Buddhist Guide to Manifest Parallel Realities

Chapter 1

Noble Truth #1: Life is Suffering

“The mind is everything. What you think you become.” –Siddhartha Gautama

In Buddhist concepts of suffering, it is the measurement of pain. Suffering can be understood as a variety of things we measure. Still, in all, it is relevant to the slow aging process of practically everything in this reality and the emotion associated with an experience. Life is not without suffering, but we can choose to live with less pain in this journey. Plain and straightforward, suffering is pain.

Suffering is Physical Pain

Living is a slow aging process that over time the slow aging process of years of usage and degeneration of the body brings on growing pains. These pains such as aching backs, tired knees, failed organs, and many other forms of the body's slow deterioration are tell-tale signs of suffering that the body is communicating to the host soul as pain. The pains felt are how many people use to measure how their body is aging compared to before they started to feel such growing pains. A great example of physical pain all of us feel is stress.

When someone is highly stressed out from taking on more than their body can handle, then their body starts to show the pains of induced stress. From my observation, stress can cause illness, such as weakening people’s immune systems and making them more susceptible to catching colds and flu cases more quickly. It can prolong the recovery time. Stress can show in cosmetic ways by bringing on hair loss, acne and turning your hair gray. It even can bring on migraines, neck pain, and a variety of other physical ailments. Stress even brings on mood swings and short temperaments that charge emotions.

Charging these emotions with toxicity brings on a response by the universe of more of the same. I’ve observed people age physically at much accelerated rates on people who live very stressful lifestyles. Some at 40 years old can look 15 years or older than they should be. Simultaneously, someone who is the same age who lives with less stress and manages their stress better has aged much slower and looks much younger than their age states on their driver’s license. Every moment is filled with choices. These choices can be of ease and synchronicity or filled with hardships and stress. There is a give and take in all our choices. The cause and effect of such decisions produce the pain seen and felt in the physical.

Suffering is Emotional Pain

Pain is also felt on an emotional level. Throughout our lifetime, or as many Buddhists believe in reincarnation, many lifetimes. Once we are born into this chosen life, we begin our lessons towards spiritual evolution by participating in a series of experiences that bring emotional dramas. The emotion felt in all experiences by people is the way the universe measures growth. Emotion is the energy that the universe measures. People radiate an aura that records their spiritual level of consciousness. When someone experiences something starting from their infant life experiences, it produces an emotion.

For many infants, hugging and embrace from their parents evoke an emotion of safety and love. As a result, infants who feel these emotions flourish faster than infants who do not get much affection. On the flip side, many people also start feeling the 1st taste of negative emotion that they have to process when they are rejected, hungry, or a series of other experiences that do not produce that loving feeling that infants recognize. These are the beginning experiences that induce a set of emotions that babies begin to grow from.

As we mature over our lifetimes, these loving and non-loving emotions become more sophisticated and complicated. The person experienced more depth in their interactions with other people and the physical environment they live in. To understand this, “emotion” is best recognized as the movement of energy. Remember, emotion is the only measurement that the universe can measure in someone. Their progress in learning from the experience is the building block of the next set of experiences that person is manifesting. People cannot escape negative emotions. The human experience is one of polarity.

To learn the positive lesson, the person must have experience in what the adverse outcomes could be. For some, other people’s negative experience is enough to learn from. For many others, they must have first-hand pain associated with the experience to indeed have the muscle memory of the effects of the negative memory burnt into their psychology. How someone deals with those negative emotions and resolves issues becomes the foundation of the negative experience that shows if they have learned what they need to.

It may also limit the number of negative experiences they project for themselves or show that they need more of the same types of incidents or even worst experiences to learn from. The universe is always gauging how much of the lesson this person needs and can handle to learn the lesson. The universe is unbiased to positive and negative emotions. It just responds to what you send out and gives you more of it.

Understanding the basics of suffering will significantly help you know how you, as a co-creator with the universe, manifest your experiences to learn from. Remember, every experience has emotion. The positive emotions do not age you as much physically and do not get weighed by time. Time flies much faster when you are happy and having fun compared to unhappy and not having fun. Negative emotions are the toxic energy you send out to the universe that ages you physically and slows time.

You cannot escape suffering as life itself has its own set of experiences with some pain. It is designed to help you see your choices and make better choices to reduce the amount of suffering pain you feel and live more in joy. I will expand on the techniques to address your suffering later in the book. For now, know that life is suffering and suffering is physical and emotional pain.

Chapter 2

Noble Truth #2: Attachment is the Cause of Suffering

“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.” 

-Siddhartha Gautama

Now that you understand the basics of suffering, you are ready to move to the next thing related to suffering. All suffering is caused by some attachment to what is not working for you in your lived experience. All attachments are forms. Forms come in many different shapes. It can be in the physical form of things, in the form of a pattern, in the form of expectations, in the form of an addiction to emotions, and many others which we create. I will explore these common types of forms.

This attachment to trying so many different ways to make something work for you and the result not getting it what you expect is causing your suffered pain. Addressing the source of the believed outcome you have that you are attached to will shorten the pain you suffer from continuing to live with this grieved attachment. Working on your dense issue will get you on your way to manifesting in a smoother process through synchronicity than through forced actions you can conceive of by yourself. I understand that there are experiences in life that are out of our control. This is a matter of your beliefs in reincarnation or not.

In Buddhism, the philosophy believes in reincarnation as a soul’s chosen pathway to try different lifetimes and situations that test its ability to learn and grow from those experiences. Some experiences are very troublesome, and many people question why a soul would choose such a perceived horrible experience. This again is up to the soul to resolve, and I would recommend seeking past life, life-between-life, and future life hypnotherapy to understand why a soul would choose such difficult experiences to learn from. For this book's purpose, I can offer the abbreviated reference on how to manifest using these techniques.

More profound answers to philosophical questions about your chosen incarnation and experiences are part of the life journey, and I would refer that those answers could be found in hypnotherapy. The source of the attachment and the resolution to address it will be explored in the Eightfold Path section of this book. For now, we will understand what attachments are and get a firm grasp of them. Now, let’s explore all the different attachments that I have observed. I’m sure once you get started in familiarizing yourself with this process, you can begin to uncover all the various attachments people come up with to cause self-induced suffering within their control.

Attachments are Addictions

Attachments themselves are a form of addiction. Understanding the source of why people are addicted to something is the beginning of living and projecting experiences correctly. Unfortunately, many people create experiences from unconscious addictions to an attached belief in themselves and what outcomes should be like. This attached addiction continues the cycle and is believed in Buddhism to repeat in karma lifetime after lifetime until the soul finally learns from the source of what is causing the attachment and begins to create appropriately. By doing this, they balance out their karma. In short, karma is a tool to reset unbalanced energy within the person.

