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Law of attraction in Buddhism

If you ever wonder, how can Law of attraction works? or what is the logic or principle in Law of attraction ? Believe it or not, i have found it inside the teaching of the great teacher who live approximately 2500 years ago. Buddha Gautama. In his days, Buddha Gautama taught about how we can end our suffering. His precepts are numerous and depend on the audience. However, one of his teaching taught about the process of creation. It is different than any religions teachings today which taught that the process of creation are mystery of the creator. Buddha clearly disclose the process of creation and manifestation in his Pratitya samutpada ( dependent origination). In this teaching, the first thing need to appear for any manifestation or phenomena is ignorance, Ignorance means accepting something as real or something is not real. ( idealization and visualization process) As we think about something is real or not real, our images are memorized as the basic of any experienc...

Suffering

In the second symbol, sei he ki, sensei Usui tell us about the origin of suffering and how to get out from suffering. I think this symbol represent his Buddhist ideas. To many, it is just a symbol to draw an energy that soothe emotional disorder, to other Reiki practitioners it is a symbol to connect with subconsciousness. To me, it is represent a teaching about balance, harmony and joy. So, if this symbol originally is the teaching of suffering and how to get out from suffering just like sensei Buddhist's ideas, how we can understand it? let's discuss it. First of all, to borrow Buddhist philosophy, the origin of suffering is desire. If we happen to desire anything, there will be a subject which is "I" and the object "thing". This make an unbalanced condition within our consciousness, creating longing feeling within us, which can only be satisfied when the "I" meld down with the object of desire. Now, if we can satisfy our desire by obta...