White Tara Long Life Practice

When I first met Geshe Lobsang Gyatso it was in a beautiful home he was staying at overlooking the cliffs near Santa Cruz, California. I had by then met several Tibetan Lamas but somehow my wife and I were very taken with Geshe Lobsang Gyatso. He had been sent by the Dalai Lama from India and Dharamshala to help Lama Yeshe in Boulder Creek pass on and reincarnate into another baby body here on earth. Later we met the boy from Spain that he reincarnated as and helped dedicate his Stupa of his previous body there in Boulder Creek Near Santa Cruz, California.

Already being an intuitive all my life I saw the Auras of Tibetan Lamas and some frightened me because of what my experience already was. But, they frightened me like I might feel overwhelmed meeting the President of the United States or a U.S. Senator because of the power they represent.

However, Geshe Lobsang Gyatso was very approachable as a friend. I later learned why. Geshe is a title that literally means "Spiritual Friend" which explained my experience. So, a Geshe is trained to be a friend to all beings on a kind path.

I believe "White Tara" was the first initiation that Geshela gave my wife and I and my children. It has a specific practice and Mantra and it extends your life and prevents interferences occurring which could contribute to your early death for one reason or another.

There are 21 Taras and when I went to Dharamshala, India two years later in 1985 with my wife and children on a bus from the nearest Train Station with Geshela, I bought a rolled up poster that had a print of all 21 Taras. On the back of the poster was the explanation of each one as well. I found this very helpful in visualizing them better.

While I was in Dharamshala I experienced the "Heaven Realms" there interfaced with the physical likely caused by the presence of the Dalai Lama there and the thousands of Tibetan Buddhists that live or visit there from all over the world. I was invited to see a "Tibetan Oracle" along with another Woman from Wisconson and my wife there. However, I sensed because I am so psychicly sensitive that it would be too overwhelming so I decided not to go.

However, soon I was invited by one of Geshela's students who had been a Tibetan Monk but presently was a Mountain Climbing Guide who had given Geshe Lobsang Gyatso his robes to hold while he paid for and took care of his parents as they passed on since they were too old to work anymore.

So, Thubten had gotten permission for us I guess to visit Ling Rinpoche who ran the Tibetan Government in Tibet before the Dalai Lama became 18 year old and became leader of Tibet.

So, as we walked into the stone house several miles walk towards the high mountains from upper Dharamshala (Dharamshala is about 6000 feet high in the Himalayan foothills and from there you can see peaks up to 15,000 feet to 20,000 feet that you can walk to if you wish from there). So, when we reached the stone house with the slate roof we were ushered in by Tibetan monks who were caring for Ling Rinpoche.

He was sitting on a table there sitting in the Maitreya Teaching Mudra with one hand raised in blessing and another in his lap in a blessing receiving position. 

I asked the monks how long he had been sitting there in meditation. They told me 1 to 2 years. I asked if he was ever coming back from this meditation? They said, "No."

I later found out that really high lamas who are realized like this eventually are encased in wax while in this meditation position and put in a Gonpo (Temple) for the blessing of all who come there often for several years before they are put eventually in a Stupa for hundreds of years as a blessing to mankind often on a ridge of a high mountain.

While I was there in the stone hut with His Holiness Ling Rinpoche like that something happened to me. I experienced that this was not death but something else. My own father had passed away about 6 months before so I realized this was something different than death. I went outside and cried because I was completely overwhelmed by this experience. I have never been the same since.

I realized then that death (at least as we know it in the western world) is no inevitable and that there are other choices people can make like Jesus did where types of immortality exist.

Though in the western world materially we have everything maybe we haven't spent enough time understanding that we are potentially immortal.

So, I'm not really surprised anymore that human beings generally are living longer and longer and longer because of this.

I don't really think there is ANY real time when people must die if they technologically can live longer or they have the right mind set to go on further.

There really isn't ANY actual limitation for humans not to live 100, 500, 1000,5000 or even 10,000 years in one lifetime. I'm convinced of this now. If you have a good enough reason to be alive there is no need to ever die.