Exploring the source of the attachment, resolving it, and moving forward to manifest correctly will balance the person's energy, and manifesting out of bad habits can be stopped. Once you understand attachments are addictions, you can see how people are addicted to drama. Some people live in and thrive in drama. If their lives are not filled with drama, then they will create it for themselves. The outcomes of dramatic melancholy are attention and support from intended parties, punishment and ridicule, feelings of self-worth, and various other emotions the person feels from this experience.

When someone is addicted, they are addicted to the emotion they feel in that high addiction. For example, drug addiction is an attachment to the temporary high which the user experiences, which evokes an illusion of love and positive vibes, while damaging the person’s body and livelihood in the meantime. The source of substance addiction is an attachment to the positive emotions the user feels when they are under the influence, they seem to think it only exists under the drug use and is not found in life. It’s an escape mechanism to addressing the source of their pain, either physically or emotionally. The struggle for recovered addicts is to continue to self-diagnose their life choices that make them susceptible to substance abuse and make better choices for themselves living a lifestyle free of the elements that reinforce substance abuse and surrounding themselves with a supportive environment living in the same clean manner.

Anyone who has ever gone through a 12-Step program for addiction of any kind knows it is not easy to live with a sponsor and keep yourself clear from your inclination to use again. If we had a coach to check us when we steer down the abusive path of attached addiction in life, many of us would not enjoy that level of self-reflection every day. Maybe this is why life coaches are growing as a profession. In short, drama queens suffer from self-created illusions of deprivation when they set-up experiences that create tension in their lives. They are addicted to drama.

Attachment to Expectations

Another standard attachment is an addiction to pre-conceived expectations. Many people have an image of how things are supposed to end up or what needs to happen to get what they wanted out of the experience. Often, these expectations are from comparing the results of what others have obtained from similar experiences. If they pursued a relationship, a career, a friendship, a regiment, and so many other things people seek and it does not turn out as they expected, then they get upset.

It’s not the experience they are upset with, but the failed expectations they had held at the beginning of the decision to enter into that situation that they had that did not fulfill what they thought was going to happen. So, many people try many different avenues in the same experience to get a new outcome hoping that a new outcome will occur. Suppose it doesn’t result in what they wanted initially. In that case, they are disappointed, and they create the emotional energy of lack, dismay, anger, and many other negative emotions they feel about the failed outcome. The person has been unable to understand that you must decide and make the needed actions towards the desired experience and then let go of your attachments to how the outcome should be like.

This removed any negative energy you create in the form of emotions that send out hesitation, pause, waiting, longing, and any other emotions relating to holding a thought for an expected outcome. This is the energy the person sends out, and no wonder they get more stop signs and pauses on their experience aside from a quick manifestation. When you let go of the attached outcome you expect and let the universe set things up for you, it will send the fastest set of events that fall right into the path you needed to take to get to the outcome for the original decision you choose. You will be surprised that the result the universe delivers is often much more desirable and more accessible than you could ever come up with on your own.

There could be a reason why you didn’t get that opportunity because a better opportunity was in line for you. The closed-door could also have prevented you from a bad experience. If you are co-creating with the universe, then the universe will put things in place that are more effortless for you to do at the right time and place. You have to be in the state of mind to be open to seeing it when it happens and take action on it. If you hold onto an expectation, then you are closing off on the many ways and shorter ways you can get to the desired experience.

Attachment to Form

Attachments to forms are a widespread one. If you look at your life and many people's lives, you will see we all have a routine in everything we do. We have grown accustomed to that pattern, and it becomes a habitual behavior after we repeat it long enough. When these patterns are disturbed and change, many of us will deal with them differently. The thing is, we need to accept that change is the only constant thing.

In Buddhism, one of the basic exercises they do is draw very elaborately, beautiful mandalas with sand that takes a long time to achieve and then destroy it to show you are attached to the form that resulted from the work. People get disappointed and sad when they destroy it, but it is a very effective exercise to show how easily we are attached to form. On a deeper level, the form can only exist when time is measured. In Buddhism, we call this plank time. Every second of a person moving is like a slide show that documents a series of movements. You take one slice of the moment, and you have the person's form in a position. You put the sequence of movements together, and you have the action of walking.

The gathering of form in action is time, and that’s how we measure the progress we make to see ourselves making the decisions we made for personal growth. In essence, time is a self-created concept for measurement in this dimension. When you understand the attachment to form, you begin to realize that time does not exist and all things exist simultaneously. When you review a decision in your life in relation to time, you can feel appreciation, resentment, despair, growth, and many other emotions that help your soul learn.

Here’s the kicker, the soul is energy, and energy does not cease to exist. It will just change form. Your soul is an energy that has consciousness. Energy is equal to consciousness. So, you can’t feed the soul a cheeseburger, and it will be happy forever. What feed infinite energy are growth, joy, satisfaction, and various ways we can label the emotion of love. Your soul wants to realize and feel more of itself. Your soul wants to exist in the energy of love. The energy of love permeates in the spirit world and exists in the physical world, and it wants to feel that energy as well through your personal, spiritual growth that these life lessons offer.

All negative emotions are just a tool to help you understand your lack of love and push you to address the core issues of attachment causing you to suffer pain to return to a state of living in love. The only emotion that is real is love. In Buddhism, the universe, or as many religions call God is love. Everything is love, and there is nothing but love. All souls are a split of the divine consciousness. When you understand that energy can be isolated in small amounts and can be combined, then you can see that each soul is a sacred speck of the larger consciousness of the universe. This is what Buddhists call spiritual emptiness. The zero point is where we all come out of and where we all return. Every journey out of emptiness and returning into emptiness brings new insights for the whole. This is the meaning of oneness in terms of energy and the cosmos.

The individual experience is for spiritual growth, and that spiritual growth is reviewed by the soul when integrated back into nirvana, where one consciousness resides. As made in the image of one consciousness, you can create anyway you want. This is all an exercise to rediscover love, which is the only energy that exists. In Buddhism, there is a mythological belief in some cultures in Lombardo, which is a form of so-call hell. Still, when the user understands the attachments to form that brings them to create such as illusion, the illusion disappears, and there is nothing but consciousness or God however you want to understand it. There is nothing but love. Another typical pattern that people are attached to is a pattern for a relationship. They have enjoyed a friendship, romantic relationship, familial relationship, or a career pattern for a certain way for a long time.

