MASTER SHI HENG YI | What is the meaning of Life? - Full Interview with the MulliganBrothers

life is not going to get easier you're going to lose your mother you're going to lose your father the world is just the way as it is to wait for better times to come where the world will be completely in peace and you can walk peacefully over the street never having the fear that somebody's going to come and do something to you it's not going to happen if we don't create the better times nothing's going to happen welcome back to the Mulligan Brothers podcast and today's episode is an unseen episode with Master shongi brand new never seen before I'm sure it will break the internet as always because this conversation was the deepest we went with Master shangi the age-old question that everyone asked what is the meaning of life and many many more of those deep questions with Master shongi today hu will have done something super exciting for you guys for the for the Watchers of the show there is an exclusive offer using Code Mulligan 24 with the link in the description so that's Mulligan 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really interesting to hear and I'll start with the biggest one which was what is the meaning of life so I think this question everybody personally has to answer for himself what I think is not going to happen is that you will sit at home meditate or do whatever type of practice and suddenly a sense of Life comes flying or pops up and you are going to grab it in any type of way this is not going to happen what I think this question relates to is instead of waiting for something to come that you think is purposeful to live for I rather prefer and would say that you find your place in this world and at the same time give your sense a life yeah give your life a sense I mean fill up your daily your daily hours that you have available fill them up with something that you think this is worth living for this is worth waking up for so in that sense what's the the sense of life it can be from all of us 8 billion people everybody can have a separate one so I do not believe that there is like one answer where you would say to have a family is the sense of life for some people definitely in the moment where they have newborn child when they start to grow in the family this is sometimes their purpose and they feel fulfillment for other people maybe it could be to build up a successful business this can be something that is the main motivation the main driver to keep somebody going and uh having this feeling to I like to wake up and spend these hours that I have in front of me to do something so give your life a sense I would say this would uh bring it straight to the point uh the next one which we you know we spoke about a lot last time we spoke about the word fear um but how do you overcome fear good so before I answer this question how to overcome fear I maybe have to just say what type of structure what type of guideline I sometimes start to let's say share with people how to approach something that either gives you a positive emotion or that gives you a negative emotion regardless we are dealing right now with that state so either it is something which is maybe uplifting but at the same time it can also be something which in terms of fear is more or less closing something inside of you and I think in one of these tedex talks I mentioned it already that there is the method which is quite easy to remember which is called rain yeah r a i n so the r is standing for recognize whatever emotional state comes up happiness sadness fear depression jealousy rain number R recognize recognize first of all what type of feeling is it that's coming up that is the number R the a is standing for acknowledge or accept what it means is if you are afraid if there is fear if there is jealousy if there is anger if there is something and you realize it about yourself number one is you accept it you say yes okay at this moment I feel really angry yeah I feel really sad I feel the fear which is coming up so that acknowledgement meaning you you try to stop yourself from from trying to separate it because you can only adjust something if it is a part of you that is a very important idea also in the martial arts only if I have a connection with you I can change something about you only if I have a connection to my emotion to my state only then I can change it this is why that word a that acknowledgement or that acceptance is something which is like really important then the number or the the I is standing for investigation investigation means you recognized it you accepted it and now you investigate investigate can mean you ask the questions a detective would ask you why why is it coming up because of what did it come up what did it trigger could it be that there is something in the past that now led to the fact that it's coming up inside of you so it's all this type of questions investigation investigation about that field of emotion that uh came up there and the last one now the N is normally standing in Buddhist terms for non-identification so non-identification means this is now probably a little bit difficult to put in words but I try still you know what you are what you are thinking you know if you think something you are able to recognize it that means the thinking takes part in something no no I make it different if we go to the cinema let's talk like this if we go to the cinema and you watch a action movie then you can see on the screen you have on the screen the action images sometimes you go to the cinema but on the screen you have a horror movie so on the screen are running different images but all the images are only possible to be seen because the background of the action movie and of the horror movie is the screen if you take the screen away it doesn't matter what image you are projecting there is nothing that's able to project it so that screen is the same like in the Chinese or in the Asian ways we sometimes say the clouds they are like the thoughts but the thoughts they can only appear or the clouds can only appear because the underlying big is the