A
dictation by Gautama Buddha. NOTE:
This dictation was given during the Shangra-la
Summer Conference on the Big Island of Hawaii,
June 29, 2008.
The Buddha, the dharma, the sangha—these
are the three pillars of the religion –
or what they call the religion – of Buddhism.
Yet I, Gautama, did not come to start a religion,
my beloved. I came to demonstrate the universal
path to oneness with spirit – the oneness
between Spirit and matter – the oneness
you attain when you are fully awake.
Thus, my beloved, the question is not only “To
be, or not to be,” but “Do you want
to be awake or do you want to stay unawake?”
Whereby – in your unawakeness –
there is a space between you and reality—the
reality that you see when you are awake. And
in that space the ego can hide, and you can
hide from your own past momentums that you have
not yet looked at, as Master
MORE so eloquently explained.
What
then is the reality of the Buddha? What is the
awake understanding of the Buddha? Well, it
is the Being who – because he or she is
awake – sees the oneness of all life,
sees the reality that all life sprang from the
same source and is destined to return to that
source by ascending and becoming part of the
spiritual realm.
Thus, the Buddha is the one who holds the balance
that allows those who are not yet awake to continue
an existence in their unawakened state—instead
of becoming consumed by the intensification
of the ascension spiral into which the entire
material universe has been engaged from its
inception.
What then is the dharma? Well, it is the raising
up of all sentient beings, all self-aware beings,
to the awakened state—that they too become
the Buddha. What then is the sangha, the
community? It is a gathering of those who have
made a commitment to the path that leads to
the full awakeness of the Buddha, and who have
determined to let nothing in the matter world
stand between them and the attainment of the
fullness of that Buddhahood. Even while they
still maintain a focus in a physical body, and
therefore can be here below all that they are
Above—and thus serve as the open door
between matter and Spirit, serve as the anchor
for spirit that allows the Light to flow through
and thus light up the dark corners of the Earth
until there is no imperfect spirit, no ego-illusion,
that can hide from the all-penetrating Light
of the Buddha.
The true sangha of the Buddha
When I sat on the Earth in a physical body,
I gave forth a teaching adapted to the consciousness
of the people of the time, to a certain element
of the mass consciousness. I thus knew that
it was impossible to give the fullness of what
the path is about and what the community is
meant to be. And thus, I had to give a teaching
that people could grasp. And thus, people turned
my teaching into another religion, called Buddhism.
And they created the image that those who belonged
to the Buddhist religion form a sangha that
is clearly set apart from those who do not belong
to the Buddhist religion. And thus, they
created an image much like the members of other
religions have done, an exclusivist, separatist
image. Thus, my beloved, time has passed. The
Christ descended, humankind has risen and we
now have a body of students who are ready to
understand the fullness of the Buddha, the dharma
and the sangha.
You are, as first stated by my beloved
brother, so close to manifesting that community.
And so, let me give you some thoughts on the
sangha of the Buddha. There is, my beloved–
naturally – a certain sense of familiarity,
security in coming together in a community of
people with like mind—who can then speak
freely and support each other.
We are not saying that you cannot create such
a community, where you come together and are
free to share your ideas, knowing you will not
be condemned or criticized. And knowing that
you do not have to deal with the ego games that
so often causes people to put down others, even
if they have a good idea. Or just the fact that
they did not come up with the idea, means that
they have to put it down. Thus, I ask you to
consider that – certainly – you
can and should form such a community. But I
ask you to ponder the subtle distinction that
you do not make it an exclusivist community
that sets itself apart from the greater community
of humankind-at-large.
For who is the Buddha? He is the one that knows
that everything is the Buddha nature, and
thus the Buddha is in everyone and in everything.
And thus, how can you be true followers of the
Buddha if you set yourself apart and say the
Buddha can only be in certain people and not
in others?
And so we desire you to see that the community
you form is not isolated from the greater community
of all sentient beings, but is a nucleus that
interacts with the greater community, that is
willing to put itself out there to shout your
message from the housetops, to let your Light
shine that others may see your good works and
know that only the Father within you could have
produced such works. And thus come to see the
God within themselves, the Buddha within themselves.