Suddenly it seems that the relationship has changed, and that pattern no longer exists. Change has happened, and many people deal with change differently. They try to push for the old pattern to return or adapt to it or move on from it. It is best to enjoy every moment of a pattern you like and be grateful for it with the change. When changes happen, access the attachment that is causing your suffering and begin to create new experiences. Accepting what is and letting go of what hasn’t worked is adaptation. These techniques of acceptance and letting go will be explored further in the application section of the book.

Attachment to Things

Attachments to things are one of the forms that many people can understand easily. Things are already a physical form. People get attached to cars, houses, body image, hair, and so many other physical forms. These forms are energy put together to create a shape that functions for an intended purpose. For instance, a car is for transportation, as is using your body to walk. When a vehicle is no longer needed, the physical parts can be melted down into the bare minerals and reshaped into other things.

Those minerals are all open spaces in the molecules on a granular level, and the only thing existing is the energy holding those elements together to maintain that molecule. The same concept goes to all physical forms. More luxurious cars and houses, for example, are products of more elaborate forms that people place a perceived value on.

Chapter 3

Noble Truth #3: Insight Removes the Cause of Suffering

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”–Siddhartha Gautama

The issues that continue to surface in our everyday lives are the effect of what we are projecting out of ourselves. In Buddhism, the foundations for reality as a mirror of our projections are based on the concept of cause and effect. You, the co-creator of your existence, are the cause. Everything and everyone else mirroring back your projections is sheer manifestations of your beliefs about yourself and life. In essence, the reality you interact with is the effect you, yourself, caused. You are the cause, and everything outside of you is the effect.

What prevents people from fully understanding how and what steps they choose that got them into the dilemmas they suffer from arises from a lack of subconscious, limited, or refusal to gain insight into the causes of their suffering. When you break down the matrix of your illusions to get an honest assessment of how things transpired, then you see where and why you choose to make the decisions you did that lead up to the situations you suffer from currently. Insight, my friend, is not always kind to your ego. Your ego will push away the cruel and honest truth, create lies, and prevent only a limited portrayal of the elements that make up your conundrum. When you check your ego and assess the situation from all points, then the only thing that remains is the essential elements of the hard truth of your reality you created for yourself.

You will continue to manifest much of the same hardships and struggles until you realize the nature of your view of yourself. Your ability to use the projections in your life experiences as living mirrors of your belief about yourself and what lessons you need to learn from such experience are replayed repeatedly until fully acknowledged. You can read all the books you want. You can chant all the hymns and mantras you see. You can align yourself with all the spiritual rhetoric and religious dogma you seek. However, until you live and learn to manifest correctly from within yourself, then your external reality will only return more of what you send out over and over again. One karmic lesson to another to another. Lifetime after lifetime. It is up to you to stop the endless cycle of manifesting more pain and suffering for you to learn from.

Once you learn to create properly, you can limit the pain you suffer and shorten the learning curve by manifesting smoother and more quickly. The extra steps are just teaching tools you needed to learn to get to the final phase of that desired experience. Some people do not require additional steps to get to the same outcome because they already realized what they needed earlier. There is no end to your journey as when you complete one journey, and then you begin another journey at a different level.

Insight into your reality's nature is what your soul desires you to know so you can halt the repeatable suffering. As I said before, you are the cause, and everything else outside of you is the effect. Since insight removes the cause of the suffering, then insight to see that you are standing in your progress by manifesting your subconscious beliefs about yourself and the world you experience. You embody the world you experience on a daily and localize level. Still, as your consciousness is also part of collective consciousness in this shared-world reality, you are a piece of the collective whole projecting your combined view of reality.

As you begin to understand how you create your holographic reality from within your consciousness, you will become more aware of your surroundings and the subtle changes that occur in the same people and environment you interact with. I’m not a scientist, but I have learned from my understanding of using Buddhist principles to manifest with. When you change your view of a specific situation by accessing it and gaining insight into it, you change your energy.

Since the universe can only communicate in terms of energy and vibration, by gaining insight into your manifestation, you change your energy frequency from lower, slower vibrations of confusion, frustration, and sadness to higher and faster vibrations of joy love for life. According to the concepts, the change in energy from your human aura changes the reality that mirrors your beliefs you’re projecting out.

You are moving your self-aware consciousness from your body in this reality into another body you have in another existing parallel reality that is already vibrating at that higher frequency. This is what Buddha meant when he explains how reality is a mirror of your thoughts. All people you interact with and all environments have parallel versions in all realities. With that, there is no need to save anyone other than you from yourself. Once you jump from one reality to another and begin to notice slight differences in people and the environment, your challenge is to adapt and continue to co-create with the universe, a more enriching experience you desire to live through. So, insight does remove your self-created suffering.

Chapter 4

Noble Truth #4: Living the Eightfold Path Ends Suffering

“He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.”–Siddhartha Gautama

Life is for the living of it. To exist and not live to your fullest potential by creating the best life you get to experience is just passing the time. People can feel much burden by all the baggage they have accumulated over their life and many lifetimes from excessive garbage they self-created and live with as manifestations of their projections from within appear and often reappear. No wonder many people get so tired of living and want to check out. The option of suicide puts you back on the karma wheel to balance out your old, acquired lessons not learned.

In essence, you are trying to balance out old, blocked energy that you have not accepted and let go of the previously held attachments. The Eightfold Path is a set of principles that can help you gain insight into how and the instructional purpose behind why you created the manifested reality you experience. Once learned, you can also use these principles to manifest more enriching experiences that you prefer to interact in. My understanding and practice of living with these principles reinforce the notion of cause and effect. Most of the delusions we experience and the pain associated with it is due to people trying to change the effect and not themselves, who are the cause of their external environment.

Now, we get back to the concept of reincarnation a little bit here. The Eightfold Path cannot eliminate set life experiences your soul had initially designed for you to experience as part of the life experiences to learn from when you organized it in the spirit world before incarnation. The parents you choose, the race you choose, the culture you choose, the status you choose, the appearance and health you select, and so many other elements about your incarnation are something you decide to have. You choose to have the form you needed as appropriate equipment for playing out the role and roles you intended to participate in for your overall soul’s growth and evolution.

Think of it like this. If you want to learn what it’s like to scuba dive, you need to have the right equipment and be in the right location to do the diving lesson. Life is just like that. I continue to recommend past life, life-between-life, and future life hypnotherapy if you need a more in-depth analysis of why you choose the life you experience. The Eightfold Path is just a set of principles for helping manifest in everyday activities for those unfixed elements of your flexible life.

