I was a bit surprised to find a prophecy coming from the Buddhists, and I was even more surprised at it's accuracy. The prophecy comes from Padma Sambhava, eighth century Indian Guru and founder of the first Tibetan Buddhist Monastery. Here's the prophesy:
"When the iron bird flies, and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the World and the Dharma will come to the land of the red faced people."
Obviously he's referring to aircraft and cars or trains and the invasion of Tibet from China that forced the Tibetan monks and the Dali Larma out of Tibet. The red faced people can only mean America, and America now has more Buddhists than any place else in the Western World.
Coming from a bloke in the eighth century; is that an amazing prophecy or what?
It's not like it's all a matter of interpretation either.
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Meanwhile the red faced people are going about business as usual. Being not even slightly aware of the silent; very well meaning; very mindful; and very thoughtful invasion that is coming at them. The red faced people rattle their sabers and place all their attention on oil and the threat to the dollar coming from Iran.
They perceive a threat coming from the East aright - ah but, while the red faced people look outside in search of a threat, are they are about to be brought to disintegration from the inside by humble hand clasping and respectfully bowing monks from Tibet?
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In my humble opinion, the Tibetan monks know a lot more about life than we in the West do because they explored the inside of life while we explored the outside. Simply put: we explored the outer world while they explored the inner world. As the Chinese might say: it's simply a matter of Yin and Yang. Nothing can exist without its opposite. We gave the world a lot of material blessings, but it's not till very recently that the West has begun to wake up to the spiritual blessings that are now being directed at us at an ever increasing pace from the East.
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Our material viewpoint tells us that this is all there is. We live, we die, and life is a bitch. Grab while the going is good. Life is an evolutionary struggle between animals that can survive and the animals that can't. On the other hand, according to Tibet; we live, we die, and we live again. Death is impossible. They say that what we do in this incarnation will have an effect on our next incarnation. They talk about a thing called Karma.
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Quantum physics, the Western science that went inward instead of outward, agrees with the Tibetan monks in that the amount of energy in the world is at a set point. It doesn't increase and it doesn't decrease. In other words there's only so much of it and it's a constant. Energy changes into form, then it changes into energy again, and then it changes back into form in a never ending cycle of change.
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If there's one thing I can point at in this very strange and mysterious thing we call life, in regard to the certainty that the word truth is supposed to contain, it is that things change. The only thing I know about truth is the absolutely truthful fact that things change. Sometimes things change in an instant, sometimes things change over a long period of time. Sometimes we can't see the change coming, ah but, sometimes we know that we should have.
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If every thing is always changing, along with the the thing we call "ourself", how are we to know if a conclusion we had yesterday will still hold ground as a conclusion that we should still hold today? If the ground is always shifting, is their really any solid ground? Is there really a solid ground to build on that does not demand a leap of faith? And is not faith in mankind often abused? More like always abused. Faith in anything, or anyone, will change, the thing we call faith has the seed of disappointment in it. Faith is often confused with hope, and who can blame people for hoping?
The only thing I have faith in is that it will all change.
Sometimes it's best to do nothing. And that's what the lad on this link goes into.
http://www.doingnothing.com/index.html
"When the iron bird flies, and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the World and the Dharma will come to the land of the red faced people."
Obviously he's referring to aircraft and cars or trains and the invasion of Tibet from China that forced the Tibetan monks and the Dali Larma out of Tibet. The red faced people can only mean America, and America now has more Buddhists than any place else in the Western World.
Coming from a bloke in the eighth century; is that an amazing prophecy or what?
It's not like it's all a matter of interpretation either.
.................
Meanwhile the red faced people are going about business as usual. Being not even slightly aware of the silent; very well meaning; very mindful; and very thoughtful invasion that is coming at them. The red faced people rattle their sabers and place all their attention on oil and the threat to the dollar coming from Iran.
They perceive a threat coming from the East aright - ah but, while the red faced people look outside in search of a threat, are they are about to be brought to disintegration from the inside by humble hand clasping and respectfully bowing monks from Tibet?
................
In my humble opinion, the Tibetan monks know a lot more about life than we in the West do because they explored the inside of life while we explored the outside. Simply put: we explored the outer world while they explored the inner world. As the Chinese might say: it's simply a matter of Yin and Yang. Nothing can exist without its opposite. We gave the world a lot of material blessings, but it's not till very recently that the West has begun to wake up to the spiritual blessings that are now being directed at us at an ever increasing pace from the East.
...............
Our material viewpoint tells us that this is all there is. We live, we die, and life is a bitch. Grab while the going is good. Life is an evolutionary struggle between animals that can survive and the animals that can't. On the other hand, according to Tibet; we live, we die, and we live again. Death is impossible. They say that what we do in this incarnation will have an effect on our next incarnation. They talk about a thing called Karma.
.....................
Quantum physics, the Western science that went inward instead of outward, agrees with the Tibetan monks in that the amount of energy in the world is at a set point. It doesn't increase and it doesn't decrease. In other words there's only so much of it and it's a constant. Energy changes into form, then it changes into energy again, and then it changes back into form in a never ending cycle of change.
.......................
If there's one thing I can point at in this very strange and mysterious thing we call life, in regard to the certainty that the word truth is supposed to contain, it is that things change. The only thing I know about truth is the absolutely truthful fact that things change. Sometimes things change in an instant, sometimes things change over a long period of time. Sometimes we can't see the change coming, ah but, sometimes we know that we should have.
........................
If every thing is always changing, along with the the thing we call "ourself", how are we to know if a conclusion we had yesterday will still hold ground as a conclusion that we should still hold today? If the ground is always shifting, is their really any solid ground? Is there really a solid ground to build on that does not demand a leap of faith? And is not faith in mankind often abused? More like always abused. Faith in anything, or anyone, will change, the thing we call faith has the seed of disappointment in it. Faith is often confused with hope, and who can blame people for hoping?
The only thing I have faith in is that it will all change.
Sometimes it's best to do nothing. And that's what the lad on this link goes into.
http://www.doingnothing.com/index.html
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