Manifestations at Bodhi Khaya
As a hundred people manifested at Bodhi Khaya in early spring 2011 we were met by an abundance of other manifestations equal in splendour.
First wind and cold and rain. Then wind and sun and a one third moon like a slice of pale watermelon drifting through the clouds.
Water singing and seeping down the southwestern valley, and resting in two ponds, where you may also fall asleep in the sun on a wooden deck.
The most engrossing library, where I found a water book (Schwenk and Schwenk, 1989: Water – The Element of Life). It asked “Why does water form the very basis of life in all life’s manifestations?” And answered: “Because water embraces everything, is in and all through everything:
- It occupies a position between life and death;
- Between gravity and levity: we owe the possibility of thinking to the brain’s water-buoyancy;
- Between light and darkness: their interaction gives rise to the rainbow, the primal phenomenon of colour;
- Between base and acid, in a neutral realm, where it mediates all chemical change;
- Between stillness and movement, whose interplay forms the basis for every rhythm and every pulse beat;
- Between solid and volatile: in other words, fluid, that is, endowed with an unlimited capacity for form-creation and metamorphosis” (1989: 59).
A Teaching: “How not to beat yourself up”. “First, since you have already done a million stupid things, one more is not a big deal.” LOL. “Besides, we don’t learn from punishment, including punishing ourselves.”
“This is what you can do. At the end of the day: Think of all the bad things you’ve done today. Purify them with Vajrasattva. Let them go. Think of the good things you’ve done today. Rejoice in them. Put together the merit of the purified and the rejoicing in the good, dedicate this to the benefit of all beings. Let them go. Then go to sleep.”
Victor Munnik
Bodhi Khaya 