The Thailand Story - Part Two Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Thursday, April 28, 2011

Life's a riddle.  Shine a bright light on your blind spot.

I am startled, but not so much a surprise, at the following events that take place almost everytime I am back from Thailand.  Call it an irony or just pure co-incidental happening but it surely brings about something to think.  Something to ponder about and to create a state of mindfulness.  Of what I have become.  Of what opportunities to come.  How little things, particularly some gadgets in Reiki Sanctuary, can just go bonkus.  How when these things were perfectly fine, and working well, just before my departure?

Just the other day, the Universe showed not one but twice, on her subtle language to jolt my understanding.  To let me to S.I.T. (Sit, Inhale and Think), probably asking me to take notice and to become aware of impending directed conscious energy ahead.  It calls for observation. 

I measure life events, every synchronicity of events, to be a purposeful guide to life.  I live, and want to live, my life to be so much in Celestine Prophecy.  In the flow towards revolutionize our wisdom, I must set my sights high, the higher the better.  I must expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now.  I need to realize that nothing is too good.  That I must allow absolutely nothing to hamper or hold me up in any way.

Two days after coming back from Thailand, one of our PC had problem.  And, four days after coming back from Thailand, our iMac - which was only five months old, had problem.  Out of the ordinary, these machines acted strangely.  Both were unable to boot up.  Both gave a blank screen with beeping sounds when switched on.  Both had Random-access Memory (RAM) issues.

Random-access Memory, as described in Wiki, is a form of computer data storage.  It takes the form of integrated circuits that allow stored data to be accessed in any order in a constant time, regardless of its physical location and whether it is related to the previous piece of data.  RAM is often associated with volatile types of memory where its stored information is lost if the power is removed.

RAM is considered 'random access' because we can access any memory cell directly if we know the row and column that intersect at that cell.  Basically, it is just like turning on the tap to let the water flow into a bucket.  This bucket needs to have a memory controller to refresh once it is filled.

Perhaps, the lesson here is about letting go.  Perhaps, it is about to embrace what Thailand is all about, the Universal connections thus far for me, and to experience it in a different path of totality.  Perhaps, it is suggesting a new wholeness and entirety of what the windings and turnings in a road that we face each day and that these events cannot be ignored or avoided.  Just as in the case of the RAM, it is probably guiding a conscious energy to flush out the old memories and to take in what is ahead with new perspective.

One's memory can have an impact to one's peace.  A thing is complete when we can let it be.  Disillusionment with ourselves must precede enlightenment.  We just need to learn our lessons quickly and move on.  Peace is said to be found when we stop searching for it.  We cannot stop the circles in the surface of water nor how can we try to wash water.  As long and so long we are to be pre-occupied to find it that we shall fail to live.  We are who we are and I am not you and you are not me.

Perhaps, Reiki Sanctuary has become too much Thai when she is designed not to be.  She has her own flavour, mind, spirit, body and the soul and needs to be mindful of her own consciousness.  It is about living in the right here and now.  It is about appreciating what is around in the present.

I have become rather fixated with shopping in Thailand.  It is about filling up spaces to enhance Reiki Sanctuary that probably she is now choked.  Physical beauty has its limit.  One can just do so much to sustain it and it has to fade away some day, like it or hate it.  I have to just let it pass and build on new inspirations.  Perhaps, her memory storage has enough of enough for the time.

As done in my previous trip, I went on another rampage with shopping this time around again.  I have become very accustomed to JJ Mall shopping complex (after much recce at MBK Center) and, as usual, it is a fun filled day just browsing at Thai handicrafts, arts and paintings, antiques, home decor and more.  Conveniently located just next to the Handicraft section of the big Chatuchak Weekend Market district, the whole area has become one vast place to take pleasure.

JJ Mall Shopping Complex (far left) and the Handicraft Section, Chatuchak Weekend Market (right)

But somehow, shopping this time had its own thread-and-thrum.  There were occasions that I had to think hard.  There were occsaions where the good and the bad, the virtues and the vices had to be addressed.  There was a totality where one cannot just pushed the limits any further.  There was the point, or line, beyond which something else cannot or may not proceed.  The RAM choked and so was, probably, Reiki Sanctuary.

