There
are four great symbolic entities of Shambhala. Chögyam Trungpa, ignorant of the
real meaning of these symbolic entities, fancifully employed them as symbols
of four virtues of a Shambhala
Warrior as follows:
- One: The First Dignitary: The Tiger
- Trungpa
assigns the Tiger the dignity meaning of Meekness to “Shambhala Warriors”.
- Two: The Second Dignitary: The Snow Lion
- Trungpa assigns the Snow Lion
the dignity meaning of Perkiness to “Shambhala
Warriors”.
- Three:
The Third Dignitary: The Garuda Bird
- Trungpa
assigns the Garuda Bird
the dignity meaning of Outrageousness to “Shambhala
Warriors”.
- Four:
The Fourth Dignitary: The Dragon
- Trungpa
assigns the Dragon the dignity meaning of Inscrutability to “Shambhala
Warriors”.
These
four “dignity meanings” are mostly just Chögyam Trungpa’s Tibetan
bullshitting tendency, though they are no doubt useful magical virtues or
attitudes to cultivate. As useful
psychological settings, they have similar characteristics to Miguel Ruiz’s
Four Agreements of Toltec Wisdom, which is Miguel Ruiz’s parallel Mexican
bullshitting, which was his way of capitalizing on the popularity of Carlos
Castaneda books about Nagual Shamanism of the Toltecs. What we are going to discuss right now
is the real
meaning of the Four Dignitaries of Shambhala.
The Four
Dignitaries represent the four kinds of beings visiting or dwelling
upon the Earth whom ordinary people cannot comprehend. They are the kind of real entities that people
are either afraid of or whom people deny the existence of. Shambhala is thus itself an organizing
principle for four types of superior beings who have to operate
in an evasive, hidden way on the Earth because humanity cannot cope with
their overt presence except under special and temporary circumstances.
If you will keep all this in mind, you will benefit by meditating on
the Four Dignitaries and learning to telepathically commune with them.
- The
First Dignitary: The Snow Lion.
- The
Snow Lion represents the Siddha, the fully developed or at
least highly developed human being of Earth. This
human being is not immortal, but is supranormal,
an Ultraterrestrial.
- The
Second Dignitary: The Tiger.
- The
Tiger represents the Immortal Siddha, a fully developed
human being of Earth who has extreme longevity. This
being, like Guru Rimpoche Padma Sambhava
is an Immortal Ultraterrestrial.
- The
Third Dignitary: The Dragon.
- The Dragon or Reptilian represents any and all resident Aliens on Earth, usually
in underground or undersea facilities. These
human beings are psychically developed with Siddhis like the Snow
Lions, the human Siddhas, but they are physical
and mortal Extraterrestrials, though with much longer lifespans than
the short-lived human beings of Earth. They
are also called Nagas.
- The
Fourth Dignitary: The Garuda Bird.
- The Garuda Bird, which includes what is sometimes
called Mothman, is an Immortal
Extraterrestrial, though some Tigers or
even Snow Lions sometimes join the Garudas as El-people or Time-spanners,
for the ability to personally leap across both Space and Time is
a fundamental Siddhi of these beings.
Let’s
now look carefully at the traditional term, Dakini. Dakinis are
in fact dragon-like as dignitary category, but represent actually any kind of Alien who
interacts in some manner with a Siddha (or Snow Lion) on the Earth
or sometimes with Immortals (or Tigers). A Daka (male) or Dakini (female)
can also represent an ex-Earthling, a Siddha who has worked enough
Earth karma off and developed himself or herself to the point of being
qualified to dwell and develop on other planets with extraterrestrial
companions and sex-partners. If
you look carefully at the Indian Buddhist biographies of the Eighty-Four Siddhas,
you will note that often they did not die, but instead were “transported” to the “Land
of the Dakinis”. These
were (and are) literal physical
transferences, emigrations, to other planets. Shambhala thus acts as a hub or transference
agency for these shifts of advanced people to better locations for their
development.
Garuda Birds, immortal alien time-spanners, are no doubt the most “outrageous” or
unbelievable for the pathetic ignorant people of the Earth. The movie and the book of John Keel’s The Mothman Prophecy brings out graphically the extreme
difficulties ordinary ignorant peoples of Earth have in their encounters
with these kinds of superhuman beings.
Dragons,
physical aliens, are also very difficult for ordinary Earth people in their
ignorance and undeveloped state to deal with. They
do not seem to be able to receive and correlate the vast amount of factual
cosmic information available on this interface. Dragons, Aliens, are “inscrutable” as
to why they are here and what they do.
Tigers,
truly immortal human beings, like the Death-Defier,
the “Tenant”, introduced to the world through Carlos Castaneda,
are not comprehended very well even by Castaneda fans. The
same is true on the part of Tibetans in regard to Padma Sambhava or the Chinese
in regard to the Taoist Immortals or the Hindus in regard to the Nine Naths or
Immortal Masters. Tigers, Immortals, are thus “meek” because
they must blend into the “human jungle” and not attract too much
attention to their personal physical body, which could prove destructive
to it. We see in the life of Padma Sambhava how
the upset, insane normals repeatedly tried to kill
both him and his consort. Such
confrontations can be quite violent and tiresome.
Snow
Lions, Siddhas and Sarmounis,
can arrange their interface with ordinary, insane and stupid people quite
handily through the Mexican Sorcery technique of Stalking or what the Sufis
call Rend, cleverness. But
if they get carried away about getting worshipful followings of raw emotional
Earth people, they can find themselves arrested in their development and
dying a premature death, as we see with people like Carlos Castaneda, Chögyam
Trungpa and Swami Muktananda. Too
much fucking of undeveloped and impure neurotic women can take down any Siddha
or Snow Lion, who thus loses his “perkiness” or happy freedom
of a promising hidden development. This
does not mean Siddhas should be celibates, but rather that they should
keep their fucking with the Siddhanis, Lady-Siddhas or the Dakinis. The minute they start getting into the
neurotic and ignorant “volunteer” students like Amy Wallace that is the
beginning of the end. And look
at how it then becomes a ludicrous scandal about “cult leaders
who have sex with women followers”. Muktananda was going through his secret tunnel to the ladies
dorm at his ashram. Swami Shyam was taken down by a Canadian lady disciple he was fucking. Ignorant normals always
want their “Spiritual Masters” to be sexually abstinent ascetics
who do not even eat or need sleep. But
all such ascetics can lead you to is an empty life
without sex, food or restful sleep. It
is simply learning how to like being dead so you won’t mind if your
body dies. Unfortunately, that doesn’t solve
the real problem, so around and around we go.
Do
meditate on the real Four Dignitaries of Shambhala. It will help attune your aspiration and
self-development to the organic development of the Universe. It will also show you how stupid and ridiculous
remaining an ignorant normal actually is.