4 Qualities for Life With Shi Heng Yi | Mulligan Brothers

love thankfulness Joy compassion these are four qualities let's say that are necessary to be developed if you want to take full part of this life because that's the quality of life today I sit down and drink tea with Master shahang Yi and talk about the the four qualities of life today's video was made possible at mulliganbrothers.com where you can get the momentum or a poster with 10 off using Code stoic at checkout It's a poster to remind you that you're going to die is 80 years of tiny little squares that you fill in that's filled into 30 years and one day there is a box on there somewhere that I won't fill in it's the most powerful tool that I have used for the last year use code stomach at check out for 10 off also you can get the Inspire Chase t-shirts hoodies and journals there as well with the link in the description before that I want to say a thank you to everybody who supported these projects and made it possible let's dive into this amazing video with Master shahangi From The Shaolin Temple Europe and if you want to support Master shahungi head of the Shaolin Dot online sometimes contemplate or meditate about how does thankfulness actually feel and because these type of let's say qualities in the Buddhist teachings in the Shaolin teachings we sometimes call them these are like the qualities from the heart love thankfulness Joy compassion love thankfulness Joy compassion these are four qualities let's say that are necessary to be developed if you want to take full part of this life because that's the quality of life to be loving to yourself and then towards others only if you know what love is you can understand what compassion is because compassion means cause you love let's say you have a feeling for yourself then you you project this feeling towards other people then you look out in the world and you and you see the people that either they have not realized yet what they have or you see that they are being blocked or said by whatever that that love does not shine out from them and because you feel this for them that this is something which is missing in them which is blocking them still this is why the feeling of compassion arises that you would wish the before that person that eventually all the blockages all the stagnation all the fantasies and Illusions start to dissolve and that natural feeling starts to come out again that's why this love and compassion is so close related and the thankfulness I think it has also something to do just with the way of the tea the appreciation of the process the appreciation of the uniqueness of individuals and the thankfulness that no matter what that we have this chance right now to be alive yeah other some people complain about that they are alive then commit suicide which in terms of Buddhist perspective is one of the worst things you can do because it is like this nature God the Creator the creation gave you the chance something very special existence and you wasted by committing suicide this is how like I put it now a little bit harsh but that's how it is so it's like you disrespect the creators creation yeah and that's why like this thankfulness disrespect and appreciation for life is also um something that we relate to as the quality of the heart and yeah and the other aspect of course this life nothing is sometimes too serious therefore Joy sometimes you need those joyful moments where you come back to making the Mind empty and return back to the stage that very often I think you can see in children there is no predetermined concept yet how to behave when something when that Joy arises and then when the joy comes just let the joy be and meanwhile it it would if I look out sometimes you really go you just need to go out in the city here in in Germany and it's that serious you rarely see people walking meanwhile somehow just on the street and at least at least have a little bit of a smile on the face it's very Zeus that serious business life even more there it's not just about being serious there you have the poker face there you additionally add something up on top of the face just in order to cover up what's the real deal now this is where sometimes we are nowadays and of course these things have developed because there was probably a reason why it maybe is useful to have these type of attitudes but to balance things out I think it's also necessary to at least know about the existence that these these type of qualities is something that not just in our tradition but I think there are many Traditions which are relating these qualities love compassion thankfulness and joy to the core elements of the human being so and this is something that part of our curriculum inside this monastery is what we want to bring out because sometimes of course you can ask so here in the temple you are spending so much time doing all this type of training going through the the methods where it it partially is so painful there is no joy at all yeah but it doesn't mean that we don't like and we don't enjoy what we're doing we still have our moments over here that are a little bit Beyond any type of conceptual structure yes yes so and one way of how you can get in touch again with the qualities that I just mentioned before is let's just take thankfulness it is always this type of structure also in the teachings in general if you don't have it you cannot give it that is the Core Essence so first of all that also means we need to find a way to get whatever we want to share one day we need to get it so thankfulness and the easy way is take yourself some time can drink some tea you need space for yourself you need the space because now you need to go into the space space for example of your past and you go through the moments that come into your mind where you sink you were really grateful where you think you had this feeling of thankfulness somebody gave you something you received something you achieved something no matter what it is so it is something individual from your lifetime the