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The Key to Joy

On Becoming. Once you have made the great commitment to the understanding of the "truth within", as I have written in a previous guidance, you have attained a critical place in the discovery of the ultimate knowledge.

Chapter 2 of "The Sutra of Innumerable Meanings" states, "A bodhisattva, if he wants to learn that all laws (all existences) were originally, will be, and are in themselves void in nature and form; they are neither great or small, neither appearing nor disappearing, neither fixed nor movable, and neither advancing nor retreating; and they are non-dualistic, just emptiness. All living beings, however, discriminate falsely: 'It is this' or 'It is that', and 'It is advantageous' or 'It is disadvantageous'; they entertain evil thoughts, make various evil karmas, and [thus] transmigrate within the six realms of existence; and they suffer all manner of miseries, and cannot escape from there during infinite kotis of kalpas". This sutra also states, "After such observation, we all manner of natural desires in living beings. As natural desires are innumerable, preaching is immeasurable, and as preaching is immeasurable, meanings are innumerable. The Innumerable Meanings originate from one Law. This one Law is, namely, nonform. Such nonform is formless, and not form. Being not form and formless, it is called the real aspect of all [phenomena]".

This aspect of the true nature of all phenomena is a constant theme in all sacred texts of the world throughout time. It is often used to construe the mystical nature of all perceivable reality. As we have seen, it is simply understood as the predominate "space" that co-exists within all phenomena. As I have also described, this "space" is not empty, but completely consumed by forces that act upon that space and any contingent particles.

This is a fundamental precept in Quantum Life. It is however, only a window to the fundamental truth of all existence. To look upon the vast and inexhaustible power of this fundamental precept requires a courageous vision. This vision of the nature of the wilful mind. In my writing of the Quantum Life I describe in detail the number and types of consciousness. Here I wish to focus only on that which is wilful.

The wilful mind is that mind that perceives the unknowable, the un-'real', the possible, and the desired. The wilful mind is the spiritual force on space, matter, and time to create, or manifest a desired construct. The wilful mind is the living force active in all phenomena requisite and responsible for all manifestation of all phenomena in all realms. The ninth book of the Kegon Sutra states in prose;

If any see the Truly Awake
As becoming liberated and divorced from taints
And not attached to any world,
They have not realized the eye of the way.

If any know the Buddha's
Substance and form have no existence,
And by cultivation gain clear understanding,
Such people will soon be Buddhas.

Who can see this world
Unstirred in mind,
And likewise Buddha's body,
Will attain supreme knowledge.

If, regarding the Buddha and truth,
One understands that they are equal,
Having no thought of duality,
One will walk on the inconceivable plane.

IF one sees the Buddha and oneself
Resting in equality,
Without abode, entering nowhere,
One will become one of the Rare.

Form and feeling have no sets:
Nor do concept, action, consciousness;
Any who can know this way
Will become sages.

Whether mundane or transmundane views,
Having risen beyond them all
While well able to know the truth,
One will become a great illuminate.

If, toward omniscience,
One engenders dedication,
Seeing mind without origination,
One will gain the greatest name.

Living beings have no birth,
Nor either any decay;
If one attains such knowledge as this,
One will realize the unexcelled way.

In one understanding infinity,
Within infinity, one:
Realizing their origin's interdependent
One will attain to fearlessness.

Therefore, the wilful mind must be one of no ego. The wilful mind of all creation, the mind of the Buddha, is a mind free of the pursuits of the phenomenal world. The wilful mind, the Buddha mind is the original mind and the mind of origination. The Buddha mind is the creative force, the force, the will, and the motive force of all phenomena from beginning to end where there is neither end nor beginning. It is this mind, which we all are and from which we all come. This is the mind of becoming. The force of life, of creation, of all phenomena, is a motive force, a wilful action, and a will to manifest. This is that which spawns within our bodies the myriad chemical and physical reactions we term a life, and an individual. This individual being only the manifestation of one in billions and numbers greater that the numbers of grains of sands in the galaxy, of such manifestations.

It is important, no, necessary to know at the fundament of your mind, that the wilful mind you experience each moment of each hour of each day it the exact same wilful mind as that which created all the universe and phenomena known and unknown. This is the fundamental truth of innate Buddha nature and it is the key to joy and attainment of enlightenment. The joy of life comes of the Buddha mind, which does not suffer the egoist clinging of the illusory mind.

This is a fundamental precept of Buddhism stated as the Law of the Twelve causes discussed in the 7th book of the Lotus Sutra, also known as the Twelve-linked chain of causation or dependent origination (Sanskrit, pratitya-samupada), each link of which gives rise to the following one:

1. Ignorance
2. Actions
3. Consciousness
4. Name and form (mind and body)
5. The six entrances (the six sense organs)
6. Contact
7. Sensation
8. Desire
9. Clinging
10. Existence
11. Birth
12. Old age and death

What is the most important to contemplate is the nature of life and its origins from the infinite past to the infinite future is a matter of wilful mind, and that this wilful mind is in all things, and perhaps most difficult, that this mind is all one. The separation, the individuation, the differentiation or Yin/Yang of all phenomena is a wilful delusion borne of our egoist desire for differentiation.

In birth we succeed in a path of differentiation. Therefore we suffer in the denial and the uncertainty of our manifest differentiation. As we approach each successive day of our earthly manifestation we can wilfully train our mundane and mortal mind to reopen to the Buddha mind inherent in our existence to lead us once again to the ultimate freedom of non-differentiation.

To condition our mind, our body, and our spirit to know this truth is to relieve our burdens of suffering from our daily lives in this mortal state. When the truth of this teaching is completely integrated into our daily lives, all manner of obstacles, tribulations, and sufferings, which arise form our earthly and deluded minds, are observed with distance and unfettered emotions of a joyful Buddha mind of complete understanding and wilful joy.

This is a path that requires tremendous effort and daily practice; especially difficult, as the illusions of daily life will react with violence at the idea that a mind has freed itself from the sufferings of a mortal existence.

I wish you strength, courage, and self-confidence to stay the path and learn and practice all you can.

With my deepest respect and Love,
Reverend Sylvain Chamberland
February 10th, 2006

BACKGROUND

Written to a follower, this treatise enumerates validation in the ancient texts of the Lotus Sutra as well as the opening Sutra to support the fundamental epiphanies and foundation of Quantum Life thinking. This definition of the Buddha Mind becomes a vehicle for the implementation of Quantum Life Theory that the "space" in all phenomena is in fact the origination and repository, and destination of all phenomena. Further, this "space" is the area of all forces within the universe and thereby the entity of the Buddha and the Buddha mind.