TRUE CONFESSION: WHEN CONSCIOUSNESS REFLECTS ITSELF

Understanding Mingjue Confession

Regardless of what quality of inner state we’re starting from, we practice entering the mingjue state of unconditional love. We merge with the vast, empty universe, and become one with everything and everyone. Then we also practice the following steps with regard to confession:

1. A clear heart-centered intention: It’s critical to hold a clear intention in our hearts to say goodbye to past events—and more importantly, to say goodbye to the patterns of conflict and fighting that caused them. If we’re only thinking in our minds, “I did something wrong,” there’s not a lot of energy to change these patterns. Our old patterns will remain, and the mingjue theories we’ve learned can be used by our old inner programming as a weapon, while conflicts with others continue as they did in the past. But if we can allow ourselves to feel the stronger emotions associated with these experiences—the very states we want to transform, even if painful—there will be more conviction to heal these emotions and their underlying patterns.

2. An acceptance of self: True confession is about confessing to and accepting ourselves—a practice of mingjue observing itself. True confession doesn’t fixate on the specific conflicts (“I feel so sorry for what I did”). Nor does it fixate on the act of confessing itself (“By confessing again and again, I will feel better about myself”). These fixations can actually create bigger blockages in our consciousness. True confession is focused on transforming our inner states, so when we confess to someone face-to-face, we meet them with an open heart.

3. The ability to “see through”: When past thoughts or emotions arise, whether it’s from our consciousness purifying or a trigger in daily life, our Inner Observer can come to observe them without judgment, “seeing through” to what they are: traces of our old consciousness releasing and transforming. The Inner Observer, then, sees all of these past conflicts as ways to help it awaken to itself. The heart is full of gratitude, rather than heavy with guilt.

Forgiveness is also like this—it’s a way of accepting ourselves. When we forgive someone else, our own emotional blockages disappear. If we hold others in contempt or hold on to our own suffering, we are blocking ourselves most of all.

In summary, true confession happens when our mingjue observes itself. This requires inner clarity and courage. And as we saw in the story, acts of confession in mingjue are complete—they are already finished. This life state creates harmony for us and others at the same time.

Adapted from the course, The Science of Consciousness: A Path to Awakening, June 2025, as taught by Teacher Wei.

Cynthia Li, MD, is an integrative medicine doctor, author, and editor of Teacher Wei’s foundational book, Mingjue Awakening.