When my younger brother Lu Xao Rong passed away, I cultivated and delivered him to the "Rainbow Villa" because of his heavy karmic hindrance.  He is in charge of the Nether World of the "Rainbow Villa", and he is quite happy and carefree there.

He once asked me to join him there.

"What's so good about being in Nether World?"

"I have two beautiful Venezuelan girlfriends. Twins, in fact. It's wonderful here!" He was still acting "cool" and still every bit the laid-back person I knew he was.

"I'm afraid I cannot as I have to carry on saving souls here."

He laughed.

"Save souls? That's utter rubbish!"

"Rubbish? That would be you!" I retorted.

"One good thing about being a ghost: at least we don't harm or hurt one another. In the world of humans, it's a different story. They will intentionally hurt or harm each other. Your disciples will hurt you in the end." He laughed.

I was speechless after listening to what he said.

In Nether World, ghosts do not hurt one another.

In this world, do we really have a single moment of peace?

Seriously, there is not a single moment in our lives without some calamity of sorts. Even though I meditate every day, disasters never stop coming.  

We carry on our lives as if we have a destination at the end of it. However, Mara pursues us as we move along our lives. There is a Chinese idiom "Dao gao yi chi, muo gao yi zhang" (loose translation: For every meter's height of Tao [the way], Mara is higher by a yard)

It's difficult to meditate on the way.

Salvation is much even more tedious.

I could hear my younger brother calling me from the back.

"Elder brother. Wait up. Don't forget to come join me. I will always follow you."

When my mother passed on to the other world, I used the "Bardo Deliverance Tantric Dharma"

Open the gate of Heaven.
Close the gate of Nether World
Stop the passage of Human Realm.  
Block the road of Ghost World.

Anybody who was chanting there witnessed it as her head lifted at the point of passing and her spirit left her physical body. My mother's soul left her through her crown chakara; a spark of white light to join the sea of lights of the universe.

I guided my mother to Amitabha who then in an instant, enlightened her.

My mother who was a wise person then achieved Bohdicitta.  

Whenever I travel to Japan, Mother Bodhisattva would follow.

She told me that she would not get lost as she could speak Japanese.

I asked her about "The way of the Buddha" and she replied, "Everybody in this world slog away everyday to gather wealth and success but they still do not find what they are really looking for. Take heed of what I am about to say. Those who have not found it and those who think they have found it, both have not found it."

"What does it mean, mother?" I asked.

She replied "This is the way of the Buddha. Only those who do not seek it, will find the way of the Buddha."

"Not seek?"

"The nothingness of the heart."

"What is "The nothingness of the heart"?"

Mother Bodhisattva explained, "When a man seeks not the wealth of this world, when he holds on to nothing of this world and has no greed for money, lust, fame, food and sleep. Even though his body is in this world, his heart is beyond it. He exists in harmony with the world and yet his heart is no longer tied down to it. He will find the way of the Buddha in his own time."

I was surprised to hear this from my mother Bodhisattva. She has understood paramita.

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