In Spiritual School, we learn and practice how to unlearn such footprints and how to do actions without making new footprints in our minds.
With this practice one can be in the state where the mind does not exist. This is called no mind state. Pema Zhang Spiritual School is the school where we can learn and practice to be in nomind state.
Spirituality begins when mind ceases. When mind ceases, awareness appears clearly. Spirituality is the science of awareness. Awareness is transparent in no mind state.
Pema Zhang Spiritual School provides a platform to learn and practice nomindstate which is the foundation of spirituality.
We follow the different types of active and silent meditation techniques as taught by different enlightened masters. In the school, one can practice Karma Yog, Bhakti yog, Gyan yog, Dhyan yog and finally surrender to existence. Healing techniques are also associated with us. We take agriculture as an opportunity to be with nature which is very helpful to return back to the self nature. We take the nature ( forest, rivers, springs, open ground and space, greenland, etc) as a place to practice.
Natural sounds and sights are our meditation tools. We take support of nature to enter into the depth of the self. We may not be able to give modern facilities to our practitioners.
Inner world is the world which is beyond our body and mind. It is beyond time and space. Beyond our body and mind, a pure awareness transparently appears. Spirituality is the inner journey. It is the journey towards the self. It is the journey to reach the self. This school provides a platform to attain nomind state.
I was a brilliant and popular student in school. I passed S.L.C. from Bal Batika Vidya Mandir, Banepa
in 2003. Since my childhood, I used to be restless in the crowd of students and teachers. I used to be
still and calm only when I stayed alone. I did not want to belong to any particular group. I wanted to
include each and every body and each and every thing but there was partition, groupism, different
isms in each and everything everywhere. I belonged to none of them specifically and I belonged to
all of them generally. I was not clear wha was happening around me, what to do, what not to do,
whom to follow, whom not to follow. I had no guide.
After my school, I studied biology with extra maths so that I would be able to enter either in bio
field or in engineering field. I passed + 2 level from Himalayan White House International College , New Baneshwor in 2005.
My restlessness in the crowd became intense when I was studying B.Sc Microbiology. I felt like I got
lost in the crowd. My heart vibrated too fast in the crowd. I found the crowd very chaos, unfair, not
arranged, irregular, wild, dramatic and superficial. I used to stay alone, take a deep breath and then I
felt satisfied. I was not quite sure why I studied Microbiology. Perhaps I did not want to lose year so
I joined it. I used to learn German language as people said that one language other than English language would be helpful to get job.
After I completed bachelor degree in 2008 from Tri Chandra College, I started teaching Maths for
secondary level students. I taught only for two months because I needed to prepare for Visa
documentation. I was trying to go to Finland. I had already taken entrance exam of HAMK
university. I was selected in the entrance exam but I could not get visa. The university told me to
apply for the visa the following year but I did not apply in the following year. Because I did not feel
comfortable to apply for visa for the second time. My mind used to run so fast that I was not being
able to get stuck at one thing permanently.I could not present myself, speak and behave confidently when I spoke lie or when I made a mistake.
This is my nature since my childhood. But I was forced to be and to work with such people who
made mistakes, who spoke lies and present themselves as sincere and faithful in front of others. I
met many such people when I worked as a medical representative of human vaccines. I could not
find the type of people I was searching.
During this time I learnt reiki first degree meditation. This meditation gave me peace, bliss and
satisfaction within myself. Nothing had given such peace, bliss and satisfaction in my life till that
time. One question arose in my head that why I was not taught meditation earlier in my school and
college days. I felt like meditation should be taught in schools, colleges and universities. This
meditation gave me a satisfactory way of life. I practiced meditation regularly. Then I learnt reiki
second degree meditation as well. I became more interested in meditation. I realized that the field
of my interest was meditation. Then I went for Vipassana 10 days course many times. I did
dhamma service ( volunteering) in vipassana meditation courses. Vipassana is the ultimate wisdom
that everyone should attain. This practice liberates the practitioner from the cycle of birth and
death. The restless of my mind became silent with the knowledge of pratitya samutpad chakra. ( The
law of origination and degeneration of nature). This was taught to me by a monk. Since then
immense gratitude arose in my heart for Gautam Buddha.I took Rajyog 7 day Meditation course, 2 day Tao course, Studied Kriyayog course for a year. I had started Osho meditations as well. I used to listen to discourses of Osho day and night. I fell in love with Osho videos and discourses. The voice of osho, the pictures of osho gave me bliss, peace and satisfaction. I felt like I could die peacefully listening to osho voice. Osho is the light of life in this century. Osho teachings gave me a specific direction, the direction to the self. I got in tune with him.