As I’ve mentioned in Noble Truth #1, life is suffering, and I expand on this concept further to explain that suffering is pain felt either physically or emotionally. The Eightfold Path lived can reduce how much suffering you endure. Unfortunately, you can’t eliminate suffering because life itself is not without suffering. There will be pain associated with aging. It is part of the human experience. In some situations, you can end the suffering by learning the lesson. The pain felt in different aspects of life is a reminder that you have accumulated tension by not knowing why you created the pain you feel today.

Most lessons are learned through pain. The most challenging life lessons are the most painful, and that pain is burned into our muscle memory and psychology. As creatures of habit and pattern, many people forget the bitter lesson, and when things get good again, go back to starting a new way to repeat the same old life lesson to relearn again. Life is a mirror. If you see something that reminds you of a task you supposedly learned, then take it as a reminder. Noticing signs like a stop sign is a reminder to look before proceeding to avoid any potential accidents. Learn the lesson and try not to repeat it. Once you address the lack of insight that reduces the suffering you feel, you will start manifesting more consciously by moving forward in living the Eightfold Path.

As a conscious and more self-aware co-creator of your reality, you will live in more harmony and peace with the flow of life and suffer much less than how you used to manifest experiences. The effects that you cause will surprise and delight you in how much easier it is to notice opportunities related to what you like to act on. Acting on such options will be effortless and enjoyable. That joy will make time fly by and age you much less because you have a great time manifesting consciously. If a roadblock occurs, then you know how to access it using the Eightfold Path.

Chapter 5

Eightfold Path

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”–Siddhartha Gautama

The Eightfold Path is quite simple to grasp. When you understand them, you will wonder, “Duh! I already know this.” So the real question is, why aren’t you using it every day? The Eightfold Path application will be examined later, but for now, let’s go over the basics of what I understand the principles to be. Everyone will have a slightly different interpretation, and that’s just a matter of syntax. These are my simplified understanding of it, and it has worked for me in manifesting the reality that matches the frequency I project from within myself.

Correct Thought

Correct thought is to be self-aware of the thought you are thinking about. When you notice a thought that does not resonate with how you truly feel about something or someone, correct it. Uncorrected thoughts fester and build into more extensive uncorrected thoughts. When those thoughts produce a situation in your outer experience that reflects your thoughts you have held for a while, you see that to which you have thought. Many people go about their having many thoughts, and many of them are random such as what is on my to-do list, what will I eat, etc. Our minds are clogged with random thoughts, and we are stressing out our minds with all the jargon we put in it.

Write out your to-do list or thoughts and get them out of your head, so your mind is free of clutter. When a random thought comes up inspired by your experience, an advertisement you saw, or a conversation you had, it does not resonate with you, and then reject the thought as not a belief you want to hold onto. For example, if you see an advertisement that suggests prejudice and offends you, don’t just let that thought sit in your head to become a belief you hold. If you agree with it and it is something you are okay with, keep it in your head. If it is a thought that makes you uncomfortable, then reject it as an incorrect thought and acknowledge it is not something you agree with and believe. Accessing it at its source will not sprout into an underlying incorrect thought capable of mounting into a serial manifestation. If you want to go further, then speak your opinion about that subject to the advertisement's correct originator. Over time, you won’t need to do a lot of accessing and policing your thoughts because you will have developed a habitual way of noticing thoughts you don’t like and rejecting them as not yours to have. The good news is that many people have positive and happy thoughts all day long. So it would be best if you didn’t have to reject incorrect thoughts very often.

Correct Speech

Correct speech is talking with the right words that match your actions. Many people can become frustrated with their reality because they say that they are saying the suitable mantras and speaking the right things. Yet, the reality is not matching what they say. The thing is, your speech and the words you choose to speak out loud must match the actions and emotions you emanate. If you say you love someone and at the same time, you do something hurtful to that person and feel anger towards them if they do not so as you please, then you are not using the correct speech that matches what actions and emotions you are sending out. The correct speech would be to say you do not want to have any connection with that person.

That would match the emotion of anger and the hurt you are doing to them, which would cause a disconnect to occur. If you genuinely want to have a loving relationship with that person, you would say you love them, and a matching action would be to love them enough to accept them as they are and not shelter them from the harm they created for themselves to learn from. You would send well wishes and let them know that you will be happy to help them if they meet you halfway and help themselves, but if not, you can only offer them good sentiments and well wishes.

Correct speech is not just saying and acting in sync. It is also providing a disclaimer to your actions, so people understand the reasoning behind it. Love is not always about rescuing and helping people out. It allows people to fail if they continue to seek a more challenging path to enlightenment and be there to help pick them up when they are willing to start to help themselves and meet you halfway. To have reality be in matching frequency to the version of you that’s projected, you must send out clear instructions.

If you are saying one thing and doing another, you send out mixed messages and get a little-confused result back. I like to give the analogy that if you say you want chocolate ice cream and stand in the vanilla ice cream line, don’t be surprised if the cashier serves you a chocolate-vanilla swirl ice cream to appease your confusing instructions. That’s how the universe works.

Correct Actions

The common saying, I have heard is that actions are louder than words. That is true. You can say all the best prayers, sing all the hymns and praises, and repeat all the suitable mantras you want, but if you don’t back it up with the same action, then the words are cheap. For instance, if you say you want to lose weight but do not regularly exercise and live an active lifestyle, you will not become healthy. Again, if you say you want a happy marriage but complain and argue often, you act against the words you choose to speak. It’s as simple as that. Act following what you say you want. Act clearly.

Correct Livelihood

Correct livelihood is the act of living following the reality you want to be part of. You can only really control yourself and no one else. Suppose you will live a healthy lifestyle where you are fitter and suffer a less weight-related illness. In that case, you need to change the belief system that enables you to live a lifestyle that puts out an unhealthy environment. For instance, if you want to be healthy, then your lifestyle is one where you are actively walking, playing sports, eating smaller portions, and eating less fattening foods. These lifestyle choices are a match to a healthier version of you.

You can’t say you are a healthy person if you continue to eat fattening foods often, do not do much physical activity, and continue to live out the bad habits you have about yourself fuel binge eating. Once you complete the matrix of illusion worksheet in this book to uncover the source of the stress in your life that causes binge eating, you'll understand why you feel a lack of self-worth. You can begin to change your core beliefs about yourself and begin to change the lifestyle choices that cause the issues you are experiencing in your environment.

