And we are done!

Yesterday, finally was the last day of Kalachakra. Actually, the initiation ended on Saturday, but yesterday was a special White Tara long life empowerment for the public and His Holiness. Basically a blessing that helps purify karmic obstructions.

We had to arrive at around 6am. When the empowerment started nothing special..the usual things happening, monks chanting and His Holiness explaining some things. When finished the White Tara empowerment, Marcus eagerly wanted to leave, but I wanted to stay through the Long Life blessing for His Holiness, at least as a thanks. 
Now the interesting part happened, they were ready to invoke some spirits and when the monks started to chant again, a strong emotion arose from my heart and I started to cry, the crying was that strong that I was brought to my knees and I could not get myself up, throughout it I noticed Marcus was also crying...So, imagine the two of us crying in the middle of 5000 foreigners. I cried for an hour and was unable to pick myself up.. the only thing I can say is what a tremendous power of His Holiness, and such compassion.
At the same time, there was a lot of commotion from the public, apparently many people fell into trance and these deities came to pay respect to His Holiness. People were dragged by the police to see His Holiness. Unfortunately, I missed that part :P

As for those who are skeptical about it, His Holiness was explaining, sentient beings are everywhere, some we can see, some we cannot. He said that it must have been an entertaining show for the foreigners. For the locals, it is like anything else, it is part of their culture.

It was an interesting thing that happened. After reflecting I noticed that, while I was crying, only one Tibetan guy sitting in front of me asked me if I was ok.  When I was able to grab myself together, only one Tibetan mother sitting behind me asked me if I was ok. She thought there was something with my stomach, but I explained her it was His Holiness blessing, oddly enough she actually understood. As for Marcus, nobody asked him anything. Yes, we were handed a lot of tissues, but the people just disappeared. Amazing.. surrounded by so many Buddhist foreigners that practice Love and Compassion, missing the basic human nature of care and love for another human being, of course I am generalizing here.
But then again afterwards, Marcus and I had a good laugh of how many people we must have freaked out.

These few weeks, I have seen the other side of the Buddhist community, remove the so-called values they should practice, in the end they are just human beings who dress up like red strawberry (excellent analogy from Marcus :)).
Actually, the monks are maybe even worse..when we left the venue, the area where the monks were sitting was so dirty, like they don't know how to clean up. One of the volunteers we talked to, actually said that the monks even abused their status, and the volunteers often had to bring the police to settle the matter.
Then again, they maybe are the ones in most need for His Holiness' blessing.

As we left the venue, I was unable to move, and my body felt like 90 years old, people were bumping into me and I was continuously almost fainting or falling. Marcus had to walk behind me to deflect the crowd from hitting me. Was good to see the other side, if you don't look old the care and compassion is also lacking haha. Next time, need to dress up like an old man.

In conclusion, this has been the most interesting and heaviest experience so far, and I bow to His Holiness, the rain of compassion that arose yesterday cannot be described... so much power, to benefit all sentient beings. It touched my Heart directly. Respect.
If one ever has the urge to see him, I suggest to go and meet him, no need to meet him in person, as long as you are in his presence is a blessing by itself, and you don't need to be a Buddhist, Christian or whatever religion to know about Love and Compassion, you just need to be Human.

Well, we have had enough of Leh, too dry and hot here. Tomorrow, we are off to Srinigar, Kashmir, to relax and have some beer :) Will upload the pictures of this week when I am in Srinigar, Internet has been so sucky lately.