Keeping
your peace while letting your light shine
A message from Gautama Buddha. This dictation was delivered during the
Shangra-la Peace conference near Stockholm, Sweden, October 1, 2006.
Indeed, I am the Buddha in the crown, the crown chakra of this planet,
where I hold my position, my office, as Lord of the World,* looking
for the petals of the lotus blossom to unfold. The six billion and more
petals of all those on Earth who are part of the beautiful lotus flower
of God.
My beloved, it is with great joy that I speak this day. For the work
that has been accomplished throughout this conference, culminating in
your rosary for the unification of East and West,** is indeed significant
for this continent of Europe. For through your giving of your pure hearts
in love, I have been able, along with many other members of the Ascended
Host and many angels, to clear away a very significant portion of the
ancient records that have separated and divided Europe into two camps
of East and West.
For my beloved, as you see a division between East and West on a planetary
scale, surely you have seen that division here in Europe until very
recently. So even after the material symbol of this division came down,
namely the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain, even after that, there
was a blockage in the emotional,
mental and even the lower etheric realm that prevented a true reunification
and integration between East and West. And thus, there has not so far
been the optimal flow of energy between these two regions of Europe.
Yet through the work that has been accomplished at this conference and
those in Europe who have given Mother Mary’s rosaries, we have
been able to clear the emotional blockages, the blockages on the emotional
realm. This is a very significant step. And as the work continues by
people individually and by future conferences that I trust we will hold
on this continent, we can surely move on and clear other levels.
So my beloved, for Europe to fulfill her role in serving as an ambassador
of world peace, there clearly must be integration between East and West,
even between North and South. For if Europe is divided, how can she
be an ambassador for peace, a voice of reason? Thus, my beloved, the
integration of East and West will now be accelerated thanks to the clearing
of these emotional energies, this blockage, that has truly prevented
the people in Europe from forgiving, from letting go of the past. And
you will see a change in this area. You will see greater openness, greater
willingness to look at the past, to learn the lessons that need to be
learned and then to forgive.
Truly, my beloved, with the expansion of the European Union towards
the East, the nations of Europe have opened up for the physical exchange
of goods and services, even of people who move between East and West,
either to give their expertise or to find jobs. And so with this greater
exchange you will see even more of a breaking up of the barriers and
much more of an integration, and even the beginning of a sense of oneness.
That sense of oneness, that has been lacking from this continent for
so long because it has been divided into so many different nations that
were always warring with each other or in competition with each other.
What Western Europe can learn from Eastern Europe
It is obvious that the nations in Western Europe are far ahead economically,
technologically and to some degree politically compared to the nations
that used to be behind the Iron Curtain. Yet one should not overlook
the fact that the Eastern nations also have a significant contribution
to make to the future of Europe. Not only in terms of creativity, but
let me especially point out the obvious fact that most Western nations
have become so materialistic that they dare not truly think and talk
about religion and its role in society. This is very obvious when you
see how the conflicts created by refugees from Islamic countries has
been handled, or rather not handled, by many Western European nations,
who did not even know how to have a constructive debate about the role
of religion in society.
My beloved, the Western nations have almost become impotent when it
comes to openly debating religious issues. And this, of course, is not
a sustainable situation. For as you have heard from the previous Masters
who have spoken here, without true spirituality, there can be no true
government. The only solution to the situations in the world, the only
solution is God government. But how can there be God government without
God? How can there be God government in nations that are afraid to talk
about God, that are afraid to talk about the possibility that some universal
spiritual teaching about God’s Law could provide the very foundation
for a free democracy—that must recognize that the people have
rights that are not given by the state, but given by an authority that
is entirely beyond any human power, and thus cannot be corrupted by
human power plays.
