In the ancient Tibetan Buddhist traditions, White Tara is considered the essence of wisdom, compassion, healing, abundance and protection. White Tara offers guidance and protection to all on their journey across the ocean of Samsara (the illusionary world created by the ego). She is believed to protect her followers as well as fill their hearts with love and compassion. She is also invoked by believers for the blessing of a long life.

She is also sometimes referred to as the 'mother’ of all the Buddhas and is associated with pristine cognition and compassion. Her body is white and sits in the royal posture on a moon and sun discs, upon a lotus flower. In her left hand she holds the stem of a blue lotus of compassion, while her right hand makes the gesture of generosity.

She is easily recognized by her seven eyes: three in her face, two in the palms of her hands, and two on the soles of her feet.

White Tara is regarded as the embodiment of all the Buddhas' enlightened activities. This could mean several things: all the qualities of one Buddha and all the qualities of many Buddhas - I see Buddha as a title, or perhaps more so as a "state of being", not a one separate individual. It can also mean that all individuals have Buddha Aspects to one degree or another and the White Tara 'embodiment' can represent some of those qualities in all persons, effectively making Buddha something that everyone is to some degree, the Buddha being part of everyone, and everyone part Buddha. This could also make the Buddha a definite part of All-That-Is, A-T-I being expressed by everyone.

White Tara is often considered the Tibetan Buddhist equivalent to the very ancient Chinese Kwan Ying, and various other feminine deities across the world, including the Virgin Mary from the Christian traditions, all going back to the Universal Feminine Principles. If you look at 'some' depictions of the traditional Buddha, you will see that the body is sometimes shaped with some feminine type of characteristic such as the curves of the body being a bit more rounded, less squared or angular lines often associated with masculine beings, even though the Buddha is considered a male being. The form then includes some characteristics visually symbolizing the incorporation of some degree of feminine energy.

I created this little page for several reasons. Even from an early stage, when I was perhaps only 13 or 14, I read the Tibetan Book of The Dead amongst many others. I always sensed a deep resonance with some of these older cosmologies than with some of our Western ideals. From my own dreams and visions and mystical perceptions, I have explored many of my 'past lives' and discovered that in many I was often in the role of nurturing, healing and played the part of the priestess and sometimes the priest in many older cultures, both Egyptian, Tantric (India) and others, where there was a more wholesome approach to self, always with an emphasis on nurturing and healing body and soul.

Over the years, Kris has mentioned a few things about ancient Tibet that has always intrigued me. Learning from Kris, I have also developed a view where I understand the various Religious Archetypes not as Gods and Goddesses that have expressions in an external objective world separate from our own, but more as a symbolic representation, a psychic vessel that seeks to identify and personify our own deeper human qualities, attributes and characteristics. Our own Inner Aspects as projected from an ego perspective, perhaps more as an embodiment or vessel of nurturing and healing qualities, characteristics and traits innate to our very natures.

For example, in many of the pre-orthodox modern religions, before the organizations made the title of Christ into an official declaration of Godhood only relevant to one individual for political purposes, people considered the Christ to be a title. As well, it was considered a state of consciousness anyone can attain, a state of Christhood, a state of being, an enlightened perspective similar to achieving a Buddha state of enlightenment.

The Christ figure would have represented the embodiment of those sought after qualities already residing within the individual, that could be emulated and added to ones own life. That's what walking in his footsteps means.

Meditating upon an "embodiment" helps bring about a manifestation of the qualities one is meditating upon represented in the deity. It's meant to awaken those qualities thereby awakening the larger dimensions of the person him/herself, at least in my views. I see these psychic icons/vessels as representing aspects of our blessed spiritual/physical mixture of qualities.

I have also had some experiences over the last few years which have lead me to believe that some meditation or focusing specifically on White Tara brings about a particular state in my own consciousness, where a definite energy is at work. Meditating on White Tara's qualities may well generate a tapping into of some similar qualities deep within my own psyche and allow those qualities to work, for example when I do energy healing or massage or a mix of both.

Personally I do not hold any religious affiliations of any sort. I do not align myself with any one religion over another and I do not consider Tibetan Buddhism to be a religion either. In fact, the views I have expressed here will certainly be considered heretical by many orthodox bodies. But then, many of the orthodox schools of thought themselves started out as heretical till they came into power and established themselves as the only one real true path over any other, effectively become the very thing they sought to overthrow.

This is my path, or at least part of it, and not to be considered for any other purpose than what I personally meditate upon. I do not consider what I do as the means to overthrow any orthodoxy and have no interest in such a thing.

I wanted to share this aspect of my thoughts and views and do not expect others to agree or disagree. This is simply part of who I am and of who I am in the process of becoming.

When I do energy work, I am in part focussing on the White Tara 'embodiment' using a technique Kris taught myself and many other people over the years I have been practicing. Kris and I also teach other individuals and groups this same method, as it has proven quite simple and most beneficial.

Cheers,

Serge