RESURRECTION AND THE PATH

This is the most important day for Christians all over the world. Like many other religious festivals in the Western world, it has been distorted to become something else. Yet, this solemn celebration is very significant.

What many people in the Western world fail to realize is that the resurrection of Christ is not unique. There are many examples of other people around the world who have attained the body of light, or rainbow body, as other traditions call it. As far as I know, those who have had the greatest incidence of this transformation are the Tibetans. There are many people in Tibet who have transcended death and whose ultimate realization has been documented. In fact, the concept of immortality is present in all Asian countries and in most indigenous nations. Only the Western world cites a single example of this achievement, and even then, this holiday has become an opportunity to gorge on chocolate and celebrate the bunny and the chick :-D.

What I think is important to stress here is that we have always had within us an essence that is not limited by death. It is possible to overcome illness and death and achieve immortality. What is mentioned by those who reach this state of consciousness, the state of original purity, is that it has always been there, from the very beginning. In fact, they define it as unborn, without beginning or end. This consciousness has simply been obscured and hidden by our limiting thoughts and our wanderings through the karmic cycles that destine us to return again and again and again to suffering, old age, illness and death.

The important thing now is to know how to find the path to this realization. It takes hard work and perseverance, but we can savor the benefits more and more each day. The path itself brings its own rewards.

Have you ever noticed how those who help others, who spend long hours every day helping others out of genuine compassion, are smiling and happy, even in difficult times? That’s the way to go! How can we cultivate this in ourselves? To obtain the impulse to help, this motivation has to be sown and watered like a garden. I give you one of the most powerful meditations to start sowing the seeds that will take you to the beginning of this path.

Be kind to others. Cultivate loving kindness within yourself. By meditating on it daily, seek to see within yourself the roots of your own goodness and radiate it throughout the day. To increase your capacity to show this kindness to others, cultivate compassion. Compassion is the wisdom of love, and it comes from the heart. There are physical exercises, dances, chants, mantras and deities who embody compassion that can nourish your meditation. I’ll name a few. The White Buffalo Calf Woman of Native America. The mother of Jesus, Mary. Kannon Bosatsu of the Asian peoples. Avalokishvara – Shenrezig of the Tibetans.

Then, when you have taken concrete steps to help others, be joyful. To generate the positive emotions that improve all conditions of life and health, it’s a good idea to generate joy. You have to create it in yourself, and it will appear in others. Performing altruistic gestures and then feeling joy about them is like sowing the seeds of positive karmic imprints and then watering them so that they will grow.

In all this, maintain equanimity. Within yourself and around you. Wish joy and health to everyone, to your family and friends, but also to your enemies and those who don’t wish you well. Be equal to all. And within yourself, maintain balance.

This is the basic meditation that will lead you to the beginning of the path that leads to the infinity of your own nature, which is eternal, without beginning or end, without substance or color, which is as immense as infinite space and knows no end. Pure from the beginning, your immortal essence is the noblest goal to which you can aspire. Since, once realized, it will be able to inspire an incalculable number of beings, in all worlds and in all times.