On MySpace today I received a bulletin from my friend RAK (Random Acts of Kindness). It's a perfect article for reflection on a Sunday, when the sun is slowly being uncovered.
It speaks of harmlessness and the glamour that masks and mocks our spiritual self. External glamour tries to separate us from being ONE. We are what we think, but not if you let others think for you, it distances you from your spirit, it can put your spirit into a slumber state.
The article mentions the curative powers of meditation. I would like to stress that meditation can mean a lot of things. It doesn't necessarily mean sitting down in a specific position for a certain time. Meditation for me is often happening when I'm hiking in the mountains, or watching the river flow, just staring into the sky. It's easy to reach a meditative state when I'm cleaning the house, or just before or just after sleep. So don't let this article put you off when it mentions meditation. Thinking about what you've read, contemplating the aspects, looking at yourself and see how it applies to you and taking little steps to change what you don't like what you're looking at ;-), that's perfect too!
Enjoy the article and the opportunity to reflect.
In peace and light
Li
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What is Harmlessness & Glamour?
by His Holiness Gyalwa Jampa Buddha Maitreya
Harmlessness is a form of yoga, an attitude in a state of harmlessness of truly recognizing the negative side of doing harm to someone, rather than just thinking of it and then doing the opposite of that and thinking that that is harmlessness.
Thinking more of harmlessness in the way that you speak, think and interact; the way that you behave with habits and circumstances and attitude; and your lack of ability to respond in a peaceful, harmonious, intelligent clear manner: all of these responses. Each time it is not presented in that way, it is harmful to both you and the environment you are in. It impresses imperil upon it. If you do something negative, thinking about yourself, you will cut back your ability to think in intuition, your instincts and your ability to bring forth your right abilities, your right characteristics and your right own nature that should be developed in this life.
Every act of not being able to respond harmlessly is the act of being able to put upon a person, within themselves or the people around them, a constant energy field that holds a person back. This is glamour.
Glamour is the influence behind people putting out negative thoughts when they watch TV, biased thoughts when they are joking about, and antagonistic thoughts when they are competitive in their workplace. It is the influence behind them putting those thoughts down when they are hanging out with their Brother and Sister. These so-called normal things that seem to come up are actually habits that come from our solar plexus chakra. When people think of chakras and spiritually involved states of change, they usually go to yogis and yogis will tell them about the chakras. The major chakras are our standard seven spiritual centers and one of these centers is located at the solar plexus, just below the heart.
The solar plexus represents the emotional body and it also represents the sentient body or the ability to be sentient. And that ability is your first influence of your soul actually coming in and altering your attitude so that you are more aspiring toward your goodness, your goodwill in action and your ability to respond to anything consciously, rather than your emotional body coming in and reacting from your personality, your desires and your lack of fulfillment.
It is like when you react from your inhibitions because you didn't want to say something, and ten hours later you realize you should have said something. Each time it happens like this it is a lessening of the flow of your soul's integration into your self-realization, of your clarity of mind, and of your own wisdom from previous lives.
All the positive flow is inside your heart chakra. It is all your knowledge, all your ability to repeat good thoughts and to repeat aspiring thoughts toward anything you watch on TV. It is your ability to be attracted toward seeing things that help you to aspire, rather than being directed toward things that help you to be naggy and gossipy.
TV shows like 'Roseanne', soap-operas or chat show programs are essentially naggy. This is the lowest level of the household platform where very little evolution is aspiring. It is just physical compliments or lack of compliments: antagonisms. People think that it is normal and that its comical, but in reality its a way for us to be a part of antagonizing behavior and carry it out while we are watching TV.
The energy of harmlessness helps to attract us to the energy where say if we sit with that kind of a show, our emotions actually come in contact with our mind and we lose our desires of watching because we cannot relate. And that means that we are now moving to another level of relationships that have more to do with our previous lives, our future lives and our present one.
Through our emotions of harmlessness we can untie all of our past lives, all our present problems and disorders, and make way for a much better life in this life and our future lives.
How do we get Human Rights?
So how do we get human rights? How do we break away from our bad karma and habits and having people in our lives that do not love us and families where abuse takes place? These are bad karmic relationships from previous lives. Look at how we lived even a hundred years ago: we had bad living conditions that caused us to be unstable mentally, emotionally, physically and led us to have short lives, full of hopelessness, poverty and a lack of faith. So now we have a lack of faith and we tear down churches and everyone makes fun of monks and nuns, and monastic life is not even a career choice. Yet we are born to be monks and nuns, as loving and compassionate people. Whether you are ordained or not you are a monk or nun and you need to behave with kindness.