The Shopping:

The Meditation

The Flowers

The REIKI Life-Forces

The Thinking Man and Mother-and-Child

The Dining Table Accessories

The Flying "Huat" Ornaments

The Bamboo Chime

.. and where they are all housed in Reiki Sanctuary:

at the Balcony

at the TV Area, Living Room

at Dining Area, with new carpet laid, Dining Room

at Guest Toilet

at Living area, with new laid carpet, Living Room

Perhaps, just as written by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in The Tantra Vision (Volume 1):

Just look next time you are having some trip and riding a problem - just watch.  Just stand aside and look at the problem.  Is it really there?  Or have you created it?

Look deeply into it, and you will suddenly see it is not increasing.  It is decreasing; it is becoming smaller and smaller.

The more you put your energy into observation, the smaller it becomes.  And a moment comes when suddenly it is not there .. you will have a good laugh.

It was good while it lasted, indeed.


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The Thailand Story - Part One Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Sunday, April 24, 2011

It was good while it lasted.

In my previous writing, The Conspiracy, I mentioned about The Cycle of repeated endless cycle in our lives.  About an eternal recurrence that takes place every ten or twelfth years.  It has great influence and created a causal inference in our journey.  In our life.  It is the cause for something similar to repeat unless we take charge to break the cycle from happening again.  We need to heighten our awareness to break away the samsaric continuous flow from deepening our sufferings.

I have always enjoyed visiting Thailand.  Put aside her current political situation, the country has a certain calming energy.  Naturally, it transforms the mind, heals the soul and creates a light vehicle to better serve the soul's true purpose.  Perhaps, it has to do with the thousands of stupas all around.  A stupa is a mound-like structure said to contain Buddhist relics, typically the remains of Buddha.  It is used by nearly 95% of Thai Buddhists as a place of worship.  Perhaps, in such a big critical mass, it raises the vibrational spiritual state of consciousness.

Thailand has always been a place for me to expand my consciousness.  It allows me to flow in the density of paradigm conformity and I often get trapped in the fluid consciousness.  It is, as if, a place of reality paradigm designed to serve my human soul.  Two decades ago, I made an impact on someone to shift his thought paradigm and gave him a new perspective on how to live his life then.  A decade ago, I left an imprinted diversion pertaining to higher forces to some individuals and led me to recognize the person whom I had become.

For what that had taken place, in the past two decades, I shall observe the events today with gratitude.  It was good while it lasted.  Surely, the conscious energy had its own vast intelligence out of which everything else shall evolve.  We should let the consciousness interleaved in our awareness and take charge to bask on what had to be good for the soul.  It had confined to my physical and material experiences and, undoubtedly, challenged my consciousness to understand and making sense of it.

This time round, my visit to Thailand interfaced between meeting an old friend (whom I have not met for the last ten years or more) and a diverse group interaction where much of the reality of continuous energy flow is to be experienced all over again.  I was brought to experience Amphawa in a common boundary south of the previous tour to the Thai State, Hua Hin.  When Hua Hin blew me the wind of limit, Amphawa sought an understanding of balance.

Bangkok - Pattaya - Bangkok - Amphawa - Bangkok

Hua Hin lured with an understanding to seek for the fullness of humanity.  It reflected who I was in a different context.  It was a trip that brought out a personal freedom.  It triggered the undesirable emotions, or behaviours, in me and resulted with building an inner armour to shield myself towards a more significant life.  It was perhaps a trip fitted with Carl Jung's saying that "everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding about ourselves".

I liked Amphawa.  It was a place that revealed true emotion.  It was a place where another friend, through an SMS that I received during my local stay in one of the many homestays there, expressed it was "life".  Indeed, in that language of the universe, she was right and spot-on.  Where I stayed at Ban Mae Nam, it was an ideal place for a little soul retreat.

I envisioned of conducting a little retreat here.  I wished to open doors of mind and heart.  Indeed, this place was ideal to have a closed door for people who wished to reflect.  To 'go home' into the soul. It reminded me so much of my retreat in Janda Baik, Malaysia.

Ban Mae Nam spoke the language of the universe with its slogan - "A perfect blend of new and old".  It reflected on how much my emotions and spirituality intertwined.  It was about moderation yet it reminded me on life options.  As though the slogan was there to post a sign where I could probably be, yet again, at a mid point between now and Hua Hin.