sky so there are the clouds within the sky there are the images of the movie on the screen and there are the emotions that come up on behalf of your perception that is ex existing so that means what you have what we all have is we are able to perceive and some people based on something that is triggering them sometimes they perceive the anger coming up they perceive the sadness is coming up so these emotional states they can be perceived if they can be perceived then it means means they are not you because you are the one who sees them and non-identification means that you can witness for yourself that these things are like clouds that sometimes pop up in the sky and just like every cloud ever on this Earth neither of these clouds ever State it's only some times a sequence an episode within your lifetime and this idea of nonidentification is something that is relating into this direction yeah meaning that you understand that you that you see why this fear came up with what it is related to and ultimately also see that there is no substance to it the um that links on to the next question perfectly this is more of a um in the immediate but it's the same thing people want to know how to stop overthinking how do they stop overthinking or ruminating on things the easy answer would right now be learn how to meditate okay but to really bring it into perspective right now overthink is either something inside of the mind is fluctuating all the time there is too much input available and it's jumping from one to another so in a way there is that type of restlessness of the mind it's continuously jumping which means it's too much so you're thinking about too many different things this is one type of overthinking overthinking can also mean you only have one thing that you that is like keeping you busy but you are turning it over and over again and never come to any type of conclusion it's also a type of overthinking related to let's say one subject so these are now simplified the two uh problematic States problematic if you don't have the ability to switch it off if you want to switch it off yeah if you have the ability to regulate this about yourself so when you want to be focused you can be focused when you want to dream you can dream if you want to make your brainstorming you can open up for brainstorming if this is the range of adjustment you have about yourself then it's not a problem a problem is if you need to stay focus focused but then you're shattered these are the moments when it makes sense to learn methods how to avoid that or how to really focus when you need Focus now I wouldn't say that the right approach would be uh to state that focus is the only right way no we have focus in this life which means there is something there's a limited type of view you're putting yourself in because this limited type of view is it's like it's the collection of awareness it's the collection the summary of intention into a specific spot that you want right now to make it grow faster or to develop faster that's why we need Focus that all the energy is bundled into that one Focus point so you want to push something forward you need Focus but how amongst all this variety of options that we humans sometimes have how do you know on what should I focus should I focus on the social media should I focus on my family should I focus on that number business number one or should I focus on business number two should I focus on wife number one or wife number two yeah there's so many different options and therefore what you need is overview sometimes about your life overview the white view the white angle is different than Focus the focus is I only watch you I'm focused but the more I get into that limited view the more I will forget about she's sitting there there's your brother there are uh your friends so what needs to be learned and is able to be developed is you have both sometimes at the same time I know who is sitting where but at the same time I'll also know in which direction I'm pointing my words to so that means on the one side there is something open at this moment in time but at the same time also you have something focused and to have and learn the ability to access this let's say with your mind to train your mind that he is always like in this category because it's like you're driving the car of course it matters what what you're doing in regards to the steering so it's like the direct focused interaction yeah but only in interplay with all the other drivers on the street so what is now more important to focus on the others or to focus on your driving both of it at the same time only this focus and the openness at the same time this is what means yin and yang cannot be separated but in order to get there sometimes it's necessary to individually separately practice okay this now is a focused State and this one right now is a open State yeah to be very clear and be able to distinguish for yourself okay this is the focus it feels like this this is the open it feels like that and now comes the the the magic about it how to combine both into a same into the same time yes and this is something everybody will need to figure out this is when the magic happens and you are stopping from the separation of either that or that into it's both of it at the same time yeah and now in regards to this overthinking so what is it that people for example are able to practice there I can suggest for example you are choosing one object which can be in a lot of cases an object that we call that is your meditation object it can be the breath for example so instead of um following up what comes into your mind which means if you have too many thoughts we we turn it around you are deciding what you are going to put onto your mind mind for the next 5 minutes whatever it is whatever you choose this is your so-called meditation object so it means I am telling myself okay for the next 5 minutes I am going to only place my attention my mind on the breath so I feel how the breath enters into my body and I also feel how it is coming out of my body this is when you use the breast for example yeah other