilla Leonard

Happiness is like a crystal,
Fair and exquisite and clear,
Broken in a million pieces,
Shattered, scattered far and near.
Now and then along lifes pathway,
Lo! some shining fragments fall;
But there are so many pieces
No one ever finds them all.

You may find a bit of beauty,
Or an honest share of wealth,
While another just beside you
Gathers honor, love or health.
Vain to choose or grasp unduly,
Broken is the perfect ball;
And there are so many pieces
No one ever finds them all.
Yet the wise as on they journey
Treasure every fragment clear,
Fit them as they may together,
Imaging the shattered sphere,
Learning ever to be thankful,
Though their share of it is small;
For it has so many pieces
No one ever finds them all.

Related reading:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWGjc6WfT2Q&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=SherryChen%E9%9B%AA%E8%8E%89

December Meeting Wrap-Up

Today Florence’s daughter Claire created a powerful and positive presentation of our book, The Untethered Soul. This book combined with Clair’s leadership offered each of us simple yet profound answers to the questions we have about our lives and what it is that matters the most to us.  Claire’s leadership of this book was transformative and encouraged each of us to consider our relationships with the world and ourselves. Emma and Gloria shared their idea of inner freedom and the importance of accepting yourself for who you are as well as meditation.  Learning who you are is not something that comes from others. It is not something that you can get from someone else. Nobody else can give you inner peace. You have to find it within yourself.

This doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t seek help from others but ultimately, the peace that you’re looking for has to come from within. Lily talked about how she tried to escape parts of her life but how having her dog has helped her to be present.  Lydia talked about the mantra’s she has used for herself when she was going through a challenging time in her life and Emma also recounted moments when she responded to difficulties by centering herself.  This book and last month’s book has really taken the group into a different direction, one that is tapping into traditions of meditation and mindfulness and it has really been a positive change in the group. Claire was a real model for us and both she and Emma encouraged us to develop consciousness.  Claire gave us powerful examples in her own life and marriage of how that can enable us all to dwell in the present moment and let go of painful thoughts and memories that keep us from achieving happiness and self-realization.

It was a really rewarding meeting and a big thank you to Cathy and Hendry for coming along today and adding their valuable voices to the group.  Once again thank you to Lily for facilitating our participants from the USA, Switzerland and Spain.  Thank you so much to all of you for joining in and of course thank you to the captain of our group, Florence.  Merry Christmas to those who celebrate and for those that don’t, I hope it is a season of peace and comfort.

December 12 (by our consultant Clive)