Buddhism itself contains many interesting ideas. Buddhism says that we all have the Buddha Nature and that this Buddha Nature is the key to liberation of mind. (a)  However Buddhism itself aims us to think about the next life. (b) Prosperity Meditation is the idea that multiple universes exist for us in the here and now and that these different universes lead to different physical life paths.

Multiple Universes Question:

Have you ever thought seriously about doing something bad?

For example have you ever joined a gang? Have you ever thought seriously having an affair? Under the theory of multiple universes, if you said ‘yes’ to the above then there is a universe where you actually did do these things and where you now have the consequences of doing them.

Even if nothing physically comes from this decision to do something bad, if you did do it or almost did it and nothing physically came from it then your guides and angels may have had to work very hard in order to keep your life from going off track.

For me personally, this was true. I took great pride in the messed up things I did as a teenager and in college and the miraculous turn of events that happened which kept my life from going very wrong. Then later in life I realized that if my angels and guides did not have to work so hard keeping my life on track then perhaps they would have had energy free to help me advance in business or make money or have a much better life.

In other words, if I had never came anywhere near doing bad things then there would have been more Spiritual Power for me to advance in life.

Multiple Universes not only applies to ‘being bad’, it also applies to split decisins.

Question:

Will you be a rich and famous movie star? Will you be able to hold a job and be prosperous or do you require billions of dollars to be happy?

The honest desire to be a movie star can be a source of encouragement and can also create multiple universes. In on one hand you are trying to be a movie star and on the other hand you are studying accounting, these two do not support each other. The more energy you apply to trying to be a movie star, the more erratic your life as an accountant is going to be.

The First Step in Prosperity Meditation is consistency of desire. Do you want to be a movie star or do you want to have a life as an upper middle class accountant? If you really want the wealth and status of a movie star, how can your energy as applied to this goal benefit your life as an accountant?

• “How can it be both the basis for the extreme duḥkha of saṃsāra and the incredible bliss and fulfillment of nirvāṇa?” “Knowledge of the two types of buddha nature answers this question. One is the naturally abiding buddha nature — the emptiness of inherent existence of our minds — which has always been and will always be the ultimate nature of our minds. The second is the transforming buddha nature — the mind whose continuity goes on to awakening but at present is not yet freed from defilement.”

Lama, Dalai; Chodron, Thubten. Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature (The Library of Wisdom and Compassion Book 3) (p. 14). Wisdom Publications. Kindle Edition.

• “If we use our lives wisely and make good ethical decisions, our deaths will be free from regret and fear. Having fortunate rebirths in the future, we will have conducive circumstances to continue our spiritual practice.”

Lama, Dalai; Chodron, Thubten. Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature (The Library of Wisdom and Compassion Book 3) (p. 14). Wisdom Publications. Kindle Edition.

Prosperity Meditation is about increasing abundance in there here and now. At the same time, it is about accepting the idea that life is never perfect.

Buddhism has some very interesting things to say. However, Buddhism itself can lead to aiming us towards some eternal goal which only occurs in another world after death. The concepts of Buddhism, while they have truth in the eternal dimensions, these concepts can be used to increase the emotional and physical prosperity of life here and now.

The solution is to take Buddhism in “grains of salt”. That is to say, study a little Buddhism but stop once the practice becomes so extreme that we find our efforts are being aimed at another dimension.

Prosperity Meditation has a little Buddhism within it, but the goal is here and now. The goal is to physically improve life and at the same time to embrace the idea that life is never perfect.