Thursday, May 15, 2014

Merlin and Padmasambhava?

To make some sense of this I was in Dharamsala, India in Himachal Pradesh  state in the foothills (around 6000 feet) of the Himalayas. At this time I was there with a Tibetan Lama that my family and I had met in Santa Cruz, California who was helping Lama Yeshe pass over and reincarnate as a Spanish Boy at the time.

So, we had met him in Boghgaya, India in Bihar State near Christmastime and were surprised that the Dalai Lama was giving the Kalachackra Tantric Initiation to hundreds of thousands of people (Mostly Tibetan Buddhists) from Tibet, India, Nepal and surrounding areas. We received the initiation (all 5 of my family then in December 1985) and then we traveled with Geshela (Geshe Lobsang Gyatso) who was a Tibetan Buddhist Geshe in the Dalai Lama's Buddhist Sect called Gelukpa. IN addition there are (Kagyu, Nyingma, Sakya) and the Dalai Lama is considered to be the head of all these sects of Tibetan Buddhism too. And many Tibetan Lamas and Tibetan Buddhists in General have initiations and Empowerments from all these lineages at once very often.

While I was in Dharamshala, I met several Tibetan Lamas, some I knew before and some I met there and had known from other lifetimes. Many told me I needed to go to Rewalsar which is called Tsopema to Tibetans which is a Padmasambhava holy place.

Dharamsala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Dharamshala (also Dharamsala) (Hindi: धर्मशाला, Tibetan:དརུམཤཱལ, dharmaśālā) is a city and a municipal council in Kangra district in the Indian state of ...
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This picture shows what I remember seeing there at 6000 feet with 15,000 to 20,000 foot peaks in the background. When I was there (January and February 1986) it was cold at night (below freezing) and often 40 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit during the day so it was okay for mountainous weather. There were no heaters in the hotel rooms there so we bought a kerosene portable stove to make tea and to sterilize water for us to drink to be safe. We also used this stove to make the rooms pleasant enough to be in then during the night. However, we knew to not leave it on when we slept or we might have died there at the time. The stove cost us about $30 then and was of local Indian or Tibetan Design. We either gave it to someone when we left Dharamsala or we sold it to someone. It's been a long time now almost 30 years.





  1. Rewalsar, India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    Rewalsar (Tibetan: Tso Pema) is a town and a nagar panchayat in Mandi district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. The local name for Rewalsar is ...
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  2. Rewalsar Lake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    Rewalsar Lake, or Tso Pema Lotus Lake, is a mid-altitude lake located on a mountain spur in Mandi district, 22.5 km south-west from Mandi. Its elevation is ...

  3. Rewalsar - Welcome to Rewalsar

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    It was there in Rewalsar that Saint Germain revealed to me that one of his incarnations was as Padmasambhava, the Indian Mahasiddha who brought   Buddhism to Tibet through King Trisongdetsun there.

     

    That morning I had asked Saint Germain if he had been Padmasambhava. This is how he answered me: When I hiked up on the mountain and asked to see the footprints of Padmasambhava melted into the rock around the time of Merlin, a monk opened the protective house built with a lock to prevent pilgrims from chipping away the footprints and taking them home. I noticed that the footprints were exactly the same size as my size 14 hiking boots so I put one of my feet into the footprint and laughed at the unusualness of this.

    Since Saint Germain is purported to be the same height as me (between 6 foot 4 and 6 foot 5) it would make sense someone as big as me would have shoes this size that he melted into the rock. However, I thought the monk was going to faint when I did this so he took me to the local Tibetan Lama to have tea. AS I walked out of the footprint stone protective hut the sky had turned violet and violet rain and lightning started coming out of the sky. I realized Saint Germain was answering me that "Yes. I am Padmasambhava too". MY family and I had tea with the Lama who later came to Mt. Shasta and gave at least 100 or more of us there the highest initiation of his lineage.

    So, assuming Merlin and Padmasambhava lived in the same times they could have been the same person. One of the many reasons I think they were is that Padmasambhava had a pink complexion like people in Northern Europe. So, it is possible he was born in Europe or England or Scotland, went to Afghanistan and India and Tibet say between the time he was 20 to 50. Then he returned to England when he was 50 or older through normal or supernatural means, found King Arthur, raised him to become a King and the rest is the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the round table. If this is true he launched two civilizations during the same lifetime culturally at least.

    Then he reincarnated as Francis Bacon, wrote the Shakespearean plays pretended to be dead as Francis Bacon, took on the role of the Comte de Saint Germain in France, became a spy for Louis XV and Louis XVI and a double agent at times because at some points I think he also represented England because of this connections there (I'm less sure of this). Helped start the U.S. when he came to the signing of the Declaration of Independence and gave the speech that inspired John Hancock to sign in the way he did, and if he didn't ever die helped create the European Union during the 20th and 21st Century and is still working on this now.

