SACRED HISTORY AND PAST LIVES

Kalachakra Lesson 5

This week we are going to explore our own personal sacred history, through the eyes of the Dalai Lama’s Chapter 5 in the Kalachakra Tantra which is also about sacred history.

Our sacred history includes all our past lives, our present and our future lives.

When we contemplate this most deeply we realize that right in this moment our future self from some existence and dimension, perhaps a Pure Land, is guiding us right now to read this to awaken the wisdom we need, just as our accumulated past lives, the ones we need to know, are informing our present right now with their wisdom.

This is an extraordinary concentration of Light and Wisdom, all at our beckoning.

These are after all our own words writing this as we individually receive them through our own unique perspective, faith and will.

It may well be our Buddha Self or Christ Light in the future that is shining on us right now to awaken our Presence more deeply by practicing this.

Past lives naturally unfold in front of us like a lotus blossoming when the time is right, in order to reveal the wisdom necessary and contained within those lives to assist us in the present to liberate and inspire others.

The Dalai Lama has always told me “You are the Master” and it is in this Light that I want you to read these words.

When I was two years old I had a dream lasting a year, that revealed to me my past life with the Dalai Lama. I died falling off a bridge into a ‘chasm’ in 1959, after His Holiness had escaped Tibet. I was defending the bridge across the river Tsangpo to the Samye monastery, the monastery I loved, against the Chinese forces. The Samye monastery was established by Padmasambhava and it was with Padmasambhava and Sogyal Rinpoche that I took formal initiations and empowerments into Dzogchen (Great Perfection) and Nyingma (ancient teachings of ‘hidden treasures’) many years ago in this life.

Because I incarnated very quickly, just 2 years later, in 1961, many of my memories of that life remained intact.

Then in my twenties I was living in Krishnamurti’s house in India and Krishna came to me in the guise of a wandering Sannyasi and revealed to me my past life in the 16th century in Northern India as a Raj who worshipped Saraswati. He also showed me my future and the three women I would meet, who were my wives in that past life, who would be the most influential in my life over the next fifty years. He gave me an ancient scroll of the Bhagavad Gita with guidance for my spiritual practice through the teachings of Yogananda, Babaji and Kriya Yoga.

Through my benefactor from birth, a Reverend Mother with the Carmelite Order, I was graced with the full memories of Mary Mother of James the Lesser and the realization of Light Conception which led to the visions of Yeshua’s Initiations with Babaji in India and Yeshua’s initiations into the Ancient Mystery Schools of Egypt.

All these details can be found on http://www.altairshyam.com/yeshuas-initiations-with-babaji-in-india/ and http://www.altairshyam.com/yeshuas-initiations-in-the-ancient-mystery-schools-of-egypt/ under Diary of A Yogi as they are longer very detailed posts.

And after meeting the Dalai Lama in a private audience I was gifted with the past life of Sakya Pema and the realization of Tantra Visions. In 1244, the Siege of Montsegur, the Siege of Jerusalem and the Siege of Tibet all took place. I had incarnated in Tibet at the request of the Protectress of Tibet Goddess Palden Llamo, friend of Our Mother Guan Yin, to serve as Tibetan astrological adviser to Sakya Pandita, the then Spiritual Head of Tibet (before the sequence of the 14 Dalai Lamas began). I still retain a significant knowledge of Vedic Astrology or Jyotish to this day. In both India and Tibet I specialized in Nakshatra or Lunar astrology which I practiced in this life time in USA and Canada. I studied at Nalanda in my youth before it was destroyed. My name was Sakya Pema which means Lotus of the Pale Earth. I have a Tibetan God daughter auspiciously named Pema Llhamo in this incarnation. Tibet was invaded by the grandson of Genghis Khan and it was only saved by some careful negotiations from my Master Sakya Pandita because the Mongols wanted access to the magical texts and rituals. We gave them ‘limited’ access and concealed the rest as terma (hidden treasure) ‘sealing’ them for future discovery at auspicious times by other adepts, who are known as tertons. We also knew what was transpiring in other parts of the world due to the Silk Road trade so my heart aches and I extend healing and love and compassion and forgiveness to all of you involved in the Montsegur Siege. The Book of Love was concealed in similar ways to what we used.

I share these with you because I know some of these lives, in Tibet, in India, in Egypt and Jerusalem, in Montegur, will trigger certain information that you are destined to receive.

Our ‘stories’ are valuable in connecting us to our past and future lives, our earth families and our Light Families.

All these connections will come to us by faith and will just as the Kalachakra Tantra initiations will come to us by faith and will.

It is the same with any initiation, activation and transformation we wish to go through.

The following is from a transcript of the Dalai Lama’s talk given in this year of 2017.

“As the Dalai Lama began the main event of the Kalachakra empowerment at Bodh Gaya on Jan 11 2017, he turned his attention those who could not make it to the congregation. He spoke of having told such devotees how they could nevertheless receive the Kalachakra empowerment by the power of their faith and will.