So if you look back at history, there is a good chance that you were a monk or nun during periods of spiritual revival like the cycles of the Muslims, Christians, Hindus and Buddhists. For example, it was normal for you if you had a life in India to be done with your career and family at a certain age and become a sannyasin i.e. to be done with work and develop a spiritual life for your next life as they believed in reincarnation and if you do not believe in reincarnation, you miss the boat. In the New Age you are deluded to think you can get off the wheel of reincarnation. Humans reincarnate as we are the supreme divine spiritual force to bring harmony to this planet.
If you study Tibetan Buddhism they invoke to all the Buddhas to never leave us and for all of them to come back as anything else would leave us with hopelessness.
But a hopeless reality is not a reality. It is a lie that creates hell and this is not hell. This is heaven. A wonderful place to be and the radiation we do from here, we do cosmically to evolve other planets. So it is our duty to do what we can do here.
So my first teaching is reincarnation and to get grounded in that. So if you come back, what do you do about all those negative people in this life to stop them coming back in the next life? The answer is by being kind, by giving money to poor people and not judging what they will us it for. Your mind will judge them. But just forget it - give the money anyway and it will change your future life because karma is karma and if you do a good act it will come back to you in your next life and as you continue in this life you are reborn more and more each year and new situations will come up simply by you being kind. The key thing is to remember that the only one who will save you is you. We have to take complete responsibility and do all the good things we can do to stop all the friction that comes out of our mouth and gossip as that creates the same karma to come back at us.
So we need to practice harmlessness, which means that first we have to learn what it is to harm, not harm by raising our consciousness so we can discern and discriminate. I do not believe in hard love, but in soft love. You will get much more done that way than with anger and force. So what way we choose to move things is important: the left path is pushy and intellectual and the right path is to allow our nature and trust it and use intuition. If we build that nature we build it in another person and vice versa. Just as when you think negatively about someone they too get these qualities and that furthers separation.
Do you watch TV and complain about men for example or a program that criticizes humanity? If you change the channel to something better, you will find that in the future there will be less of that and we will get movies with morals and messages. If we remain critical we will only get one tenth of that movie but if we have an open mind we will see the whole movie and it will be soulful.
We are in relationship to everything and we need to be in relationship and enjoy it and make good choices. If you stay open minded and kind and considerate and make your choices and discern and discriminate you are getting liberated and that brings in enlightenment. It is our bad karma that veils everything in doubt. If we have that, we will not see all the love in the world coming at us. We do not know much about love yet, but we know a lot about criticism and fanaticism. If you study the seven rays you will see that humanity is very much into the ego way of life, but the opposite of that is love. You become reverent about yourself rather than reverence in a fanatical way to a belief system.
To establish love you have to commit to the idea that the one thing you do know is that you do not know about anything e.g. science, ourselves, etc. We are learning that we can be followers and reverent to things outside ourselves rather than ourselves and be more spontaneously moved to wanting to please others. So, for example, everyone starts wearing black and you get on a plane and see that most people are wearing black - because where is your choice? Who is making the choice? It is all psychic and we are not taking responsibility for it.
To be yourself you have to make choices and have enough self-esteem to follow those choices. Otherwise you start tuning into others and becoming like them and you have thought forms like we will all die when we are seventy and none of us do anything against it as we have this automatic response and it is all psychic.
There are enlightened people in the world who are there for the whole of humanity. These people are taking care of themselves more e.g. changing their diet, doing exercise, drinking pure water, taking vitamins and people will start seeing that you can rejuvenate and regenerate and get youthful, moving into the right spin of regeneration and not the left spin of degeneration. That is part of your rebirth process. You do not have to have these cultural systems. So every step that you take as to how you speak, to meditate etc is learning to respond to life.
Meditation with the Shambhala Healing Tools
But we do not get taught meditation. So I put out these tools and music so you can start to meditate and you start with symbols like the pyramid. So my teachings have to come out first without any books teaching you how to meditate. All I need to do is give you tools that stimulate you to sit down and feel the resonations of your body and give you CDs that allow you to hear ancient invocations that open up the left and right side of the brain and it allows you to be receptive. That is the first stage of really good teachings using symbols that bring reverence out of you, like thangkas, and out of that reverence is a light that is called love and that brings wisdom and you start thinking new thoughts which increases kindness, guilt about saying something bad or you decide not to continue a relationship. This is part of your souls choice not to be pushed to the side by your personality.
In a soulful sense, we allow people to have fault and not judge them and let people go who are not supposed to be there in our lives and that is real love.
