My Humble Prayer to the Universal Mother
by Hua-Ching Ni

The sky is my father,
The Earth is my mother,
All people are my brothers and sisters.
With the support and protection of all gods and deities,
And the achieved human ancestors,
I enjoy living in the bosom of the Great Mother of all Universes.

Most respected Mother of the Universe,
You dwell within the tiny details of daily life as well as in the boundless surrounding infinity.
Your being can be hard to recognize for people who tightly hold onto the partial view of life.
They think they know the truth of life with great certainty, but they don't see how their perceptions and their conceptual abilities are limited by their experiences and the tools they have made.
The more they develop their partial view of life, the harder it becomes to see things broadly.
As they come to know the small, and overlook the broad, they become more strongly assertive of the small.
This is how the rigid beliefs of society are established that lead to arguments and fighting.

People cause each other so much trouble by insisting on their partial view of life over that of others.
However, the broader one's view becomes, the less assertive one needs to be.

I am just a baby, who has made a breakthrough that allows me to see through the intellectual walls and go beyond.
I wish to share this attainment with the other babies so that they may understand, too.
My explanation needs to be in words that relate to their experiences and knowledge of this small world.
I wish to carry your message to them, but I can only communicate to them that which their experiences can allow them to understand:

Be happy with life's nature and move with the sky and the earth.
Don't overly trust conceptual creations or beliefs, because they just lead back to darkness.

Dear Universal Mother, thank you for the gifts you offer us.
You provide us with the opportunity of life.
You provide us with the possibility of development.
You provide us with the opportunity of unlimited transformation.
Thank you for your kindness and love.

With your light, even an earthling can understand that life is an opportunity.
It is not an obstacle or a hurdle placed in the way of nature's energy.
It expresses a higher level of energy flow.
With suitable creation, life can bring to itself the good fruit.

With your light, an earthling can realize the opportunity that you bestow.
Thus inspired, we earthlings can realize life as it should be, and in this way become creative and prosperous with all rewards.
Even if life is hard now, it may still find its balance in the things we like.

Step by step, our accomplishments can lead to further accomplishments.
When we refresh ourselves, such as through a retreat at a vacation home, we attain more creative energy and accomplish more.
As life experience adds up, creativity also increases.
Our human life is unlike that of chickens raised on the modern farm.
As they wait passively to be fed, they also wait for the end of their lives, when they will be served up on someone's dinner table.
We have the potential to accomplish more.

For one who intends to master life, there are various stages of transformation.
Progress through these stages can be made at different times of life.
From a tiny dot attached to the leaf of a plant, so is the caterpillar formed.
Later, a chrysalis appears and from this soon emerges a butterfly that flies proudly with beautiful wings among the colorful flowers.
This performance of Mother Nature is earnestly and steadily conducted.
It is unlike the behavior of people who are lost and who expend their efforts in searching for a shortcut to success.
Only someone who goes through the specific stages of self-transformation is perfectly able to attain the betterment of the self.
One can then live life with truth, beauty and goodness.
Seeking only the shortcut cuts short any benefit and loses life.
One who expects to be fed by someone else, will inevitably end up, one day, as the meal.
All lives are born and supported by the impetus of nature and natural life found in each.

In fulfilling our personal transformation, we have more to give and can accomplish more.
Being gallant is a noble spiritual quality, particularly when it is chosen from a moral perspective.
Divine life is selfless. This is the way of nature.

Lao Tzu chose to live among the unenlightened people, rather than to stay in a privileged governmental position and support the subnormal tendency of the society of his time.

Sakyamuni chose to live as a beggar, forsaking a life of luxury fed by taxes imposed by force on the people.
He did not intend to establish any false religion that would go against his own spiritual attainment.
Sakyamuni was not responsible for any false establishment which came after him.

Jesus chose to challenge the false social establishment of his society, rather than simply enjoying his truthful attainment.
In his own way, he interpreted the natural truth:

The sky (god) is my father.
The earth (god) is my mother.
All people are my brothers and sisters.
My life seeks to be with the way, the great Mother of Universal Nature.

He was not responsible either for the false religion that came after him.

Mohammed chose to be inspired by the way that the Universal Spiritual Truth has no particular images or names, rather than bending to the confused idol worship of the many tribes.
He chose the name A-RA, expressed today as "Allah", establishing the sun as the central image of his new social order.
Mohammed was not responsible either for the dilution of his message, which happened after his time.

The high attainment of these great spiritual identities may be expressed simply:

Lao Tzu: "Moral wisdom takes no advantage of the underdeveloped, but helps them."
Sakyamuni: "The divine soul empties out the self."
Jesus: "Nature and life are closely related, as parent and child."
Mohammed: "The truth of the universe is formless, imageless and nameless."

People who learn from these sages can express their lessons through their lives:

People who learn from Lao Tzu should value the moral nature of life above all else.
People who learn from Sakyamuni should practice the void of self.
People who learn from Jesus should befriend the sky, the earth and all people.
People who learn from Mohammed should hold on to no formality, no image, and no name, staying instead with unity.

In this way, we directly experience the natural truth.