    Another reason this is likely to be true is that he would have been following his son in his lifetime as Joseph the father of Jesus and husband to Mary and would have been doing somewhat what Jesus did between the ages of 15 and 30 when he went to India and the Himalayas, learned to raise his body from the dead, married Mary Magdelene who was a rich educated woman historically, and after he recovered from the crucifiction moved to India where he became a Guru known as Saint Issa so people wouldn't try to kill him anymore until he passed away about age 85. (This is in Tibetan Records of Jesus' life). So even though most other civilizations were overrun and destroyed, Tibet's history and culture and records were not destroyed because Tibet wasn't overrun by anyone until Mao Tse Tung used attack aircraft and soldiers and cannons on Tibet in the 1950s. So, it is quite likely that their history of Saint Issa (Jesus). In Aramaic Jesus' native language his name is Yesu or Yeshua. One could see Issa being a local Indian way of pronouncing Yesu or Yeshua.

    For you out there that want to learn more about Tibetan Buddhist Empowerment here is what Wikipedia has to say about this:
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    Empowerment (Vajrayana)

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    A torma and mandala offering for an empowerment ceremony
    An empowerment is a ritual in Vajrayana which initiates a student into a particular tantric deity practice. The Tibetan word for this is wang (Skt. abhiṣeka; Tib. དབང་, wang; Wyl. dbang),[1] which literally translates to power. The Sanskrit term for this is abhiseka which literally translates to sprinkling or bathing or anointing.[2] A tantric practice is not considered effective or as effective until a qualified master has transmitted the corresponding power of the practice directly to the student. This may also refer to introducing the student to the mandala of the deity.
    There are three requirements before a student may begin a practice:[3][4][5][6]
    1. the empowerment (Tibetan: wang)
    2. a reading of the text by an authorized holder of the practice (Tibetan: lung)
    3. instruction on how to perform the practice or rituals (Tibetan: tri).
    An individual is not allowed to engage in a deity practice without the empowerment for that practice. The details of an empowerment ritual are often kept secret as are the specific rituals involved in the deity practice.[7]

    Commitment

    Main article: Samaya
    By receiving the empowerment, the student enters into a samaya connection with the teacher. At the level of the anuttarayoga tantra class of practices; the samayas traditionally entail fourteen points of observance. The vajra master may also include particular directives, such as specifying that the student complete a certain amount of practice.

    Process


    The reading of the text - the 'lung'
    The ritual for performing an empowerment can be divided into four parts:
    • 'vase' (Tibetan: bumpa) or water empowerment
    • secret (Sanskrit: guhya) empowerment
    • knowledge-wisdom (Sanskrit: prajna-jnana)empowerment
    • word, fourth, or suchness empowerment[8]
    The ritual is based on the coronation process of a king but in this case represents the student being empowered as the deity of the practice (i.e. a Buddha).[9] The vase empowerment symbolizes purification of the body, senses, and world into the body of the deity and may include a vase filled with water or washing. Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche compared that to baptism.[citation needed] The secret empowerment involves receiving nectar to purify the breath and speech into the speech of that deity. The knowledge-wisdom empowerment involves uniting wiith a real or imaginary consort, called the prajna, to experience the blissful wisdom jnana) mind of the deity. The word empowerment involves means by word, sound, or symbols to realize the union, mind essence or mind nature, or the suchness of the deity.[2][10][11][12][13]

    Pointing-out instructions

    Main article: Pointing-out instruction
    In the Kagyu and Nyingma traditions of Mahāmudrā and Dzogchen, respectively, one finds "pointing-out instruction" conferred outside of the context of formal abhiṣeka. Whether or not such instructions are valid without the formal abhiṣeka has historically been a point of contention with the more conservative Gelug and Sakya lineages. The pointing-out instruction is often equated with the "fourth" or word abhiṣeka.

    See also

    Notes

    1. "Empowerment". Rigpa Wiki. Retrieved 2013-09-04.
    2. Trungpa (1985) pp.92-93
    3. "Glossary". United Trungram Buddhist Fellowship. Retrieved 2007-12-09.
    4. "Interview with Trinley Thaye Dorje, the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa". Buddhism Today, Vol.8. Diamond Way Buddhism, USA. 2000. Retrieved 2007-12-09.[dead link]
    5. "Vajrayana". Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre. Retrieved 2007-12-09.
    6. Mingyur Dorje Rinpoche. "Vajrayana and Empowerment". Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre. Retrieved 2007-12-09.
    7. "The Meaning of Empowerment". The Bodhicitta Foundation. Retrieved 2007-12-09.
    8. "Empowerment". Khandro.Net. Retrieved 2007-12-09.
    9. Dhavamony (1973) p.187
    10. Beer (2004) p.219
    11. Trungpa (1991) p. 153-156
    12. Rangdrol (1997) 17-18, 25, 39
    13. Kongtrul (2005)225, 229, 231-233

     

     

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