So my beloved, this is where the nations in what was formerly Eastern
Europe have a valuable contribution to make. Because these nations were
under communism for so long that they know what it is like to live in
a country where the state forbids them to practice any form of religion
and even persecutes those who dare to be religious. Thus, you will see
that the Eastern part of Europe is currently going through a greater
degree of spiritual awakening than you see in the West. And if this
can truly gather momentum and become a true spiritual awakening –
rather than being a religious awakening where the Eastern people are
trapped by the old religions – if it can become that true spiritual
awakening, it can truly spread to the West and reestablish the balance
that there should be between God government and the secular form of
government. And this, my beloved, has become much more of a realistic
possibility after the clearing of these emotional barriers. For truly,
there will be a freer exchange of ideas, thoughts and feelings, where
the people will feel freer to express their feelings.
A government without God will become a tyranny
And even the people in the East will feel freer to express their feelings
about what they see as a materialism and as anti-spirituality in the
West. And thus, they will gain the courage to stand up and witness to
their realization that a government that denies God cannot avoid becoming
a tyranny that suppresses the people. This, my beloved, is a universal
law that anyone who is willing to take a look at history can confirm.
Certainly, you see many examples of a government that does not deny
God and still has become tyrannical. But my beloved, if there is some
recognition of an existence of a higher authority, then there is at
least a frame of reference that is beyond human power and human definition.
For as you have discussed in your discussion this afternoon, there is
a level where people are entirely blinded by the consciousness of duality.
And in that level they are only concerned about competing and warring
with other human beings. They have created their own definition of what
is right, and that definition says that they are right and anyone who
is different from themselves is automatically wrong. And if two nations
or two civilizations have such a dualistic definition of right and wrong,
how can they ever avoid a conflict? And how can they ever resolve a
conflict, when each side is guided by a dualistic, man-made definition
of right and wrong?
The true definition of the eightfold path
So my beloved, there must become a willingness to reach beyond duality,
to reach for a higher definition of right that is not defined by human
beings or institutions, that is not defined based on the consciousness
of duality where any idea must have an opposite. You see, my beloved,
when you rise above duality, you clearly see that there is something
that is unreal. But that which is unreal is not in opposition to that
which is real, as that which is humanly wrong is in opposition to that
which is humanly right.
That which is unreal is simply unreal. It is outside reality, separate
from reality. But it is not and cannot be in opposition to reality.
For that which is real can have no opposition.
Nothing can threaten that which is real.
Thus, the first step on the spiritual path is to reach for something
beyond duality. And that is what Jesus expressed so beautifully when
he said, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his right-eous-ness.”
Seek ye first the higher “right” of God. This is also what
I expressed in the definition of the eightfold path. So many Buddhists
have misinterpreted the eightfold path and believe that it can be defined
in human terms. What is right livelihood. What is right action. What
is right thought. What is right association and so on.
But you see, the true definition of the eightfold path is that you reach
for the “right” of God that is beyond duality. But how can
you reach for that right, that higher right? Well, you can do so only
when you realize the noble truth that everything that springs from duality
causes suffering, and that the cause of suffering is wrong desire that
is based on an attachment to the things of this world, be it the sensual
pleasures or the desire to be right in a human sense and feel that you
are better than those who you define as wrong because they are different
from you or hold opposite views from you.
Oh my beloved, there are so many people on this planet who spend their
entire lives seeking to establish this sense of superiority of being
better than others. They always see themselves as being in competition
with others and this goes from the so-called ordinary people, who are,
as the saying goes, seeking to keep up with the Joneses, in having better
houses, bigger cars and more material goods. And it goes all the way
up to the people in the power elite who are seeking to have more power
than those other people in those other power elite groups with whom
they are comparing themselves.
My beloved, you can spend lifetimes on this senseless quest of seeking
to be thought right among men. Or you can reach up for the reality of
being right with God. Yet in order to be right with God you must be
willing to consciously and willfully choose to let go of your attachments
to the things in the material realm. For as long as you are attached
to being right with other people, to being popular or not to be seen
as an outcast or ridiculed for your beliefs, or your lifestyle or your
actions, as long as you are attached to anything, any appearance in
this world, to your standing among human beings, then you will not be
free to grasp the higher right of God or to express that right.