Then I give you the Etheric Weaver which allows you to experience the phenomenon of healing that you think you need to go to others for and you have tingling in your hands and you think maybe you can help someone else with this. Using the Etheric Weaver, you align to your own self and it gives you spontaneous meditation without having to learn how to shut your mind down as meditation should be 24 hours a day. It should be everything, simply the ability to respond. So you need to bring these abilities out. Then with the Etheric Weaver you can help people with all sorts of physical and emotional and mental things, but you can also affect their soul and a whole transition of life takes place for them. And you learn the benefit of meditation and that is life it is extremely spiritual. Using the Etheric Weaver helps you tune into your own Buddha nature in your higher mind, heart and physical being and that is the same thing as the Etheric Weaver it is resonating with your Etheric field, your Etheric body and that wakes you up and that regulates your chakras better than anyone else and you have no limitations as to how holy that self can be.
And you wake up and are able to handle everything better.
To practice meditation it requires more time spent, so I put out the pyramids and metatronic mats to sleep on which stimulate even more your spiritual awakening, even while you are sleeping.
And you can let other people use your pyramid and it stimulates others not to follow or join something, but to stimulate the benefit of their own spiritual energy and that takes away previous life karma of not having human rights. We only get human rights if we are attracted to things that are right and the outcome is discernment and discrimination. So people see the pyramid and their spontaneous response is to discern and discriminate that it is spiritual so that starts their awakening process.
You learn that any object can hold light or imperil.
You can have a really mean guy who sits in a chair and he dies and someone else sits in that same chair and they become mean as this energy gets stored in the chair. That is how the planet is. So you get ghosts and we need to clean it up because we reincarnate and we need to walk around here in a physical form and they are in an astral form. Their attachment, inability to let go is what creates that ghost. So if we change, then that energy changes and it goes back to the source and we eliminate imperil in objects, buildings and in our previous lives which are still holding an astral force on the Earth and that astral force is what we need to clear up.
But you need to know what you are doing and that is what happens in Tibetan Buddhism and in their study and ceremonies. Every ceremony they do is a transformation of elemental forces bound in this astral world. So they do a sand mandala and then let it go and it is a science of transforming all this left spin energy, which creates bad karma. So they are involved in turning the wheel of dharma to the right, blessing energy and transforming and transfiguring it, so all of a sudden healing takes place and it gets worse first as there is a healing crisis.
In the process of imperil it has to be transformed and transfigured. When we use the Etheric Weaver, it is not just for you, but a healing of the environment you are in, as if you heal yourself you heal everything that is connected to you.
In a negative way, everyone tries to bring everyone up through survival of the fittest and that actually brings everyone down. But in the spiritual process we are learning to grow, mature and clean up everyones karma by taking it on. Bad karma is not individual, it is collective and that is how we heal the whole world and that lessens our responsibility. So in the world today there are many wars, but the location of them are the most powerful spiritual areas on the planet and the light is coming out and it creates antagonism for the dark. So really there are no physical wars, but a spiritual war. This is even true of Hitler he had psychic abilities and was heavily into the occult.
So all these processes we see as negative processes in nations can all be healed by furthering ourselves in the process of meditation.
So the pyramid has a divine radiatory force to it. It is geometrically precise 51 degree pyramid, which has a relationship to the dimensions of the Earth and the distance between the Earth and the Moon and the Earth and the Sun. So in reality it is a timepiece, a mathematical system. So if we use pyramids like this, it radiates out as well as radiating into the person and it pulses out like a heartbeat and the longer you use it the further the pulse goes. In Egypt, the pyramid is located centrally for the whole of the planet and it radiates and purifies the whole entire planet. That same application is found in Catholic churches and Glastonbury Abbey. They are all built in the same phi ratio organized geometric proportion it is a science for radiating and healing the nations. It is the same with a stupa. They are all built in proportion to nature.
In reality, your pyramid attracts the darkness just like in the spiritual war and dark forces are drawn there because they are less in control of their mind, of their activity and in reality God is drawing them there.
So the statue of Maitreya in Afghanistan is destroyed because people have intellectualized too much. They have intellectualized God out of the equation and that is their main goal i.e. to destroy religion or the U.S. as they believe they are the devil, they are evil. Where there is light, the opposite is attracted.
So you will attract some negativity, but it is your choice how you respond. It is your discernment and discrimination their words will not cause you to follow and be attracted to follow that negativity so literally you are transforming this being that is trying to make you more negative. How you deal with negativity is Tibetan Buddhism. It is not a religion, but a philosophy for how you raise the planet up.
Harmlessness
Your virtues can be increased tremendously.
The other thing is that if we look at geometric forms like the octahedron. In the New Age we are taught a lot that chakras all go in order and this is linear and analytical. In reality, we have an upper and lower process, i.e. from the heart down, our chakras compliment chakras from the heart up and they relate back and forth in polarity. The base center relates to the crown, the sacral relates to the throat and the solar plexus relates to the heart.
