Vol. 37 No. 16 - Beloved Padma Sambhava - April 17, 1994
Easter Retreat 1994
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Come into the Lotus of My Heart
There Is a Path to Buddhahood
and I Would Show You the Way
The Refinement of Your Spirit
That You Might Receive the Holy Spirit
In the lotus of my heart I would receive my own. And yet, I must seal the door before those who have not studied and embodied the precepts such as those read to you this evening. <1> Let me explain this, beloved, as you are seated now in the lotus of your own hearts.
To say to you “Come into the lotus of my heart” is my profoundest desiring. Yet as you must protect your heart, I must protect my own. And thus understand, to keep close to the sacred scriptures of the world’s religions is to be ever mindful of the precepts written down by my disciple. <2>
This, then, is my call to you. My desire to receive you is for the tutoring of your soul, not only for the ascension but for the ascent, the aspiration unto enlightenment that you might light up the whole world.
Know, then, beloved, that for the tutoring of your hearts–the refining of your hearts for a greater victory and a greater empowerment–you must study the Path and desire in all earnestness to correct the waywardness of the soul. For in many cases, often unawares, she has departed from principles that would propel her to higher octaves and the realms where Bodhisattvas are becoming Buddhas and preparing to embody should the golden age be realized and fulfilled in the earth as anticipated.
Lord Maitreya has said that five hundred years into that golden age when stability has been reached and a true golden age is present, he may come and embody with his Bodhisattvas. <3> You have the hours and the days and the centuries to prepare for this, beloved, that you might come with him.
Aspire, then, to the highest and fulfill your aspirations with all earnestness. This will propel you into future lives of great attainment with the riches of the Spirit as well as the riches of this world. Aspire to this and so note that the consequences of outpicturing the nonvirtues <4> will bring you to lower and lower tracks of consciousness. There is a consequence for every thought, for every feeling, for every act–not in a crude sense of the word of karma but in a refined sense of the vibrations that you put forth and the vibrations that you take in.
Refining consciousness for a higher awareness and for a leap into higher octaves at the conclusion of this life–it is to this I call you. All of you are capable of this. The question is: Do you have the will? Is this your highest choice? Is this the definition of purpose in your life? Is it to be ultimately liberated from the desire for any thing so that you reach the desireless realms of Lord Gautama and the Holy Kumaras?
Your presence in the earth in this darkening age of the Kali Yuga is to bear Light and to freely give Light while being nonattached to the world itself. And so, beloved, even your stated purpose and your taking action to achieve it and your determination to realize the refinement of the Spirit will reward you with some measure of training from my heart.
When you prove your trust in the lineage of the Buddhas, even as you establish that trust with the Person of the Holy Spirit, you will be taken to successive chambers of the great heart of God. There you may discover how your own actions and expressions of love have brought into manifestation within you an aura of Light. Having accomplished this, you will be admitted through succeeding doors to chambers, libraries and halls of learning that you have heretofore not known and you will be ushered into higher elevations and vibrations of consciousness.
Strive, then, for the sweetness of Love. Strive, then, for the sternness of Love. Strive, then, to bring into alignment not only the members of your own body and soul but also the members of the bodies and souls of others over whom you may have authority. The example you set as an authority figure gives you the opportunity to bring many into alignment with the blueprint of the Great Divine Director. For in the load of their karma and in the density of their bodies and minds, many are simply not able to understand what is the meaning of the refinement of the spirit.
Just as our Lord the Maha Chohan desires to see you come into conformity with your own original divine blueprint, so I bear the same desire and the same message. For it is patently clear to us who are your teachers, brooding over you and caring for you as mothers from higher octaves, that you do have the ability to achieve this. Our concern is that you have not found the key to Love’s discipline nor to the discipline of wise dominion nor to the discipline of the will of God itself or of the God Star. It is as though you were wandering through a sea of treasure yet knew not how to appropriate that treasure.