For my beloved, the Buddha likewise is not an
egomaniac who wants to be elevated above others.
When the Buddha has awakened in one person,
well that person has only one focus and desire.
And that is to awaken the Buddha in all others,
so that the Buddha can be awake in all. For
only then is the Buddha whole.
The community of honesty
So the Sangha, the community, we desire to see
manifest, is one where the foremost quality
is honesty, plain and simple. Honesty with yourself,
honesty with each other, honesty with other
people who are not yet part of your sangha,
for they have hesitation.
Honesty – in order to be complete –
can know no conditions that allow the ego to
hide. For honesty has no conditions—only
the ego has conditions. And it sets up those
conditions precisely so that it can hide. And
this, my beloved, is the force that you need
to overcome, as you have already demonstrated,
the willingness to overcome at this retreat
and others.
But I trust you recognize, not only based on
what has been said previously, but also by your
own inner knowing, that this retreat does indeed
mark a turning point for yourselves individually
and for you as a movement. You have previously
been on the path to establishing the sangha,
but now you are coming so close to actually
being the sangha that the distance is now something
that can be crossed in one final step. And thus,
I trust you will go back and study the previous
messages that have been given by my brothers
and sisters who have poured out their wisdom
and their honesty, my beloved.
What is the key to honesty, my beloved? It is
the realization that if the Buddha is everywhere,
if God is everywhere, then nothing can be hidden
from God. And so what is the point in trying
to be dishonest and hide something? Who are
you fooling? Certainly not God, certainly not
the Buddha, certainly not the Ascended Host,
certainly not your I Am Presence.
You might be fooling other people, but you are
first and foremost fooling yourself. And if
you desire to play that game, my beloved, then
I simply ask you to go to one of the many organizations
out there that are still trapped in playing
the game, and that still not only allow but
encourage their members to play the game.
Simply go there and play that game until you
have had your fill. And then come back to the
sangha of the Buddha. For I tell you, we have
brought together a group of people who have
decided that you have had enough of playing
those ego games. And now it is time to step
up and manifest the community where the ego
cannot run amok, cannot hide, my beloved. And
for this I truly congratulate you, although
I must say that I have known all along—for
I have known you for a very long time.
And thus we have seen how the pieces have been
put together—that at this critical time
you might all come physically together and step
up to manifesting a true example – not
the only example – but a true example
of what the sangha of the Buddha is in the Aquarian
Age—with the awareness that humankind
has today.
The Buddha and the Mother
Thus, my beloved, I will move on to give you
some thoughts on the relationship between the
Buddha and the Mother. As you will note in the
rosary
you gave earlier, there is the line, “Buddha
space, Mother time, tis the secret so sublime.”
The material universe is seen by science as
being a space in which are found planets, solar
systems and galaxies. That space is the Buddha—is
created out of the Buddha nature. The space
is a space set apart from the Allness of God,
so that separate forms can manifest. In that
space you find the Ma-ter light, which takes
on form.
Now, my beloved, you as unascended beings have
co-creative abilities, but you do not have the
power of mind to affect space. For you
cannot affect space until you attain the consciousness
of the Buddha—and then you transcend space.
So, you are confined to expressing your co-creative
abilities within the framework of space, and
the so-called natural laws that guide space,
most of which science has not yet discovered
or fully understood.
So, as an unascended being, your co-creative
abilities allow you to work only on the Ma-ter
light, projecting form unto that Ma-ter light.
Now, my beloved, when the Buddha allows its
own Being to become space, the Buddha holds
a vision for how that space and all within it
– the Ma-ter light, the energy within
it – is meant to be raised up as part
of the ascending spiral that my brother Maitreya
has described in his book.
The Mother of God then allows her Light to become
the instrument for self-aware beings to outplay
their free will and harvest the physical conditions
that outpicture their mental images. This makes
it possible, then, that within the total space
of the Buddha, certain portions – such
as for example focused around planet Earth –
can then fall behind in the ascending spiral
of the totality of space.