We need to find a way to balance the chakras and this is through harmlessness. Think good thoughts and try to be virtuous. Our vices have a direct opposite to them and if we use our will, meditate and try to change ourselves then we can develop these virtues. If you think negatively, they will go down and you will create bad karma.
So you really have to be diligent. You can change the whole world if you realize you are one person connected by a thread to every other person. So by making one choice, you help everybody by changing your vice to a virtue. So you do not do just personal ascension, you can only become more enlightened by enlightening others. By making these choices, like choosing not to continue a conversation when someone is talking negatively on the phone, you have to go to war as a Shambhala warrior representing heaven, Buddha nature, the Buddha field. You cannot do that by planting bad seeds. So you need to say: "This is not right. I do not want to have this conversation." If you do it frequently, you will do it in the moment and if you do not do it frequently then you will think about it in the car afterwards. It is about integrating your soul, your monad.
In order for us to make a choice and stick to it, it is not just the soul that does that, but your monad, your mind (where both your heart and your soul sit). So make decisions in your mind and your heart will follow.
It takes time and it is moment to moment. Recognize a vice and choose not to do it. Going out too much or buying, eating a lot is nothing compared to the things that come out of your mouth or go on in your head.
In reality the key is that you have to do this so long as you are alive. You always have to move the virtue forward. It may get easier, but it definitely still keeps coming. It is energy in motion your emotional body and not your mind. Those are responses from karma from previous lives or as a child that are habitual patterns that manifest as vices and need to be healed by (1) meditation (2) controlling how you behave, e.g. stop gossiping as it stops you responding to the moment. In order to really maintain that you need to shift your mind into aspiring reading which elevates where your mind is at and it raises your emotions. If your emotions are stuck they will be temperamental and you will be stuck. It is not controlling your emotions, but letting them settle down. If you just stick with the simple reality that The one thing I do know is that I dont know it will keep you humble and without pride. And pride creates fanaticism and dogma and criticism. So we can shift from pride to humility and walk lightly, talk softly and learn to listen and that allows us emptiness and that allows us to be in the present state and to be open. If you need to help someone then you need to be sure that you do not need help so you need to be free.
If we accept the fact that we have to reincarnate to really become spiritual and dont expect the silly notion that you will do it in this life as that will bring you into delusions and stop you from changing and that is a slow process. You should mature like a fine wine and that requires humility and a lack of pride. We have Western minds and that does not mean we are any better or worse, but we have a mind set that through intellectualism we think we can get credentials and be qualified. But I have met a lot of people who have got credentials and are not qualified. The most important thing is to develop character and to unlearn a whole lot. It is a very slow process in developing character and we are always tested a lot as to whether or not we are humble and being humble is the greatest character trait. If you are projecting that you are perfect then you will never get humble and develop compassion.
The only thing you will take to your next life is your character and how much soul you have developed and the rest is Samsara, Maya, chaos and a mess.
It is all just a matter of developing the virtue you need to develop to turn this life around and make the best of it. Do not get angry etc. and Samsara goes away by people developing character.
You have to develop your character in every life and that is the way it is for every body. So we cannot have false revelations of reverence thinking this person is a high person we just have to let that be and develop our own character.
Good will in action is how the Holy Spirit and the monad work. The symptom of that character is happiness. Radiating happiness brings joy. When the Holy Spirit is upon you, peace comes upon you. It really is a matter of if we develop this character we develop joy, despite the situation.
If we develop character, we become heroes and that is how we get hopefulness and see brothers and sisters everywhere and that is what is necessary. If we work life after life and build character we will do it in ourselves, loved ones, and if everything goes ok we build together and develop compassion.
Conclusion
Part of the process of being able to go through your meditation and get this benefit is that you have changed your mind and are less stressed and are not taking yourself into trauma and drama and keep that process going. It is only going to get better and imagine what it is doing for your longevity.
So continue your meditation and working with the tools and if you can get into any of the Eastern relationships you will go into another stage definitely the outcome of it is beyond your wildest imagination.
If you keep on meditating, you will become saintly, so Bodhisattvic that you will affect all those people you wanted to help in the first place. Look at Mother Mary, the last thing she ever expected was that she would become a saint and in time she received the same process as Jesus and became saintly. Even Mary Magdalene, who was filled with seven demons, became a saint over time.
Whatever is leaving you to make you more peaceful is not you and eventually you will get to a healing position and people will gain benefit from you just like you have benefited from me. I am just the trigger and the rest is for that flow to continue taking place.
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