The Sign and the slogan "A perfect blend of new and old"

The Unit that can fit Kings and Queens and few consorts

Overall, a good clean room with quite a big toilet area

Back yard, with door from the toilet area

Pool Area and Reception

"The Relaxing Corner" and where we had our breakfast

(Room package includes local home-made breakfast, a boat ride of Amphawa River Tour to the Floating Market, a visit to a popular temple Wat Chula Manee and Fireflies night view along the river)

Amphawa was still very much Thai.  It was still relatively unknown among Western tourists.  There must have been thousands of people there but I didn't spot any Westerners during my stay.  This was where the Thai tourists, particularly from Bangkok, come to experience the real floating market.  Amphawa Floating Market had its own touch of  colours and smells.  There were just so much local things and a wide varieties of local Thai delicacies and handicrafts.

The Vendors

Yummy! Yum Yum Yum!

Oops!!! What a dampener here!

Visiting the Mae Klong railway tracks Market, in Amphawa, spelt the word 'Simplicity'.  It was said that if we really wanted to experience the day-to-day life of the Thai People, we should go to the local fresh market.  I was given that opportunity.  It was such an interesting sight.  Here, on both sides of the railway track, there were locals selling a wide range of their agricultural produce, including fruits, as well as fresh seafood.  The train ran four times a day in each direction.

Mae Klong Railway Market or as the Thai said it Talad Rom Hoop was simply that.  The local vendors would go about their daily activities setting up and erecting stalls but quickly pulled down their stall's umbrella or awning when the train passed by.

What an interesting experience! - Unique Thailand

Looking back at this recent trip, I have only this sentence in mind - It is not about the destination, it is the journey.  Yes, it is a journey with all inadvertent gestures that will create another life force.  It is a journey to carry with lessons and hopefully life will go on without too much disruptions.

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The Conspiracy Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Life is a wheel in an endless cycle.  When we are to sit back and to analyze our life events and situations, there are repeated patterns that keep repeating itself.  There are repeated expressions of an endless cycle of our existence and knowledge.  There are repeated endless cycle of repeating actions and thoughts.

Every beginning is the end is the beginning is the end.  Our consciousness is a continuum of awareness.  Each moment is an experience of an individual mind state such as a thought, a memory, a feeling or a perception.  A mind state arises, exists and, being impermanent, ceases following which the next mind state arises.

I truly believe in this wheel of life; The Cycle.  It can either work for or against us.  It is, in a bigger picture (only when we allow to view it as so) a reminder of the life to come.  A sign of eternal renewal and the re-emergence of life.  It is an eternal recurrence, or Eternal Return, where the Universe keeps recurring and will continue to recur in a self similar form.

We will go through a cycle once in every ten or twelth years depending on the depth and state of an evolved consciousness.  It depends on the mental and spiritual capacity of each individual.  It depends on the birth, life and death from which one seeks liberation.  However, the time cycle is not fixed.  To some, the eternal recurrence can happen in a short brief of time.  And others, to be a longer period.

Our stream of consciousness evolves in this cycle in a wheel and is repeated over and over again.  That this cycle will just keep repeating in our life until we have truly understood the situation and why it has happened again and again.  The entire process of change from one state to the next, for the better, requires a state of awareness and acceptance.  It is then followed with the bare attention to own and let go, without allowing the events to interfere with the presence.  It is, at this stage, that we allow the cause of events to lead to a renewed and reformed consciousness.

We often are faced with a challenge.  Unfortunately, many people will just look to change the circumstances in order to change the result.  The sad thing, even if the circumstances and results can be altered, the cycle of life is not.  What is happening here is that we are not getting to the bottom of the reasons for the repeated results.

It operates in the Universe as the continuous chain reaction of cause and effect.  It is not only confined to causation in the physical sense but also it has moral implications.  A good cause leads to a good effect; a bad cause leads to a bad effect.

There are many repeated cycles throughout our life's journey.  There is a cycle of sin, of bondage, of repentence, of devotion and then followed by sin and bondage again.  There is also a cycle of joy, of happiness, of peace and then followed by more joy and deeper and higher state of peace.  Constantly, we give off physical and spiritual life forces in all directions.  Just as in physics, we learn that no energy is ever lost; only that it changes form.  It is the common law of conservation of energy.

Similarly, spiritual and mental actions are never lost.  They are simply transformed.    All of our actions, all of our thoughts and all of our words in turn affected by influences coming in our direction.  We are, basically, the sender and receiver of all these influences.  With each action-influence, we send out and at the same time receives.

It is not a surprise when such a concept is applied to our world of wealth and abundance.  When we let go of the small things, the consciousness of wealth and abundance opens a bigger door.  When we are so afraid to spend, we cannot expect to pitch for better and bigger outcome and result.  When we want to create wealth, we need to understand what it is.

