When I am on the path of presence, the Christ, the Buddha in me comes out

Or I am in you and you are in me as She is in Us.

You are all the Christ, the Buddha, teaching me.

We have been at our favourite temples and shrines of Maitreya, Manjushri, Buddha, Saraswati and Guan Yin.

While in deep meditation I was blessed with two visitors.

Guan Yin/Avalokiteshvara gifting us the pearl of light through our deep listening.

The Dragon Lord’s Daughter gifting us the blue pearl through our connecting intimately to all things.

It was beyond awesome, as they were standing right in front of me looking at me and asking me to receive this.

I then entered a meditation which began with a vast collection of Elders/Bodhisattvas and the arrival of the Light Body of the Buddha, the Rainbow Body, the Body of Pure Light.

In the final moments of the meditation I was drawn upwards and into and through the birth channel of Our Blessed Mother Prajnaparamita Avalokiteshvara Guan Yin and into Her Heart where I exploded out into the cosmos and was one with the cosmos and the vastness of the light.

The clear light was like an infinite band of vast presence stretching upwards in the breathlessness of the moment.

Then I continued to practice, learning to observe what is happening right now. 

Allowing things to be as they are. 

Watching what arises.

Right now I feel hollow.

Empty.

Like a bamboo reed.

Able to be filled up with the entire cosmos.

Allowing the clear light of awareness to enter.

The self, this outmoded, out-dated collection of ideas and opinions is being cherished and loved but it is dying because that is the way of things.

As soon as it was born it began to die.

Now there is a future face, like a new life, the next life, that is birthing.

As a result I feel vulnerable.

All my old ways are passing and the new ways coming into being.

The new no-self is Avalokiteshavra holding a pearl of light to bring enlightenment to my Self and all beings, and the Dragon Lord’s Daughter, holding out a blue pearl to bring awareness and understanding and intimacy with all things.

The deep listening of love and compassion that is opening is Guan Yin’s deep listening who is in me as I am in Her as you are in Her.

When you mindfully and heartfully dwell in concentration on your path whether you are standing sitting speaking or hanging out the washing you shine with the light of the Buddha, Christ, Krishna, Divine Mother. 

You will know because others that come in touch with you experience it and are influenced by it.

The seed of this same consciousness begins to sprout in you and me.

This is the power of the Sangha, the disciples, the gopis, the children of God.

This is the true miracle we all are realising.

The light of those around us, here, reading this together, sharing this, shines onto us.

In deep gratitude to everyone who shares we also begin to cultivate mindfulness and heartfulness and shine it out to others.

This is the true meaning of the saying ‘You are the Light of the World’.

What is a Christ, a Buddha?

They are the light of mindfulness and heartfulness shining, illuminating, showing us all worlds and all dimensions.

Those of us touched by each others light, when we allow that light to enter, when we are empty, deeply listening to the sound of the light, when we receive, then we also emit light, like a firefly, dancing and flying in joy through the darkness of ignorance.

Just as the Christ, the Buddha’s rays of light, when they reached out to other worlds, caused all the Christs and Buddhas in those worlds to emit light, so when we live mindfully and heartfully, we shine the Christ and Buddha light for ‘ourselves’ in all worlds and dimensions.

Think about it.

At any moment, right now, you can be the Christ or Buddha or Krishna or Divine Mother through your intention.

Even a single moment is enough.

Be a Bodhisattva at any moment you choose. We are all joined in Bodhi which is awake and sattva which is living being some of the time.

So at times we are very awake, meaning being very conscious and aware, and then we are Bodhisattvas.

As you read this and share your light with the world, be still and silent and take your attention to your breath.

Any sound, word or phrase produced in a state of great concentration has the power to transform.

This is the true alchemy of the grail in your heart.

As you breathe in say

“Breathing in I am Bodhisattva (or ‘Breathing in I am awake’)”

and as you breathe out say

“Breathing out I liberate all beings”

Know you are connecting to all of us, all your “selves” past and future, all dimensions and all worlds as you do this.

Then you will be touching all worlds with your light.

You are the Light of the Worlds.

When you are on the path of presence the Christ, the Buddha in you comes out.

So Christ, Buddha, Krishna, Divine Mother, all are bringing you home, as I am for you and and you are for me. In this kind of gathering where we are close we all bring one another home. That is the secret and that is why Christ, Krishna, Buddha and Guan Yin are ALL blending with you. So that you can liberate all beings and bring them home too.

God Bless You

You are the Buddha to me

Altair and Mother

EXPERIENCING THE CHRIST-BUDDHA-KRISHNA-DIVINE MOTHER BODY – NIRMANAKAYA

The Nirmanakaya Body of the Christ, the Buddha, Krishna, Divine Mother within you is the physical body you have manifested in this world to teach your path/dharma of pathlessness and bring all beings to enlightenment.

