Quote of The Day (181)
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.
One takes on Incarnation to Clear the Karmic Debts that were created in previous lives and to Learn the Karmic Lessons of this life. In every Incarnation, one makes contact with those whom one has loved and helped and disliked and hated.
Where one has been kind towards, the one that one will be meeting will be giving him help and love, whilst those one has hurt and hated will be harming one in return, till one is able to hold out his hand to them and be friend to them again! (STQ-2014-p8)
Be Silent to Feel Silence.
Be Silent to Know Silence.
Be Silent to Reach Silence.
Be Silent to Welcome Silence.
Be Silent to Be Silence.
A contemplative sits in solitude to enter into stillness and silence. For, in stillness, he frees himself from all worldly concerns and in silence, he enters into the depth of his heart and goes to the higher regions! (STQ-2013-p20, 2014-p4)
Take in the Steps of Training with courage, particularly those that you are confident with. Know that the more you excel in one area, the stronger you will get in another. This is how you get to familiarise with all of them in a matter of time! (STQ-2013-p27)
In time the New Millennium will bring forth a New Karmic Cycle which shall have the various Traditions merging into a New Spirituality and a new Consciousness that is aimed at the highest Good of all. This is when humanity will begin to see that there are many Paths up the mountain and that they all converge at the Summit!
In the Beginning, this is the Path of Light and Love, in the End, this shall be, to you, the Great Path of Love and Light, that shall be of Great Benefit to all of Mankind! (STQ-2013-p21,2014-p7)
Truth is one but the Path leading to it are very many. Arising from this are the very many perceptions and the understanding of it which have been causing much pain and division to mankind!
As a Kuan Yin Contemplative, live responsibly and exemplarily if others are to see the beauty of the Path. (STQ-2013-p25,2014-p3)
Remember well that all virtues must be performed and all responsibilities fulfilled, and that the Practice of “Self-Blame” and not “Self-Praise” must be upkeep at all times! (STQ-2014-p5)
Each time you say: “May all Beings be Blessed!” you are wishing that they may be having a better and happier Life, one that is full of Happiness and Joy!
Better than the Prayers from your lips are the words from your heart which are the True Offerings that Niang prefers more than anything else you can offer! (STQ-2013-p15,18)
(1) Suffering is not needless when you can see that it is the Doorway to a Deeper Insight that will bring about Positive Changes to your life!
(2) Challenges are simply Changes that shall be creating new experiences for you to learn and grow. (STQ-2013-p16,19)
Avoid achieving a short-term gain without considering the long-term implications.
When you regard others as good and yourself as bad your very faults become virtues in their eyes. (STQ-2013-p32x2)
(1) Worldly learning has little use for spiritual progress. Sincerity of Heart, Purity of Mind and Selflessness of Nature, are the most essential in Spiritual Practice.
(2) What is and what you shall be experiencing represents inner and outer clarity and purification. (STQ-2014-p3,4, 2013-p32)
SHARE, CARE, BEAR AND DARE
You Share because you Care!
You Bear because you Dare!
Sharing, Caring, Bearing and Daring; these are the Inner Virtues of one who would walk the Great Path of a Kuan Yin Contemplative! (STQ-2013-p13)
The more knowing you are, the more useful you shall be to others. The wiser you are, the more purposeful and beautiful Life shall be to your own self.
Live benevolently and you will be living rightly to benefit yourself and others, which is what Wise Living is all about. (STQ-2013-p19,15)
Humility is the greatest virtue of one who would tread this Path of Service. It is pride that prevents one from Spiritual Progress. Indeed, humility is the Virtue that prepares one for discipleship. For it is the meek and not the egoists who are ready to learn! (STQ-2014-p2x3)
Live the simple life, wanting little, owning little so that with the least of possessions you may walk freely and quickly towards the Great Goal of Life.
Be a Saviour of Yourself. Surrender is the Door to True Discipleship. (STQ-2014-p2,3,7)
Recognising that each person is an individual with his viewpoint and purpose do not impose your belief and way on others. Learn to accept others as they come.
Go then with humility and purity of confidence and return with Heart of faith. (STQ-2012-p21,2013-p6)
It is from the Teachings that Spiritual Insights are found.
It is from your Sittings that Inner Visions are gathered.
It is from your Practice that you learn about the deepest needs of the heart.
It is from Serving others selflessly that you may learn about the loveliness of Human Compassion! (STQ-2012-p4)
The best way to quiet your mind is to practise meditation.
The best way to find your self is to sit in silence.
