Gautama speaks about the choices needed by people who want peace, and to overcome evil and the disease of selfishness.
I am Buddha and I come to you, troubled Earth. Selfishness spreads like the disease that it is.
Humanity, choose! Where is the hope for your children? Where is the pathway of light?
I come, children of the Earth, I bring my heart and the heart of my brother Maitreya. We enfold the Earth and try to heal you, humanity.
We hold the Earth and sustain her through the crisis – but you humanity, you make your path of pain when it could be of joyful transformation.
Peace is coming, but who will be here? Those of you who want it with every fibre of your being. Those of you who would sacrifice your little self for the healing of the greater whole. There are many who choose to do this, but not yet enough – yet.
Humanity, choose! The darkened times of the Great Change are coming. Evil spreads via the greatest weakness of humanity – selfishness. Cultivate the joy of sharing in your homes, work, community. Cultivate wholeness, cultivate sharing. You who respond and care about Earth’s future must stem the tide of selfishness and self-righteousness, with harmless living in community from the heart.
Those of you who choose, even though so few, can change the world.
Have not I and my brother left lasting footprints on the minds and hearts of humanity through just one short incarnation? Now humanity – those who respond, you become the vehicle that will leave the lasting impression upon the history books and into the Golden Age. You are the vehicle as a group for the greater work I and my Brother with the Ladies of Light and all lighted beings, now impress upon this little planet, soon to become a sacred planet – in the frame of time that to me is soon.
You, humanity who choose, are that vehicle. You are the strength, love and compassion of the Hierarchy, with my brother and I at the helm.
Lead the Earth into this New Age – this is your dharma.
Humanity choose, the tide of evil must be stopped.
I am with you, this Wesak closer than ever before – even than when I physically incarnated. For now I am so much more the Earth with my brother its beating heart. We together are the life of this Earth, and you who choose will feel me, us, as that life that sustains you and nourishes you to take action.
Humanity, choose. Choose the light, choose the heart, choose to act, be the heart.
Time is now, save your life, your future. Resist evil with the heart, share community with the heart, break the tide of selfishness. I am with you, my brother is with you, we are all with you. The doorway opens. Choose, and make a planet of light.
In love, always, the one nearest to your heart.
In the Light of Gautama, 24 April 2002
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