Here is a simple way to get in touch with it moment to moment.

First, get into a calm steady easeful flow with your breathing. Be very aware of the breath first by saying to yourself IN as you breathe in and OUT as you breathe out until you feel a calm presence.

Then say “Breathing in I experience the Buddha Body, breathing out I smile at the Buddha Body” while visualizing yourself as the Buddha on a White Lotus Flower.

Or you could practice this as Christ or Krishna or Divine Mother.

When you come out of the meditation keep breathing this way and be the Buddha or Christ or Krishna or Divine Mother as you walk about your day saying and visualizing this with each breath.

Step into the Kingdom of God with this consciousness.

With one breath and one step you can enter into the Pure Lands and the Kingdom of God, touch Heaven and dwell in the Supreme Abode of Goloka.

We are born as lotus flowers.

Become the flower, the Buddha, the Christ, Krishna, the Mother when you sit, and let your cushion, your chair, the ground you walk upon, be a lotus flower.

Love and blessings

Altair and Mother

IN THE HEART OF A DIAMOND

The Teachings of the Heart and the Diamond Sutra

The Way of the Bodhisattva is our way, our own path of pathlessness.

We are all joined in Bodhi which is awake and sattva which is living being some of the time.

So at times we are very awake, meaning being very conscious and aware, and then we are Bodhisattvas.

As you read this something in you may wake up.

At that moment you are a Bodhisattva.

If you could keep that presence, that light, alive in you every moment, you would be a Bodhisattva, just like Our Blessed Mother, Guan Yin, bringing love and compassion in every moment to every living being.

There, you see, you felt it in the moment your mind and heart became very still reading this, acknowledging this.

You already see in yourself the potential for a Bodhisattva here and now.

Guan Yin in Chinese, Quan Am in Vietnamese, Gwaneum in Korean and Kannon in Japanese is Avalokiteshvara in India and Tibet.

His/Her Name means the One who hears the cries of the world and acts to help. The gift She gave to help is the Heart Sutra also known as the Prajnaparamita Sutra which means the Perfection of Wisdom Sutra.

It is one of most widely chanted, read and discussed sutras in monastic and lay communities throughout the world.

Both the Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh have written and spoken extensively on its understanding.

What is something simple we can do to work with the Heart?

Developing a simple skill like compassionate listening.

Being a compassionate listener means listening with an open heart, the whole heart, as often as you can.

Divine Mother hears the cries of the world and acts to help, to alleviate suffering.

She helps through compassionate listening. This means to listen with only one purpose. To help another empty their heart of all suffering.

We can do the same. Here is the ABCDE of compassionate listening to help guide you.

All – all interactions with others can be learned from, both the effective listening times and the ones where you weren’t listening. All can bring wisdom.

Body – check in with your body to see if you are present. Just for an instant. Where are you? Somewhere else in your mind or very awake and alert and listening?

Clarity – clarifying questions like “Do I understand what you are saying correctly?” or similar helps us to give feedback that we are present and confirms whether we have heard the other person correctly.

Depth – try to understand why someone is connecting with you on a deeper level. Are they asking for advice or do they just need to share? Are they connected or somewhere else?

Eye – eye contact helps you connect, rather than gazing around at other things which doesn’t.

Keep a note of when you really listened effectively and also other times when you were not present. Don’t judge yourself. Learn. Both kinds of interactions invite wisdom. Wisdom arises when learning occurs. Everything you experience is part of your own path to learning and wisdom.

The Diamond Sutra is also a Prajnaparamita Sutra called Vajracchedika Prajnaparmita, a gift from the Blessed Mother guiding us in meditation so that we can cut through illusion, the veil, like a diamond, vajra or thunderbolt. With the consciousness of a diamond.

What is something simple we can do to work with the consciousness of a Diamond?

Developing a simple skill like surrender.

Let Divine Mother breathe

Let Divine Mother walk

I am a lazy monk.

When I surrender everything to Divine Mother, She is doing everything.

In the beginning we see ourselves and Divine Mother quite differently.

As we grow, we stop seeing ourselves like the waves, which are form, the separate self, and we realize we are the water, immersed in the ocean of Divine Mother’s Love. She is in us every moment.

How do we work with this?

The simplest is Deity Yoga, where you visualize yourself as the deity, master, angel, saint, guru of your choosing and walk and breathe as them throughout your day.

Let Divine Mother breathe

Let Divine Mother walk

The kaleidoscope of your reality will be revealed to you. You are cloud, lotus, deer, eagle, wave, ocean, god and goddess, all this and much much more. The infinite potential of your being is secretly hidden in the simplest way – by opening the heart of a lotus and the mind of a diamond.