So my beloved, I taught 2,500 years ago, that non-attachment is the
key to peace of mind. And that teaching is true. It is timeless. It
is eternal. Yet as Jesus has pointed out, there is no teaching expressed
in words that the human ego cannot pervert. For anything expressed in
words can be taken by the dualistic mind and interpreted according to
this extreme or that extreme or even the false concept of the Middle
Way as something that is right between the two dualistic extremes.
So you see my beloved, even the concept of the Middle Way can be misinterpreted.
For truly, I never told people to come to the midpoint between the two
dualistic extremes. I taught them to transcend the entire scale of duality,
the entire consciousness of duality. And this is the essence of Buddhahood.
Yet to transcend duality you must be willing to let go of the desires,
the beliefs, the attachments that spring from duality. And thus you
must come to the point where you love the right of God more than the
right of man.
And this must in the end be a conscious decision you make. Truly, not
everyone is ready to make that decision. But certainly those who are
the spiritual people are ready or can quickly become ready. And if you
will contemplate these concepts, you will come to a point where you
feel a spontaneous, inner surge of love for the higher reality of God
that suddenly makes it easy to let go of some attachment. And once you
realize how easy it is to let go of one attachment, you can build a
momentum of letting go of the attachments as quickly as you see them.
Knowing what is right
Now my beloved, as you discussed this afternoon, it is not necessarily
easy to always know what is right with God. And the reason for this
is that there is no outer rule that can be given in this world for what
is right according to God’s absolute reality. For each situation,
each person, is different. And so in one situation it might be right
to do one thing. But in another situation, that might seem similar based
on outer appearances, it may be right to do what seems to be the opposite.
And thus, you cannot know this by setting up rules with the analytical
mind that loves to create labels and say that, “Under these circumstances
you should always do this. And under those circumstances you should
always do that.”
Well, my beloved, this will not work. For then you have pulled yourself
into the realm of the intellect which can only operate in the field
of duality. Yet you can attain much by consciously working on non-attachment.
For truly, when you are non-attached to the outer appearances, you will
not be tempted to respond according to a human standard for what should
be right in this or that situation. You will then be able to reach up
for the higher reality of God, so you will spontaneously do what is
right.
Yet in order to do what is right with God, you must realize that non-attachment
is not the same as indifference. My beloved, if you will study my life
as the Buddha incarnate, you will notice that I walked a path of attaining
complete non-attachment to the things of this world. And then, after
having attained that non-attachment which is commonly in Buddhist terms
called Enlightenment, I still faced an initiation that many Buddhists
do not understand or even look upon. For I faced the temptation that
the forces of this world said, “Oh, but what you have seen, what
you have attained, is far too advanced or complicated for the people
on Earth. You will not be able to explain it to them. They will not
be able to understand it. None will understand you, so don’t bother
to go out in the world and bear witness to your truth. Just stay in
Nirvana and leave the world to the forces of duality. Do not attempt
to enlighten the people, for they will not understand.”
Well, my beloved, I passed that initiation only by connecting to the
I AM THAT I AM within me, to Brahman himself. And through that connection
I got the clear impulse, “Some will understand.” And I went
out and started preaching my truth and some did indeed understand. Thus,
you will face the same initiation. First you face the initiation of
attaining non-attachment to other people’s reactions, so that
when they reject your light, your God Flame, your truth, you are non-attached
to their reactions. And you do not allow their rejection to become an
excuse that the ego can use to trick you into turning off your light
or being quiet about challenging the unreality on Earth.
Yet in attaining and working on that non-attachment, you will then come
to the temptation of thinking, “What is the point of seeking to
enlighten people when they are so far down into the consciousness of
duality and seemingly are so uninterested in anything spiritual?”
And my beloved, it is a delicate balance to remain non-attached but
at the same time not to become indifferent, not to give up, not to become
a pacifist who just sits there and lets the world do what it will do
without challenging what is unreal. And each of you must find your own
balance, for I tell you, there is an idolatry in the world which thinks
that it was easy for me to walk the path and pass my initiations and
then find my balance and go out and preach my truth.