For example, Alcoholics Anonymous participants who go through their kitchen cabinets and throw away all their alcohol when they want to clean up have realized that the core issue to their alcohol abuse is escapism from dealing with the stress of life and the feelings of inadequacies. They will empty their pantry of junk foods for a binge and stress eater when they are ready to eat healthier.

What they are doing is resetting their lifestyle. By changing the different aspects of the lifestyle you exist in, you change every little action that makes up a lifestyle. If you want to break it up into correct mini-steps, it would be preparing your meals in advance. You have healthy options, brief walks throughout the day, accepting invitations to work out or do physical activities after work, and choosing to eat smaller meals, etc. As you can see, all these small action steps become a lifestyle change. That is correct livelihood in a nutshell.

Correct Understanding

The correct understanding is simply seeing all aspects of the picture to get a comprehensive idea of why the situation is in its state. I often find that many people who are confused and frustrated by their reality in their chaos are due to a lack of perception. They choose to see what they want to or avoid seeing the issue from other perspectives to justify their positioning or are quick to conclude without the proper research. This lack of information and insight is the cause of much miscommunication.

For instance, say you are a parent of a disobedient child and do not understand why your child is acting like a spoiled child. As a parent, you begin to punish your child for an outburst and move on, but then the same issue occurs later. You punish the child again. The parent does not realize that they are only putting a Band-Aid on the child by punishing them, and the next time, the punishment has to be stronger and stronger because the child has become immune to the last form of rectification. If you take the time to understand how this attitude came about, discuss it with the child, and look at yourself as the cause, you will see that your child affects you as the cause.

You may have had a poor upbringing and decided to spoil your children with all the things and opportunities you did not have. By doing so, you sheltered your child from mistakes that they can learn from. The opportunity to work for what they enjoy is removed. The feeling of gratitude for building good work ethics and understanding the value of what they earn due to what they put in is removed. The ability to make a good character that other people outside of their family can appreciate in them is also removed. Sometimes, if you love them, you have to let them learn through challenging life lessons. Hanging out at the sidelines to offer suggestions and support when needed is best. However, reinforce that they need to go back in the game and complete the task.

When you begin to access yourself and how you had a hand in growing the spoiled “monster” you deal with now in this reality, then you can start to address your issues with deprivation and self-worth in yourself. You begin to have that honest conversation with your child that you will not shelter them from their mistakes but will do your best to provide them some wisdom and guidance. Hopefully, if they should fall, it won’t be as insufficient, and you will be there to support them if they pitch in and do their part. If you have that kind of conversation, then you won’t feel angry at your child for being the person you have raised them to be and start correcting your actions from then on.

So, by stopping the gravy train, you do yourself a favor and your child a favor so they can grow to be self-sufficient, successful people full of integrity and character that you want to hang out with when they’re adults. Another version of this limited insight in incorrect understanding is to short-sight yourself by not seeing your part fully in the picture. Let’s say your child is a grown-up person who has done a lot to try to have a relationship with you, but eventually, they gave up, or the relationship became strained. As a result, you blame them for not trying to have a relationship with you in your senior years.

When the camera is turned on the person to see where they have failed, I see a person who was not always there for their child growing up. This is someone who could not provide support, affection and manipulated their child for their gain. It was just a matter of time when that child grew up and focused their attention on their own life they created for themselves. I will get more into these types of examples in the Matrix of Delusion exercise.

The thing about parent and child relationships is that it’s not the adult child's responsibility to be a companion to their lonely parent. In contrast, it is not their grandparent’s responsibility to be that for their adult child. Inclusion into the child’s adult life is a privilege but not a requirement. If you love your child, then you will let them grow and watch them grow successfully. Smothering them and keeping them consistently in your grasp is sheltering them from living their lives and a selfish way of parenting. If that is your choice, then do not be angry at them for not having a thoroughly enriching life of their own separate from you. Your child is a reflection of your inner feelings about yourself. Again, you are the cause, and your child is the effect. Your child is the reflection in the pond that ripples when you look in it. If you want the picture of you to change when you look at the pond, you must change and not the pond. The pond will never change for you because reality is only a reflection of your perception.

Correct Effort

The correct effort is the motivation to move towards that which you say you want. You can say the right words towards the experience you wish to and do the action steps. Still, before doing any action, you must make an effort when the opportunities lead to the next steps towards manifesting that reality happens. For example, say you want to make more money to pay your bills. You say to others what you want to do. Still, unless you begin to apply for jobs you qualify for, take opportunities to apply for mentorship, possibly apply for additional job training through schooling. You are not doing your part to put out the effort to take advantage of sending out to the universe the message that you will work for opportunities to manifest this said outcome you desire. Some opportunities to take action may not even come unless you apply yourself. The correct effort is applying yourself and sending out the feelers and messages to the universe that you are committed to finding an opportunity to take action on.

Correct Concentration

Correct concentration is the ability to focus on the prize. Many people will want to experience many things, and as they make the journey to set in motion the items needed to complete the final result of a series of action steps they took, they get distracted. It is our easy ability to get distracted from our intended purpose that halts our progress. You must focus on what you want and stay focused on it. Any distractions you participate in are just reminders that you may not like what you say you want. For instance, many people want to go to school to get the skills and education they need to qualify for a better-paying job. Still, they are easily derailed from staying committed to their regimented studying schedule to instead focus their energy on getting caught up with opportunities to have fun or get caught up in the dramas of life. Life happens, and unfortunate things occur, but sometimes, it is best to compartmentalize your emotions and situation for a time and a place so you can stay focused on your studies.

When the school exercise is over, then they return to the drama affecting their life. This is an example that no matter what we want to experience in life, there will be many distractions. There are only 24 hours in a day, and anytime you refocus your attention on other things and other people’s dramas, you are stopping the living of your life and part-taking in the living of their life. You have to remember that if you are not living your life and consumed by other people’s dramas, how much of your life will you live?

There are drama queens who like to suck other people’s time and energy to amplify their misery instead of fixing it. If the drama does not involve you, then wish them the best with it and let them go to fix it themselves. Otherwise, you may be enabling them by trying to build them up instead of letting them build themselves up. The latter choice is often the one where the lesson is learned that benefits both people. Focus is the continued energy you put into staying on the path you choose so you can manifest your intended outcome.