We encourage you to strive for that which is in the realm of the possible. And if we could be discouraged, we would be so before your nonrecognition that the pursuit of the possible must always be in the refinement of goal-oriented action. Otherwise, it is like saying that someone has such great potential when, alas, that one has not realized that potential for laziness of mind, for pride in the human spirit, for every act of nondiscipline that draws one from the center of the white light to the periphery of outer darkness.
Potential, in fact, is in all–in the Atman, the Buddhic seed, the Holy Christ Self, the threefold flame, the soul herself, and the mighty living Presence of the Holy Ghost that broods overhead.
Thus potential is a given. It is God-given. But it is the exercise of potential that is the telling of whether a lifestream who has been exposed to the Path shall truly come to the gates of Shamballa and be received in that heart chamber of the magnificent island of Light, island in the sky in the Gobi Sea of Light, or whether that one shall not be admitted at all but remain in the astral plane, having failed to exercise his free will to develop his soul potential.
The choices you make each day determine the end from the beginning. Choices made are either like ropes that bind one to a chain of karmic consequences or like the liberating breezes of the Holy Spirit and the presence of angels, who reinforce every good thought, feeling, word and deed.
Of course there are actions that are taken for praise, for selfish self-acclaim. These you must go beyond. You must go beyond the rancor you may have with Ascended Masters or members of the Great White Brotherhood. Seeds of rancor bear the fruit of failure. They are acidic in nature. They are putrefying to the soul and ultimately may cause the soul’s decay, just as you observe an apple that is rotting become rotten to the core.
The soul, as you know, is not permanent until you draw all the fire of being to that soul whereby, empowered, that soul may establish polarity with the Holy Christ Self and ultimately a firm and solid bonding to the Sacred Heart of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Things are precarious in this octave. Suddenly karma descends. Suddenly the breath of life is taken. New lifestreams enter and others exit, not at all at a convenient time as far as they are concerned.
It is well to remember that all that is in this world has limitation, beginnings and endings, comings and goings. But what vast opportunity in the cradle of God in the in-betweens! What vast opportunity is cast aside when anger is not conquered, when resentment is not transmuted into forgiveness and love and gratitude for mercies given.
I, then, come with an agenda for your soul’s entering in to the lotus of my heart, and I have rings upon rings of my Causal Body extending outward from that inner chamber. Thus, you may approach the lotus of my heart through one of the outer rings and make your way as you stabilize your self-discipline in that ring and then proceed to the next one.
As you have a longing in your soul to be one with the Sacred Heart of Jesus or the Shamballa Heart of Gautama Buddha or the consecrated hearts of others among the immortals whom you cherish, so I have the deep, deep longing in my lotus heart to receive you and to tutor you.
When you become steady pillars of fire in the earth, which you are all capable of becoming, earth will know stability. You will provide the moorings so needed by her evolutions. You will be a rock of strength to whom lost souls will come, finally knowing that they will no longer be tossed and tumbled in the sea of samsara because they will have found in you one who is tied to the Buddhas and to the higher octaves.
Strive now so that you will be that one, beloved. You can do it. You are doing it. You are providing comfort and consolation to many. You are systematically eliminating flaws of self. You have cast aside bitterness and come into the sweet nectar of Lord Gautama, of Lord Maitreya.
Remember why you are here, why you were born and the mercies that God has extended to you. Opportunity, beloved, may knock and knock every day of your life. But when you are out of embodiment, you will sense the marking of time and even the transpiring of long aeons, some on the astral plane and some on the etheric plane, before you shall be able to return again for such opportunity as you have today.
You have heard these words before but I have chosen to speak them again. For some have not really heard. They have not allowed themselves to hear. Some have retreated into the hardness of their self-made shells. And the mask of their faces shows that hardness, and the lines will not go away until the sweetness of God becomes the daily contemplation.
Blessed hearts, if you find it difficult to make your peace with God or with others, consider that you may have a malady of the soul and that this malady can become a cancer of the soul, eating away at the very essence of your soul-identity. Recognize when the soul is sick and consult the doctor Lord Gautama Buddha and other Buddhas.