people if they find it too hard still you can use this type of movement so what is your uh meditation object is now let's say the movement it's the movement itself the up movement the down movement but the focus is there so this is a way of what we call mindful you are mind mind full of what you do your mind is full of something yeah full of what full of what you have put into it that's why then you call it mindful practice I know exactly where I put my hands I make it slow yeah it doesn't really matter what type of movement it is it is only as long as I do it I know what I do so I don't leave let's say these movements right now to um to coincidence no you learn for 2 minutes 3 minutes to take something in full responsibility and awareness of what you are able to concentrate on and this is a so-called uh we sometimes also call them mind exercising or mind mind development practices because it's not about the movement itself to just do this movement it's not going to bring you too much benefit let's say physically right now not yet but this is yeah this slow movement and all of that that is there for you to first of all learn to focus the mind learn to focus the mind this number one and afterwards after you realize okay actually right now I can feel that in the moment where I start to have conversations with people you know when you are present or not yeah you are starting to feel that okay now my awareness is not is not with you it's gone know and and then you feel what is the difference between between now I'm mindful now I'm not mindful because this ability to distinguish is therefore so essential because if there is something that we humans can do about our life then it can only be done while you are mindful if you don't know you have a problem you can't solve it and that's it so the whole point of why is there so much this emphasis on mindfulness yeah why should I know what I do because if you don't know what you do your life is a coincidence and that's not what it's supposed to be it is supposed to be what you put onto your mind what you want to see yourself the way how you want to see yourself what you want to achieve in this lifetime it should be possible but only if with the with the allowance of what has been given into your own hands if you also use this chance and like I said in our first uh in the first time that we were meeting I strongly think and believe that we all have something that comes from us that we have in our hands and if that potential that we have in our hands is merged with our awareness and with our action and then at the same time also is combined with the will of God or the will of the Destiny or destiny itself then it's going to happen but if you put something onto the mind which is not in harmony with the will of the nature with the will of God with the destiny you can try as much as you want it's not going to happen so what is this discovery once again about discover your place in this hugeness and submit but submit doesn't mean it's bad it means that it's um it's incredible that something like this exists this is the submission submission it's not in terms of um you give up no it's not you give up life no you finally allow the fullness of life to flow through you this is called submission so you can always understand these wordings in different ways but the one I'm talking about right now is allow life to run through you you can express it in terms of what happens happens for a reason yeah if something happens and this is why it's so important that acknowledgment because acknowledgement is the first step of understanding all of what we go through belongs to the process and what is this process for example everybody every human in this world I think is going to different stages of challenges let's call them like this these challenges can be for example let's just take one loss losing something there was a time when we all were still small child and when somebody took something away from you maybe some of us were already crying because already very young you felt what losing means to to lose something that actually you like no then teenager 10 years later somebody took again something away from you same feeling nowadays somebody takes something away that you strongly feel like it belongs to you the same feeling comes up so what I'm saying is throughout all the decades the feeling of loss it's always the same the situations the circumstances they change why that feeling comes up but the point is it's the same the feeling of loss is the feeling of loss if you're angry about your car gets scratched or you're angry about you lost something or you're angry about somebody took something of you the angriness is also the same if you're jealous you're jealous there are not 50 different type of jealousy there are 50 different reasons why you become jealous but the jealousy is the same the angriness is the same the loss is the same the hate is the same the joy is the same the happiness it's the same and so what I think is going what I think is happening is that each human being is confronted with loss and now the question is how are you individually dealing with that now and as long as you have not found a solution to deal with loss losing is going to be part of the challenges you will face over and over and over again once you have managed and found the solution in regards to loss there will be things coming up that make you angry because the next challenge is overcome angriness small things make you angry big things make you angry it's always the same angriness until you found a solution no the anger cannot manage me it must be the other way around anger solved then comes the next one question of life and death of fear until you have solved the answer for yourself how to deal with fear and why I'm now pretty convinced to State the things like this is because there is so much similarity to the way and the reasons why we have this type of hardening methods coming from The Shaolin Kung Fu training hardening meaning like you saw also before from shiuan when he was hitting himself we have many tools inside that uh you can use to get in