The origin of time
You see, my beloved, the totality of the material
realm is – and always has been –
in an ascending spiral that cannot be stopped.
But due to free will, the inhabitants of a particular
planet can densify their consciousness, thereby
densifying the planet so that it falls behind
the ascending spiral. We might actually describe
this as a stretching of space, as envisioned
in the concept of a stretching of what has been
called the space-time continuum. But what science
does not understand is that time is not a function
of space. Time is a function of free will. For
when a planet falls behind the place in space
where it ideally should have been, then the
distance between that immaculate concept and
the current reality—that is what creates
time.
And it is, so to speak, a cosmic clock that
starts ticking. For, while you have free will,
it is, as Maitreya explained, not feasible that
there are no limitations for free will. For
you cannot forever take a portion of the Creator’s
own Being and entrap it in an imperfect form.
Nor can you forever entrap other self-aware
beings in an imperfect form.
And thus, the clock of time that starts ticking
counts down to the point where those lifestreams
who were instrumental in taking a planet into
the downward spiral, where their opportunity
runs out. And they must then be removed from
that planet, so that the other inhabitants –
who might have gone along with the blind leaders
– receive an opportunity then to be free
of the pull—that they might choose to
start rising. Thus bringing their planet back,
accelerating time so to speak, so that it catches
up and therefore again finds its rightful place
in the cosmic dance. Whereby, my beloved, time
as you now know it ceases to exist for that
planet. For truly, my beloved, “Time
is not!”
Total forgiveness is forgetting all
Now then, to continue on the discourse given
by Master
MORE on memory, your personal memory versus
the cosmic memory of the akashic record. Once
again, your personal memory is set apart, is
allowed to lag behind the akashic record, the
cosmic memory which sees reality and remembers
things as they are—as MORE explained.
And thus, what you do, my beloved, as you walk
the path towards the total surrender of the
separate self that is Christhood, you too catch
up to the place in space where you would have
been had you stayed in the River of Life, flowing
with it instead of walking into the jungle of
separation, thus coming to lag behind.
And so you see, my beloved, the ghosts –
that were spoken about by several masters –
are the memories you hold of your own imperfections,
seeing through the filter of the duality consciousness
instead of seeing through the reality of God
consciousness that forgives all. And so, those
are the ghosts that you must give up.
And thus, total forgiveness is giving up even
the memory of the perceived mistake. Simply
letting it be consumed so that you no longer
hold on to it, and in holding on to it, keep
yourself trapped in a time warp, so to speak.
Because you keep yourself trapped in time, the
time that is really a distance between where
you could be and where you have chosen to be
or chosen to be not.
You will note, my beloved, that the Bible contains
the statement, “I shall remember their
sins no more.” Well, my beloved, God never
remembers your sins, for God remembers only
the reality – the reality that the material
universe is a sandbox – for you have been
given freedom to experiment. And thus, once
a limiting choice has been replaced by a higher
choice, the previous choice is no more.
For do you not see, my beloved, that the essence
of free will is that you choose one thing, and
in choosing that one thing, you cannot at the
same time choose another thing. Thus, you cannot
be awake and unawake at the same time. And thus,
once you let go of the old illusion –
the old choice to accept the dualistic illusion
– you are free of that illusion, my beloved.
It is gone—unless you choose to let it
stay in your memory and thereby recreate it
over and over again, until you finally give
up the ghost and let that mortal self die. Thus,
my beloved, even Jesus hanging on the cross
had certain personal ghosts that he had to give
up, as has every being that has ever ascended.
A victory for us all
It is, then, my great privilege and my great
joy to seal this conference, which I must tell
you has been an unmitigated victory for the
Ascended Host—and for you as part of the
Ascended Host, though still unascended at least
in some part of your awareness. For truly, you
are much more than you can conceive of, and
thus it is only a small part of your total Being
that is still trapped down here in the quagmire.