What we are and who we have become is entirely dependent on what we think.  It depends on how much we allow this thought to expand.  It depends on how much awareness we allow it to transform.  To allow it to metamorphosize.  The nobility of our character is dependent on our good thoughts, actions and words.  At the same time, if we embrace degrading thoughts, those thoughts invariably influence us into negative words and actions.

One common repeated scenario I hear from some unhappy souls is 'I keep feeling sad and angry about myself'.  Only when these souls can find the light that a cycle is broken.  The thing that we need to seek constantly is to look for the positive in all situations.  There is positive and negative in everything.  Unfortunately, very often, our perception is lopsided.

Our perception is a very fluid concept.  What we see as real is only defined by our belief structure.  Our version of what is real is only our perception of it; not what it is so.  We just have to keep an open mind at all times and to remember that a point view is always valuable to each individual.  We see the world, not as it is, but as we are.

The key here is in getting to a point where we truly understand the events.  We need to recognize them as gifts or opportunities the situations have given us.  In this situation where one finds himself to be repeatedly sad and angry, he does not ask the basic question Why?  He does not get to the bottom of the reasons for the repeated results.  At the same time, he does not exercise the choice to choose his perception.  A positive thinker will choose to see the event as something that can inspire him to make something more of his life.

We need to realize that everything is to happen for good reasons.  There would always be people that will keep hurting our feelings.  There would always be situations that break our patience.  However, these are events that will establish for the right mindset for any opportunities ahead.  These are the gifts and opportunities before a change can take place, before a cycle can be broken.

Another example, we might have a persisting pain in our body.  Maybe, the gift is letting go of our stubbornness and finally going to see a doctor to get it fixed.  Maybe, it is to give us a higher pain threshold?  Maybe, it is to learn to meditate to heal ourselves?

Our challenges that we face everyday in life will follow us until we can extract the gift and to declare our gratitude when they happen.  I have, in my journey as a healer, many conversations with individuals on a daily basis and one of the common themes is the thought that 'if I am in a different place, would not I have any of these problems'.

We may not have those exact same problem but we will continue to face challenges whatever our situations may be.  Whether we are able to see it now or not, challenges in life are the things that make us grow.  Challenges will differ from pasture to pasture but will be there nonetheless.

We should live today not to be a slave of our past.  Not to be a slave of our negative perceptions.  We should live today to make the shift.  To make the difference.  We need to invoke a feeling of intense drive, a feeling of excitement, a feeling that a personal triumph is to come at the end of the challenge.

A broken cycle will free our soul.  A renewed cycle offers the land of wealth and abundance.  Today, we have come to the New World where consciousness is right in front of us.  It is any where and every where.  We need to raise our vibrations to feel it.  We need to raise our vibrations to fully shift our paradigm.

This is my prayer, as this article is written, to reach out to each of you as you are reading it.  It is about accepting the power within.  It is about living with new consciousness, new beginning.

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The Mantra of Great Compassion Written by : Reiki Sanctuary Date : Saturday, April 02, 2011

The God in me greets the God in you;
for peace, for joy and for enlightenment



Disclaimer:

This writing is my personal voice.  It is not meant to imply nor, of any means, to influence in reorganizing and redirecting in the faith of God.  It is based on my own conviction, of my own experience and in its truth that is very personal.  It is how I embrace God within and how I strongly believe in His existence that has guided my ways of life thus far.


No, as many have asked me again and again, I am not a Buddhist.  Nor am I a Christian.  I respect these two and all other major religions.  I respect in the holy book, Quran to the Muslims; the Bible to the Christians and Tipitaka to the Buddhists.  For the record, I have not studied them much but enough to understand its importance and how the words of God, in all these books, can help individuals like me to lead a good life.

I am a believer of ONE God.  To me, there is this great mysterious entity that resides in the Universe.  And, he resides in all of us too.  He can be at anywhere at any given one time.  He is outside as well as inside us.  I call him God.  I like it when the word 'Allah' is used.  This word is the perfect description of the 'one god' of monotheism for Jews, Christians and Muslims.  "Allah" is the same word used by Christian Arabs and Jewish Arabs in their Bible, centuries before Islam came. 

God has always been there for me, one who created me and giving me life on this Earth.  I live with a soul within the soul of His image.  I am created from His breath having both a material body and an immaterial spirit.  I am to live in His likeness mentally, morally and socially.

