Master Shi Heng Yi
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first heard Apr 2025
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Practice to look beyond the superficiality of things. because this is where the meaning lies, or this is where part of the realization lies.
So our goal is set in a way. And now comes the next realization. Just because your goal is set, doesn't mean this life is going to give you exactly what you're looking for. Meaning, you really must make sure how important is that goal really for you. Because, you know, I... I witnessed it in my life as well. So at some point, when it started to become a lot public, the calendar went full.
And at some point I said to myself, okay, now it's becoming too full. Let's start to settle down a bit. Let's start to stay a little bit more in the background. But then still like requests coming in still. And then you were thinking, how come this one still... But ultimately, it's really up to you. How much do you really want it?
And it's going to continue like this until you will ultimately come to the point, and it's going to come quickly, I do think, you know, Where you realize for yourself that it's an infinite, that it's an infinite direction of possibilities. They will never run out, but you will still have to figure out what is it that you really want from your life.
Valid, absolutely understandable as well. But I do think that this universe is going to let you realize your lesson in the way how you need it. You're going to have your mansion, you're going to have your beautiful, beautiful wife, you're going to have it all. There is something that's going to put you back on track.
There is something that's going to put you back on track, telling you, you need to readjust. It's why, why, why, why? Because it has always been like this. We come with nothing. We go with nothing. What does it mean? This universe is going to make sure that you're going to go with nothing.
which means at some point before it's time for you to go, you will be faced with the fact of learning the necessity of letting go of what you have attained in this lifetime. And if you have not learned and have not understood that this is going to come, then I think it's a very, very hard awakening. It's a very painful awakening.
to realize, to have this realization that you have spent 70 years, 80 years following your goal. And now there is no other choice. You have to let go. Yeah. It's not my invention. It's just my observation. And this is why, now maybe let's jump a little bit, there are literally in the ancient traditions, in the text of Chan Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, it's very simply said like this.
How do you know that you have practiced this path, this tradition in a decent manner? It is simply by... Feeling inside yourself how easy, how willing are you actually to let go of what you have.
If you feel that you are mentally attached to things still, mentally attached to possession, you're far away from the state of being, what this Chan Buddhism, what this Chan teaching is wanting to reveal to you. What it also means is if you have the possibility of attaining everything that you were speaking about, you are absolutely happy to do so. You can own everything.
It's never about promoting to have this is not good. No. But to have attachment, at least in this type of tradition, will have consequence. So it's not about what is it that you possess. It's about what of these possessions are possessing you. That's it.
Let's start with the sports car. Okay. It depends on the rest of the circumstances. So let me put it like this. If the salary that you have, for example, is just as much that you can pay your rent, nevertheless, you want to have that sports car, therefore take a loan, then buy the sports car. It's very probable you're going to be very attached to the car.
simply because out of the situation you bought it from. You didn't buy it from a position of abundance. So this is already not a good starting point, to afford something that you actually cannot afford. Differently it is when you have the possibilities,
And you just spend the time and spend also the money on the sports car and see it what it is and realistically see it how much time you, let's say, spend with it. I do think the excitement in the beginning is there for a week. Maybe a month, that's already long, but it's fading. And at some point, there will even be a day you don't even see it because you're busy.
Then there will be a week when you see the car once standing around somewhere. And then there will be a month passing by where you are traveling the world and you're not even sure anymore when was it the last time that you were riding it. And these are things like when you observe them and actually realize, yeah, it's the truth. This is how the development of things with possessions is.
In the beginning, it's always like you want to have, you want to have, and then they fade. And diving into this type of mentality of really understanding Wanting, wanting is the one part, and then realizing how is life really. Do you need it? Is it necessary? Can you afford it? It's the second part. It just opens another perspective. And then you just decide for yourself.
But so whether something is possessing you or you can possess something without being attached to it very much is linked to all of this. From which position did you buy it from? Did you attain it from? And then the second thing is, how much time do you literally really spend with it?
I make it super simple when it comes to the five hindrances. Literally, it's like this. Whatever appears in our life, if I have my goal set right now, what you are not supposed to do is to witness something And now if you have like the number one, sensual desire, sensory desire, what we tend to do is we like start to pull things towards us. That's number one.
The second thing, what not to do, this is what it all belongs to that family of non-judgment, is like when ill will, something appears in your life, something you witness, you meet a person you don't want to meet, you get the message, you don't want to read that message, whatever it is, and you try to avoid it by doing actions in order to push it away from you.
So what it ultimately means is don't do any of them because... Whatever you try to hold on to, the nature of thing is that this is happening. Swinging away. It's going to move away from you. And whatever you try to avoid and push away from you is just a question of time until it's going to move like pretty close towards you.
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