The more you will contemplate yourself, at every level, the more you will expand your range of consciousness, and purify yourself to reach the highest levels on integrity. To contemplate yourself efficiently (or purely) you have to observe from a unified point of view, rather than from a compartmented system of belief.
While you advance on your spiritual path, you are encouraged to consider the five life precepts thought by the Buddha. During your life, do your best:
- not to kill
- not to lie
- not to steal
- not to have inappropriate sexual behaviors
- not to intoxicate yourself
Most of all do you best not to create suffering, yet you should accept it when it naturally comes your way. Accepting suffering does not mean to let it be, but to allow it to teach you who you are, while you do what is required to be relieved from it.
As of yet, throughout all your life experiences, you have yearned only to become happy. Until now you have fought, or have declined. You have believed in comparison, competition and separation. Yet you strived to become happy. You worked hard to acquire any type of physical wealth, yet all you sought was to be happy. You have attached yourself to people and things, hoping to avoid the pain of detachment, because all you really wish for is to be happy.
From now on, may you find the strength to seek happiness simply for what it is, relieved from the veils of human conditioning, relieved from the weight of desire, and into a blissful experience, may you find happiness, simply for what it is.
I pray that you may find peace, harmony, and happiness.Venerable Maha Vajra June 25th, 2008