Correct Mindfulness

Correct mindfulness is just being more aware of something and using that emotional intelligence to create your reality. For instance, if you noticed that your neighbor has a routine every time they mow their lawn, you have paid attention to that particular pattern. If you wanted to develop a neighborly friendship with your neighbor, then watch over each other’s homes. You will be to know this pattern that your neighbor exhibits and take an opportunity to water your plants simultaneously so you can acknowledge your neighbor by waving at him or her when they look up at you.

Building this routine creates a silent and comforting hospitality practice, which produces a bond of careful attention over each other’s homes. Instead of moving on with life in such a fast-paced manner, consider slowing down sometimes to observe the patterns surrounding you. Stop and smell the flowers that bloom. Wave and smile at people when they pass you. Take in all the subtle ways the universe is vibrating different wavelengths. Being mindful is being more conscious of those subtle patterns that make up life and noticing when subtle changes occur. When you see changes that are different from what you remember they once were due to being more observant of reality, you become a more conscious and self-aware person.

The ability to be mindful is your ability to recognize changes in your environment and realize you have quantum jumped into a new parallel reality. If you want to know what you did differently to move your consciousness into this version of you, then analyze what you recently did or interpret a situation you were dealing with differently. That change in perception is what changed the frequency your aura was vibrating at. Your aura is just your chakras, and changing the frequency is done by changing your consciousness about any particular thing you were working with. That’s how energy is transformed.

Here is an analogy to grasp how human energy changes frequency, which changes their parallel reality to one that is already pre-existing in their new frequency. We all know the emotion of anger. When we are angry, we feel enormous pressure to release it either physically or emotionally. If we try to make things happen while angry, things do not always work out because anger is a negative emotion.

All negative emotions have different qualities and function independently. That’s why people don’t want to join up with an angry and hostile person. In contrast, if you feel the emotion of acceptance, then nothing can upset you as you accept it is what it is. You don’t try to control it and make it something it is not. You work with what you got and make the best of it. When others come across you and like what you are doing, they may want to join you in your quest, and the energy of unity fuels more of itself. You can always add, but continued subtraction leads to zero.

The reason why is because positive emotions are the energy that combines and unifies. Positive emotions are, in essence, one emotion of love. All negative emotions are just reminders that you are off-balance. To defuse the underlying source of that suffering to balance out your energy again, you must access the source of your caused emotional quagmire. This act always returns you to the love energy that creates. In short, love energy creates, hate energy destroys. Negative energy exists as a polarity in our reality to help us make by seeing the two sides of our choices and deciding which path we want to create.

There is no right or wrong in Buddhism, just different choices that relate to cause and effect. Now when you change your emotions, which is energy in motion. Hence e-motion. You change the vibration level of your energy signature you send in motion. That’s how people radiate at different wavelengths. The more conscious and self-aware they are, the more complex and higher vibrating their energy signature will bring them to greater and greater creations of reality that have more possibilities to create. People who vibrate higher will raise other people’s energy out of default, like a fast spinning marble that bumps into other sitting marbles and gets them to move faster in the box. If the people do not want to be present with the higher vibrating person, they will not be present, leave or not communicate any longer.

Frequency is the nature of reality. If you vibrate higher, you jump into a higher dimension where more people of similar vibration will be. It’s simple metaphysics. My interpretation of the word “meta” is that it is a short term for “self” or a “reflection of self.” My interpretation of “physics” is the study of how things work. So, the study of “metaphysics” is the study of how you work and create. Here we are again, you are the cause, and everything else is the effect. You are the person who made the ripples in the pond that you look at. If you want to change the pond, then you must change the person looking into the pond. A mystic is mindful of the nature of reality and consciously creates from observing the patterns in their reality. Correct mindfulness is the act of being conscious of your surroundings and using them to create with.

Conclusion

“I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last.”-Siddhartha Gautama

As you may have noticed at the beginning of each chapter, I lead in with a quote from the founder of Buddhism, Siddhartha Gautama. Siddhartha tested out principles he observed in himself and others. He documented his research in the teachings of the Four Noble Truths and Eightfold Path. These teachings are also documented in visual aids in esoteric artwork about parallel realities and human auras, which shows that this knowledge was discovered by many teachers of the very distant past and present preserved in art.

As a lover of art though-out my whole life, I study esoteric artwork from indigenous civilizations that date even farther back than when Buddhism was documented as created in 500 B.C.E. In Siddhartha’s time, literacy and education were available to the wealthy or monks in monasteries. Many people would enter their children into monasteries for free education. As more and more Buddhism students became teachers, more documents from their 1st hand experience and knowledge got added to Buddhism's legacy.

These are the foundations of what has, over time, become the philosophy behind Buddhism. Different cultures and different people have studied it and interpreted the teachings to fit their lifestyle and cultures. Now, there are many other sects of Buddhism that exist today around the world. Some cultures have incorporated their cultural preferences to hold esteem for men over women in Buddhism, among other things, which shows that the ego of the person still needs to be addressed. No matter the different versions and cultures that adapt the basic principles to accompany their existing belief systems, the core Four Noble Truths and Eightfold Path remains.

Regardless, if the student is studying the principles for the 1st time or an experienced practitioner of the principles studies it again, the manifesting of parallel realities that are part of their everyday life journey is directed by their choices. Others' opinions about their level of enlightenment and ability to work with the matrix's energy are irrelevant. Many Buddhists believe that your soul’s spiritual level of advancement is based on your consciousness and the frequency of the human aura you vibrate. That vibration radiates two auras, which are the one above your head and the one around your body.

Everyone has a halo and a human energy field. The only difference is the frequency in which it vibrates, subject to the emotions it sends out based on the person’s choices that manifest the matching reality they live in. As I have said in the introduction, if you get anything out of this book, you are the cause, and everything exterior is the effect. You will only experience the effect that you the cause radiate at. That is the simple explanation of the popular image of many Buddhas with halos and a circular mandala around the person that you see in many Buddhist Mandalas artworks.

Buddha is a term used to describe an enlightened person or someone who has awakened to be conscious of their reality and how they manifest within it. It is believed that people are born into their human experience with a veil of forgetting the knowledge they have about the spirit world and the factors that relate to their chosen incarnation so that they can learn and grow from experiencing it firsthand. It is every Buddhist’s journey to awakening the Buddha within them. I believe similar artwork from much older civilizations depict the same interpretation I hold.

For me, my journey began when I was a baby. I was born into the Buddhist philosophy through my Laotian parents, who raised me with the best principles. They are far from perfect and often have issues to work through in their lifetime. Growing up in America as political asylum, my parents did their best to embrace cultural assimilation and respect the different faiths of people in America. They tried their best to raise Buddhist children while having missionaries from many religions try to convert them through making connections with their children through trying to help their kids. Missionaries are a concept that is unique to my parents.

