Has anyone heard of Maitreya??

[bellsisland]

This is not the Lord Maitreya I know. I am referring to the picture above with the turban and black beard.

[lindabaker]

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[Anchor]

Well I wont be prejudging. I haven't met this one yet

I have seen Benjamin Creme in person when I lived in the UK - I went to one of his lectures and asked him a question even.

I used to read share international about 15 years ago.

You know - even if some genuine "good" guy does show up to help us humans out, there will be people who think he is the antichrist and people who beleive the opposite.

Maitreya - or this one anyway - is rather overdue - I am basing the statement on the words written by Benjamin Creme in his newspapers/magazines from some time back.
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[no caste]

I've heard of Maitreya. I had seen ads in the newspapers over the years too. I studied about ... actually her (Kuan Yin, China) roots in Buddhist eschatology.

More self-proclaimed Maitreyas

The following people listed are just a small portion of the several people who claimed themselves to be Maitreya. Many have either used the Maitreya incarnation claim to form a new Buddhist sect or have used the name of Maitreya to form a new religious movement or cult.

* Gung Ye, a Korean warlord and king of short-lived state of Taebong during the 10th century, claimed himself as living incarnation of Maitreya and ordered his subjects to worship him. His claim was widely rejected by most Buddhist monks and later he was dethroned and killed by his own servants.
* In 613 the monk Xiang Haiming claimed himself Maitreya and adopted imperial title.[13]
* In 690 Empress Wu inaugurated the Second Zhou dynasty, proclaimed herself an incarnation of the future Buddha Maitreya, and made Luoyang the "holy capital." In 693 she replaced the compulsory Dao De Jing in the curriculum temporarily with her own Rules for Officials. [14]
* Lu Zhong Yi, the 17th patriarch of I-Kuan Tao, claimed to be an incarnation of Maitreya.
* L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Dianetics and Scientology, suggested he was "Metteya" (Maitreya) in the 1955 poem Hymn of Asia. His editors indicated, in the book's preface, specific physical characteristics said to be outlined—in unnamed Sanskrit sources—as properties of the coming Maitreya; properties which Hubbard's appearance supposedly aligned with.
* Raël's Maitreya claims[1] center on the content of the Agama Sutra (Japanese: Agon Sutra)[15], supposedly a very ancient text written by Buddha himself, but which has been deemphasized or forgotten by the majority of Buddhist cultures.[16] Raël has claimed directly to people attending Asia Raëlian Church seminars, that someone born in France, a country which is often symbolized by the **** (or rooster), west of the Orient, meets the criteria of the Maitreya. Rael himself claims to be this individual.[17]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitreya

[Gnosis5]

Originally Posted by bellsisland

This is not the Lord Maitreya I know. I am referring to the picture above with the turban and black beard.

Someone just told me about this Maitreya person who Benjamin Creme has been promoting.

The reason she told me to check him out is because I told her about an experience I had while talking on the phone with my Clearing Practitioner, Robert. Robert was posing the question of what more could we be doing to help people on this planet rise above their fears and compulsions. This is what he does for people on a one-to-one basis and he was looking for a way to do more.

I was very relaxed at the time and then told him someone was here with me. I knew I had to sit down and make myself comfortable. I informed Robert of what was going on with me.

When I sat down I saw a beautiful huge being seeming to be composed of golden and white "champagne-like bubbbles". I could see a conical shaped head that reminded me of the Buddha statues.

Now, just to preface, my background is as a very studied and devout Christian, love Jesus, and as a hangover from my last lifetime I also studied Ron Hubbard's early '50's material this lifetime too, and that is how I achieved the state of Clear or what Buddhists might call Bodhisattva or Bodhicitta. Close enough to be almost the same. The more I processed myself to the Clear state the more and more I started naturally identifying with the Buddhas as opposed to any other great teachers.

That said, now, while I was on the phone with Robert I recognized this being as Maittreya. Not only because of its appearance but also because it exuded a quality of equanimity and an egalitarian attitude. Very democratic and a "good friend" kind of being.

Maittreya appeared at that time for the sole purpose of encouraging the two of us to continue our work of helping people Clear themselves by continuing to use the new process Robert developed. It is a process of sequentially uncollapsing from our creations that we sequentially collapsed into during our history as spirit beings. The process helps a person achieve "Clear" very quickly.

Once the Maittreya being spoke its mind and gave its encouragement I could no longer hold open the connection and had to end off. But I still felt connected for a while after that. This is the first time in my life anything like this ever happened to me, but then a lot of strange and wonderful things have been happening since I became a "Clear".

"Clear" is a very definitive state, but not an absolute, and I still must do a lot of Clearing work. "Clear" just puts one into a more "quantum" mentality as opposed to linear and wave form (left brain/right brain), and remaining compulsions can be much easier to manage.

I am aware of "spirits of error", etc., but I felt very good about being in the presence of this being and my spiritual perceptions are heightened now.

As a very studied Christian I think I am equipped to differentiate between any spirit that conforms to the high attitude and personality of Maittreya and a spirit that would promote further enslavement on this planet, no matter how soothing its speech would be.

There is someone on this forum who can vouch for my hard work in Clearing myself and my sincerity of purpose and naivety about spiritual gifts and esoteric knowledge.

I always thought Christ and the Buddha shared some things in common -- moreso than Christ and the Old Testament God of War.

Also, you won't catch me clinging to every word in the Bible as if it was as unsullied as the day it was written -- I know too much to do that :-)

A true Christ or Buddha spirited being or person will insist that one do their own Clearing work and will not allow itself to be installed as a ruler over people. It would want us all to be Buddhas or Christs, but not in an egoistic fashion.

Oh, well, it is hard to explain how to differentiate, and any human instrument for these higher beings will of course be flawed.

Be a rule unto yourself and this world will not really need any one particular ruler.

That said, I'll go and check out this Maitreya representative fella :-)