Mentally, I have been given a mind.  This is a reflection of God's intellect.  Morally, I have been implanted with righteousness.  Our conscience or moral compass is a vestige of God.  Socially, I am created for fellowship.  This reflects God's love.

The difference between us is huge.  While He has given me a mind to diffuse my intelligence, to use it correctly and effectively with pride and purpose, all that I have to do is to constantly remind myself to act and think like God does.  Light attracts light.  Along with the mind, He gives me the freewill to do whatever I shall deem right for my being.  He created a clone alongside my spirit, called EGO, for whom I should identify and accept and to separate between the good and evil.

I have to live my life wisely.  It is the good that attracts another good.  It is the bad that attracts another bad.  It is the light that attracts the Law of Vibration and Attractions.  It is just the order of God in wanting us to know ourselves better.  I have to live my life the way He wants it to be.  I have to learn and keep re-membering significant events to make any difference.  There is good in all things bad and there is bad in all things good.

It is important for me to be in love yet to understand what hate is.  It is important for me to be in joy yet to understand what sorrow is.  It is important for me to be wise yet to understand what ignorance is.  It is important for me to be peaceful yet to understand what violence is.  It is important for me to be positive yet to understand what negative energies can effect my life differently.

I often take a stand that God is with all of us, here and everywhere.  He does not separate us nor does He differentiate each of us.  Each of us - despite our color and race, our nationality and profession, our size and age, our intellect and language - deserves His protection and admiration.  Each of us deserves His guidance and punishment.  Each of us deserves the Heaven that He has promised.  Each of us deserves in all the beauties of this Earth.  Likewise, He does not keep away the truth about hell.

I grew up rather puzzled at our struggles.  Every major religion claims that there is one god, that this god is omnipresence.  Yet, religion has taught many of us the exact opposite.  The man, whom we call a priest, at any religious institution - be it the Church, the Mosque or the Temple, speaks of God.  Each teaches us to be good.  Each guides us to live with our moral conscience.  We, no matter what religion we are to live with, have been countlessly told to be a good person.  To love and not to hate.  To care and not to despise.  To give and not to steal.  Never that these men, from the Church, from the Mosque and the Temple, would ask us to live like a sinner.

My question, if these men truly believe in God's works and existence and where each of them spreads to us to live life morally good, is not that there is the same God that has given these men with the same wisdom?  How can we justify that one is more right than the other?  Why are their virtues of life and values sound so much alike?  The saddest thing I heard so far is when one man could say that the other man who is preaching exactly the same thing is a sinner.  That this sinner has no place in God's Heaven, in God's Temple of Spirits.

Who then is right?

Ultimately, it is about looking inward with greater understanding.  It hits me that there is one God, the same God in all churches, mosques and temples.  Men makes the division.  Perhaps, it is just the way Man has always been.  That, with our ego, we are better off taking charge to control others.  It is easier to condemn another.  History has always proven that we complicate matters better than simply to just live life.  We tend to go overboard with our thoughts and over-analyze anything that must only suit our interests.

To me, God has always been with me the whole time.  He is part of me, or rather that I am a part of him.  When I look at the way of the clouds, at the way the water flows, when I look at the flowers, when I breathe and smell the air, or the way atoms bond together to form molecules.  The way the music sounds.  the way light travels.  Every single detail of this existence we live in everyday, every person inside it.  Every atom, every form of energy, the Conscious Mind.

Me.  You.  Thought.  These are all God.  Every last thing in existence too.

Heaven, as well as Hell, are here on Earth and in our daily existence to experience.  We do not have to wait till we die to know the effects upon our acts and conscience.  We do not have to wait that long to experience God's rewards and punishments.  In our freewill, we have to make the right choice.  We have to understand what constitutes God's likeness in our mental, moral and social duties.

My passion for the Buddhist Monk's The Mantra of Great Compassion is about the soothing voices and the soothing music.  It does not matter to me what it is actually being recited.  It is always better not to know than to analyze it with fear.  It is enough for me to understand that it is about calling out the different names of Buddha.

I respect Buddha and that does not make me a Buddhist.  It is his codes and ethics of teaching that inspire me.  Then, It is enough for me to listen to this piece of music to allow his vibrations to become me.

For few of my friends who have been waiting to have this music, here it is ..





The Mantra of Great Compassion
- Buddhist Monks -

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