At least know, beloved, as you know when you are ill in the flesh, that you have a problem–that you have a malady of the spirit. But it is so also in the flesh that diseases may make strong inroads into the body and into the mind and suddenly one awakens with the pronouncement “terminal.”
So many diseases with unanswered causes and no antidotes, for the antidotes begin in the etheric body, the mental body. The antidotes are the good humor, the good happiness, the good compassion, the good love, the good fairness and forgiveness. All of these things are the antidotes that would take away the sins of the whole world and the cancers lying deep in the psyche and then deep in the organs until when they appear it is too late, too late.
What if I had come to you this night to tell you, “It is too late for you to come into the lotus of my heart. You have missed the train, the plane, the bus. You are out of sync with the century. The opportunity is gone.”
Beloved hearts, some hear that verdict when time is short in the physical octave. And when these ones who bear tremendous burdens in their bodies do attempt then to atone for sin, they no longer have the ch’i, <5> the fire. They must spend all of their days dealing with their illness.
Please, beloved, recognize the illness of the soul. It is the most dangerous illness of all. It is when you begin to have a warped view of life and of others, and you imagine they have opinions of you that they do not and you begin to torment yourself with bitterness toward life, toward God. Oh yes, beloved, all of these emotional and mental attitudes are the beginning of the decay of the body itself.
Give new life to your body and your soul by freely giving what you have, by widening the stream of your lifestream, by pulling down far more than you now do until the rushing waters of the healing Light of your Presence heal not only yourself but all others around you.
Your aura will thus mount and increase and intensify and spread and widen and become as powerful as the seven seas, which none will be able to stop or turn back, for you will have so entered into the power of the Buddhas and their empowerment because you have been relentless in giving what you have and giving again and giving again as though you were a debtor to the entire universe.
Is it not better to assume one is a debtor than a creditor? Always to be giving assures you that the farthest fields of universal time and space and timelessness and spacelessness are filled with your givingness. You may go through the avenues of the stars and the galaxies and highways of cosmos, and one day you will find blossoming there all that you have sent forth, all that you have given.
The resolution of conflict is not an argument. The resolution of conflict is through surrender of the conflict itself. Give to another what he demands of you and preserve your soul, remembering the words of all avatars: “Follow me. Follow me! Follow me!”
We are done with all of that. We are done with all of these disputes, all of these challenges, all of these entanglements in the levels of consciousness of the worlds of so many people who are so ill in the psyche that they engage in battles with the government, battles with their neighbors, battles with themselves.
What for? For nothing, except that the body reflects the illness of the psyche and turns itself inward and therefore rots and is self-consumed.
See the signs, beloved. The signs of insanity are far closer than the obviously insane–the insanity of squandering the life-force, the insanity of being wrapped up in useless endeavors when God is here and there and everywhere and at every point in your aura. Every atom, every molecule is God in manifestation. Every ray of the sun can become a solid rope whereby you rise to the dimensions of your I AM Presence and you live there, going to and from the body in service, whether waking or sleeping.
These are the things that everlasting life are made of, not of the pettiness of the human consciousness. Do not have time to listen to petty conversations.
Move on. Move on, beloved! Other planets and places of paradise await you, other service and teachers–teachers such as the Ascended Masters, who gather their flocks in the etheric octaves of earth and in planetary bodies and stars far beyond this one. The universe is vast. Earth is a stopover. You have stopped over too long.
Determine what is important to you from this day forward. I will tell you what my definition is of what is supremely important. It is that you satisfy the law of Love, the law of Wisdom, the law of the Will of God in being that bodhisattva. It is that you become a rock of refuge in the earth, caring not for the things of the self or the accumulation of the things of the self but to perform your duties as best as possible, making use of the best of modern technologies and all that you require to have your victory.
Serve, beloved, for your service is your liberation. And I want you to be liberated souls, for I want you to come into the lotus of my heart and not wait another day. I want you to find that place, to forsake all else and to know there is a path to Buddhahood and I would show you the way.