In Laos, it is illegal to give religious materials to people if they did not seek them from you. The airport provides materials to travelers who tour Laos that it is not allowed to disseminate religious pamphlets to local civilians due to a cultural request to respect the people's heritage and respect their belief in Buddhism unless people directly ask for such materials. Such religious contraband will be confiscated if a missionary is found handing them out to people without permission.

All people are welcome, but be respectful of everyone’s incarnations. If they achieved anything from immigrating to America with a wide range of faith systems, it is that they instilled in me that people should accept you as you are. By not accepting your heritage as it is, they cannot practice “acceptance”, which is the core of other people’s suffering. If I understood “acceptance” and “letting go”, I would be much more successful than they have been regarding using Buddhism principles to manifest the life I want to live now. I do not want to wait for the next lifetime to live again in another cycle of reincarnation. My parents are life learners of letting go of the anger they hold for how things transpired and not accepting things that happened as they did, good or bad; learning from them, and moving forward is a lesson they continue to relearn in so many different ways.

With the best intentions, my parents always wanted my siblings and me to eventually become self-aware and conscious like the Buddhist artwork that adorns the temples we attended growing up in Seattle, WA. Ultimately, they wanted us to manifest a wonderful life for ourselves and advance so that we qualify to choose out of the many libraries of existence that we could only barely imagine when we decide to reincarnate the next time again.

As a child, I ran around the monastery during the temple. I looked at the pictures of enlightened Buddhas of all forms with their halos and Meta circles depicted around their bodies. I enjoyed the artwork at these monasteries of male Buddhas. I especially became fond of the famous Chinese female Buddha, Kwan Yin. Literacy is still a skill not often learned by many Buddhist practitioners in many 3rd world countries. Throughout the ages, the artwork is often used to show people the teachings of Buddhism to the poor and illiterate. I hope the literacy rate in 3rd world countries worldwide changes for the better.

I often thought about Buddhas' artworks that had parallel realities depicted of them rippling out into the ethers and wondered about the images of reincarnation. No one at the temple could explain the images to me besides be good, and maybe someday you will learn firsthand what those images you see in many Buddhist monasteries are talking about. I watched so many people come every weekend to the temple to pay their respects and get blessings from the monk’s chants. The monks would dose the holy water they chanted with that is supposed to make the water resonate at a higher frequency to help them better their lives.

Yet, no matter how many times they attended service and read the materials, I still saw people repeatedly repeat the same challenging lessons. They never really paid attention to what was discussed in the lectures or, like creatures of habit, never truly applied the principles in their own lives. I listened but dismissed much of the teachings until I can substantiate the philosophy for myself, as Siddhartha Gautama often explained. Siddhartha Gautama is renowned for asking his equal practitioners to test out the principles for themselves and not rely on faith alone. Buddhism is not a religion. It is a philosophy.

Finally, in my late 20’s I began to take a closer look at the Buddhist philosophy and apply the principles more actively. The evidence from Consciousness Studies and Quantum Physics started to pour out into the mainstream, and it triggered my memories of my Buddhist childhood. I began to research profound metaphysical evidence that the 14th Dalai Lama, Lhamo Dondrub, supported through his lectures and actively following the works of many esteemed Quantum Physicists and brain researchers worldwide. The new research done by many universities into the nature of reality through Consciousness Studies caught my interest.

As an information junkie, I read whatever I could on the field. I listened to all the materials I found from various Buddhist teachers online to compare my understanding from my lifetime of living in a Buddhist household to the new scientific research in Quantum Physics and Consciousness Studies. Now the artworks I pondered about growing up started to make sense to me finally.

So, I started to become more aware of my surroundings and pay attention to things. I began to declutter my life by removing people and things that clouded my vision with self-induced drama that took up a lot of my life by allowing me to become involved in their dramas, hoping that I helped them. I realized that everyone shifts into parallel realities, but many do it on auto-pilot because they're focused on their unconscious cycle of self-created dramas and often get distracted by other people's dramas. If I declutter my life, I become self-aware and stay more focused on how I manifest.

That's the difference between sleepwalking and being awake. Often, being involved in other people’s dramas where I was not part of just prevented me from really spending the 24 hours I have every day focusing on the things I wanted to manifest for myself. Now, I attentively listen to the issues people have and make genuine recommendations. Then, I purge myself of what I heard and choose not to be part of it by volunteering my time and energy to participate in fueling their drama by psychologically lending my attention and energy into their issues, which only fuels more of the distress them. I started to see that I was spending 2 hours here on someone’s problems and 3 hours there to do things to help them, and before I knew it, I spent half my day invested in their life issues and not involved in my own life.

I was emotionally exhausted by allowing myself to be the garbage dump for other people’s drama. I saw that much of my day was living other people’s lives and not mine. How much of my life am I living? When I realized, I was suffering by not accepting people as they are, and often these people create their suffering. I suffered by needing fulfillment in being the hero to other people who often manifest new dramas afterward. I realized that some people are addicted to suffering as they thrive in getting rescued by others, and I was not helping them at all by enabling them to continue to be the victim of their circumstances. If I truly loved them, then I must love them enough to let them fall so they can pick themselves up. I help where I can, and if it is shown that I need to remove myself from associating with such people who use good people as a crutch not to help themselves, then I politely exit the stage and cheer them on from afar.

I stopped feeling guilty for not spending much of my time helping people who seem to have issues in their lives. After further inspection, many melodramatic people often self-induced themselves over a series of decisions that they made that compounded upon one another. It leads to the outcome they are crying for help about. Like a drug, I was pacifying their pain. When I stopped helping them repeatedly, they finally felt the pain, and some start to tend to their wounds, and some wouldn’t because they have not hit their bottom yet. Even if my loved ones became even more self-destructive without constantly trying to help them and pushing solutions on them, I learned to separate myself from their dramas. I learned not to let them guilt me into continuing to enable their bad habits by being their crutch that they can always rely on to rescue them. Some people do not learn and become a sad story for others to learn from.

Many other people eventually learn from a life of hard knocks because they finally burned all their bridges with people. When they got their lives together, even those people no longer wanted much a relationship rekindled with them. With the new lessons learned, these people build new bridges and relationships. Many had such horrific experiences that are burned into their psyche and, as a result, build better relationships and take more accountability for their life for the better. That realization was when I started to live my life and manifest the reality I wanted to engage in without guilt for being successful in the pursuits I worked at. That was the first major lesson I learned that changed my reality that I am self-aware of.