The religious establishment that followed these truthful realizations has diluted and altered them, deviating from their truth. Instead, they use them to be supported by others.
Therefore:

Taoist priests are those who deviate from the teaching of Lao Tzu,
Buddhist monks are those who deviate from the teaching of Sakyamuni,
Christian priests are those who deviate from the teaching of Jesus,
And Islamic priests are those who deviate from the teaching of Mohammed.

Practicing the highest spiritual quality means acting gallantly from a clear moral choice.
It goes beyond all considerations of personal safety and support.
When the conscience of people sits on their throne of life, divine considerations receive first priority.
This is the highest spiritual quality.

Praise to the great examples of moral courage given by Lao Tzu, Sakyamuni, Jesus and Mohammed.
All those who follow their moral motivation, rather than accepting the interpretations of others, give a similar example.
They are not confused by the social forces of their time, by the superstitions of people, or by the herding force of social customs and rituals.
In their behavior they show that they clearly perceive and deeply appreciate the natural spirit of life.

The sky is my father,
The Earth is my mother,
All people are my brothers and sisters.
With the support and protection of all gods and deities,
And the achieved human ancestors,
I enjoy living in the bosom of the Great Mother of all Universes.

The Universal Mother embraces all ways of personifying god.
The Universal Mother embraces all high truth.
The Universal Mother embraces all divinity, all truth, all beauty and all goodness.

Hail to the Universal Mother who gives birth to all beings, as well as all non-beings!
Hail to the Universal Mother who gives birth to all things, as well as to nothing!
The void of nothing gives rise to all things. It is the beginning of all life and natural phenomena.

Hail to the Universal Mother!
You are the Great Life of all.
Thus you are imbued with the sense of being.
You are the source and origin of all life.

Hail to the Universal Mother!
You give birth to divinity.
You also give birth to ordinary life.
In your work, you look for no reward.

Who else can achieve this?
Most of the mothers on Earth show the right example.
The dutiful mother on earth carries the virtue of the Universal Mother.
She fulfills the virtue of the Universal Mother on earth.

Hail to the Universal Mother!
Your high morality is seen through the fulfillment of the mothers on earth.
I have respect for all mothers on earth.

Conscious energy can be the master of life, and it can be developed further.
Do we keep riding endlessly on the meaningless treadmill, or do we awaken from the lower sphere of cyclic mechanical action?
After many stages and lifetimes, it is possible to become more than an animal without a tail.
All life and matter are different expressions of Mother Nature.
One who lives life in harmony with Mother Nature lives with a high consciousness of life.
In this state of harmony, life challenges the authority of death.
Human life has great potential for development within nature.

With your light, human beings may know that spiritual faith can change their lives.
Most animals just accept the limitations of their form, but high consciousness makes it possible to go beyond such limitations.

Even a black crow-like being can transform into a beautiful phoenix.
The being of a small snake can give rise to an enormous dragon.
Those who cultivate the spiritual faith of eternal life, will learn the simple fact of the natural transformation and beyond.
They have to examine all the limitations that can be false.
Natural limitations, though, may be seen in physical forms, such as the process of life and death.
However, the natural potential of human life is complete and free, and that potential can place us above the laws of physical transformation, after attaining spiritual achievement.
People who stay in the low sphere of personality, with its rough character, do so of their own choice.
People who do not abuse their life, can appreciate the opportunity of life as a human being.

Universal Mother, you provide us with form.
You also provide us with the highest form of power, conscious energy.
Without this conscious energy, we would be like a worm with a naked body.
Instead, you give us conscious power.
Without this high conscious energy that helps us to see ourselves, we would merely eat, sleep, have sex, and fight.
This conscious power enables us to go beyond the level of beasts, and to ascend to the high light.

Some people abuse and poison their opportunity to be part of the high life.
They may lose the vision of what is possible in themselves, while they busily run after merely external pursuits.
May they come to see the value of their natural life, which is innate within their natural spiritual potential.
Then they will be spiritually able to transform their own self.

Nature is immortal, though the form is mortal.
Spiritual evolution can be enhanced.
The resolution of soul energy can shape itself differently.

Being gallant, is a clear moral choice, and can be the highest spiritual quality.

When personal safety is beyond consideration, the consciousness of people is then imbued with divinity.

With the full attention of a humble life, mastery of life may be attained.
Death can be managed, as a few achieved ones have shown, and such achievement may be realized.

Formed life has limitations, but the unformed sphere of life is without limitations.
Though it may receive the influence of the lower spheres of life, any contamination can be removed and the purity can be restored.

For some, there is eternal life.
These people are able to achieve truth, beauty and goodness.
For others, there is eternal darkness.
They dwell in the abyss.

Universal Mother, through my humble prayer, may people awaken to the preciousness of life, which is a divine opportunity to become higher and better.

You are the source and origin of all life.
You are within everything.
You are also detached from everything.
You are being, and you are non-being.
You are the object, and you are nothing.
Dear Mother, I love you with all my heart.

The sky is my father,
The Earth is my mother,
All people are my brothers and sisters.
With the support and protection of all gods and deities,
And the achieved human ancestors,
I enjoy living in the bosom of the Great Mother of all Universes.

Now I am at the seaside.
The roar of ocean waves dispels the city noise that I carry within.
The turquoise ocean cleanses my bodily life.
The fast changing weather energizes my vitality.
The natural world and the helpful kindness of friends are an expression of your endless beauty.

Thank you, Mother!

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