We’re not finished with Buddha by a long shot, peeps. He’s just so chock-full of such awe-inspiring wisdom. I can’t tell you how deeply even I, on the other side of the computer screen video Skyping, felt his enormous energy coming through. When Jamie allows me to make public the interview YouTube, I think you’ll see what I mean, but perhaps not nearly to the same degree she does.
To all of the newcomers to Channeling Erik: Many of you have asked questions that have already been answered. However daunting the task, I strongly recommend you start at the beginning of the blog and eat away at the archives little by little, because Erik reveals so much foundational information that probably won’t be touched upon in the future: the nature of death and the afterlife, the abilities of the discarnate soul, God, Hell, good vs. evil, how time works, the whys and hows of the human experience, including things like the spiritual reasons for various diseases and conditions, etc., etc. etc. If you just take the time to read one of two back entries a day, you’ll be able to catch up in no time. Promise. Back me up here, CE veterans. You can start with the back story: https://channelingerik.com/about/ or you can start with the very first post: https://channelingerik.com/eriks-first-visits/
Okay, Buddha. Your turn.
Me: What was your spiritual mission, Buddha?
Jamie grins and shakes her head.
Me: Just in your own words.
Jamie: He smiles really, really big.
Buddha: I would have believed this would have been known already.
Me: I want it in your own words though, not from Wikipedia or anything like that. I want to hear it from you.
Jamie turns and whispers to Buddha.
Jamie: He looked at me, “Wikipedia?” (to Buddha) It’s just another word for computer dictionary.
Buddha: It was my spiritual mission to teach people, to teach humans that suffering is not needed to obtain enlightenment.
Me: Okay, and reflecting on your life, do you think you accomplished this?
Buddha: Yes.
Me: Good. What do you think you were here to learn, if anything?
Buddha: To learn to stand true to my own beliefs.
Me: And do think you accomplished that?
Buddha: Yes.
Me: Okay. Nice short little answers. You can expand on these if you like.
Jamie laughs.
Buddha: What the mind believes, it creates as your reality. I was able to let my mind understand what true joy of life is, and therefore it was my belief that my entire being felt it and believed it and that I had the ability to teach it to others.
Me: Okay. Very good. Now, looking back on your teachings, is there anything that you’d change? In other words, are there parts of your teachings that you’d retract or wish to change?
Jamie (in behalf of Buddha) quickly shakes her head.
Me: Not a thing?
Again, Jamie shakes her head for Buddha.
Me: It sounds like you answered that question very quickly and with no reservation! Do you have any regrets at all?
Jamie looks at Buddha, then shakes for him.
Me: Now, that’s an amazing thing. Most people do have regrets.
Buddha: Regrets come from where the head and the heart don’t agree. It was my life lesson to have the two communicate therefore I do not have regrets.
(Long pause, then Jamie giggles at what Erik says.)
Erik: Why do people portray you as fat?
Me (laughing): Oh, Erik!
Jamie looks over at Buddha and listens to his reply.
Buddha: The big belly, the softness—
Jamie (to Buddha): Right, you rub Buddha’s belly! You don’t have a belly. No offense. But the imagery (he gives me) was of having the abundant energy of life, abundant being gor—go—oh, some nice word, I don’t know. It’s just to be abundant, to be fat.
Me: Yeah, portly.
Jamie: To be portly. It was a symbol of his ability to hold the life force, the joy, the presence of life—some would describe as big, but he is not. Um, he’s not big.
Me: Okay. Now, what do you think about modern day Buddhism and its followers today?
Buddha: I’m very pleased. They’re doing very good work. The lifestyle of Buddhism fits within every religion. It is a strong and valuable center or core of life. If we are to be able to achieve this where everyone can see the value in the lifestyle of Buddhism, then we will be able to see world peace.
Me: That would be nice. It seems so far away though. Now, can you share a life that most influenced the one we know as Buddha?
(Long pause)
Jamie: He’s talking to me about a life, but it’s not in a human body. It’s in an energetic form.
Me: Hmm!
Jamie: It looks like he remains a child in the energetic life. He’s showing me a child about 8, 9 years old. Eight. Kind of androgynous. I wouldn’t be able to look and say boy or girl. The hair is just, um, I don’t know, it’s just all one length (she shows with her hands that it’s jaw length) cut very, very blunt.
Buddha: It was the incarnation I had before my life as Buddha—the one directly before—where I was being taught to not use the brain as the source of all knowledge but to use the brain as a conduit to connect to the source of all knowledge.
Me: But he didn’t have a brain. (Since he didn’t have a human body.)
In retrospect, this was a stupid response. That’s exactly why he had an energetic body. Sigh. But soon I come to what’s left of my senses.
Me: Is that why he’s in energetic form, because he didn’t have a brain? It sounds like The Wizard of Oz. All I can think of now is the scarecrow on The Wizard of Oz, but…
Buddha: No, I was being taught to do that for my incarnation as Buddha. It influenced so much the life I had after. It was the ability to remember how to connect to All That Is.
Me: Okay.
Jamie: He knows for certain, like when he speaks—it’s wild. You know when you know when you listen a lecturer, and they’re very confident, and they’re selling a product, and you’re just, “Wow, that must be the best bed ever.” You’re just, “Whoa!” Details and all of this. He has that level of speaking where it’s so confident; it’s so easy. When you hear it you think, “I will never doubt what this guy says.” There’s no space for it. There’s no room for it. So, it feels very comforting, but you don’t feel like you’re being manipulated into believing what he says is true like you would if someone was trying to sell you the bed. It’s just that you know it is his simple truth.
Okay, back to Buddha.
Buddha: Because I had the ability to use the brain as a conduit to the source of All That Is instead of believing that the brain was where all of the knowledge was stored. I know that every living human has that same ability to understand the brain is a conduit. It is not the complete computer—
Jamie (grinning): Cuz we were talking about computers earlier!
Me: All right!
Buddha: It is not the complete computer. I feel this is where humanity is stumbling.
Jamie: I never expected him to be so down to earth!
Me: That’s awesome!
Sorry Buddha. I hate to have to last word, but I want everyone to know that we have the small group conference call channeling session next Thursday. If anyone is interested, sign up here: https://withloveandlight.com/shop/channeling-erik-conference-call-104/
