Chapter 6 - I Am What I Believe I am
After a night filled with dreams of the 33 Sages who are in charge of the 33 dimensions beyond the earth-plane, Huo woke tired, as if he had been traveling all night. And in many ways he had been traveling, as the old sages of the Plum Red Robe were preparing him for his future, but that was still a way off and he woke with little or no memory of their teaching.
Rising from his bed he was welcomed by the old sage who passed him a cup of herbal tea. The smell and flavor of the tea struck at his every sense. He could see in his mind's eye a man on a small farm picking the very herbs that he was now experiencing. He looked to the old man for an explanation. "You will understand that ability to be anywhere in the world as we continue your teaching. Much of what you have to learn has to unfold naturally, as you are your own best teacher. It is my role to give you a gentle nudge when it is appropriate. For the next few days I would like to stay where we are as you begin to search deeper in yourself for the teachings to occur."
Before he could finish the young man interrupted. "I am sorry Sage, but I am not sure that I am ready to teach myself. I am still trying to understand what you taught me last night at dinner. I am not sure I believe that I would have chosen the life I have lived and the concept of the subconscious mind creating my life is just too much to comprehend. I thought that in every instant of my life I could choose what I want to do."
"That is true my son if you have a clear mind, but so many people are just a product of other people's beliefs."
"What do you mean?" The young boys face was scrunched up, trying once again to come to grips with the meaning in the Sage's few words.
"What we believe to be true has been in many cases borrowed from someone else. Look at your beliefs about the old people in the village or the people of the cities, or about foreigners or even the foods you should and shouldn't eat. Where did they come from? Did you just wake up one day and say that the people of the cities were rich or that they think they are better than the people of the land. Of course not, these beliefs have been fed to you over time from your parents, people of the village, either directly to you, or even in whispers of conversation. Your subconscious mind takes in everything and then creates the world as you expect it to be. When you were born your subconscious mind recorded all the impressions from everything around it. It also recorded the emotions, feelings, attitudes and language that came from your family, friends and all the other people in the village. But more than that you were born with the inherent vibrations of many previous generations. In fact the only way to be yourself is to start to peel away the thought, feelings and behaviors that are not yours. These same belief patterns are here to protect us and for those who are not spiritually advanced they do a good job of that. As you start to grow spiritually you reach a point where it is necessary for you to release many of these beliefs, so that you can become a spiritual being with your own spiritual destiny. That is the reason we have come together, so we can work with each other to release your beliefs to follow your own quest."
The old sage stopped for a moment to allow these ideas to seep into and start to work their magic in the young boys mind. The old sage knew that a mind once changed could never go back to its old form. It may for a moment try to move back into its old comfort zone, but this would not last as once a mind can see that it is creating its own world it can never again be truly happy with being a victim. He knew the next few days would be a struggle for the young man as he broke free from the beliefs of others which he had made his own. It was now time to create his own life. The old sage knew that it would be difficult to remove all the negative belief patterns but it was necessary if the young man was to become who he was meant to be.
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