Bodhisattvas
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Avalokiteshvara
Bodhisattva or Quan Yin
Josh:
“Was the Buddha involved with Kundalini or more of a
meditational Union?”
Wim:
I have the following
memory:
I met the little one (the
Buddha) when he was 8 years old, inside the compound of his father's palace. He was
rather disturbed and upset (I could see he had cried), saddened by his
separation from an unknown world. He felt at odds about the fact that he was
unfairly left in the dark about that world. Unfair, as the other children
seemed to be free to come and go. This caused him great suffering, as fear and
threats were inflicted upon him by his father to prevent him from finding out
about the unknown. This suffering he quickly saw as illusion...as he saw that
his father's power over him was illusive... as he saw that the palatial
compound's walls were no more than solidified illusion. We actually peeked
through a crack and climbed on top of some badly maintained parts. There was
much commotion on the other side. When he was close to 12 years old, I remember
meeting him again and he recounted a healing process that he went through,
which to me, rather sounded like kundalini's SELF regeneration process as I experienced it in
this, my life. He was a neat kid, with a lovely, sweet, well rounded face. His
touch made me feel very soft and sweet all over my upper body and inside my
chest. Our faces felt like large sweet fruits, our eyes so merrily confident,
our brows so inspired. We envisioned an heroic quest that returned freedom and
clarity to al.
At age 12 many children are still so perfect...
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John:
“Patho- words have the primary meanings of ‘feeling’ or
‘sensation’.”
Wim:
Many Greek words that start with the root 'pa' have to do with 'feeding',
'caring for'...paoo. Words like pater, pais, pathos. Even the Latin pasco (to
lead a herd or flock), pastor (shepherd), panis (bread), pasta and passio
(suffering) are derived from this root.
The English 'food', 'feeding are derived from same. Via fodian,
fedan, fuoten,fodjan,pat. The feeder (father), the fed (the child, ped-). Dios
Pater, the provider god (Latin Jupiter).
In Greek pathos (Latin passio) originally had the meaning of
being fed, being cared for, undergoing, letting it happen, being taken care
off, ... eventually it also got the meaning of suffering, experiencing hunger,
pain and anguish. In Latin the word passio (suffering) and passivus (passively
undergoing) express the same meanings. Initially in English the word suffering
did not have a 'pain connotation', it simply meant ‘let it be’, ‘experience’
(as in ‘Suffer the little children).
The interpretation of feeling, sensation is apt, but we can
expand it more towards experiencing with extra energy...Pathos.
The original self, which some call the 'Higher Self' or ‘Inner
Self”, uses pathos as feeling, experience, sensation, undergoing to experience
of being energized, fed so to say by energy, the stuff that is the origin of
the original self, drinking from the fountain of eternity. Compassion or sympathy (usually
called empathy in English) is what a bodhisattva applies in dealing with beings
that are energetically malnourished... one lets the 'sufferer'
participate in the being energized. So 'pathos' is the sensation mechanism of
the higher or original self, "the five skandas," as Bodhisattva
Avalokiteshvara calls it. Compassion
or loving kindness is the mechanism or gesture of healing... feeding...caring
for...
I feel pathos as unconditioned energy flowing through me (soma, amrita, nectar)
feeding me, nurturing me, conditioning me to share it universally with anything
and anybody around me...unconditionally.
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Herbert:
“Wm, this [a seemingly arrogant remark of mine, Wim] really gave me a good spritual chuckle.
Was this your ego
speaking?”
Wim:
Hi Herbert, was it a coincidence that when you tried to type my
first name that you forgot to type in the i between the W and m?
Does my 'i' or ego seem to be your problem?
And did you notice that you also forgot to type an 'i' in the word 'spritual'?
Could it be that 'i' is really your problem?
i-)
i-(
:-)
Herbert:
“Who created the heavens and the earth?
You sound like you believe you created it all,
but where did YOU r-e-a-l-l-y come from?”
Wim:
Am I your problem...?
It appears so...