touch with pain we necessarily take into consideration that this is going to happen we know when you start touching that when you start doing these methods the pain is going to come we want it to come why because now you can go in now you can really go in and on the go in the present moment that is the special part about it in the present moment you figure out the way how to release it and there is that saying when you have went over when you have overcome a certain level of pain overcome means it's never going to come again it's finished you walk through that level of pain one time the next pain you will feel is a different one it's not the same anymore so there is a difference between something shows up in your lifetime and you are ignoring it you are uh avoiding it you're trying to run away from it and you face it you face face the anger you face the fear you face the jealousy you face the pain you face what you don't like you face the fact that you out of your comfort zone why because you know that once you have overcome it and find a solution for it it's solved for this lifetime and this is my suggestion to view this method sometimes to make yourself life there's that nice thing yeah life is not going to get easier it's just that your mind and your body become more resistant more strong same situation more relaxed why because you finally start to find a solution that that is within your reach within your hands and I think the great part for me personally why I'm still after so many years like this approach about the physical practice combined with the spiritual mental development like in the Shaolin Temple is because there are many institutions many philosophies that talk about overcome the suffering ending the suffering but end the suffering but overcome the suffering that gives now for me perspective overcome the suffering means it's going to be there you're going to lose your mother you're going to lose your father you're going to lose animals and humans that you love it's going to happen you got lose money and at the same time people are also going to hurt you even though you don't even know what you did wrong things like this are going to happen in this lifetime to wait for better times to come where the world will be completely in peace and you can walk peacefully over the street never having the fear that somebody's going to come and do something to you it's not going to happen because the world is just the way as it is but knowing this preparing yourself learning the right ways or useful ways that are developing yourself physically and mentally to be able to walk through this lifetime that's possible that is something that is available to us it's just you need to get rid of those fantasies um that better times are going to come if we don't create the better times nothing's going to happen so one thing we get a lot of comments about is ego um It's You Know spoken about very negatively um and a lot of people are asking how do they overcome there ego I'm just wondering what your opinion is on it and you yeah what you have to say about it the way how I understand ego and if I hear these words it's for me very close related to identification if there's nothing you are identifying yourself with I think it's difficult that somehow ego starts to arise from it so ego and self identification or any type of identification uh are closely related so now I take me as an example let's just imagine I take off this rope I put on my nicest jogging suit or not nice doesn't matter and in that training suit I do the the average type of talks okay I let my hair grow a little bit longer the point is nobody would even listen people initially start to listen more carefully if I come like this if I wear a rope and if I'm fulfilling some type of image that people have about what they either call a master or a monk or whatever it is so wearing these ropes wearing this accessories here having this type of haircut having a certain vocabulary that I'm talking in this is for me also the pure expression of ego it's the pure expression of something that is like that I'm identifying myself in now the thing is what do you want to do the whole day long if you have nothing that you are identifying yourself with then it's like you love and air there's no identification you're completely free and open you have no form yeah identification means something has started to shape a form and for me once again we are living in the world based off form and formlessness we have form and formlessness we have things you can grasp and see with the eyes and we have things they are invisible to the eye both of these aspects exists in this type of world in that existence that we are in right now so for me it's not about getting rid of the ego for me there are two points to watch out here number one is in that process of identification in the choice that you have done for yourself as what you would like to express yourself identify yourself for what are you using this ego now I have decided I want to become a Shaolin Master I dress as a Shaolin Master my daily life is filled with stuff that sh is normally uh known for from morning till evening everything for me is about Shaolin so for what do I use this now for I use it for because I think that this image the world out there listens more easily in order for me to transmit something that I think everybody needs to notice it may makes it easier for me to transmit that message when I look like this but besides that I don't care at all um I don't know how else to say it's been a long time that all the trophies and all the certificates and all this type of things I don't care anymore so there is the other side of yes you can create something like this and then start collecting your trophies at home that is a different way of using the ego so I think it is about for what are you using your identification your ego inside this world that is the question and from the past mainly I think it is self-centeredness that goes hand in hand with this type of egoism that people sometimes are referring to so if there is a type of person who is identifying himself in