I got an opportunity to visit Japan for short period. I had been selected for cultural exchange
program. I could learn Japanese culture and could share Nepalese culture. The difference between
Japanese and Nepalese are only due to these cultural aspects. In the innermost depth, they are the
same. The hunger, sleep, fear, sexual desire, ego, desire of facilities, relationship, power, prestige,
love, devotion, wisdom, meditation, state of bliss etc all of them are same in all people not only in
Nepalese and Japanese. With this realization I came back to Nepal.I started finding the type of people I was searching in the meditation centers. Yogis, sadhus, fakirs,
monks, nuns, meditators are the type of people I was searching since my childhood. With them I
become happy, satisfied and peaceful. Most of my time was spent in meditation, listening to
discourses, satsang and shibir ( meditation courses). Till that time I had left the job as a medical
representative and joined Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling Psychology course. Meditation
practice and psychology course went parallelly. After completing psychology, I joined Teach for Nepal as a fellow science teacher thinking that I could meditate in the village properly and I could teach meditation to students along with science. I did it for 2 years. I practiced silent meditations, active meditations moving around the Kathmandu valley and sometimes out of valley in various meditation centres paralelly. My mind was full of meditation, discourses and meditation centres. I used to think and talk about meditation, masters and their teachings with my colleagues even during my duty hours. So I wanted to find such job which was aligned with meditation.During my fellowship I met a girl who was ready to travel with me together. We taught in the same school. Since I had already initiated my spiritual journey, my first priority was not to get married. The second priority was to get married if I met a spiritual girl. She was ready to give company in my spiritual journey. I shared my vision of life to her. She agreed happily to live the same vision of life together. She had already joined Vipassana 10 day course and was initiated with Osho Sanyas. We were in relationship for about seven months. We were committed to live together no matter whatever hindrances would come. But she was forced to break the relationship by her family. I was not ready to break the relationship. I insisted not to break the relationship and her family insisted to break it. She was in the duality. She loved both. So many incidents of feelings, emotions, thoughts, pain in the heart happened in all of us in between. I was told to come to the assembly of her family and asked the whole family to get marry with her. I had courage of my spirituality. I went to the assembly and shared my feelings, my way of life, her readiness to join my way of life. The head of the assembly asked her opinion. She agreed to get married. So we got married in front of her house in the presence of both family members. We went to meet many spiritually heightened seekers in many centers. We spent our married life for about 4 months together teaching in the same school. Then my fellowship was over. I decided to go to Nuwakot to teach and she continued teaching in the same school. Our marital life continued smoothly even we were living apart for about 3 months. We used to meet once a fortnight or a week. But after three months I realized that her mind was being washed out. She started telling me to go alone in my vision of life. My vision of life was spiritual, natural and simple. Life should not be hindered by any sort of racism like geographical, economical, political, gender, caste, education, etc. I tried to convince her a lot. But she insisted on her new mindset. The relationship continued on hustle and tussle for about 3 months. Then she announced
in the family meeting that we were not together anymore. Since then I still share my spiritual work
to her via social applications but I did not get any response till now. It is like one way traffic. Thus
our marriage life terminated without any physical relationship. I am walking on my spiritual path
with the same vision of life. And she is teaching in the same school. I got a deep realization of law of
impermanence from my short and sweet married life.
I completed my Teach for Nepal fellowship and went to Nuwakot as an academic coordinator in a school. I worked there for a few months. Then I joined Pathik Foundation. I joined meditation
courses of different levels. I taught science and maths in the school of the foundation and did karma
sadhana ( karma yog) regularly. I joined one year B.Ed in supervision and administration course. I
meditated, studied and worked parallelly. I was feeling that I could not get enough time for
meditation in the foundation since the beginning. I completed B.Ed degree. I got sponsorship letter
from a meditation center from Myanmar. I applied for Visa. I got the Visa. In 30 months I learnt
more, grew up more, became a bit more mature in spirituality. Then I left the foundation. But I
could not go to Myanmar because of Corona crisis.