Likewise, they say it was easy for Jesus to pass his initiations and
then go out and witness to his truth. But I tell you that it was fully
as difficult for Jesus and myself as it is for you. You see, my beloved,
we all have certain elements of the human condition that we must surrender
and overcome before we manifest a higher state of consciousness. And
the human conditions that each of us have are precisely those conditions
that are the hardest for us to see. So Jesus was not born in the fullness
of his Christhood. And I was not born in the fullness of Buddhahood,
as is clearly seen in our lives.
Therefore, we too had to overcome our own points of blindness that we
could not see. And precisely that which we could not see was as difficult
for us to overcome as it is for each of you to overcome that which you
cannot see. Do you see, my beloved, it is such an illusion to think
that Jesus and I and other spiritual masters were above you and that
it was so much easier for us. For indeed it was not easy at all. But
the fact that we made it should be an encouragement that you too can
make it. For as has been the motto of the Ascended Host for a long time,
“What one has done all can do.” And in this age we might
say, “What one is Being, all can Be!” For truly it is not
doing that is the key but Being.
How to bear witness to your truth
Thus, my beloved, let me give you at least one hint of how to go out
and bear witness to the truth, how to let your light so shine before
men that by seeing your good works they see that it is not the outer
person that is the doer, but the light of God within you that is the
true doer. In order to do this, you must be non-attached without being
indifferent. So let me give you the key that if you will strive to remain
at peace, even when you are challenging other people, then you will
always be in the higher right of God.
So examine yourself. Are you reluctant to challenge others? Do you feel
fearful, guilty or have other negative feelings when you do challenge
others? In that case you might consider that you still have some attachment
to an outer appearance that is preventing you from challenging others
with the true inner peace of the Christ and the Buddha who have obtained
complete non-attachment. And then you just look at that. You work on
it. You go to the core of it and you let it go.
My beloved, do you seriously believe that Jesus and I did not have any
remnants of the human ego when we were born? I know very well that there
are many people in Buddhism and Christianity who believe in this idolatry.
But it was not so. For we had indeed elements of the ego, attachments
and spiritual blindness that we needed to overcome. And how did we overcome
it? My beloved, it did not happen in one glorious moment of breakthrough
into nirvana as some teachers portray it. It happened one little step
at a time. Much of this has never been recorded because it was an inner
path. And at the time that we both gave forth our respective teachings,
humankind was not ready to understand the idiosyncrasies of the human
psyche that people in many areas of the world are capable of understanding
today.
Thus, we could not even teach it at the time. And we had to give forth
a simpler teaching that was adapted to the consciousness that people
had back then in those far darker times. Yet I tell you that in today’s
age you have the teachings and the tools to systemically overcome every
attachment. And when you lock in to your own higher being and to your
own God Flame –
and know that you are that flame, and not the outer personality, or
the ego or the body or the person that other people have created in
their minds – then you will be able to come to a point where you
are willing to let go of any attachment as soon as you see it.
And you know that no matter what might come up, you will be willing
to let go of it. And this is the true hallmark of a true spiritual seeker
who has begun to find that which so many still seek without knowing
what they are even seeking. And thus, even though you are not necessarily
completely free of attachments, you can still obtain the inner peace
that passes understanding because it is not based on any outer security
in the form of having bigger bombs or bigger cannons than these other
nations. Or even the false intellectual security of thinking that because
you belong to this or that religion, or this or that scientific world
view and understand all of its concepts intellectually you are sure
to be saved.
No my beloved, it is a peace that is beyond all outer appearances that
does not depend upon any conditions in the material realm and therefore
cannot be taken away by any conditions in the material realm no matter
what happens. This is the inner peace that I desire to see all of you
have. And this is the inner peace I had attained before I started my
mission. Yet I must tell you that you will make faster progress if you
are willing to bear witness to the truth that you see even though you
may not yet see the highest truth.
