If you make a sincere vow or commitment to help our troubled world in some way or another and really mean it, your life will change –sometimes quite dramatically- and the universe will shift on its axis to assist you in your mighty task.
Many Buddhist practitioners take a Bodhisattva Vow at some point on their path. When you take a Bodhisattva Vow, you commit to assisting all sentient beings to liberate themselves completely from all suffering. This is a truly mighty vow, so if you do take it, you better be serious about it!
How can you possibly assist others to transcend suffering, if you have not yet transcended your own suffering? How can you assist others to be peaceful or joyful, if you have not yet mastered the art of happiness for yourself? You have to ‘be it’ first, before you can assist others to ‘become it’ – whether that ‘it’ is health, happiness, abundance, or enlightenment.
If you take a Bodhisattva Vow, or any kind of vow to selflessly assist suffering humanity, be aware that your whole life will probably be turned upside down, as all the dross in your system is miraculously burnt away, until you are nothing but pure gold, or pure love and light extending through a physical body for a while. You also need to acquire so much esoteric knowledge and high level skills to fulfil a Bodhisattva Vow, or a similar type of vow.
Once you make a vow like this, the universe will find a way to burn away all of your pride, jealousy, and self-centred attachments – and it is highly unlikely that you will find this process comfortable, or pain-free!
If you commit to becoming a genuine, selfless light-worker of any kind in this world, the whole universe has to bow down to train you to hold nothing but pure love and light in your mind and heart. To reach this very advanced level of human consciousness, you first have to learn to liberate yourself from all egoic entrapment, and so you have to voluntarily go through a pretty challenging and even painful purification process.
If you cannot fulfil your vow this lifetime, you may well have to come back here to try to fulfil it in another lifetime. Another lifetime in which you will have to go through further purification and more intense training, which you will probably experience as pretty challenging at times.
If you are now inspired to help others by teaching Infinite Tai Chi, please be aware that it takes time and a lot of practice to become an outstanding ITC teacher, and to cultivate a really inspiring teacher presence. This simply cannot happen overnight. It takes time and a lot of effort to move through all Five Stages of the ITC Form with true grace, power, beauty and peace. But teaching the Five Stages to others is the very best way to really deepen into your Infinite Tai Chi mastery.
We are really preparing graduates of this Course to run ITC classes so that individuals can experience true love, light and peace. But if you advertised your classes like this, very few people would probably turn up because it sounds too weird. So, you just advertise that you are teaching Infinite Tai Chi for Health and Vitality, or Health and Well-Being, and students will come. Then, as you keep teaching, you will grow so much alongside your students, some of whom will be incredibly keen and supportive, and a few of whom may be quite challenging!
Do not go out to teach Infinite Tai Ci to earn money. Do it because you can. What does this mean? It means you go out to spread love, peace and light because you have begun to embody these eternal soul qualities. In the past, I could not do this very effectively or skilfully, but now I can. Am I arrogant? Not at all! But after 30 years of teaching the Infinite Arts, I have acquired so many advanced teaching skills. Now I still keep going out to teach, not to earn more money, but so that I can keep sharing more and more higher light, peace and love.
We do not teach what we know. We actually teach or demonstrate what we are. If this does not make much sense to you yet, one day it will. If your mind and heart are filled with peace, you automatically teach peace. If you are dwelling in Love’s Presence, you automatically teach the true meaning of love to others, without saying or doing anything!
You have to be love to teach love, you have to be totally peaceful to teach peace, and you have to be empowered to teach empowerment.