Life is too short for being afraid. What are the things that you are most afraid of, most hopeful for?

If I think that the world never revolved for me, it never danced for me, am I right? The world always goes on and makes its own pattern. If you wish it were beautiful, it turns out ugly or upside down. You can wish someone say you’re sexy but they say you’re ugly. Can you change the world? I can change my world! You cannot change the world until you are able to change yourself because the world always follows its own way.

Are you being faithful and truthful as you consider what’s really in your heart about your fears and hopes? You have to feel your own personal existence when you face your worst fears. Face the reality not the illusion of the fear. Feel your body – the most important gift that you have. Bring awareness into your body – bite your finger, feel pain, take a breath, still breathing, jiggle your butt, feel that you are alive! This is our most important gift. Feel that you are a living being. You can feel yourself, feel your heart beating, feel your comfort zone. Once you feel that then everything becomes simple. This is real – all the feelings outside are unreal. Take care of what is immediately real. At least bite your finger, take a breath. We talk about life and death being two sides of the coin – this is an illusional concept. In reality think we are always living, but in fact we live in so many dimensions, illusions of mind, or material mind thinks this is life, when the body dissolves we think that is death. Truly we have no life or death concept. We have one journey – life, death, etc. This is a journey – this life. We hope that the next journey is more beautiful. The highest achievement is when we don’t have to return, that we become immortal and go to our true home.

Where is your true home? Most determine where home is by emotion: heart, everywhere, the concept is very blurry. You have a limited ability to see and identify home. You get lost – you are lost sheep.

What does spirituality mean to you? Many people think if they do yoga, eat healthy, behave compassionately, do good works, etc. they are spiritual. But that’s not really it. Truly its about living in accordance with your true essence. In everyday life, what have you seen that someone thinks is spiritual but it’s not? Church goers who don’t practice a really good life; abuse of power by religious leaders; always giving but never receiving.

If you pretend then you are the biggest victim. You are creating and growing spiritual cancer cells that will bring you closer to death faster: un-virtuous gain of one penny will bring you one inch closer to the coffin. Pretending to be a master or a spiritual person when the motions that you take in your life are not masterful will take you closer to death. True spirituality is 24 hours per day maintain the same conscience, mercy and forgiveness – 3 treasures of the Tao. Can someone be truly spiritual if they don’t know about cultivation? Yes.

Spirituality has different kinds of quality – human vs. saint vs. immortal. We’re all different. Ordinary people are also different between them. As long as all human – our measurement of development is the degrees of mercy, conscience and forgiveness. Are you faithful to the 3 treasures or do you just pretend? Are you different with different people? Sometimes people will reveal that they are inconsistent. If it is intellectual, it is not truly spiritual.

If no longer human, the Three Treasures are still the measure. One of the Buddhas would say – if I don’t go to hell first, who will go? Why would Buddha go to hell first? He has great passion for the people in hell so that he can empty it out. The quality of Three Treasures defines spiritual level. Human spiritual level and immortal spiritual level are different. First we are in the mud and we are human. We must walk in this path first and be the best human first. However spiritual we feel today it is in the human realm of spiritual. Understand then what conscience means, mercy means and forgiveness means. When we become the best human, only then can we become immortal. Don’t fantasize – be real – don’t judge the world around you. Be in it.