He told the gathering: “There are people in China and Tibetans inside Tibet who have difficulty coming here. So I have told them that if they could keep their devotion strong and direct their mind towards the Kalachakra teachings for today and following days, they could receive the initiation through the power of their faith and will.”

PRACTICE

How do we reveal our past lives?

We explore our true face before we were born….

Sit or lie in a comfortable position with your spine straight.

Listen to the Alchemy of Breath, The Yeshua Codes or your favourite mantra, chant or meditation.

Bring to your mind and heart the following words as you breathe in and out

“I AM never born and can never die”

Synchronise these words with the in breath and the out breath

“Breathing in I was never born

Breathing out I can never die”

Allow the alchemy of the Shared Heart to work its magic

Through the clear light of being

Your Light Body, containing a continuum of lives devoted to liberation, is awake within you

Honor that within you now

Concentrate on the point of your life’s beginning.

Know that it is the point of the beginning of your ‘death’

See that both your life and ‘death’ are manifested at the same time.

One is a continuum of the other, one cannot exist without the other.

See that the existence of your life and ‘death’ depend on each other.

Birth is the foundation of ‘death’, just as the birth of a star already swings into motion the ‘death’ of that same star.

You are at the same time your life and your ‘death’.

The two are not opposites but two aspects of the same reality.

Search for your true face before birth and who you truly are and what you bring to this world in true service and then see at the moment you are born who you arrived with, what support you brought to enable this true service to humanity.

See what lessons of life you agreed to, what you negotiated with your soul guardian and light family, how you decided to play out this lifetime.

Then concentrate on the point of your life’s ending.

Search for your true face after ‘death’ and keeping the deep sense of who you truly are and what you bring to this world in true service, see as you ‘die’ or transition or ascend who you depart with, what support you have always had with you to enable this transition into the life or world or dimension through the process that is wrongly called ‘death’.

See that it is the ending point of the manifestation of both your life and your ‘death’ and that there is no difference between before birth and after ‘death’ as there is a natural continuum you have been aware of all this incarnation on this planet.

Search for the many faces of the pure light of being.

“I AM never born and can never die”

In this ancient Tibetan meditation, we go back to our time of birth to see what we arrived with and what we bring into this world.

It is called “the faces before you were born” and is an ancient Tibetan Buddhist meditation as well as being practiced in many Zen traditions.

It is a very old meditation to take you into the lives before, the support at birth, the lessons of life, the support at death and the faces after death.

When we look at our personal histories with our memories and feelings, thoughts, images and stories, our past and future lives, we see that life is a continuum, with memories and feelings being a continuous reflection of Source, the Divine, mirroring the many perspectives of the One Shared Heart.

Whether we investigate the lives of Buddha, Christ, Krishna or any of the Divine Mothers, we see the same thread woven, the desire to liberate others while liberating ourself.

And so any past lives that arise serve one purpose only, to assist us to liberate ourself as we liberate others, and to acquire the wisdom necessary for self-liberation.

I will leave you with Yogananda’s favorite quote from the Book of Revelations 3:12. This is how Yeshua advised us to think about past lives.

“”They that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of God, and they shall go no more out.” —Revelation 3:12

(Where “going out” refers to the constant cycle of birth and death and rebirth without realization and liberation.)

With thanks to you all for your inspiration and sharing of unity consciousness.

I would dearly love to hear from you regarding which lives, either past or future, and which dimensions or Pure Lands, you feel are most significant for developing your Presence in the Present.

After climbing Mt. Kurama last week, the birthplace of Reiki, in Japan, with my two year old Maia and my wife Sumire, I was gifted with a vision-dream.

Each of us was presented with an Emerald Tablet containing our past and future lives by the Buddha Vajrapani.

So I know you have already received the knowledge and wisdom.

Love and soul blessings

Altair and Mother

(Artwork with deepest gratitude to Kusaba Kazuhisa)

NOTES

The Great Masters have all spoken of past and future lives in one form or another.

Buddha 

In the 40-plus years of his life after enlightenment, the Buddha Shakayamuni recounted 554 past life stories, (called Jataka tales) of his prior existences. Gautama Bodhisattva is quoted as saying a person starts the journey to become a Buddha filling 10 Paramita or “perfections”.

Christ 

Nowhere in the Bible is reincarnation repudiated, in fact it is a concept that Jesus and his followers took pretty much for granted. Jesus himself speaks of John the Baptist as the return of Elias (Matthew 11:14 and 17:11, Mark 9:11-13). We must look to the development of the Roman Catholic Church and its doctrines to understand how the concept of reincarnation lost favor in Christian tradition rather than to its origins with Yeshua who spoke openly of it.

Matthew 11:14 “14And if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who was to come. 15Whoever has ears, let them hear.”