The best way to learn intuitively is to practice contemplation. (STQ-2012-p34)
(1) The great reward of practising Self-Correction is that it will prevent one from committing wrong-doings daily
(2) Remember well that spiritual practice is not about developing the ability to see the future but to be able to face the future. (STQ-2012-p43,46)
(1) How could earthly words describe what Nirvana is except to give the ideation that attaining it one shall know permanence, purity, bliss and what True Self is.
(2) The great consolation about the beings of the lower realms is that they are reducing their karma and are making their way back to the Higher Three Realms. (STQ-2012-p45,40)
Learn to listen to your inner voice which has several levels - body, mind, emotion and spirit, and to be true to your principles so that you will not compromise being who you are aspiring to become. So, never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. (STQ-2012-p27,38)
If you will allow Niang to dwell in your Heart, she will bring forth the Beauty of your Soul!
Often it is after you have developed reverence towards the Divine that you will begin to have respect towards life which is what this Path of Light and Love is trying to teach mankind! (STQ-2013-p13x2)
Why is this called the path of Continual Unfoldment and Growth?
That is because it leads one to the ever on-going process of Learning, Growing, and Evolving, with each Step of the Process going through its Learning, Growing to Evolving.
A time will come when one begins to have the desire to Evolve oneself.
The advantage of having a longer life is to have more time to evolve the self. (STQ-2013-p5,20x2)
Today, the 16th day of the 3rd lunar month, is our Precious Guru Chunti Fwo Mu Festive Day! Om Tsala Tsule Chunti Soha!
Taking on the New life of a disciple is about taking on the Practice to Self-Transformation.
Entering the Next Phase of Learning and Growing you begin to spend time evolving the self so that the birthing of the New You will take place. (STQ-2014-p10,2013-p20)
The New Age has finally dawned and the decades ahead shall find the Forces of Light battling to uproot the influences of the Forces of Dark which should mean that greater crisis will be witnessed.
The great period of Learning shall be before you so that the next decade shall be providing you with the witnessing of unforgettable changes that are chaotic. Be very grateful to know that this greatest period of Learning is what you have come into this lifetime to learn and how you handle chaos shall be the test of your ability to evolve and change, which shall bring about the raising of your point of consciousness! (STQ-2013-p22)
All the Becomings that you have to undergo are right and necessary for they are meant to provide you with the experiential knowledge that will empower you to elevate yourself along the Path that Perfects Character!
To the lesser evolved ones the Becomings of Life are often regarded as needless obstacles that are disrupting their life’s flows. But to the more evolved ones they are seen as opportunities for learning how to overcome them in their own ways. (STQ-2013-p18,8)
Remind yourself that everything you do bears a consequence and that everything life has to offer is a lesson to be learned!
Everything that happens in your life is but a part of the Creative Process that will bring about your Evolution and Self-Development. This being so, be prepared to take on what life has to offer even bitter lessons!
The winds of change will always come and if you will welcome them then the Lessons of Life can be learned! (STQ-2013-p30,18,4)
Understand well that the incredible opportunity for Consciousness Growth afforded by this incarnation is not to be squandered. Understand too that lodged within your mind stream from the beginningless past are sufficient karmic residues that can precipitate life’s lessons that need to be attended to. Understand, therefore, that this is the fortunate life that shall be providing you with the becomings which shall be changing and reshaping your character and destiny that will help to hasten your evolution! (STQ-2013-p9)
As the Path is trodden you will realise that it is capable of enabling a householder to free himself from the influence of the worldly concerns. As the path is embraced with a firm commitment, he will be dedicating his life to renounce all worldly concerns.
Practising Renunciation as a Kuan Yin Contemplative is about learning how to detach from people and things and yet still love them. (STQ-2012-p42,37)
This Path is about teaching you to be a good person. To be as good a person as you can be so that your good character will come to be to enable you to be that good person that Niang wishes you to be, as one who is ever kind, humble, generous, just and honourable. (STQ-2012-p44)
Cultivating the Ten Qualities of the Path is what makes Good your Character so that their Goodness may give rise to the birthing of the many Rewards for a better future life.
What makes good your character is when your mind has only thoughts of benefitting others when your actions are beneficial to others and when all harmful thoughts and actions are no longer acted upon. (STQ-2012-p44,30)
With Readiness and Willingness to take on the long process of training to develop both your Character and those Inner Faculties that are latent in you, let there be an awareness that Discipleship is the Stepping Stone towards the Journey to the Path of the Bodhisattvas!
Your purpose of living a long life is about accomplishing the good task of bringing this Path of Happiness to the world so that many will draw benefit from it. (STQ-2013-p9, 2012-p44)