And when you tune in to the totality, you gain
the cosmic perspective, whereby you see how
truly inconsequential all of these ego-syncracies
are. And that is when you can let the ghosts
die, for you know you are more—and thus
you will not die with them.
My beloved, do not feel sadness for the fact
that this conference has drawn to a close, as
everything in time must do. Instead, look beyond
it, see what you have established, a sangha
that transcends time. For it is the sangha of
the Buddha, my beloved, that exists in space—and
space is beyond time.
Thus focus on that! Focus on the sangha and
transcending even the physical distance, keeping
that contact as you have the communications
technology to do. And therefore see that this
sealing of the conference does not represent
an end, but the beginning of a new cycle, a
different cycle, even a higher cycle.
For now you go out to be the Omega, and as you
multiply the talents you have been given, well
surely we will draw you in—in another
in-breath, to come to another conference where
you can then go higher because you have gone
out, my beloved. For if you did not go out to
share with others and seek to raise up the All,
then we could not give you higher teachings.
And you would be standing and treading water
in the same place.
So do you see that both are necessary, the in-breath
and the out-breath, that is what forms the cosmic
dance? Therefore, get out of the so common mindset
of many spiritual people of wanting to withdraw
from the hustle and bustle of the world. Thinking
that when you find peace and solitude and quietness
in a cave in the mountains, then you will find
the Buddha. Instead, study the teachings of
those who served life in some form, and in so
doing suddenly saw the Buddha. Even the being
who was licking the maggots from the wounds
of another person, and in so doing attained
enlightenment and oneness with the Buddha. *
For it is when you see the Buddha in all life
that you will see me, beloved. For I AM ALL
and in all. So as long as you have the mindset
that I can only be found in certain places and
not in others, then how could you possibly discover
me?
For the only place to discover me is in yourself.
And so if you think that you have to be somewhere
else in order to discover me, well then can
you not see that you cannot see me—even
though I am always there, smiling my Buddhic
smile, patiently waiting for you to discover
me in yourself. For I AM the Buddha. I am space.
I am beyond time. So I have all the time in
the world—whereas the world does not have
unlimited time.
So wake up then, and decide to reach beyond
time and recognize that there comes a time when
the acceptable time is NOW; not tomorrow; not
one second from now, but NOW. For that is when
you enter the Eternal NOW and transcend the
illusion of space, the illusion that the material
world can keep you from the oneness of the sangha.
That is when you manifest the sangha where you
are, instead of seeing it somewhere else.
I AM where you are.
I AM awake where you are.
Will you be awake where I AM?
[Audience answers, “Yes!”]
Then so BE, and be sealed in my infinite peace.
Rejoice in my infinite peace. And discover that
what seems to be peace from the human perspective
is not actually peace.
Peace is the bliss of the Buddha, where you
are so joyful, for you know the demons of Mara
have no power over you. And thus, you can laugh
at all of their antics, all of their attempts
to draw you in to an attachment. And that
is when they flee from you—and I AM all
that is left.
[Applause]
* This story is about a devout
disciple of Maitreya, named Asanga. After 12
years of solitary practice, he felt dejected
because he had not had a direct encounter with
the Master. On his way back to society, he came
across a dog with a large open wound, infested
with maggots. He naturally wanted to help the
dog, but thought that the maggots too were sentient
beings.
He then borrowed a knife from a nearby village,
cut a peace of flesh from his own leg and intended
to lift the maggots with his tongue from the
wound to the flesh. Yet as he bent down to do
this, he suddenly experienced the radiant Presence
of Maitreya. Asana found himself asking why
the Master had not answered his prayers earlier,
and the answer was: "I was always with
you, but it is only now that your compassion
has become strong enough to sweep away the veils
in your mind, which have kept my Presence unknown
to you." The veils are created by the illusion
of separation, and they hide the underlying
reality that all life is one, because everything
is the Buddha nature. Only the veils of Maya
hide this reality to the mind that is trapped
in duality.
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