About Us – Simon Lau Life Guidance

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The journey of life is constantly changing and rearranging. Simon Lau Life Guidance will provide you with the knowledge you need to help you discover your true potential and make the right choices at the right time to achieve contentment and fulfilment, and be truly happy with who you are and the life you are living.

Master Simon Lau is a dedicated practitioner of Chinese Astrology. After many years of practice and study, Master Lau has come to the conclusion that Chinese Astrology readings are essential to gaining a deeper understanding of our character and our intrinsic self. The understanding you gain from one of these readings will empower you to enhance your life for the better, thus positively influencing your luck and fortune.

Using your time and date of birth – a crucial karmic code that is fundamental to unlocking your basic constitution according to the Five Elements – Master Lau can ascertain which of these elements you require and which elements you must avoid. The Five Elements can be applied to all areas of your life: your relationships, your career, your health and diet, as well as the living art of Feng Shui. Once this code is unlocked then the life guidance can really begin.

Karma

You have an impulse based on past experience. This impulse leads to a thought, which manifests into words and deeds. Acting on these thoughts establishes a pattern. Through repetition, the pattern becomes a habit, and habitual patterns form our character. This in turn determines our destiny, which is how we constantly shape and reshape our lives for better or for worse. An apple seed can only grow into an apple tree. The type of apple seed determines the resulting apples, and the soil composition and climate determine the fixed conditions under which the tree will grow. Environmental variables introduced after this, however, can change the health of the tree and the quality of the fruit. So, too, with humans. We are born bearing the karma from our past lives. Our previous actions are the cause of our karma. This karma manifests itself first in our time of birth, then in the people we meet, the things we do, and the challenges we face. The effect of our karma is the life roadmap we are born with. Being unaware of this, we are doomed to the remain in the cycle of bad habits and never stray far from the mediocre path. There is nothing that doesn’t become dull after being repeated over several lifetimes. But unlike the apple, we have the option to respond differently to these variables.

The Journey

The journey is everything that is happening to us. It is the people we meet and the things we do in this lifetime. We may be destined to meet someone today, and this meeting (this effect) is the result of a seed (a cause) from our past. This interaction is a relational transaction that has resulted in karma debt, and each party is here to claim or pay it. The seed has presented us with a chance to meet, and though this has been predetermined, how we respond to it is entirely up to us. Even if we are hyperaware of this opportunity, psychological resilience and wisdom are not guaranteed. Just as the type of seed determines how the fruit reacts to external factors, how we react to this meeting is conditioned by our karma. To change a potentially negative interaction into a positive one, we must first have the willpower and determination to overcome our old habits - habits that have been ingrained in us over many, many lifetimes. Without the willpower and determination to break out of our behavioural cycles, we simply repeat the interaction as laid out on our roadmap, and will find ourselves in the same position next lifetime. This is why clarity of mind and heart is crucial. If our perception is clouded, we will react to situations instinctively - passively as opposed to actively. How we react is not due to anything someone else has done, but instead, is due to what is internal - our confused self. We must learn to remove ourselves from the confusion caused by external factors, and respond to situations how we truly want to; in a considered way.

Attachment

Attachment to people, things, ideas and desires can breed contempt and dissatisfaction. Upon first contact with something we like, we create positive associations with it. Naturally, we will want to continue this positive interaction and retain this feeling. This desire can generate longing, a sense of ownership, and attachment. Once we accustomed to this feeling, we become threatened by the potential to lose it, and if it is lost, we become angry and may start to blame others. Attachment breeds suffering, which breeds unhappiness. In order to reduce the unhappiness caused by attachment, we need to first observe how we feel about something, and then address it with the same psychological resilience and wisdom we brought to the initial encounter.

What is happiness?

Happiness is the absence of unhappiness. Unhappiness is the result of suffering. Suffering is caused by attachment. Happiness comes from the heart, the state of our heart is reflected in our perception of the world.

Reincarnation

Most people only know of life and death; some know of Heaven and Hell, but very few know of reincarnation. So, attached to our current state of living, we are afraid to die. However, as a spiritual practitioner, we expect death and we expect to be reborn - life continues. Life continues in a cycle, and we carry into our next life karma from our current one, just as we came into this life with karma from our past. The roadmap is laid out; knowing this, we can stop repeating old mistakes and try to change our lives for the better. After all, life is not about what you have: it’s about what you do.

Stillness & Presence

Stillness of mind and heart allow us to look at our desires as they rise, and assess why they are meaningful to us. Our desires are worth as much meaning as we give to them, and we should reward ourselves for the ones that nourish us. We feel most rewarded when we allow ourselves to be present and really focus on what we are doing at any given time. The most important thing for stillness and presence is to clear the mind and heart of any rumblings. Instead, allow them to be calm so that we might understand our honest desires and sincere feelings. This can be as simple as eating when our body wants to eat, and sleeping when our body needs to sleep, working when we are at work, and playing when it is time to play. This is how we are at our best: being at one place at a time, doing one thing at a time. We must learn to make the most of the present to control the speculation about the future and diffuse negative emotions of the past.

Spiritual Practice

Spiritual practice affords us the capacity to face our karma and not turn away from it. It involves raising our consciousness so that we understand what we want to pursue in life and what we want to let go of. Letting go of something tangible is easy - its effects felt physically. Letting go of something intangible is much harder - the less conscious we are, the less we realise how much something is weighing us down.

The purpose of spiritual practice is to enhance our spiritual world, to be at ease with ourselves, and to free ourselves from suffering. Being at ease and free from suffering does not mean that we have no troubles, instead it means that we have learnt how to minimise adversities and alleviate affliction to rediscover our nature self. Doing this helps us acknowledge our past unconscious experiences and confused self in order to deal with them and move on. But keep in mind that spiritual practice is a journey, and the boat must not be mistaken for the shore.

A Clean Slate

There is no such thing as a clean slate. We all come into this world marked by our karma debt, and it is impossible to remove it entirely - each time we interact with someone, we are creating more debt to pay or claim.

Like displacing the sediment at the bottom of a water body, conflict can lead to the muddying of our vision. With spiritual practice, we can try to remove as much of the sludge and negative emotions as possible. Gradually, clear, fresh water replaces the sediment, and though we cannot be completely free from things that bother us, we can still try to maintain as much clarity as possible.

Competition

Comparing ourselves to others can only lead to a sense of discontent. It is an idealistic world if we can claim to be untainted by this. We often find ourselves in competition with others whether we choose to or not. Knowing this, we should pick our battles and not fight the losing ones.

Regret and Forgiveness

If you’re going to regret something, don’t do it. If you’re going to do something, don’t regret it. The wise don’t blame others when bad things happen because they understand that they were involved in everything that led up to it.

Forgiving others is our good fortune. To forgive others, enemies even, is letting go of all feelings of resentment and hatred. To be free from these feelings is a blessing.