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This book offers a unique glimpse into the life and teachings of Master Fwap, as narrated through a series of engaging conversations and personal anecdotes. The narrative takes readers on a journey through the breathtaking landscapes of the Himalayas, providing insights into the philosophy and wisdom of the master.
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“Most people, without consciously realizing it, absorb a great deal of psychic energy from the people they casually associate with, and even a greater amount from people with whom they have strong emotional connections.”
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“The astral is the supporting ground for the physical dimension.”
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“If negative auric vibrations are not kept to a minimum by using psychic shielding techniques, and if they aren't cleansed from our subtle body through meditation, they will accumulate and eventually become very toxic.”
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“Beyond this world are countless dimensions. They stretch on forever. You can travel to them and have experiences in them.”
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“The quality of time actually changes throughout the day and night. Some dimensions are more time-specific, in that they only interact with the physical dimension they touch during specific times of the night or day.”
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“Life is more or less the same wherever you go, because, wherever you go, there you are.”
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“The experiences that you have in astral dimensions are not essentially all that different from the experiences you have here in the physical dimension. They are all transient.”
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“When you think about something, you separate yourself from it.”
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“Let the rain of unhappy and tragic experiences fall, as sometimes it inevitably must, even in the lives of the enlightened masters. If your mind has become one with nirvana, you will remain happy at all times.”
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“The natural elements in the forests, mountains, deserts and large bodies of water, help shield you from the thought forms and auras of other human beings.”
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“Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.”
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“To do something perfectly, you must not think about what you are doing at all ... Your thoughts are what create imperfections in your actions. They alienate you from the true reality of any action you perform.”
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“Instead of your ego directing you and making countless mistakes, allow yourself to be guided by the invisible principles of the universe within your action.”
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“We are luminous beings. Beneath our transient physical bodies we are made of intelligent light.”
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“Once you are enlightened, you can do whatever you want without fear or sorrow. You can go snowboarding, get married, stay single, be rich and famous, or live unknown in a high Himalayan cave. It is up to you.”
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“The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh and painful, lives in which events and circumstances usually don't turn out the way they had hoped or planned.”
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“Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional and mental suffering, or to disease and death. They too must deal with loneliness, the deaths of loved ones and the frustrations and boredom of old age.”
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“If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade.”
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“Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the people we love, are only loaned to us for a very short time by eternity.”
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“Even the lucky ones, who do manage to become happy by attaining their goals, live each day in fear of losing whatever it is they may have gained.”
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“The world you experience, every day and night of your life, is transient. They only last for the blink of an eye, and then they dissolve back into that unknowable and formless eternity.”
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“Most human beings are completely out of touch with their spiritual nature and with the inner dimensions that exist within themselves. They don't realize each person has a soul, an inner core of light and intelligence as vast as the ten thousand worlds, whose inner nature is emptiness, ecstasy and happiness.”
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“All the billions of people who now inhabit our planet are putting a terrific strain on its aura, making it difficult, even for evolved people to become aware of their past-life knowledge and talents.”
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“Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to.”
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“Each time you meditate, you create a stronger connection with the world of inner light and happiness that exists within you.”
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“Even after only several weeks of practicing meditation, you will begin to have more energy and be a little bit happier. Eventually, you will experience ecstasy and knowledge beyond the power of words to describe!”
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“As your meditation practice improves from month to month, more and more light and ecstasy will spill over into the moments of your daily life. Eventually you will always exist in a state of continual light.”
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“In meditation, when your thoughts are stopped, you become empty. When you are empty, your mind folds back on itself and you see through the illusions of the material world.”
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“You can move in and through the astral worlds once you have gained control of your subtle body. The astral worlds are the back corridors of eternity!”
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“Some people travel to other dimensions in their astral bodies when they meditate. But astral traveling doesn't bring a person lasting happiness. If astral traveling is not done properly, it can be quite dangerous.”
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“The astral dimensions afford you opportunities to have experiences and gain insights into the structural nature of how dimensions are made up and phased together.”
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“When your mind is clear and your third eye is open, you can see and know things that are taking place thousands of miles away from you.”
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“The causal body is the most ancient and timeless part of a person. It has the capacity to know and do things that the physical mind and body cannot.”
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“The causal body is the part of a person that lives forever. It is what you would call the soul. It doesn't dissolve along with the physical and astral bodies at the end of an incarnation.”
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“Beneath our transient physical bodies, we are made up of intelligent light. One's own body of light, the soul, is the most real part of oneself because it lives forever, it doesn't decay and die.”
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“It is your causal body that is the real you. At the end of each incarnation, it carries the knowledge and karmic patterns of that lifetime, in addition to all of your other previous lifetimes, into your next lifetime.”
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“The intuitive mind is nonphysical. It is not part of the brain or any other cellular structure in the physical body. It is part of the causal body.”
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“Whatever you have learned in your previous incarnations is retained within your causal body, your multi-lifetime body of energy that lives from one incarnation to another.”
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“Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality.”
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“When your mind is tranquil and at peace with the universe, when it has become void of all thought - you become meditation.”
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“Consciously join with and become part of the power that is in everything around you.”
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“If you want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and mindfulness.”
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“If we try and direct our lives with only our limited rationalistic thoughts and our sense perceptions, then our actions and our activities will not be prefect.”
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“Mindfulness is the direct application of Buddhist teachings to a physical event, a way of doing or accomplishing something, or a way of thinking and viewing something.”
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“Our actions and experiences will direct us. In other words, we will be guided by the inherent emptiness of the things we choose to interact with.”
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“At the end of your life you will probably end up in an old-age home, or in a back room in one of your children's houses, left only with a handful of fading memories and a body racked with great pain and suffering.”
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“Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you to suffer.”
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“Unlike the experience of nirvana, traveling to other dimensions will not take you beyond suffering, nor will it help you experience the limitless ecstasy of creation.”
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“When a person who has had highly evolved past lives is going through a strong past-life transit, that person comes to know things about life, death and other dimensions that most people in our world aren't aware of.”
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“Karma has always existed, as have you, I, and all things in this wonderful universe.”
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