The Skywalkers

There are a couple of passages that really caught my eye in The Voice of The Silence. This was supposed to have been etched on mysterious, metal disks found in Tibetan temples, often dating back more than a millenia.

One was a passage describing a 'Skywalker'- which reminded me of the surname George Lucas gave to Luke. In this case, though, it describes someone of great spiritual attainment, who can appear to walk on water the way Jesus did. It refers to a thin layer of wind floating above the water, which the can be walked across.

"Then from the heart that Power shall rise into the sixth, the middle region, the place between thine eyes, when it becomes the breath of the ONE-SOUL, the voice which filleth all, thy Master's voice.'Tis only then thou canst become a "Walker of the Sky" who treads the winds above the waves, whose step touches not the waters."


Now, I have believed for quite some time that Jesus received training in a Tibetan or North Indian monastery and there are even historical records which point to this. Isn't Christianity at heart a Buddhism for the Jewish people, notwithstanding it's original and revolutionary concepts, and it's divine source in a reincarnation of God? It makes sense to me to see the miracles just this way- as exhibitions of spiritual attainments which would be recognised as such by those 'in the know' just as the quotations from scripture were used as evidence of Jesus' role.

Another passage I just love is the footnote for the same piece-

"Keshara or "sky-walker" or "goer". As explained in the 6th Adhyaya of that king of mystic works the Dhyaneswari- the body of the Yogi becomes as one formed of the wind; as" a cloud from which limbs have sprouted out", after which-"he (the Yogi) beholds the things beyond the seas and stars; he hears the language of the Devas and comprehends it, and perceives what is passing in the mind of the ant".

Just imagine hearing the Deva's voices, the voices of the gods, and also seeing an ant's thoughts! I find this to be a wonderful display of awareness of the breadth and scope of the Creation- a poetic summary of just what this means for us.

Most of The Voice of The Silence is a moral teaching, showing how if we take on the sufferings of others, truly absorb them and take them on as our own, those very tears bring forth a great compassion and love... which in turn brings us up the ladder towards enlightenment. Yet before we enter there, the truly compassionate halt, turning back to help the beings of the universe, out of love staying in the world of Maya so as to bring all other beings forward with them. This sacrifice is the great and noble sacrifice of love, of the Bodhisattva. It is this that the voice of the silence speaks of. Moving and wonderful... and for me, quite simply true...