A Descended Master by Patrick Desplace & Lorraine Davies

Author:Patrick Desplace & Lorraine Davies [Desplace, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Historical Fiction
ISBN: 9781920535117
Publisher: Kima Global Publishers
Published: 2012-11-11T00:00:00+00:00

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Teach only Freedom

“Each must seek liberation for themselves alone”

The Tiger’s Fang by Paul Twitchell

One day, Ciril told me I was ready for a particular encounter. He took me into the bush and drew this spiral on the ground and held me by the arm as we walked anti-clockwise around the spiral. We began intoning a specific mantra and a mist appeared. Out of this soft mist a clockwise spiral materialised which we followed until we emerged into a cave. The only way to access this particular cave in the Himalayas is through teleportation. The gateway into the cave was the spiral Ciril created for me. There was air but was I breathing at all? There was light but was I seeing with my eyes? Was I even in my physical body when I teleported to that cave in Tibet? It’s a mystery.

There was a group of Tibetan monks waiting for us. Ciril introduced me to the abbot of the monastery. He told me that I would be there for a while to learn. When I asked him how long, he told me as long as it takes. I felt a little flustered. I told him that I had a wife and a job to consider. He assured me that it would all be taken care of and I trusted him. With that he left the way we had come and I remained with the monks. For how long, I have no idea.

The freedom that I experienced at a new depth was when I began working with this young monk in the monastery. One day, after I had been working with him for some time, he left me in the middle of a lesson and I waited in vain for him to come for many days. Eventually, I approached the abbot and told him that my teacher hadn’t turned up for my lessons and I felt that I may have offended him. I thought perhaps I had made a cultural faux pas or some such blunder.

The abbot had a beautiful peaceful grin on his face and he told me, “You can’t offend him because he has no self-importance! He feels he has let you down and he is going to meditate to discover what he did wrong.”

I told the abbot, “He is the greatest teacher I have ever had, I would like to become like him one day!”

The abbot looked at me and said, “Ah! You are trying to be like him! Patrick, we have got the original, we don’t want a copy. We want to see our teaching and all the teaching you have acquired through your eyes. That’s how we grow, by learning from you, according to the way you perceive whatever you have learnt. He won’t be coming back to teach you but he has given you so much that you can meditate on to discover for yourself what you have received. Eventually, your teacher (Ciril) will come for you.”

It took me a while to digest that. I

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