Right Understanding (Samma-ditthi)
Right Thoughts (Samma-sakappa)
Right Speech (Samma-vaca)
Right Action (Samma-kammanta)
Right Livelihood (Samma-ajiva)
Right Effort (Samma-bayama)
Right Mindfulness ( Samma-sati)
Right Concentration (Samma-samadhi)
The first seven stages, from Understanding to Mindfulness, lead to the eighth, Right Concentration (samadhi) and are in unison with Supreme Spirituality, the True Heart, the heart of prajna (of wisdom), the heart of Buddha, Truth in the heart.
The Noble Eightfold Path is described by Tuanci in hexagram 24 "The Return":
"On the seventh day return will come, it is the heavenly path!"
To return means returning to the heart, to go straight to the heart, to have a clear vision of one's true nature.
The Noble Eightfold Path, as written in the Old Testament: on the seventh day, God completed creation."
This means that only after having completed the first seven stages can one rest in the kingdom of God. According to Jesus the kingdom of God is within us. Thus the eighth stage, samadhi, brings us straight to the heart, to the clear vision of one's true nature, and to awakening.
In conclusion, the goal of the school of Universal Energy is:
1. to develop unconditional love for humanity, society, the nation state and the society within which each of us live.
2. to apply Universal Energy to save mankind, to protect life in Love, Compassion, Altruism, Charity and Gentleness.
3. to practise spiritual meditation to enable us to go straight to the heart in order to find truth, for truth is to be found within us. Buddha consciousness is in our heart, the kingdom of God is in our heart.
It is with these fundamental ideas that I finished a level 6 Seminar of the school of Universal Energy held in Washington D.C. (USA) from 28th September to 5th October 1999, in response to a question posed by an Italian student who was following the course live in Holland via satellite.
- Master Dang
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