such a way that this type of identification is separating him more amongst other people that is the wrong direction because the separation happens almost by itself the difficult part is bringing what you see is drifting apart invest your energy and hold it together this is always more difficult you know so that means if you see two people are having an argument and you don't interfere it's easy the the easy ways they just start separating now the the fight maybe the argument becomes bigger and bigger it's easy they separate but to find a way how to combine apparently two different types of opinion two different types of of mindsets how to still figure out a way how they can let's say cooperate coexist it takes brain power and it takes effort but it is the solution that holds them together that is the difference the ego path is the one with the separation the difficult part is the one where you always figure out again and again how can I connect how can I make people come together not how can I make people separate more it's happening by itself the separation I hope you're enjoying this episode so far today hu have done an exclusive offer go to the link in the description and use code Mulligan 24 for £10 off your first order or $15 if you're in the United United States link down below it's only available for the next 72 hours this is the hu Black Edition as I've told you guys as a 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inhale they exhale the stars turn the Earth is turning is the constant exchange between up and down left and right in and out day and night so something that I witness around something that is that we are embedded in is that existence and that interplay of two forces in China in Asia we call them yin and yang now if I would ask you right now so how do you call this meaning what what time of the day do we have night night time now actually I would now say but I don't think so it is nighttime because we are sitting right now here in in otterberg and are localized and are answering from our perspective being here but let's say the real answer would be it's day and night at the same time it's based on from which perspective are you talking about now the funny part is it has always been like this but things seem different for us we think that right now we are alive right now this is life we are alive later hopefully 50 years later then comes death so what is it that we are let's say thinking that life and death is something which happens chronologically one after another who is saying and it happened many times in the past that life and death both of them is here right now you in in the media every day it happens people die from one second to another out of whatever reason it's unlikely things can fall from the sky right onto you it's also finished the point is how we come up with the idea that death would be something that comes way after so one way how I took this thinking process out for myself and what it means for me is automatically when some thought like this gets really deep into you what automatically happens is you appreciate the Lifetime right right now more and you are more careful about what you do those two things automatically start to arise in the moment this thought enters into your flesh and blood yeah so and therefore I prefer to not even think in this terms of death comes later what comes later I focus on what I can do right now with what has been given to me this is what matters to me because what what should I say I think it's not going to happen if you have a person who during the lifetime is used to waste a lot of energy waste a lot of Lifetime even if you give him an afterlife it's going to be the same because why else from where should this switch of mentality suddenly come so waiting for better times to come that you change something about you it's not going to happen it's an illusion you might think you're putting yourself into you want to bring out something good something the better version about yourself is not going to happen in the next life what you do right now this is what you take to whatever going to come afterwards and this is now really also the reason why there are existing so-called Chong methods energy cultivation methods aiming in exactly that um how I express this if you you are living it's it's easy explained if you are smoking a lot if you're taking a lot of drugs if you are taking uh a lot of intoxicants and then right now you start to have a child your child gets part of this information that you have embedded first of all into your body at the same time if you are educating training your body your mind in such a way and fill your body up with information let's let's say positive information and then you pass it on also this type of information goes to your uh goes to your child so the better you are developing yourself the more easy it is going to become for your child to go on because he has already something that you let's say worked for for yeah that you developed already so everything that you are attaining I think it is not getting lost afterwards it's not getting lost you can build up upon it for me this means for example how can it be sometimes child are born nowadays and you realize they have a super a super high let's say res an with music how come that they just saw the instrument the first few times and then and then they already like it's strange it's too good to to to that it's the first time well because it probably is not the first time and now just for the question that you that some people might be thinkinking so what you're saying is that from generation to generation there is something being passed on of course it's like this it's just what we know is our DNA our genes they definitely have some type of information being passed on in relation to our skin color in relation to the shape of our face the shape of our nose because you and me we have never met our grand grand grand grand grandfathers but if you would see a picture of him you would recognize there's something similar between you and him so five six seven generations and still something is passed on physically