I AM your devoted Padma Sambhava, loving you always. May you love your Real Self while consuming your unreal self, and love yourself all the way to the door of my heart. I love you from the depth of the universe, beyond all time and space, filling all eternity.
You have been with me before. And to me these lilies of the field <6> represent each one who has known the Path, perhaps gone astray and is now ready to try again. I am ready for you. I hold you to my breast until the fulfillment of all things that are required of you. So be it.
In the name of Sanat Kumara, Gautama Buddha, Lord Maitreya, Manjushri, Jesus Christ, I AM your humble servant Padma Sambhava, Guru Rinpoche.
I bless you out of the lotus of which I AM born.
The Messenger:
Justinius would like you to give further preparation for the purification of ascending souls of earth before he gives his dictation. This we will return to in the morning. The dictation will be given before Jesus’ dictation and then we follow with Shiva and Parvati.
I ask you to make the call, upon retiring, to be taken to the highest levels of the etheric octave to which you are allowed. The teaching of Padma Sambhava is that we may all go to the etheric octaves to study but some may not study beyond the first level or the second or the third.
Each day in your decrees, then, apply to Padma Sambhava, to the Holy Spirit and to the Seven Chohans to be shown what you must do to be accepted at the next level and the next level. You do not need to wait till the passing of your soul from this life to discover what you have earned, what level you will go to. Predetermine that by meeting the requirements of the level you desire to attain in the here and now.
It is important to realize that you have attainment in the body but that you have more attainment out of the body, as your soul is clothed in your etheric body when you go to the retreats. If you knock upon the door and the doorkeeper says, “Remain at this level,” then work very hard at that level until you are received at the next level, and so on.
You will know in your inner being, even if your outer being does not know, the rejoicing in continuous striving as you desire to be perfected for only one purpose–that you might heal and deliver and serve all sentient life. With that right motive to the glory of God, you are ascending.
None of us knows how we are counted in the ladder of heaven, in the hierarchies of heaven. So we do our part in the lowly estate of the flesh but our souls are moving on, graduating each day, leaving behind us the outlived, outmoded and outworn shells.
Each day remember that for the good that you do there is an accrual of Light. Nothing goes unnoticed. Nothing is lost. Every burden you carry can become Light.
Trust in the unfailing Law of Love of all of our teachers that we know. You are never shortchanged. You are never forgotten. You are never anywhere where God’s eye and his angels do not observe. All the good that you do is counted. And therefore, take care not to stain your garments in this temporary dwelling place.
Let us retire.
Benediction:
We call for the acceleration of rest in the time that is given to us and for the fulfillment of our conference tomorrow.
In the name of Almighty God, we give praise and rejoicing to the entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood, to the presence of so many Ascended Masters in the earth who are helping us onward.
As you have helped us, O ascended ones, so we desire to help others whom we can reach because we can talk to them and they can hear us. We would be your mouthpiece, your spokesmen, your representatives.
We know that all souls read our souls. And therefore we embrace in this hour, in the name of Justinius, the highest purity of Light, that in that purity all might see the reflection of God. Amen.
This dictation by beloved Padma Sambhava was delivered by the Messenger of the Great White Brotherhood, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, on Holy Saturday, April 2, 1994, during the five-day Easter Retreat 1994, held at the Royal Teton Ranch, Park County, Montana. In the service before the dictation, the Messenger read and gave teachings on excerpts from the book Dakini Teachings: Padmasambhava’s Oral Instructions to Lady Tsogyal (trans. Erik Pema Kunsang [Boston: Shambhala, 1990], pp. 1, 2-6, 35-44, 46-47). Dakini Teachings is available through Summit University Press. Padma Sambhava’s dictation available on videocassette and on audiocassette. The audiocassette will include the Messenger’s teaching before the dictation. [N.B. This dictation was edited for print by the Messenger under Padma Sambhava’s direction.]
1. See introductory note above on the Messenger’s readings from the Dakini Teachings.
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