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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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“Buddhists understand that today and all other days have turned out the way they have because of karma. The interconnection of one moment with another moment, of one action with another action, is karma.”
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“Everything that exists in this or any other world or dimension, does so because of the way that things were in the previous moment. I call this the karma of moment.”
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“Karma exists within causality. It is three-dimensional. Free will exists outside of causality; it is not bound by karma.”
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“Free will exists and operates outside causality. It is not hooked to karma. Free will is like a well that is on your property. You can choose to draw water from the well or not.”
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“If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns.”
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“With free will, we can modify, to a certain extent the chain of karma that has been set in motion by the karma of the previous moment. That is what free will really is, the ability to alter the sequence of karmic fate.”
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“Death is only a summer vacation for us. We don't really change or lose what we have learned or who we have been when we die, because we are our karma.”
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“Our adult personality is a mirror image of who we were in the last stage of our life in our previous incarnation.”
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“Enlightenment is the experience of pure light.”
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“When you are enlightened and have united your mind with the deepest and most ancient part of the mind of the universe, you are not affected by suffering the way other people are.”
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“Spiritual knowledge is the experience of enlightenment, and requires an understanding of the inner-most workings of the enlightenment cycle.”
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“Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call life, is really just a dream.”
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“An enlightened master is a perpetual source of the cosmic light because his mind is always merged with nirvana.”
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“When you are enlightened, your physical body will still feel pain if you get hurt, but you will not be overwhelmed even by extreme physical pain, because your mind is filled with light, love and understanding.”
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“In this whole world, there are actually very few people who study meditation with an enlightened master. This is because there are not very many enlightened masters on the entire earth.”
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“If you are a student of an enlightened master, you can literally tap into his aura, anywhere and at anytime. All you have to do is meditate on your Buddhist master and the light will come into your mind.”
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“A person who wants to progress more rapidly and wishes to overcome unhappiness sooner, should try to find an enlightened master.”
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“No one on this earth attains enlightenment anymore without an enlightened master as a guide, unless that person was enlightened in many previous incarnations.”
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“Almost anyone can see the golden light in an enlightened master's aura when the master meditates, unless, of course, the person is blocked up psychically.”
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“At times your entire body tingles with ecstasy as you feel the waves of psychic energy that emanate from the master's aura touching your own body.”
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“Everything knows what is best for itself. That is what the Sanskrit word dharma means. Dharma means the best of all possible actions.”
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“There will be a perfect flow of energy in whatever you choose to do, and there will be a grace and power present in all of your movements.”
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“In the Far East, it is taken for granted that the training of a monk is physically rigorous and academically challenging.”
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“Through the practice of meditation and the auric empowerments and guidance of an enlightened master, you can totally change your karmic destiny.”
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“Some astral dimensions are bright and filled with ecstasy. Advanced cosmic beings live in them. But there are also very dark astral dimensions, often inhabited by beings that are filled with hate and despair.”
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“Ultimately, thinking is a very inefficient method of processing data.”
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“The samskaras that were developed in previous incarnations are usually hidden by the temporary amnesia of infancy and by the transient personality.”
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“As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits.”
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“In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness.”
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“With the happiness, ecstasy and power you gain from meditation, you can gradually remove your mind from the things it has become hooked to that cause it pain.”
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“From a Buddhist perspective, it is incorrect to always assume that we know what is best.”
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“In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made up of moving energy. All matter is energy.”
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“Thoughts can increase our understanding of a subject, or they can just as easily constrict or block our understanding of a subject. It very much depends upon the language we are thinking in.”
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“All physical and nonphysical things have another side, a side that is not visible to the senses or accessible to the reasoning mind, a side that can only be known and experienced intuitively by emptying one's own mind of thoughts.”
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“All living things have an aura, a rapidly vibrating, invisible psychic energy field that protects them from toxic, non-physical energies that would otherwise be detrimental to them.”
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“Your understanding of the astral dimensions can help you alter structures in the physical dimensions. It is in and through the medium of the astral dimensions that all of the siddha powers function and work.”
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“Some people travel to other dimensions in their astral bodies when they meditate.”
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“Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed of ... the age of Atlantis.”
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“Almost all the people who lived in Atlantis meditated and had powerful psychic skills.”
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“During the age Atlantis, there were only several hundred thousand people living on our planet. They lived in a sublime state of harmony with nature. At that time, because of the purity of the earth's aura, it was much easier to meditate.”
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“During the age of Atlantis, the low population density and the resulting purity of the earth's aura, made conditions ideal for discovering secret meditation techniques.”
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“The high-priests and priestesses of Atlantis had discovered many of the deepest secrets of the universe. They had come to understand all about reincarnation, karma, and the innermost workings of the Enlightenment Cycle.”
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“Rae Chorze Fwaz was a mystery school. A mystery school is an occult order comprised of people who study meditation, enlightenment and psychic and occult arts.”
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“During the time of Atlantis, members of the Mystery Schools discovered and developed specific concentration exercises that they found would radically increase and sharpen their innate psychic abilities.”
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“In Atlantis, children who were spiritually evolved from meditative practices in their previous lives were brought to the Mystery School for training by older members of the Order who psychically recognized them.”
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“In their meditations, the high priests and priestesses of Atlantis had seen that the Atlantean civilization was going to end cataclysmically.”
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“They wanted to preserve and protect the mystical knowledge gained from their meditation practices and pass it on to future civilizations they clairvoyantly saw were going to be born after the destruction of Atlantis”
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“The vibratory toxicity of these subsequent ages would make it impossible for reincarnating members of the Order to go deeply enough into their other memories, without the secret techniques first.”
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“The night before Atlantis sank beneath the waves forever, the members of the MysterySchool set sail from their doomed continent in twelve boats, headed for twelve different points on the globe.”
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“It was their intention to start twelve new civilizations similar to Atlantis in these locations.”
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