wise yeah and I think it's not just physically wise I also think something is passed on when it comes to spiritually wise so if you develop yourself in a certain spiritual way in this lifetime already I think it has some effect for future Generations yeah and this is like the whole idea why for me personally I do this type of practices because I think if you want to travel far like a spaceship you need a lot of fuel one day you need a lot of energy one day and what is this chiong about learning to nourish yourself with CHI with energy so to a certain extent in this type of practices the reasons why you still see people doing these breathing exercises people are still um crazy sometimes about this chiong is [Music] because it's very essential and fundamental practice for us in Asia to Also let's say increase your uh yeah your energy and the more full you are the more energized you are the more far you can travel so I don't know where and what's going to come after after life I just make sure right now that I do my practices and that whatever comes I need to be ready I don't know what's going to come I really love the idea of the generation or passing it on but also even the if you're in somebody else's thoughts and mind they're passing on to their generation as well through their DNA and it it's such a wonderful way of thinking about it um this this one's more of a question I think uh I would like to have your perspective on from from our point of view because with Mullan our mission is to inspire change and I I feel that that that's at the core of everything that we're trying to do um and some people ask us why and I want it's the same question to yourself as why why help others why why try and be nice to others when you could live a nice life without helping others okay because I realized uh I said in one of the interviews before that we had really difficult times Monastery wise to finance it in the very first 5 to 6 years so therefore there was a time when we were also trying to really increase uh the amount of like trainings where we are going to have seminars for business people some type of management trainings and introduce them to different methods that they can maybe use to reduce their stress yeah so like Stress Management courses and I have to say in my whole life I never had any type of workshops or seminars that were paid so good like these type of seminars so if I would have went on just making these seminars which I could have I really think uh money would never ever be a problem anymore but along this way I just realized something unsatisfaction every time I started to travel and knew now you're going to be there again in wherever and you're going to invest 8 hours of your lifetime to talk to these people knowing after this talk out of the 12 15 people that are sitting there 12 people are saying saying they are inspired and I already know and the third or fourth day maybe two of them are going to put something into practice that you were sharing with them and after 1 month maybe hopefully one person is still remaining who is taking some benefit from uh from that amount of time that has been invested so I was a little bit disappointed I have to say that after investing so much time that the feedback I knew already uh was very very little and that unsatisfaction was not because of the payment it was because I realized I don't like to invest energy in something knowing already it's not going to grow so what did I do I had to change my Approach roach I said if something is supposed to grow it's unfortunately not enough to only give that initial spark of inspiration in the beginning it's not enough it needs just like a small flower you plant the seed and you give water and sunlight on a regular basis this is more that is going to lead to some type of growth and this is why all the type of um engagements that we meanwhile have none of them is made for first time because first time is never enough only when people stay with something only if you a little bit take care of them and um let's say you um yeah let's say you take them on the hand and take them with you so you are along their footsteps walking next to them this is something where then you can witness their growth and something like this to see that people becoming more happy people becoming more healthy issues people had before start to disappear thankfulness returns back in their life Harmony returns back in their life Joy comes back in the life of some person and this because you were a part of that process no money in this world gives you the same feeling and this is why I like this work because it is paying you something back that money cannot do and it makes me feel good it makes me feel like I have a purpose I know that after witnessing such days is not the waste of day for me things can things can still go wrong whatever but if I know on that day you really supported one person yeah and you saw he really made some progress he had a breakthrough whatsoever yeah it's good I feel good and yeah that's why I think there is something similar in in the way how we approach these things and this is just like I also mentioned before um doing or experiencing these type of things is the only way to get to answers yeah how do we find peace yes so at least I'm happy you didn't ask how do we find happiness because my search in a way I stopped searching for that term or the Fulfillment of happiness because it might just not be there it might just be a word for another illusion for another concept that we have maybe put into ourself that needs to be achieved somehow let's just assume this happiness whatever it is would mean that there is something fluctuating Uprising outwards upwards happiness joy like that euphoric feeling so something so there's movement there is movement in whatever Direction doesn't matter wherever you have movement you always have counter movement it is that picture if you have a lake an ocean and that ocean is still or that water is standing still if you start to tap on it you will have up Ripples and down ripples if you don't want to have ripples you cannot touch it