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Evaluation of facilitators of The Work

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We had a busy weekend. Had 7 awesome beings being evaluated for the associate facilitator and facilitators for The Work in our association, The Work for The Chinese Speaking community. It is a privilege to arrange the time slots, getting the current facilitators to sit in to evaluate, to give feedback, and to celebrate the candidates’ sharing of how far they have come in finding freedom for themselves in their lives and to witness their willingness to share it with the world.

I still remembered when I embarked on a 7 or 10 days so-called certification evaluation with Katie back in year 2007, I was in Malaysia then and flew into California just for this event. I didn’t know I had to share about my journey and what I think of The Work with a group of like mind people, had to facilitate people and be evaluated for it. I thought I was going into an immersion of The Work.

After being certified, I spent about 1 year working on thoughts “the world needs The Work” and all the limiting beliefs that would limits my excitement and “pleasure” in sharing The Work.

And with the ending of the Certified Facilitator title from Katie, I realized that I never really cared about having it. I just couldn’t find a reason not to continue maintaining it. Thank you for giving everyone the freedom to share it the way that they want to.

Love Yourself, Return to The Original Self, August, Shenzhen 2023

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This is the workshop participants photos we had last August in Shenzhen, China. Always fun to old and new faces, faces I see over Zoom for months and years before and finally we got to meet in person.

Zoom classes are great, but live workshops are a lot of fun. There are many things and exercises you just can’t do over the internet. That is what I always enjoy.

Looking forward to the next Emotion Code workshop in Shenzhen this July.

Playtime

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It’s been a while since I last attended a live event of The Work. Sally has been inviting me to The Heart of The Work down-under for the past few years, never got to go as I always have workshops around mid of March in China.

This time I said “yes” and the workshop was held at The Swarmi Retreat at Kenthurst. A beautiful venue out in the wood. It was such a treat meeting up with my dear friend Sally, Rosie and also Tanya.

It was great that we get to share a piece of three-hour workshop with participants. And we had great topics like aging, body, heaven, etc. I shared about using The Work in making difficult decisions. It was such an honor to witness all the dear ones peeling off layers and layers of old stories of the past, releasing traumas that suppress so much hurts, anger and frustrated of the past.

I love how life can be so simple sometimes.

A Class about Goals

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I ran an online class about getting what we want using The Work.
I created a playground for all of us to set goals for the new year. We look at things that we wanted to achieve, to do, to complete but have postponed, not putting as our priority, things that we are not willing to face it, kept procrastinating on.

I noticed that some of us are so used to be driven by stress, by things that we need to do out of survival and when we have worked and undo the stress, we don’t move forward. It’s like there is no reason to move forward, and people became stagnant, and they wondered what happen to them.

But, if we can simply work on the mental blocks, won’t we be more open to trying new things, freer to explore, play and experience….

And if we set an intention for our goals, and we identify the inner experience we would like to have when we have achieve our goals, then we are playing an inner game. And it becomes a lot more fun and best of all, you can never fail in this little game of life.

Ultimate Destination

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I want to talk about ultimate destination today. I used to really want to get done with this life, to figure life out, to reach an ultimate final destination, and to me that was played out as a desire to be enlightened in this lifetime. And I was a very dedicated Mahayana Buddhist practitioner.

I tried to do everything I learned to be the right thing to do, the right way to be and the more I wanted it, the more I tried, the worst I became; I was less happy than I was before, I found myself talked down to myself, my self-judgement grew stronger. And I found myself falling into a pithole that I didn’t know how to get out.

I am sure you want to know how I got out from that pithole. Basically I have to go against what I believed to be true. I have to put myself before all the beliefs I held so dear. I questioned them one by one. I realized that any good belief is not worth me holding so dear if it was really true. I don’t have to be afraid of losing it, I question them and I am free from it.

So, do I still believe all these good beliefs and teaching? Of course I do. They are equal as all other beliefs I have, not higher or lower. I realized for myself that when I hold them as ultimate or best belief, the “I” would want me to live it, and unconsciously, I would measure myself or people around me to that standard and that is the big cause of stress in my life.

And the funny thing about an ultimate destination is it is imagined. To know it in the mind and in the heart is totally two different experience. One is buying in to another person’s experience and the other is through your very own direct experience. And once you know it for yourself that there is no where to go except in this moment, many dreams start to shatter away. It is a raw naked experience. Not fun to be in but a really sweet place to be. Because it is a place where you are moving closer to your heart, your dearest self.

Mental Cleanse March 2017

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I did a 3-day mental cleanse in Shanghai back in March, 2017. It was the first time that I ran this event. Sitting down on the chair starting at 8:30 in the morning, lunch in between and last sitting that usually ended around 6:30p.m. It was held at a very nice Buddhist studio that was recommended by a dear friend.

It was a really dear experience to sit and explore possibilities with everyone that sat with me, both on the hot seat and the hard small chairs. We all went through the transformation together. I heard laughter, tears, faces of contemplation, men and women with faces of young children that started to change and grew up.

Personality doesn’t love, Part 1

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“Personality doesn’t love, we/they always want something”

I hear this from Katie many years ago and coming to see the truth of this statement has liberated me from many unnecessary pain in my life.

For years, we have been told and taught ways to be.
“Be generous, don’t be selfish…”
“Be kind, always be polite, don’t be rude….”
Just to name a few.
And if we really look hard enough, are we all kind, polite and generous?  Why aren’t we?
Some of us spend so much time striving to be that and when we aren’t as good as we thought we are, we punish ourselves, we abuse ourselves.  And if we are “good” enough we project out onto others, and we get upset when we read about how people are not kind, not generous and rude to each other.

If we have enough courage to go inside, we come to see that every time I TRY to be kind, polite, generous, doing good, I am trying to get something for myself.  I am trying to do, say something or act in certain way so that you will think certain way about me, to give me what I want – the image that I want you to see me as.  And this is a lot of hard work.

So, the question is, if we don’t work so hard to be kind, polite and generous, does it mean that we are cruel, rude and selfish?  This is what your mind would have you think.

Is it really true that if one does’t act that way, one is cruel?
How do I treat the person when i think this thought?
How would I treat him/her if I never have the thought that if he/she doesn’t do this, he/she is cruel?
And with a turnaround that he/she is kind, if our minds are open enough, we come to see that what he/she does can be a kind thing also.