Dragon Spirit
Powerful
Immortal
For those of you who haven't heard about this before, to me this has always been pretty amazing.
In 1983 I was shown to do a vision quest of 4 days with my Native American Medicine man that I was studying with with my wife and friends. I was at a sweat lodge with another Medicine man who was the son of a really powerful medicine man I saw "the energy" upon an insect and it flew in the direction of where my Medicine man lived that I was studying with a couple hundred miles away. So, I knew it was time for my vision quest. I was upset about this because how many of us want to go somewhere and not eat or drink anything for 4 days and 4 nights or 96 hours straight. But, I try to be obedient to God as I always knew God had plans for me.
So, I resigned myself to this even though I was a little scared at doing this. When I arrived at Eagle Cliffs where my medicine man and his family lived with my family there on the Trinity River on the South Fork, he did a Sweat Lodge for me, my wife and children. But, he looked worried as the river suddenly turned brown as we entered the sweat lodge. I personally saw this as a good sign of Spiritual Cleansing and purification and of the washing away of things no longer needed in life.
After the Sweat Lodge I walked up stream 4 miles to a Bear Wallow I had chosen for my 96 hours without food or water. The first two days were very difficult and somewhat boring and at times my mind screamed at me, "Stop this! You are going to die! What are you doing?" But somehow I maintained the courage to not eat or drink anything. In 1983 I was 35 so I was in excellent health from living a country and organic lifestyle and home schooling my children from 2 1/2 acres of land and a house I had built myself with my father and friends and wife. So, I was physically and psychologically strong enough to do this.
I think it was during the night of the 2nd day that I became a 50 to 100 foot tall golden dragon. (When you don't eat or drink your experience of reality changes to a much more primal state especially if you are praying all the time). At first it was a completely terrifying experience because of just how powerful and how primal the Golden Dragon was. Then I as the Dragon Breathed out Sacred Fire upon thousands of people. And as I did this it did not burn them, instead it made them smile in happiness and enlightenment. At this point I was as surprised as anyone at this occurrence. At the time it was very emotional and tears came to my eyes and I was changed at a very deep level at seeing this vision. I never forgot this vision as I was looking for my spiritual path forward. I realized 2 days later when I was able to go into another sweat lodge and being given bless blackberries and blessed Salmon and water and other ceremonial spiritual food after walking 4 miles after not eating for 96 hours. (I must admit walking back along the river was sort of like walking in a dream after not eating or drinking anything for 96 hours).
So, I guess what I'm saying to all of you is my experience now is that everything I write is the "Dragon's Breath" of that vision. And by taking the path of the Golden Dragon I began to study then in 1983 with Tibetan Lamas in the U.S. , India and Nepal which brought me on a path of compassion to metaphorically to become the "Dragon of compassion" that I experienced in my vision almost 30 years ago now.
And the Dragon's fire is enlightenment that ends suffering and brings enlightenment and bliss for all beings no matter whether they believe in God or not or anything at all except kindness to all beings living and dead.
After this vision quest I learned more about a path of compassion and found it to be for me the single most powerful and useful to all beings path I have ever found in this lifetime which can permanently end suffering and bring bliss to all souls in the past, present and future.
This appears to be the most useful prayer for someone on a path of Compassion:
May All Beings Attain Bliss and the Cause of Bliss
May All Beings be Free from Suffering and the Cause of Suffering
May All Beings never be without the Supreme Bliss that is
Free from all near and far all grasping and aversion.
And the ending which I learned from Tibetan Lamas can be:
By this merit may I become like all the Buddhas and the Bodhisattvas
of the Ten Directions and the three times.
For example, Jesus would also be considered a Buddha in this way of thinking and
Communicating too. The Ten Directions are the way to travel all Galaxies and outer Space
as well as on earth. The Three Times are the Past, the Present and the Future.
I often walk around with this prayer going a lot of the time in my head as I go about my daily business, asleep, and sometimes I even wake up saying this in my head. I experience this as already accomplished in the Past, the present and the Future through positive thinking, and so it is. The more of us that do this the better planet we will live on past, present and future.
By the way, since Compassionate Buddhist Thought isn't considered a religion in western thought many Christians are also philosophically Buddhists as well like myself. So, I consider myself to be a Mystical Christian and Tibetan Buddhist at the same time. It works for me. However, I am one of the 25% of Buddhists worldwide who also believe in God as well.
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