Quote of The Day (182)
This section contains short teachings extracted from the messages that Sifu Kuan Ming received over the years, since 1979. The quotes contained herein are a collection of the daily quotes for your contemplation.
Though hardships are there, do not allow them to weaken your resolve to live a happy day. By being in practice, you will not be allowing your unruly mind, with its laziness, worldliness and inattentiveness to take charge of your life, nor will you be easy victim of the weaknesses and instincts of the lower nature. (STQ-2002-p18x2)
(1) Practise to weaken your tendency to hurt and to strengthen your inclination to help.
(2) It is by being patient with yourself, tolerant with others, and kindly with living beings that you will be able to move forward in your evolution!
(3) Knowing yourself; correcting yourself; disciplining yourself; this is the way to move on to a new, fruitful and peaceful life that you have come to engender. (STQ-2002-p17x2,p18)
Do not be troubled by the trials and troubles of life. Know that they are there only to test your faith; to awaken your heart of courage; to strengthen your resolve to overcome them; to change your life pattern, and to move you closer to Niang. Accept them as opportunities for growth or challenges that are essential to your spiritual growth and development. (STQ-2002-p17)
(1) To see the Divine, to hear the Divine, to know the Divine is to be with the Divine!
(2) It is during spiritual conversations that spiritual truths are revealed.
(3) Practise, and the words flowing from your mouth will be revealing your experiences. (STQ-2002-p4,5x2)
Let the Chart of Practice that has been holding your mind for the past days be further refined and be made into a Gift of the 6th Moon Season for all to see how each of the Ten Cultivations is capable of enriching them with rewards of Self-Development that can only be seen with the help of the Chart which should please them greatly.
When the Divine Chart was revealed to you, it was meant to say that this Path is easily understandable and practicable, also verifiable and realisable by all at any place and time. (STQ-2011-p23,2012-p11)
(1) The Divine Energy is received through the power of Mantra released through the power of the Mudra, and sent forth through the power of Visualization.
(2) Know that this life will bless you with teachings, learning, awakening experiences, initiations, blessings, and opportunities to win merit and wisdom. (STQ-2002-p15,16)
Devotion:
It is only when devotion is there that the disciple may find his Guru’s words to be interesting, inspiring, and enlightening. It is only when great devotion has arisen that he or she will begin to sit with pen and paper to take notes with zeal. (STQ-2002-p6)
Guru:
Guru is Buddha. Guru is Dharma. Guru is Sangha. Guru is also the Source of all purity and goodness. In all Gurus I take my refuge.
There can be no knowledge without the Guru. It is the Guru who can best develop your interest in spiritual knowledge. It is the Guru who can best inspire you to live the spiritual life. (STQ-2002-p7,5,6)
(1) Sit, Sit and Sit! Sit to know yourself! Sit to change yourself! Sit to merge with your Higher Self!
(2) Spiritual songs are full of benefits. Singing a hymn and you will feel relaxed. Singing a bhajan and you will feel invigorated. (STQ-2002-p16,33)
Be glad to know that you have entered a Path which will have you giving hope, help and healing to others until enlightenment is won. Know that you are being trained to learn how to help those who are suffering from the sprains and strains of life that are the causes of pain, unhappiness and anxiety of life! Though it is a fact that man has to learn through suffering, this does not mean that he has to suffer to learn. (STQ-2002-p8,15,7)
(1) Beware of anger, for like love it is also an outward-going radiation that affects others greatly.
(2) Unconditional love is all powerful and has no limits. It can pass back and forth through time and space in an instant.
(3) Brighten up the Light of your mind with silence and strengthen the Love of your heart with selfless activities. (STQ-2002-p3x2,5)
(1) Think less to hear more. Seek nothing to gain everything.
(2) Rebirth will continue to be until you are able to bring an end to it.
(3) Don’t just smile at a person. Try smiling into the person’s eyes! (STQ-2002-p3x2,5)
What are the things that you should strive to attain as one who is of this Kuan Yin Contemplative Path? There are two in number: The Awakening of your Mind of Spirituality and the Opening of your Heart of Love.
The fruition of the Practice is that your mind will be calm, your heart peaceful and your being pure! (STQ-2002-p2,3)
Follow this Path of Growing by collecting its Teachings of the Ancient Wisdom that will guide you safely into the future. For, more than being a Path of Healing and Devotion, this is also a Path of Great Awakening.
Contemplate on the Law of Cause and Effect, practise the Four Noble Truths, and comprehend the Twelve Links of Causation, and life will be filled with attainments. STQ-2002-p2,4)
Whatever you do, see to it that it is always done carefully, thoughtfully and lovingly, for this is how the heart of kindness and gentleness will come to be and how the roots of the Heart of Compassion are caused to strengthen. (STQ-2002-p14)
It is when you would want to correct yourself so that you may live the good life, it is then you have entered the Path of Practice!
It is from your Practice that you will learn about the deepest needs of the heart. Head for the Higher Stream of Practice and be immersed with the cultivations that will be Purifying your heart and mind which is what makes it a Spiritual Sadhana! (STQ-2015-p15x2,2013-p23)
Life must have its challenges, its cross to bear, its pain to endure, its obstacles to overcome, and its lessons to learn.
