QUESTION:
A number of people have written in asking questions about the Dalai Lama, and Vikki corresponds with Bo Lozoff of the Human Kindness Foundation who sent some information on him which I’d like to read and ask a few questions about. He writes: "On February 18th, Sita and I were blessed to spend a full hour with His Holiness the Dalai Lama at his home in Dharamsala, India. To the Tibetan people and many others, the Dalai Lama is the 14th incarnation of Avalokiteshvara Buddha–the Buddha of Compassion. His presence is the very personification of humility, and of caring more about others than about oneself. For those of you who don’t know much about the Dalai Lama or the Tibetan situation, here’s an extremely brief description. Tibet sits atop the majestic Himalayan Mountains between China and India. For many centuries, Tibetan life revolved mostly around studying and practicing the Buddha’s deepest teachings, under the guidance of each Dalai Lama. You see, each time the Dalai Lama dies, he leaves clues as to where or when he will take birth again. Within a few years after his death, Tibet sages also have dreams and visions which give further clues, and then they go in search of the new incarnation. When the infant or toddler is found, he is tested in various ways, including a ceremony in which he must identify various religious relics from his former life and correctly reject the imitations and forgeries of those relics. When the sages are satisfied of his identity, the infant’s parents gladly entrust him to a monastery, to be educated and trained by Tibet’s wisest, most compassionate teachers, and groomed for his eventual role as leader of the Tibetan people. Of course, being an incarnation of an enlightened master, the child often knows scriptures and teachings even before hearing them. Between such natural abilities and the extraordinary attention paid to his training, he becomes intelligent and insightful almost beyond imagination. The current Dalai Lama can sit for hours in profound peace or discuss quantum physics with the world’s most renowned scientists; he can give the most ancient and sacred Buddhist initiations or speak to the U.S. Congress about subtle details of foreign policy and human rights abuses in nations like China. He has clearly transcended the chains and struggles of worldly life, yet chooses to remain fully involved in the world and is committed to relieving its suffering." And then his letter goes on to explain the situation in Tibet having been invaded by China and so forth, but I’d like to ask Awareness: Is this basically valid information, on how the Dalai Lama is chosen?
COSMIC AWARENESS:
This is in the affirmative. This Awareness indicates that these entities go out and search for the newly born child and upon finding the entity, testing him as described and gradually, over long periods of time, the revelation becomes more and more clear that this is indeed the entity who has memory and recognition of certain things. This Awareness indicates that this description as given is quite accurate.
This Awareness indicates that the Dalai Lama chose to let the Chinese have Tibet rather than cause a war, when China felt itself in need of taking more space and territory. Rather than allowing China to go into India, the Dalai Lama created an influence that redirected China’s ambitions into Tibet, and thus, by sacrificing Tibet, to appease the Chinese appetite, the Dalai Lama prevented an invasion into India.
This Awareness indicates that this occurred in the Sixties decade of this century, and these energies of the Sixties and Seventies and into the Nineties, where the Chinese have held territory in Tibet, have kept a kind of spiritual agreement or energy field that has locked China out of India.
This Awareness indicates that it has also made the world much more aware of Tibet and the Buddha and the Dalai Lama, and given much greater respect to these teachings and the philosophy espoused in the teachings.
FOLLOW-UP QUESTION:
Is the entity reincarnating over and over the actual Buddha, or is it another entity symbolically doing this?
COSMIC AWARENESS:
This Awareness indicates that it must be understood that the Buddha is a state of consciousness, like the Christ is a state of consciousness, not a personification or a persona, but a state of consciousness. This Awareness indicates that Gautama and those who become Buddha are entities who reach Buddhahood just as Jesus rose to a state of Christhood, and the energy or state of consciousness that exhibits itself as Buddha or Christ is not a person: it is a state of being.
So, to ask if this is a reincarnation of Buddha is not a valid question; it is perhaps intended as a question of whether the entity who was first written of historically as having reached Buddhahood, whether this entity is the same entity as the present Dalai Lama. This Awareness indicates that if this is the question, then this Awareness indicates the answer appears to be in the affirmative; that this entity is the reincarnation of a long line of reincarnated entities, stemming from the entity who was historically known as having reached Buddhahood.
