Few are the Westerners in the left-brain secular mindset (linear paradigm) who understand and appreciate the amazing story of Padma Sambhava who founded Tibetan Buddhism in the eighth century A.D. as a disciple of Gautama Buddha.

This story is important to those who are serious about the path of evolutionary ascent because the divine Buddhic attribute of holy compassion provides the foundation of loving kindness at the heart of higher mental Christic commeasurement.

Whether in the laws of physics (action~reaction), biology (stimulus~response) or theology (reap what you sow), this is the first law of free will and self-fulfilling prophecy whereby we can achieve what we conceive and believe... in matter (on Earth) as in Spirit (Heaven).

The disciplines established by Padma Sambhava were simple yet profound in their effect on the primitive Tibetans in one of the most rugged terrains and harsh climates in the world -- the remote Himalayan heights of Tibet.

Another simple disciple anchored these reverential thought forms with a physical lowering of oneself in humility. Prostrations that lowered oneself to the ground of Mother Earth became a common practice that bows to the Spirit of Love without end -- an exercise of renouncing the worldly traps of pride and ego that would identify with the temptations of power, prestige, profit and pleasure in the worldly cults of success, materialism, sex and selfishness.

Indeed, the most difficult thing in the world is to remain non-attached to all the worldly beliefs, thoughts, feelings and actions that take one off the path of evolutionary ascent along more enlightened lines of body-mind-spirit "wholEness".

Another discipline of Tibetan Buddhism that reflects the divine and perfects the soul is the ancient science of invocation -- the Word made flesh that utilizes low diaphragm (solar plexus) intonations and carries a calming frequency that resonates with deep levels of meditation beyond the "monkey mind" of "linear" (limited) time/space "thinking".

The whole culture of Tibet was so transformed by the virtues of spiritual life that six thousand monasteries were built and one of six Tibetans lived their life as monks in practice of the Teachings. The success of this Buddhic system of knowing, thinking, feeling (devotion) and doing raised this culturally barren war-torn country into the closest thing to a Shangri-La paradise of Light and Love that modern history has known.

Few Westerners realize that Jesus traveled to Tibet in his so called lost years as documented by ancient texts in Lhasa that record their recognition of him as Saint Issa -- one of their Buddhas whose budding enlightenment was self-evident to these spiritual adepts.

One of the best books on this subject, that references the other two primary sources, is THE LOST YEARS OF JESUS by Elizabeth Clare Prophet, available at SU Press.

Those years of Christ are lost only because the Vatican and orthodox religions have suppressed the records of his Buddhic training under what the theocrats denigrate as a heathen religion as though to elevated Jesus to God status and to maintain an exclusive priestcraft role of intercessor for the Higher Power their religion represents. Out of the same pride and ego attachments to moral superiority, many clueless Christians discount this compassionate religion in derogatory terms.

As such was the pride, ego and politics behind Western governments that refused to voice an outcry or otherwise make a stand to defend the harmless Tibetan people from the Red Chinese invasion that has overrun Tibet and destroying almost all monasteries, murdering more than a million people -- everyone with position, power or prestige as communists do.

Many Tibetans escaped the destructive Communist invasion, including the Dalai Lama and many of the Tibetan adepts and devotees. In one of the great paradoxes that embodies the greatest Love in a dark world.  The Teachings of holy compassion of Tibetan Buddhism have consequently been pushed out of their remote isolation onto the world stage... for all who have eyes to see.

Finally the Western mind is being exposed to the great spiritual tradition that nurtured the Christ mind in Jesus and would likewise see the great opportunity with the problem of polarization, pride, profiteering and power trips coming from wolves among us in Church and State.

Indeed the whole world faces a similar challenge and opportunity, as did the Tibetan people. Lightworkers appreciate the Light of Love in faith and hope as a better choice to the darkness of fear and despair. Without the dark, we might take the Light for granted. True Lightworkers discern the difference with an eye for "more Light".

May we learn the Tibetan Lesson thoroughly -- that holy compassion and loving kindness are the currency of conscience at the heart of our Internet-connected world, shaping our consciousness and building our local and global communities in the way that seals the door where evil dwells.

Then as now, the trend-fitting of Western culture with disciplines, techniques and technology that best fulfills the Great Law of LOVE is the key to once again creating a social, political and economic environment in which holy compassion can thrive.

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"He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool... shun him.
He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is willing... teach him.
He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep... awaken him.
He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise... follow him."
- Chinese proverb attributed to Confucius