so and very similar it is now with that idea of if you think happiness is something which is Uprising then it just means in the moment you feel that Uprising sooner or later you will feel its counter Force which is the decline of something so no happiness is not what we're looking for but peace is something different peace for me is there is something unmovable unshakeable inside of you regardless of the circumstances so you found a place that you can let's say mentally go to where you feel there is nothing fluctuating regardless of what's happening out there because you found something about you you found something that nothing can be added to it because it's complete already and nothing can be taken away from it because there's nothing you can lose if something like this starts to arise in the way of your perception I think that is the that is a state which is um which is yeah peaceful which is peaceful and gives you that peace of mind because what should you worry about if there is nothing to worry of course now many people say yeah but I have a child that I need to take care of this is not the this is at the moment not the not the level um that I that I mean is something different it's a very deep level of feeling you know you you know it can't go wrong does it make sense like there is no fear there is no fear there is now in this field of fluctuation when you have the up and downs it's the same like when you have the life and the death still chronologically after another all of these expressions for me is very very similar as long as there is movement you will always be confronted with this idea of dualism with the existence of like both sides so peace means there is something stable about you no matter if around you things seem to fluctuate there is still amongst the fluctuation something still there and if you have access to that if you can Center yourself if you can calm yourself calm the mind it means stop the movement stop the movement and you will enter at peace now it's very difficult sometimes if people already have like preconditioned thoughts and they heal peace there's nothing moving it sounds boring but that's not it no it's the same like you can either deny life or you let life flow through you both of them is called submission yeah and I think a moment of Peace let's see if I can put it into into this picture is there was one time when I went to Thailand I traveled there together with another Master brother and you know even me being here sometimes in the monastery knowing the surroundings knowing this type of structured way of life day in day out so also for me when I then uh had some time to get out of the monastery and then especially going to Thailand you know Thailand sometimes translated also means free land that tie is like a free and the reason is because it feels like this over there just by the circumstances make it easy for you to somehow have that feeling that you're in the land where you can actually quite do a lot of things as long as you abide to the rules without harming anyone but one of these moments was that I sometimes like to ride motorcycle so over in Thailand I also had like a scooter that I rented and now just imagine you are like driving with a scooter through a jungle like really nice roads really epic scenery like 40 minutes you drive up the roads until I ended up at the top of a mountain where was a restaurant or a small coffee located and so I stopped over there and was standing at that balcony from that coffee which was pointed towards the the complete jungle Valley and then I was standing there having that coffee in my hands watching down seeing like the Monk jumping around in the jungle there the fog covered parts of the of the trees already and I don't know how to express it but this is like such a moment where something like Bo starts to open for me where I just say this like better than a movie you know you you ride with your motorcycle through the jungle stand on top of a mountain drink your coffee and watch down while the monkey are jumping around down there and that is a moment where then suddenly something opens where like it feels like that life is coming back into you yeah and this is it where that peaceful moment comes where that peaceful moment starts to open up because you are only in observation mode there is nothing that you are adding to that scenery there is no expectation that now you are comparing to ah expectation met no it's the realization that's it that's it that is this very special moment right now that's not going to happen anymore but you just realized it that is this this feeling now which is which goes handin hand with that type of peace be because only when the peace is there you are going to look out at something without adding anything and because you are not adding anything this is why you completely open to receive that maybe uh merges that word peace like the best if I would have to describe it thank you so much again for today uh we're enjoying our time here at the Shon Temple so thank you so much thank you so much for watching this episode and if you want to help support our charity the Jacob Mulligan charity there's going to be supporting bereaved parents and providing headstones for them for their babies uh you can head to the link in the description where you can get the Brass Monkey I'm staring at it right now because I'm using this Brass Monkey ice bath to do the world's heaviest marathon it's the best piece of equipment I've ever used in my life and if you want to own that you can head to the link in the description every 5 donation make sure you leave your name the terms and conditions are on the page as well gets you an entry into the bath we're going to be raffling it off for the next few months whilst I train for the event uh but yeah thank you for all the support and thank you for supporting people who are affected by still birth and baby loss I'll see you in the next episode Peace

Channel: Mulligan Brothers Interviews

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Length: 70min 25sec (4225 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 22 2024