Practise to bring on the faith-filled, love-filled and peace-filled heart and the Heart of Devotion will arise of its own accord for you to make use of in times of difficulties or when you are faced with unpleasant, unjust and inharmonious situations, which must come with life! (STQ-2002-p15,14)
Be extremely happy and grateful to know that your Great Journey of the First Cycle of Human Evolution is coming to an end and that very soon you shall be reaching the Door to Discipleship to emerge a Kuan Yin Contemplative. The entry to which shall place you into a New Stream of Learning and Growth, that is beyond the reach of the great majority of humanity, will be moving you onto another level of Consciousness. Know that the Great Purpose of raising your Consciousness is to change your pattern of Life so that you may move on in your Spiritual Development and Evolution! (STQ-2015-p10,4)
It is time to prepare yourself to move with the Great Evolutionary Stream that shall be awakening and developing your Spiritual Qualities. Which will in turn, be raising your level of Spiritual Consciousness which is how you shall be evolving. This is only when you have awakened your Spiritual Consciousness that your Journey into the Inner Path may begin. (STQ-2015-p4,7)
Lifetimes of preparations have earned you this wonderful life with its lessons to learn, tasks to fulfill, duties to perform, karmic debts to repay, and qualities to cultivate so that you may willingly take on the practise of the kind, caring and loving heart!
It is by making use of the kind, caring and helpful heart that you may infuse your relationships and your interactions with others with love and harmony. (STQ-2002-p15x2)
To encounter this Path is rare. To enter it is a great priviledge. To practise it is a great blessing. Therefore, you who are of the Order must strive to love and support each other as best as you can in every way all through life. It is your learning and practice of the Path that the future of your life and of the Order shall depend on. (STQ-2002-p4x2)
Having gone this far into the Path, you must now commit yourself to devote the rest of your life to helping people, and how can this be achieved if the kind, caring, and helpful heart is not brought forth?
But know that helping others is not only about physical and material assistance but also about the sharing of knowledge, the giving of comforting and encouraging words, and so forth! (STQ-2002-p6)
Nothing can be more precious in life than to have the good heart that loves purely and selflessly. Be glad that you have been placed onto a Path that is promoting it! As a disciple, do not stop learning. As a teacher, do not stop sharing. (STQ-2015-p9,7)
(1) Do not tie yourself down by too much thinking. Do not box yourself in with too many thoughts. Try being, try to just be… Just be here, in the now!
(2) Better it is to write a journal arising from actual experience than from listening about the Path! (STQ-2014-p21,10)
Like everything that happens in the Universe, life too, is planned and has its destiny. Know then, that you have incarnated with a destiny to fulfil, which is about bringing this Path of Light and Love into existence to benefit those who shall be treading with the karmic lessons of this lifetime that ought to be learned and the karmic debts incurred in past lives that ought to be repaid, so that they may move on, more swiftly with their Evolution! (STQ-2015-p12)
It is time to share the pith Teachings that you have received on how to develop the qualities of a Kuan Yin Contemplative.
Nothing can be more precious than having a heart that is good and a mind that is pure which will enable you to live your life caringly and selflessly. This is what this Path of Light and Love is capable of enabling you to attain: The wonderful heart and mind of a Kuan Yin Contemplative! (STQ-2015-p12,11)
It is this Great Journey that the Great Heart of Love is nurtured; that the Thought of Enlightenment is fortified; that the Determination to Enter the Holy Path of the Bodhisattvas is pursued; that the Four Great Cultivations that lead to the Purification of obscurations is taken to heart. (STQ-2015-p18)
Spend time pondering on the Teachings of this Path of Light and Love that you have been treading over the past Four Cycles of Nine Years, to see it you are ready to put them to practise, over the Next Nine Years, which shall require you to take on its Higher Trainings that Call for a Practice that is much more challenging and disciplined than what you are presently undertaking. For the Fifth Cycle of Learning and Growth shall be testing your worth to Enter into the Ranks of a Kuan Yin Disciple of this Noble Path of the Kuan Yin Contemplatives. (STQ-2015-p13)
The Great Reverence, Devotion and Gratitude felt towards the Buddha are not because He is different from us but rather because He has shown us “what we are and can be” another fully Enlightened Being. He was the first to find this, the One whose attainment was Complete and Perfect and the One who opened the Door of Enlightenment for the rest of us. (STQ-2015-p14)
What is Potala but the Land of Light and Love, and what is Sukhavati but the Land of Eternal Peace and Bliss?
Head then, to these Paradises and be engulfed by the Light of Peace and saturated with the Love of Bliss! (STQ-2014-p10)
Entry into the Stream of Practice of a Disciple should be motivated by the thought of making Good one’s Character, with which to uncover the Great Spiritual Treasures. For with Good Character, one:
1. no longer commit unwholesome actions
2. no longer destroy positive qualities
3. is moved by the suffering and faults of Samsara
4. will begin to grow in Love and Compassion so that “Hurting Never” and “Helping Ever” will be taken to heart
5. easily regret doing hurtful deeds, and
6. will take on the Great Cultivation of a Disciple of the Path
(STQ-2015-p21)