Krishna

Lord Krishna said “The influence of yoga and the past life habits involving yoga are so potent that they impel such a person in their next life to gravitate towards yoga instinctively and intuitively as if it were not in one’s power to resist.” (Bhagavad Gita, Ch. 6 Verse 43)

Ramana Maharshi

(Mooji’s ParamGuru)

Question : Can a yogi know his past lives?

Ramana Maharshi : Do you know the present life that you wish to know the past? Find the present, then the rest will follow.

Krishnamurti

The idea of reincarnation existed long before Christianity. It is prevalent almost throughout India and probably in the whole Asiatic world. Go beyond reincarnation, to truth, to the state of life in which there is no time.

Swami Shyam

When I sat in the Himalayas with Swami Shyam, his interpretation of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra on Past Lives gave rise to very simple seeing, like a lotus blossoming.

संस्कारसाक्षात्करणात् पूर्वजातिज्ञानम् ॥१८॥

saṁskāra-sākṣātkaraṇāt pūrva-jāti-jñānam ॥18॥

Through meditation on our impressions (samskaras) comes the knowledge (jnana) of previous incarnations. ||18||

The Dalai Lama

Now the Dalai Lama’s words take on a completely different significance…

“According to…sacred history…Shakyamuni Buddha appeared at Vulture Peak in the attire of a monk…and simultaneously…at Dhanyakataka as Kalachakra…at the request of King Suchandra, an emanation of Vajrapani…where he gave the Perfection of Wisdom sutra and the Kalachakra Tantra” (The Dalai Lama, Kalachakra Tantra, Chapter 5)

Becomes…

“According to sacred history…YOU (your name) appeared at Vulture Peak as (your past life form)…and simultaneously at Dhanyakataka as (your deity form)…where you heard and understood the wisdom in the sutra and the Tantra.”

We have received this Kalachakra wisdom before because otherwise we would not be able to hear it now. It is a part of our continuum, our mind treasures.

Many of us here listening to the Teachings of the Kalachakra, were also present at the time of Christ and the time of the Buddha.

So we remember key teachings, like the true meaning in the ancient Hebrew and Aramaic of Yeshua blowing upon us and saying

“Receive the Holy Spirit, the breath of Yahweh within me and within you”

“This is He (Yeshua) who baptises with the holy Spirit.” John 1:33

Or one of the first Teachings of the Buddha, the Anapanasati Sutra, also known as the Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing, which if ‘developed and practiced continuously…will give rise to understanding and liberation of the mind’.

So we know that deep attention to the Sacred Breath will reveal past lives if they are necessary for us.

The Dalai Lama also said

“The Emanation Body is three-fold: a) the Supreme Emanation Body like Shakyamuni Buddha, the historical Buddha, who manifested the twelve deeds of a Buddha such as being born in the place he chose and so forth; b) the Artistic Emanation Body which serves others by appearing as craftsmen, artists and so on; and c) the Incarnate Emanation Body, according to which Buddhas appear in various forms such as human beings, deities, rivers, bridges, medicinal plants, and trees to help sentient beings.”

Considering that you either have manifested this Christ or Buddha Body (the Emanation Body) in the past due to KARMIC BLESSINGS or are manifesting it NOW through PRESENCE or are still to manifest it in the future the truth is you have the power of future wisdom in you to realize that you have manifested EVERYTHING in your path, every member of your earth family and Light Family, every rock, stone and tree in your path, every living form, all as aspects of yourself to remind you of Your SELF.

And as if in confirmation, I was walking yesterday in the supermarket contemplating this with Sumire my wife and Maia my daughter when all about me the land and its people were transformed into Buddhas who were enlightening me and Pure Lands which were rejuvenating me.

This also happened years ago in a supermarket in Canada.

Supermarkets remind me of some of the markets we have travelled through on the ancient silk road routes.

Trains remind me of the caravans we travelled with on the silk road.

As the Buddhist Zen Master Dogen says

“To study the Buddha Way is to study the self.

To study the self is to forget the self.

To forget the self is to be enlightened by everything.

To be enlightened by everything is to free your own body and mind and the body and mind of others.”

Buddhist Zen Master Dogen

(Thank you Katherine for this)

So yes, it can all just as easily happen to us in a supermarket as in Bodhgaya or Glastonbury Tor.

Thank you, all of you for enlightening me in Our Shared Heart.

We carry the golden flame of the enlightenment of the Divine Father and Divine Mother within us Dear Ones, aryas, Noble Beings.

Let it shine.

Gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi swāhā

गते गते पारगते पारसंगते बोधि स्वाहा

Go beyond our self, go beyond what we know, go beyond the breath, empty ourself, bathe ourself in Divinity.

WE are The Christ, WE are Krishna, WE are the Buddha, WE are the Great Father and Mother.

Seek refuge in the Christ, Krishna, the Buddha, the Father and Mother Within.

There is Our Salvation.

Love and Soul Blessings from the Source