Vol. 36 No. 21 - I AM the Witness

Vol. 36 No. 21 - I AM the Witness - May 23, 1993

I AM the Witness

Maitreya Visits His Mystery School
Disguised as a Korean Buddhist Monk!

Dear Mother,

I wanted to witness to the living presence of Maitreya at Maitreya’s Mystery School.

I recently had a vivid dream. You were taking a brisk walk with a gentleman. As the two of you approached me in the dream, I saw to my surprise that you were walking with Maitreya! His face looked like the face of Maitreya on the cover of the 1984 Pearls of Wisdom. However, I was surprised because he looked quite different from the way I would have expected him to look. This “Maitreya” had a crew cut. He was dressed in an unusual silver garment that I did not recognize but looked to me like a track suit. He wore jogging shoes and was not very tall. He was very much alive, vigorous, modern, joyous, quick-witted and alert in his thinking. You were standing beside him, exactly like him in vibration.

In the dream, he addressed me by name and told me to “shape up” and pass my initiations. I was surprised that he knew my name but I quickly realized that of course Maitreya knows all of us personally–it’s his Mystery School! I was greatly impressed by the dream. It was so real and Maitreya was so vibrant! And yet he was so normal–just like one of us! I had no doubt he had a message for me but I pondered the ramifications of the dream.

The next week, a Korean Buddhist monk visited our community on his way through Yellowstone Park. He arrived unannounced and unexpected. Several staff members welcomed him and showed him some of the ranch. Everyone who met him enjoyed his company and he fit easily into our community. I had the opportunity to meet him and immensely enjoyed the experience. You could tell that he was indeed a holy man.

I happened to be standing nearby as you came to meet him. As the two of you walked off at a brisk pace, I suddenly remembered my dream and then I recognized him! He had a crew cut, wore jogging shoes and a long silver-gray robe in the Korean style. The top crossed over in front and the pants were gathered at the ankles. This was Maitreya’s representative!

I believe that Maitreya indeed came to teach me that he may appear to us in any form zat any time, through anyone he chooses, but we do not always recognize him when he comes.

I learned a number of things from the demeanor of this particular messenger of Maitreya. He was very much a chela, cheerful and joyous yet flexible and practical. He fit in wherever he was, never took offense and had a comfortable air about him. People enjoyed meeting him and joining in his easy laughter. He liked people and it showed. He was thoughtful, humble and kind. (Maitreya’s name means “loving-kindness.”) He was obedient to any request made of him. He was considerate of others and nothing was too much trouble for him. He was grateful and eager to learn everything about our community. I could tell that he was used to hard work.

He showed great joy as well as respect and interest when he visited our chapel. He was devoted and quite comfortable worshiping there. I heard that he was intrigued by the statue of Gautama Buddha that sits in front of the altar. He said that it was unusual for the image of Gautama to have the crown and topknot that are normally associated with Maitreya. He said the topknot and crown denote the office of a king. Interestingly, this statue of the Lord of the World was used as a focus of Lord Maitreya during the 1976 seminar Maitreya on Meditation.

Even though he wore the robes of a Buddhist monk, he was modern and up-to-date in his thoughts and attitudes. He was sharp-witted and quick to learn. He gave the impression of one not easily fooled! He was not humanly perfect but someone like you and me.

The night before I met him, I had been reading a Pearl of Wisdom (vol. 33, no. 23) by Mother Mary from FREEDOM 1990. After his visit,I resumed reading the Pearl and the very next paragraph jumped out at me:

O beloved ones, the passageway between your perceptions and the Western Shamballa may be at times as thin as a piece of paper, a single sheet, or even a gossamer veil. You are not so very far from the heart of Lord Gautama Buddha. But you could be standing next to him and be a million light-years away in vibration.

The next day, I started to see Maitreya everywhere–in the smiles on the faces of my co-workers, in their eyes, in their actions, in their kindnesses to one another, in the children at play. We get so used to seeing the “humanness” in one another that we forget to look for the divine. We tend to forget that we are all Maitreya. Why shouldn’t we see Maitreya everywhere? When we give our mantras to Maitreya, we become Maitreya.

Suddenly I have a joyous new vision of our community. I must be ready to meet Maitreya every day in everyone whom I meet. Anyone may be a messenger of Maitreya to me. And I must strive to be more like Maitreya.

I am rereading the introduction to the 1984 Pearls of Wisdom with a renewed heart and understanding of its astounding teaching on Maitreya and his path. The introduction includes an excerpt from Maitreya’s 1975 series of Pearls “On Initiation”:

Some of you know me as the Great Initiator, and you have already called to me most lovingly to be initiated on the path of attainment. But when I have come, you have not recognized me. In vain I have stood before you to initiate you in the law of energy flow....

While you are waiting for the Second Coming of the Christ or for the Teacher from the East, make haste to receive the stranger at the gate, the children playing in the courtyard, and the tender lifestreams who are a part of your family and the family of God. How often you cast them aside or take them for granted–these precious ones who come in the name of the Lord, who come in the name of the law of your own karma! Receive them, one by one, in the Spirit of the Christ Mass; receive them in the name of Jesus the Christ and thereby have the reward of the Christed ones.

Praise to the manifestation of Maitreya in you, Mother, and in all of us. I can hardly wait to meet the many “Maitreyas,” or Maitreya in his many disguises, at FREEDOM 1993.

Love,

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