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Sue Spencer
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Date Posted: 08:21:55 03/15/02 Fri
Someone from FNCC sent this Guidance from Pascaul Olivera.
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Pascual's fight to overcome his illness purified him. I could almost see right through him. If he lives another 10 years, the achievements of those around him will be phenomena without explanation.
I heard Pascual say that you cannot run from your fundamental darkness, your core beliefs, even if you chant & THINK you believe in Buddhism, your core beliefs can be diametrically opposed to the truth of Buddhist teachings
& overcoming what holds you back in life from becoming absolutely victorious.
He said that we should pray to see our fundamental darkness clearly & face it squarely. Because if we should continue to run from from it, from the things we're afraid of, avoid our core beliefs which created our problems in the first place, they just get stronger, fear gets stronger.
Running from weaknesses is like training devilish functions to become Olympic athletes. We run & the devils run after us until they're so strong that we're afraid to turn around & see them. He said we have to stop & look directly at them & walk through them. That's when their power source is cut; it weakens them when we turn & face them - taking Nam-Myoho-renge-kyo is pouring the strength back into our lives & leaves not a drop of fear for these destructive functions to survive on. We do it even though,initially, it may be with every ounce of our being that we turn & walk forward through them, but that by doing that it begins to cut their power, shifting our results from that of victim/avoider to victor over ourselves. We gain our own power back by chanting & seeing a "new scenario" in spite of what things around us look like.
Devilish functions, ALL things which drain our hope & life force - their purpose in life is to make us run in the wrong direction, any way but forward,& they feed on our old scenarios (core beliefs) about ourselves & our fears based on them & the limits of what we think is possible. We need to STOP RUNNING & face the obstacle, the core belief that our life is OK as it is & that running & avoiding problems is an OK way to live. These are "false beliefs" in terms of tapping our LIMITLESS life potential & these limits that we set are diametrically opposed to changing karma. Being a victim is diametrically opposed to living as a Buddha.
Pascual said this is the beginning of writing our new scenario. We need to BREAK the mold of what is NOT working for us in terms of "old scenarios" in the present moment. First we need to stop running...turn around & see with the COURAGE of our life force through Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo what has been "chasing us" all our life. We think the Gohonzon & chanting are our tools, but our problems are actually our tools. He said we worship (erroneously) the scaffoldings of our lives. The scaffoldings being what held us up before we began to chant, old beliefs/patterns that used to work
& helped us survive before. Even though we are weak, Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo makes us strong like a lion roaring & the problem, the old belief system, our limits, become like frightened small creatures. We need to tear down the scaffolding. Our problems begin to surface & we get stronger & stronger as we stop running & turn & face them one by one. Not easy!
Isolation & the four walls of our limitations are our home. Pascual said within this small room we need to look for the door when we chant & throw it open & pray about the life beyond that door. Not be afraid to see the impossible problem within our life changing into exactly what we want & we need to experience happiness in this existence. It ALL takes place internally first, when we chant. Prayer of what we want is the most important thing. REVOLUTION OF THOUGHT IS WHAT TRANSFORMS THE BODY, the poverty, whatever limits our imagination or our dreams, becoming reality.
The KEY is not wasting our time chanting for what we think is possible, but for what we think is impossible!!! If it's possible, it's too small a goal for Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo! Chant to make the impossible possible.
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