H.H. Buddha MaitreyaThursday, August 20th 2009

Dear Friends

This weekend is His Holiness Buddha Maitreya's Dharshan.  If you are not attending we would like to invite you to focus as much as you can on meditation with the tools & music over the two days, as it is a very auspicious time for everyone.

Soul Therapy treatments are also available, either at one of the Soul Therapy locations or long-distance.  The offering for the hour is minimum $50.00.  You may also ask for your name, or the name of someone in need, to be placed in a Maitreya Solar Cross for the 48 hour period, for a donation of your choice.

Please call a monk or a nun (Ani) of the Church on 1-877 444 7685 or (928) 203 4711.  In UK/Europe, please call (01458) 832482

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About His Holiness Buddha Maitreya - Some Questions & Answers
For the Full Transcript of the interview, plus other teachings, please go to About His Holiness Buddha Maitreya


His Holiness Buddha Maitreya, founder and director of the Church of Shambhala Vajradhara Maitreya Sangha, was born in Oregon in 1951.  The word 'Maitreya' comes from the sanskrit work 'Maitri' meaning unattached and unconditional loving kindness.  His Holiness teaches the principles of Harmlessness - right speech, right action, and right thought - and how to develop virtues in practical daily living.  He has also always taught that wisdom comes from giving and has made the support of exiled Tibetan refugees and Tibetan Monasteries a focus, starting in 1994, as well as helping Westerners to learn deep meditation and further their own self-healing through the transmission of his blessings.  Currently the Church is focused on building a Monastery in Northern California. 

What is a Dharshan?

"A Dharshan is a traditional Hindi/indi term. When a teacher of the religions of India or of Tibet gives a teaching, its called a Dharshan. Its a spiritual teaching given by someone who spends a lot of time meditating, someone who is recognized as a person who emanates a lot of healing energy. That healing energy becomes part of the teaching. A blessing is involved with the teaching."


What kind of things do you teach at a Dharshan? 


"I look at the history of humanity, at least over the past 100 years and show the evolutionary course of events that demonstrate how humanity is moving in a very spiritual directed way. We're coming out of processes of wars and hate, smoking, alcohol, addictions, aggression, prejudices and the lack of human rights that we've put upon each other. We transmuted that, in a record time. 


"If you look back at it properly, with an attitude of seeing things for what they really are, and being patient, and developing it that way, we can actually let go of a whole lot of false prophetic thought forms that keep us from appreciating all these great changes that are taking place. There's a lot that can be released as far as doubts and fear. That can make a lot of difference in a person's spiritual direction on how or why they are going to get spiritual.


"My teaching is to try and get people to deal with what they really need to change in their lives, and take a good look at it, and clean it up. Look at their habits and the ways in which they're feeling obligated to be with people that don't really love them and honestly want to use them and manipulate them, because that happens a lot.  People can, by their own choice, by their own process of gaining certain strengths in themselves, step out of those circumstances and transform their lives. I believe that when a person makes a good choice and moves toward what may be really hard to do, he or she makes a complete transformation in the opportunity of what I believe to be the Soul energy to come into a person, which is a more healing energy.


"It allows one to be able to have a higher mind, a more discerning mind, more credibility in relationship to one's own self esteem. That soul quality is absolutely important for a person to develop. There are all these other techniques that people try that are quick fixes. Follow this leader, or that teaching. I believe every single day in our life and every single circumstance around us is a karmic event. We can shift that if we make good choices right now. We don't want to follow through with bad habits, because that's what draws those karmic events to us. 


If you can discern or discriminate what is a bad habit, your soul automatically gives you the Holy Spirit, or the energy to make a choice. And it's always a good choice. It may take a long time to fulfill that choice, because the havoc keeps coming back, but that choice will not go away and your conscience will be guiding you. You don't have to worry about whether or not God is guiding you, or whether or not the Lord loves you. The soul is in direct relationship with everything people talk about concerning God. The soul is our telepathic communion with that reality. We have to bring in virtues in order to get it-there's no other way around it."

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"Shambhala means Heaven on Earth, a form of Awakened Buddha Nature or manifested loving expression, the same found in sacred geomancy and life on Earth created by the Mind of God" - His Holiness Buddha Maitreya

Within many cultures the benefit to the community -- and humanity as a whole -- of building a temple, Church, Stupa or Monastery is well understood. There is also great personal merit that comes with assisting such projects.   The main features of the monastery are:

  • It is designed and built according to sacred geomancy as found in all temples, churches, stupas and holy sites. 
  • There is a central 51 degree pyramid surrounded by 6 monolithic domes, for a 1000 year lifespan.
  • Energy efficiency will be attained through solar, wind, geothermal power, and electric vehicles.
  • Self-sustaining through aquaponics and hydroponics.
  • Open by appointment for day visits and extended meditation healing 'Soul Therapy®' retreats.
  • Residence for full time monastic community.

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