When I started to practice being conscious of the choices I make and taking note of changes in my environment that were different from how I remembered them before, I noticed a difference. I began to diagnose what I changed my perspective that I was dealing with recently before the changed reality happened. When I started to do that exercise, I experienced firsthand how my decisions and actions about anything I was working on in my personal life, my work life, my artistic hobbies, and my relationships. It shaped the experiential reality I live in.

My life was becoming the artwork that I studied in my childhood. At first, it was hard to accept the new realities I was manifesting into as things, and people changed or did not exist. I eventually realized that we all live in our holodecks. My consciousness instantly moved into another version of myself that pre-existed in the new higher or lower-level parallel reality. I continue to integrate and accept everyone as they are and take them seriously, no matter how much changed. If I spoke to someone who remembers something different from how I remembered it, I asked them to explain what happened, and I just winged it and went along with it if it suited me or I choose not to go along with it. The decisions I make continue to move me into different parallel realities that are higher or lower based on my decisions. I access and reassess my reality and tweak my perspective as I move forward in life.

As a result of becoming more conscious of how my decisions affect the reality I exist in, I noticed that my dormant 6th senses started to get activated. I began to wonder about that. I asked a monk at one of my mother’s Buddhist temples she attends, and he said that if I have a gift and use that against people for my gain, then I would not continue to grow spiritually as I am letting my gifts become accessories to feeding a growing ego that likes to use the new skills I acquired to get adoring followers and possibly admiration from others. It would be like a tall person who could easily reach for fruit that was much higher up on the tree to help someone who is shorter and could not reach the hanging fruit.

This tall person's other choice is to use their height to pick much of the fruit hanging higher up and leave the barren leaves with very few fruits left on it for the shorter people, thus making this person a bully and not a spiritual person. There are graceful decisions you can make with the advantages you have earned. This tall person can work with the shorter people to pick fruit together and cash in on the harvest as a team instead of as competitors. The outcome would be that everyone wins in this scenario. Once your pineal gland is active, then do not let it calcify. I have come across people who are telepathic due to becoming conscious. Personally, telepathy beyond essential communication like having a verbal chat with someone is acceptable.

Yet, if you go beyond that and start to read other people's minds without their permission, then it's an intrusion of privacy. That's rude and not polite. That's bullying and not spiritual etiquette. You want to treat others as equals cause if you take advantage of them using your 6th sense, you fulfill your ego's desire to control and overpower others for your gain, which will stunt you spiritually in terms of universal growth. The universe does not reward bullies. Those types of relationships where you forced people to do as you told them to do are not real, just artificial. You can't make people be your friends. You can’t make people love you. If you could, you wouldn't want to.

The real thing that's genuine and not artificial is where the lessons are learned, and you grow spiritually from it. Genuine relationships of love are where you will grow from, not artificial ones. That's why many people who have 6th sense often withhold them so that they do not feed their ego’s desire for admiration and fake relationships. Our relationships with people, money, careers and many other types of relationships are where we learn and grow spiritually. You can fake your relationships, but the universe knows what’s genuine and won’t let you pass into the next level of existence and new experiences that could be open to you. A sage person would see others as equals and teach them so that they can someday teach others what they know and on and on the lessons are learned.

In esoteric beliefs, your reality reflects the decisions you made that you are experiencing currently. The findings and actions you make today will propel your consciousness into the next parallel reality that fits your new vibration. Many practicing Buddhists dislike repeating the same suffering repeatedly, not knowing what decisions they made that are manifesting the same similar outcomes they are experiencing? Groundhogs' day of repeating the same lessons is what many Buddhist believe is hell if hell truly exists. As your reality are reflections of your beliefs.

One can manifest a treacherous hell and demonic inhabitants to be as authentic as they want it to be to justify their own belief in a system of self-punishment for eternity for making poor decisions in one lifetime. Taking a moment to think about that statement makes it seem illogical to believe in such existences. My idea of hell is reincarnating with the same bipolar parent because I did not learn to let go of my loved ones and learn their tough lessons. Instead, I tried to rescue people and do things for them, so they never learn over and over again, lifetime after lifetime, until I finally got off that cycle and start to become self-aware. Once I got off the drama train, I learned that the act of a conscious and self-aware person who helps others that suffer is Bodhisattvas. Bodhisattvas teach others how not to suffer as much while living as an equal person; in this reality.

Bodhisattvas know that everyone on Earth, in all dimensions and all universes, lives their pre-planned incarnation to learn and grow or not grow from their life lessons. As life learners, there is no need to convert anyone into anything unless they come to you to learn from you as a requested mentor of a trade or skill that they would like to acquire for themselves to someday teach it to others who request mentorship. The students become the teachers, and the teachers eventually become students again, and that cycle continues as we evolve spiritually.

This book is my understanding of the Four Noble Truths and Eightfold Path and how I have used it to manifest with. This is my journey of how I became self-aware and manifest my reality I engage with. Like the popular Buddhist chant I’ve heard thousands of times growing up by the monks, “Om mani padme hum”, I wish for all who want to partake in a conscious and self-aware journey to become the embodiment of the chant themselves. “Om mani padme hum” means the jewel in the lotus flower is an enlightened being. The goal of each incarnation with its many lessons is for the person to reveal one leaf at a time, learn one lesson at a time, and leaf after leaf get closer to the lotus flower center. The center of the lotus flower is you; you eventually become an enlightened being.

As an enlightened being, you now have what it takes to manifest the reality you want to exist in. And hey, every lotus flower has a little frog sitting on the lotus leaves, waiting for the flower to bloom and enjoying the process. The process leads to perfection. You are perfecting your vibration lesson learned after another. My middle name “Kob” in the Laotian language means a frog. So, I guess you now have a little frog friend accompanying your journey as you bloom. My wish to you if you choose to is to practice the Four Noble Truths and Eightfold Path techniques I have outlined so you can start seeing how your decisions manifest new parallel realities. Then you can have your own firsthand experience and understand how you are the cause of the affected reality you interact in. Namaste.

About the Author

Von D. Galt is an author who earned her knowledge of metaphysics and consciousness from her Laotian upbringing in Buddhism. In Buddhist Guide to Manifest Parallel Realities: Using the Four Noble Truths and Eightfold Path in the Age of Consciousness, readers get insight from her 36 years of experience studying the metaphysics of Buddhism. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Washington and earned her MBA in E-Business Management from Westwood College of Technology. Stay tuned for more enlightening books regarding the Buddhist spiritual tradition.