In this crisis I spent my day and night in meditation. I spent most of my time in the forest in
Chandeswari yog Ashram, Banepa established and protected by Mr. Madan Chau Pradhan. It
enhanced my spirituality a lot. While I was meditating in this forest, a sudden thought striked on my
head. This thought was to join reiki master degree. Then I joined this course and practiced it
sincerely. I practiced it in the same forest as well. I found out that forest is the fundamental school
for spirituality. Reiki master degree practice and other meditation practices in the forest drove my
energy towards my inner being. It gave an upward turning in my spiritual journey.
I meditated in Shivapuri hills. I used to spend 40 days, 30 days, 15 days, 7 days time and again in
that hills. The meditation practiced in Shivapuri hills heightened my spirituality unbelieveably. I got
an opportunity to practice meditation based on Vedic Shanatan religion as well. I love meditation so
much that no matter which type of meditation it is, I just practice it and reach to the true self. This
is my nature.
After meditating, participating in spiritual sharing in different places for about 10 years, I came to a
conclusion that there is a true spirituality in all religions but the spirituality present in them has not
been given high priority, has not been taught and practiced sincerely. People are following other
parts of religions rather than spirituality and meditation practices.
Now I have made a small pyramid kuti ( bamboo hut ) in my field. I stay and meditate here. I spend
my time in spirituality and agriculture.
Spirituality has given me a lot. I cannot express all of them in words. One of them is wisdom. Wisdom keeps on arising in my mind continuously. This is the blessing of spirituality to me. No matter where I go, what I see, what I listen, what I do, what I speak, how I behave with others, how
others behave and speak with me, what I do, etc., wisdom keeps on knocking on my heart. Wisdom
is following me and I follow this knowledge in my life. And this knowledge is beneficial to all.
Pema Zhang is an another blessing given to me by spirituality. This name has connected my
spiritual journey with my previous life. This name has fulfilled the thirst of the
answer of the question what my spiritual path in my past life was. Now I feel like I am continuing
my spiritual journey from my past lives.
Spirituality has given me an another blessing. The blessing is that guidances started originating
from within. With this guidance, I started practicing Vajrayan buddhism in Pharping in a monastery
under Nyingma tradition. I have been taught Guruyoga practice over there. I have also been to
Temal, Kavre to attend Guruyoga course under Shakyapa tradition. My realization is that a
meditator can reach one's true self through any kind of meditation techniques.
Spirituality has given me many meditation techniques from within. It has given me a treasure of
wisdom. Spirituality has given me a steering wheel to drive my life energy and brakes to reduce the
restlessness of the mind.
Spirituality has given me the clarity of life and truth. Now I knew the reason why I used to be
restless in the crowd since my childhood. It was because of the restlessness of the crowd which was
transferred to me as I was more sensitive and silent. The energy level of the crowd and me did not
match so I could not find the people of my type. My way of living is spiritual so I could not feel
comfortable in the crowd with superficial people.
I still need to work hard in spirituality to uplift my consciousness and to make it stable in its highest
possible dimension.
However, people connect with me for spirituality. I have taught meditation to many people in many
places. I have done healing to many people near and far. I have recommended many people to many
meditation centers. I do satsang ( spiritual sharing). I practice meditation regularly, teach
meditation and work in the farm frequently.
To share my insights, I have registered Pema Zhang Spiritual School. Its aim is
to share the spiritual knowledge with others and to make a zone for spiritual and meditation
practices. But I know nothing and I have nothing. In fact this spiritual school does not exist in physical form. This school has been registered under the self generated wisdom and will be run by the same wisdom. I don't know from where that wisdom generates. This wisdom generator runs this school in its own pace.
I have taken Satipatthan meditation course. I keep on making the self meditation course for myself
in the temples like Swargadwari, Vajrayogini temple, Janaki temple, monastery, bihar with a monk, 40 days deep self meditation retreat in Kashyap Tapobhumi, Kaskikot, Practice dhamma in a Mahayan monastery in Sudal, Bhaktapur under the guidance of the lama, etc.
As per request, I also served as a course manager in Dhamma Pokhara Vipassana Center, Pokhara.
I feel lots of gratitude to all who have helped me a lot in the world of matter and in the world of
spirituality. Lots of gratitude to the existence for choosing me in spiritual works.
Lots of respect, gratitude and surrender
Pema Zhang