For my beloved, Jesus and I had to set forth certain examples. And so
we withdrew from the world until we had attained a consciousness that
would allow us to fulfill our missions. But precisely because we were
meant to set up examples, we also faced a tremendous opposition to those
missions that you do not face individually because in this day and age
it is the priority that many people walk the path together instead of
just one person being the forerunner. So each of you individually is
not facing the same opposition that we faced, which is why you can start
bearing witness to the truth even before you have obtained complete
non-attachment and peace of mind.
And indeed, by doing so you will make greater progress than if you withdrew
from society until you had attained a higher state of consciousness.
So be willing to bear witness to your truth even if you are not perfect,
even if you are still disturbed by other people rejecting you. For if
you have that courage, that willingness, you will surely make much faster
progress, especially if you are willing to look at yourself and say,
“Ah, but why was I disturbed by other people’s reaction?
Is there not an element of the ego hiding behind that disturbance? And
so if I look at it, can I not expose my ego and then surrender it?”
Indeed, my beloved, you who are here and who went through this exercise
of giving the rosary the way you gave it*** can look at yourselves and
say, “Was I fully comfortable and at peace by standing up and
reciting a part of the rosary? Was I fully expressing my God Flame or
was I still concerned about other people’s reactions or getting
the words expressed right?”
My beloved, if you discover such concerns, look at them and say, “Why
did I feel disturbed? Why could l not be at peace, for after all, if
I am expressing my God Flame then why should I feel disturbed about
any appearance?” You see, my beloved, the peace you need to strive
for is that you can bear witness to your truth and let your light shine
no matter the outer conditions or the reactions you get from other people.
You are not disturbed. They do not take away your peace. You do not
feel rejected because you have no attachment to how they should respond.
You simply allow their free will to work itself out and leave it up
to them whether they will accept or reject the higher truth that they
have now seen in you.
And when you can have that non-attachment, nothing will disturb you.
Nothing will take away your peace. And my beloved, I do not want you
to think that you are so far away from Buddhahood that it would take
you the rest of your life or even years or decades to obtain that inner
peace, for it is not so for most of you. You can attain that inner peace
in a relatively short period of time if you will make use of the teachings
and the tools that you have. And if you will ask questions of each other
and of the two messengers who have attained a very high degree of non-attachment
and inner peace. And ask how others have obtained it and then share
and help each other come into that sense of inner peace.
This, my beloved, is a realistic goal—that you as a worldwide
community, can obtain if you will openly put your minds to it. And so
as my final message I hurl that challenge at you. Take the tools you
have been given, the rosaries, the ego discourses, but also be willing
to talk about this openly and ask questions. And help each other. Inspire
each other. And be willing to be open and honest with each other and
say, “I think you still have an attachment and that is why you
are disturbed about this. Let us see if we together can discover the
cause of that attachment so that it can be surrendered into the Flame
of Ecstatic Peace.”
Thus, my beloved, I have had my say and while I have spoken I have indeed
released an intense momentum of my Flame of Buddhic Peace that has moved
like a wave over this continent to consume a certain portion of the
consciousness and records of war. Thus, I too am grateful for your presence
and for the manifestation of this conference that I might have an open
door for bringing forth this action that is much needed.
Thus, in gratitude, I seal you in the Flame of Buddhic Peace. And I
ask you to accept your potential to be the Buddha before you think it
is possible. My peace I give unto you. My peace I leave with you. So
be at peace by being in the peace of the Buddha by Being the
peace of Buddha. It is sealed.
* Gutama Buddha presently holds a spiritual office with
the title "Lord of the World," which sustains the life flame,
also called the Threefold Flame, of every person. It is an office that
in time is meant to be taken over by Jesus, but for this to happen,
more people must come to understand and internalize the true, inner
teachings of Jesus.
** The participants
gave the Golden
Age East-West Rosary specifically for Europe.
*** The rosary was
given in a special way in which one person would stand up and give one
verse alone and then the group would give the Hail Mary together.
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