But maybe your question is genuine.
Best not be mistaken about motivations. Can we fully know what moves us to do what we do and why?
So here is a genuine answer.
What to say but telling you that in some moment of great ecstatic abandon, I was indeed allowed to witness that instance of universal creation.
Divine Love, Truth and Light is truly that inviting..., even invited me in on the act when time and space, etc. were brought about.
What immense bliss, no birthing pains when the universe comes into being, It for sure is Divine play.
I came to (HAD TO) appreciate being human on earth in spite of how often I've tried to escape this earthly part of creation. There was very little reason for me to be invited, I'd pretty well done anything wrong that could have been done wrong. And - this is so neat - you have that realization coming too.
That is the whole idea of Kundalini: that one recovers and
recognizes one's Origin in the Divine. There is no I in that but the I of God.
However that sounds... I claim nothing about myself but proclaim only the
ultimate divine reality as we, as human participants in this wondrous universal
miracle, will realize it.
I have been allowed to recover so many fantastic memories of all
these wondrous beings, our ancestors.
Do not take me wrong I am not talking about past lives, that
concept is too simplistic to describe my witnessing of the Divine Trust in
human beings. When I talk about Vishnu or Adam or Christ or John, my memories
are in ‘first person singular’, I cannot help that. That is the mysterious
nature of these graces. I do not claim to be those persons... personhood is too
limited a concept to explain these events... BTW, I am by far not the only one
to have these memories, I am just more daring in proclaiming the divine graces
to prepare fellow beings to accept same and not be surprised... (There are
great episodes of fear preceding these realizations and manifestations. Better not
to believe in that fear though...) My experiences and witnessing take nothing
away from your realization of ultimate being and reality.
Herbert:
“I don't believe in you, sorry to say it that way.”
Wim:
Only the Divine is and we are temporary and spatial participants
in that wonderful play that is called the Divine. At some point all of us will
converge into that grand reality, merging our individualities within the bosom
of the "true I AM".
Herbert:
“You can't save my soul.
I stick with the one whom saved my life,
whom appeared before me, who told me
that I can, who is the true I AM.”
Wim:
Do I ever concur with what you say, so true, so true...!
Herbert:
“I am not trying to change anyone’s way of thinking but this is
quite funny in the midst of the earthquakes, and the other mishaps. 9 out of 10
times who’s name is called? Your’s, Wim? I don't think so.”
Wim:
When the Divine is called, truly ALL OF US (including you and
me) are called upon to intercede in the rescue of people from calamity and
suffering and to realize the Divine Saviour with our individual human
endeavours. The Divine answers through us, our actions of love and kindness are
the fingertips of the Divine, part of and participation in that Divine Embrace.
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Shannon:
“I don't believe in a specific god at all. I believe in ME and I
believe in YOU and I believe that no one truly knows what else is out there and
that a lot of time and energy and resources are wasted by searching for
"something".
I'm not really bad, I am just drawn that way.”
Wim:
Well said, drop the concept of God.
The ones we call gods are our fore-fathers and fore-mothers.
In search for "something" I have met the lot of them.
I call Brahman my father, Shiva my son and I recovered Vishnu as
me.
Yes and I am Adam and Jesus, and I am that young apostle guy
John.
We are our ancestry once we drop the timeline concept.
It is so deliciously simple:
relish your ancestry,
relish your children,
relish each other.
Am I God? Are we Gods?
Drop all questioning and one finds that this is it...
This is totally enough... and there is nothing to it...
No fear, no faith needed no more, no belief systems, no
nothing...
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Steve:
“Avalokiteshvara said, “Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.”
Wim:
I would love to write about a great insight I had some years
ago, that there is only one article (I used to say, "There is only one
particle," but I had to drop the p.) the primal and ultimate
"be" which self-inventively creates its own evidence in non- and
multi-dimensionalities as experienced by us separately in temporalities and
spatialities and their derivates: here/there/elsewhere, now/then(future)/then
(past). But I will leave it at this.
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