This is the continuation of the article published last weekend.
In the initiatory shamanism of temple-building Nations, and also in the hard-core shamanism of nomadic nations, there is always what is known as the lineage of power, or the lineage of wisdom transmission. Those whom tradition, observation or events have designated as heirs to the community’s ancestral shamanism receive from their elders, after a period of training, the power to serve their community with those skills unique to shamanism. It’s the same in Buddhism and among the yogis of India and Tibet, the Taoists of China, the Shintoists of Japan, etc. The knowledge, power and wisdom handed down uninterruptedly for millennia by successive generations of great masters, pour into the aspirant and apprentice like an old vase of pure water pouring into a new one.
We always harvest the seeds we have sown into the world, in other people, family and even animals. What we need the most, what this world needs more than anything else, is loving kindness!
In my reflections this week, inspired by some reading on traditional Tibetan Buddhist medicine, it occurred to me that if we could work in concert with official medicine and traditional medicine, we would achieve far more effective results than we’re currently seeing. And at a much lower cost!