You are wrapped in Divine Mother’s blanket.

She is there through all your births and ever will be.

You are Her Child.

She and you have always had the greatest kindness, tenderness and gentleness towards each other.

Be that unto yourself.

Be that unto others.

You carry the golden flame of enlightenment within you.

Let it shine.

This is the mantra of the Heart Sutra, the Prajnaparamita Sutra, the Sutra of the Blessed Mother.

ག༌ཏེ༌ག༌ཏེ༌པཱ༌ར༌ག༌ཏེ༌པཱ༌ར༌སཾ༌ག༌ཏེ༌བོ༌དྷི༌སྭཱ༌ཧཱ།

Gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi swāhā

Go beyond your self, go beyond what you know, go beyond the breath, empty yourself, bathe yourself in Divinity.

This is the consciousness of the Diamond Sutra, the Vajracchedika Prajnaparmita Sutra, the Sutra of the Blessed Mother.

All composed things are like a dream,

a phantom, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

That is how to meditate on them,

that is how to observe them.

The Buddha himself stated that just knowing these four lines of the Diamond Sutra or the mantra of the Heart Sutra in your heart would bring enlightenment and was better than if you filled the entire world full of gifts and treasure.

Christ gave the same promise when he said “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

And Krishna said “The ultimate treasure lies buried within your heart.”

This will help you transcend the illusion, the veil, and transport yourself to the shore of liberation and beyond.

Love and Blessings

Altair and Mother

PRAJNAPARAMITA

This week I have been in the mountains of Japan with our Mothers Guan Yin and Prajnaparamita, the female Buddha who is the Perfection of Wisdom, listening to their advice as I journey between their temples and shrines and mountain retreats.

This morning I woke up with the sun and went outside just as an elemental wind whipped up and whispered around me in the mighty trees and magnificent stars surrounding where I was staying.

It was an awesome and simple message.

From the Beginning of Time Divine Mother is within us.

She kindly, gently reminds us, especially in the innocence of our childhood, that She brings us the gift of bliss and emptiness, without which we cannot open our heart to Her Wisdom.

She tells us of our own path of pathlessness, unique and like no other, that if we honor it, we will reap all the rewards of heaven that the great Masters, angels and saints, gurus and Bodhisattvas have promised, because they are us.

She whispers of divine desire, that springs from Our Infinite Father in innumerable forms, experiencing our selves as ‘I AM’. That desire has served us from childhood to draw us into the Sacred Heart, and come Home.

She tells us to look around at each other, to see the Beloved in each of us, these apparently separate forms, that are all Christ and Buddha lights flowing from the one single Source. Our Father.

We all belong to one another, are one compassionate circle where no one is on the outside, where we are all constantly reflecting back the Light of the World we each carry, to each other, which is the One Illumination.

How do we touch the Illumination and Wisdom of the Father And Mother Within?

Offer your path and all its benefits to ‘Them’ every morning and night. ‘Them’ can be as simple as your daughter or as many as all living beings in this world or the many worlds. Divine Father and Mother are within the heart of every one of their children.

Be true to your heart, your path, your life. To do this in every moment means devoting every moment to being present, mindful and heartful of where you are and who you are. Honor your Self.

Be patient and kind with your self. You carry the Light of the World within your heart. Nobody can enlighten you to this message but your self.

Practice. Sit every day formally with your self and with others selves and allow the alchemy of spirit to grace you with Her touch. You do this through practicing silence, stillness and presence for 5 or 10 or 20 minutes in the beginning, every night and morning, until it is as natural as brushing your teeth. Then the silence and stillness and presence by divine osmosis will pervade your walking, your breathing, your loving, as well as when you wash the dishes and chop wood. Everything is sacred.

Develop concentration and focus. Remember the time you got frustrated with somebody or something and how powerful your energies became, how righteous you were, how the situation occupied your awareness for minutes or hours or days or weeks at a time. Remember when you were in love, how the touch of your lover or your lovemaking filled your pores, your heart, your soul. You couldn’t think of anything else. Take that deep devotion to conflict or loving within you and apply it to your divine heart with equal intensity and equal measure of time. There is great wisdom in your conflict and your loving because they are both part of your path.

Awareness, absorption, samadhi.
Offering yourself, being true to yourself, being kind to yourself, practicing, honoring equally the energies of loving and conflict within you with deep focus brings a foundation of love and kindness, insight and wisdom throughout your life, a calm, mindful and heartful balance of the divine within, that opens your sacred heart to the timeless, the immeasurable light, as a real experience of God, Self, Consciousness. No God, Self, Consciousness – no Life. Know God, Self, Consciousness within – Know Life.

Love and Blessings

Altair and Mother