important part is that it must become real for you again try to call up again that moment where you felt this thankfulness and in that moment where you then feel ah there is the glimpse of it now I can slowly feel again that was how it felt now it is what we call now you are adding intention to it which means you are trying to multiply the feeling inside of you so you are immersing into this feeling of thankfulness and it's like first it's that small seed it's like a small flame and now what you do is you nourish that flame that it becomes bigger that it becomes bigger that after some practice you know very clearly that is thankfulness it feels like this love feels like this compassion feels like this and joy feels like this and now that you have it now that you very clearly can determine that's it now you can project it in the moment you realize it in yourself in that moment you realize it in other people and this is like that that really special part why I think there is no way around then developing yourself with all the skills that you think you want to bring out in this world or what you think is missing is lacking in this world whatever you think is lacking there we need to be the ones first of all to cultivate it in US and afterwards we can very clearly see in that area they have it already this area needs Improvement that one doesn't have it this is the idea why every Monastery has a protected area because inside this protected area you need sometimes to take your cup of tea sit back alone and contemplate and cultivate something inside of you first before we then one day go out of the walls go out of the gates and do the work so that is maybe a little bit now also the explanation yeah why is it so strict yeah because on the one side inside this Monastery it's not that we're here only like for the fun of it it's also for the fun to express ourselves but it is also to really develop something because sometimes necessary to readjust if something is misaligned yes and this can happen by being that by being that location where people can on the one side come to us and we try as good as we can to recalibrate them but at the same time it can also mean that sometimes we need to go out if people cannot come to us no unfortunately I was I think jumping a little bit with the with the four noble truths but that was like my thinking my my thoughts in regards to Greed and hate yes and not knowing or ignorance let's start with ignorance because that is maybe easier to understand we humans have a very good intuition many people have a good intuition or meaning listen to yourself if you listen to yourself sometimes you already know the answer the answer to come let's go out tonight have a party and let's let's keep going a little bit you already know yeah you already know sometimes we just ignore it and this is why then later on sometimes the suffering comes you knew it but you ignored it so that's why this is the third reason why a lot of suffering in this world is coming cause between knowing something and putting that knowledge eventually also into practice differencing than doing and then knowing and doing what you know or knowing and ignoring then this does not like merge together anymore so that is like one reason why ignorance is also one of the causes that can lead to what we call suffering and ultimately not knowing not knowing I would refer and easily explain just like that picture what type of a day we have right now meaning that you are not supposed to separate into day and night we have both of it at the same time but sometimes people don't know this they don't even know that it is possible to think in this type of um in this type of sphere meaning that you under you you slowly start to grasp what is it actually that we are all embedded in embedded in the in the world where day and night exist at the same time where life and death exists at the same time not chronologically after another people don't know this because they still think in terms of chronological pattern that sometimes also means they think in terms of it it can it will always go in One Direction which direction the direction that is propagated nowadays you need to earn you need to be positive you need to be optimistic you need to have success you need to be young you need to be beautiful you need to be always having this world is not telling you let go support give death death nobody is talking about that line this is the line that is propagated so what does it mean you are being conditioned by whatever you are surrounded with and if since a hundred years everybody is propagating that one of course the mind is conditioned in this direction so people don't know that this is only half the truth and to slowly start observe slowly start to contemplate about some essential things of this life where we are embedded in that is giving you more options that's the whole point about it there is nothing in a way predetermined that you need to walk along this path this is the idea of other people to understand this one and to understand this one and to understand it's together it opens different possibilities for you because you're not supposed to live a life what other people expect you to live you live the life you you expect from yourself you express from yourself while once again of course not harming others but besides deck besides that everything is allowed thank you so much to master shahangi and shaolin.online where you can get more resources from The Shaolin Temple with the link in the description for me this tea talk was one of my favorite conversations that I had with master shahungi and I'm very interested to hear your guys thoughts do you want to start seeing a more comfortable conversation a more podcast style conversation on the channel as well we'll always do the interviews because we have the documentary projects that we do weekly on the motivational channel on modern's 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Length: 20min 9sec (1209 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 21 2023