Overcome Your Fears, Painful Memories and Phobias.
Where do our fears, painful memories, phobias live and why are they so difficult to overcome? Buddhism has the concept of the "nine consciousnesses" or "Ku-shiki." Here is the diagram of the nine layers of your human life:
- 1-5. Consciousnesses:
- 1. Sight
- 2. Hearing
- 3. Smell
- 4. Taste
- 5. Touch
- 6. Mind Consciousness
- 7. Subconscious
- 8. Karma Storage (Alaya)
- 9. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo or Your Buddha Nature or Your Enlightenment or Your Permanent Source of Happiness (Amala)
People Who Don't Chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo Can Only React to Their Own Karma Storage.
Level 8 is Karma Storage. All of your past causes and effects of all of your words, thoughts and deeds from time without beginning are stored as Karma in Level 8. The content of Karma Storage determines the workings of all the other levels, except Level 9 (Buddhahood). Assume you have low self-esteem karma. It is stored in Level 8 (Karma Storage.) Let's say it weights 100 tons and is molten. Low self-esteem karma constantly gushes up into Level 7 Subconscious. Now your feelings, dreams, values, urges and hopes are infused with low self-esteem. Low self-esteem gushes into your Level 6 Mind Consciousness. Now many of your conscious thoughts are of your low self-esteem. I'll never find a good person in my life. I'll never be normal because my uncle molested me as a child. Things never work out. Eventually she (he) will abandon me. I'll never lose this weight. I do all the work but I'm never picked for that good job. I'll always be broke. People naturally dislike me because I'm... black, Hispanic, Asian, white bread, female, male, young, old, uneducated, too educated, a jock, a nerd, too smart, dumb, liberal, conservative. Levels 1-5 Senses transmit data to your other levels. These data are interpreted in the light of your low self-esteem. You see people at work laughing and talking. They never include you. Or maybe they're talking bad about you.
Low Self-esteem Karma Produces More Low Self-esteem Karma. As a reaction to your low self-esteem vision of the world, your words, thoughts and deeds make new low self-esteem karma. You stop trying to get fit and become more flabby. Your dress becomes less careful. You are angry at the world, yourself, and the environment and let people know it. They shy away from you even more. You are jealous of other's good fortune and luck. Or you try to be super nice and people take advantage of you. These new low self-esteem Karmatic events are stored in Level 8 Karma Storage.
Working on this process are two other Buddhist concepts. Shiki-shin-funi is the oneness of body and mind. Whatever is really on your mind or dwells in your spiritual self is automatically and accurately shown in your body. Your facial expression, posture, movements, physical condition and complexion depict whatever is happening in your mind. Esho funi is the oneness of you and your environment. Whatever you are is reflected in your environment.
If you are depressed and glum, you look and act depressed and glum. Your environment reflects your depression and glumness. People avoid you or are uncomfortable. Your home may be dated and shabby. Your car might be out of repair.
People whom Chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo Revolutionize Their Karma Storage and Transform Their Subconscious, Conscious, and World Outlook.
Chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo activates Level 9 Consciousness. The 9th Level of Consciousness is Nam-myoho-renge-kyo or your Buddhahood or Enlightenment, the source of your happiness. Level 9 cannot be corrupted by your karma. It is always pristine, powerful and pure, like gold or diamonds. When you chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, it surges up from the deepest part of your life into your karma storage. It begins to dilute your bad karma with happiness and wisdom (enlightenment) and expel it from your life.
Low self-esteem karma becomes less of an influence. Diluted low self-esteem karma still has to be expelled from your life. However, it comes out in a less stressful form that you can handle. (Tenju Kyoju or the lessening of Karmatic retribution.) The Karma attack is much less but still negative. By continuing to chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo when the diluted bad karma is expelled, you can turn poison into medicine, loss into gain, defeat into victory. (Hendoku Iyaku.)
Before chanting, your low self-esteem karma may have caused a ten-day of funk. If chanting, it might be two days. Your continued chanting lets you see that it's not so bad and you are tougher than you think.
You will know that your karma is changing because the bad karma events are less severe, last for shorter periods of time, and appear at longer intervals.
Buddha wisdom eventually will cause you not to create new low self-esteem karma. One day, the low self-esteem karma is gone. However, many people report that bad karma has one last flare up before leaving. The bulb burns brightest before it goes out. That bad person in your life has a big screaming session before disappearing. Nothing, GOOD or BAD can happen to you unless you have the karma for it.
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