Lecture 12 :
What is faith?
With Tao heart do you have determined faith as your absolute life develops? Or do you feel uneasy? You should be able to feel or understand it by yourself because that ki belongs to your own body.
The question is whether you are on the positive side or the other side, negative. Do you believe your future surely is bright with a positive heart and Tao heart? On the contrary, do you feel your future is uneasy?
Naturally, if your thinking is positive, ki goes through you for the sake of "faith". But if you are uneasy (push a student from aside, and he falls down like this).
Is that right?
What is the state of your heart at this moment?
You always need to be aware of your heart each moment. You need to see the state of your heart at this moment.
Of course, if you feel uneasy about your future your ki becomes weak. (he falls down)
However, if you have determined faith that with Tao heart your future will turn out to be bright for sure, your ki is strong and active.
Always watch your heart
The problem is whether your ki is bright or dark. How can you tell which is the bright side and which is the dark side? The answer is whether you only see yourself or not. When you always see yourself, your ki becomes dark and heavy, but when you are thoughtful of others your ki gets lighter. If you are considerate of other people, you can have good images for the future and also you yourself can be positive, That is why ki becomes bright as a result. Sounds like an ad for the Toshiba company. (everyone laughs)
If you always bring yourself in the center, your ki is dark and you can't have good Images even of yourself.
So which side are you on? Are you for others or for yourself? You must always check it. All the time. You have to do it the whole day, everyday. You must always see yourself, which side you are on.
Gratitude, giving heart and brightness are all one. You can tell the difference with verbal words too, (he sit with his legs crossed) You can feel it right? Ki instantly emits. The moment you say," I can't do it," Ki collapses like this, (he falls down)
This time, say "I am fine" and feel the difference. When you use the word "Good" in comparison you kick down others and you try to be better than others. Don't be good comparing with others. Try to be good at the deep level, to be thoughtful of others.
This is why you must always try to be bright to others.
"Appreciation and Satisfaction"
The song "Satisfaction" by Rolling Stones is nice, though. Are you in a state of dissatisfaction or appreciation?
Appreciation, giving heart, brightness, these are all the same. When you are bright, you have the feeling of appreciation and thoughtfulness at the deep level.
Change your heart first
Which side do you see, the state of positive given now?
When you see the positive, it turns out to be appreciation. Anyone can at least breathe. This is the point. Or you see complaining and saying, "I don't have this or I don't have that". counting the things you don't have. That makes you feel down if you take the latter.
There are two sides, the feeling of appreciation and dissatisfaction. If you have appreciation, you can unify with the ki of the universe.
Even under the same circumstances, you have completely different ki depending on the state of your heart, whether you can feel "I have enough" or "I only have this much." Usually people think they can be happy if they can be filled up with the things they want.
However, once they get them, they take it for granted and they want more. So you cannot be happy as long as your heart doesn't change, for sure. But if your heart changes, of course our satisfaction increases. It is the feeling of satisfaction. The more you feel appreciation, the richer you feel. The richness increases by not filling your heart with the things you want, but by increasing your heart. You should change you thinking. No matter how you change your outside, the satisfaction is only temporary, as a result, the basic agony doesn't change at all. Not the outside, it is the question of your heart.
The way you live from now on
It is nice to help others wishing other people's hearts get rich; the lives of other people become rich in many ways. Try to make the lives of other people rich, not filling their dissatisfaction, but changing their hearts.
For instance, when you wish to increase the heart of appreciation of that person you can unify with the person's ki. That moment the person has the same feeling on a deep unconscious level.
Later however, if he doesn't try it disappears. But even at that moment, you should try to change his subconscious here. You wish that that person's heart goes deeper, changing his subconscious. This is the basis. That person's heart changes and as a result his life gets rich.
I suggest we live to do those things for people. That moment might be the time your heart fills with richness. However, probably at the moment you could not feel that by yourself on the conscious level. I always feel how wonderful this world would be, if everyone has such a feeling together