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Ascended Master Gautama Buddha through Kim Michaels, March 23, 2025. This dictation was given at a conference in Holland: Locking in to Your Divine Plan.
I AM the Ascended Master Gautama Buddha. It is my privilege, once again, to seal another conference. As so many of you have been willing to participate in person and online, and therefore, you have created a great momentum. Not just by your decrees and invocations, but by your willingness to look at your psychology, to talk about it amongst each other, to transcend yourselves. Truly, even though we have talked about some fairly serious topics, we are joyful to have been able to interact with you during these days and see how you have been willing to raise your consciousness, truly coming closer to locking in to your Divine plans. You have, as has happened many times before, exceeded even the highest potential for this conference and for that you have my gratitude. You have my joy. You have my peace.
Communing with the Buddha
There is sometimes a tendency that those of you who are the most eager to make progress find it difficult to stop and acknowledge the progress you have already made, for you are so intent on looking for the next initiation that you do not have time to just stop. I am asking you, step back—mentally speaking, so you do not trip over each other. Step back. It has been an intense three days. As usual, we have poured so many teachings out that your cups are running over. We have poured you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it so allow your minds to fall still. Do not think. Do not evaluate. Do not compare. Do not think ahead, do not think back. There is only one thing that matters right now, and that is this NOW—this situation where you are sitting here, communing with the Ascended Master Gautama Buddha. I am not just speaking through this messenger. I am communing with each and every one of you.
If you will, then envision there is a Buddha figure that is descending right now over you, hovering over your head. Whatever size you may envision, small or great, does not matter. I leave that to you. But you envision this Buddha figure, let us make it a golden Buddha figure—hovering over your head. You now have a choice. Will you let that Buddha descend and envelop you, or will you still want to keep it at a distance? The choice is yours but as I continue speaking, you can at any moment allow the Buddhic Presence to descend over you so that you may experience it in a more direct way than you might have experienced my presence before.
Now you may ask: “Who is this Buddha figure? Are there many Buddha figures? Is there different Buddhas?” No—it is all I, Gautama. Do you really not think I can magnify and multiply myself into a figure for each one of you? I am not dividing my Presence. I am simply adapting my Presence to what you can envision and what you hopefully can feel and experience.
Whenever you are willing, just allow this Buddha figure to descend and envelop you and merge into it. It seeks nothing from you. It just wants you to experience, I want you to experience, my Presence. The words that I am speaking is just a vehicle that allows you to tune in to this Presence. The words do not matter. Although if you need it, you can focus on the words with your outer mind and let the monkey mind rest on the words, instead of jumping around inside of you. If you need to, focus on the words and let your mind be empty, so that the Presence can descend.
The conceptual mind
So many people have come in contact with the outer religion of Buddhism, one of its many forms. Was it necessary that this movement that was started by me 2,500 years ago, would split into so many different directions? It was not necessary. Perhaps unavoidable, given the state of the collective consciousness, the presence of fallen beings who seek to pervert anything and everything, but it was not necessary. But how could it have been avoided? Well, only if people who followed Buddhism had understood this one thing: that the purpose of the outer teaching was only to help you connect with the Presence of the Living Buddha, the Ascended Master Gautama Buddha. They would not have been able to call me an ascended master 2,500 years ago, but they certainly could see me as the Living Buddha. And they could have the goal to connect to my Presence, to experience my Presence, rather than understanding a teaching with a linear, conceptual mind, the mind that thinks that knowing something from a distance is better than experiencing it from within. A mind that thinks that it can define the problem and define the solution.
What brought you to earth? The conceptual mind. As we have said, the conceptual mind is what you use to co-create. But you can also use it to create concepts—not of what you want to create, but how you think the world should work. Do you see the difference? The highest use of the conceptual mind is to experiment with your co-creative abilities. And as you observe the outcome of your experience, you expand your awareness of how the world actually works, what principles your Creator used to create the world. But when you use the conceptual mind to do more than just experiment, but to form a concept of how the world should work, according to your thinking, that is when you get yourself into a situation where your mind can begin to think it has the ability to define ultimate truth. That is, of course, just an experience you are allowed to have. Those who decide they want to have it, well, they end up going into duality because that is where you can have the experience that you have defined an ultimate truth, rather than discovered it.
What brought you to earth? You used your conceptual mind to formulate an image of how you thought free will should work, and how it should work itself out, and how you needed to help make sure that free will worked itself out the way you thought it should work itself out instead of just experimenting and observing how it was working itself out. What is it you have to overcome to ascend from earth? You have to overcome the concept formulated in your mind, your I AM Presence and the Conscious You, that you are here to correct anything. That you can know how free will should work itself out. You have to come to the point where you see that these concepts are just concepts. They have no relation to truth or reality. They only allow you to have a certain experience. Do you grasp the difference? You can use your conceptual mind—your co-creative abilities—to create something physical, and then you experience that physical creation. But you can also use your conceptual mind to create something at the emotional, mental, and identity levels. And then you are experiencing in your own mind what exists only in your own mind.
Giving up the desire to experience reality through concepts
But you see, when you create something physical, it is harder to deny what you have created. When you create something in the mind only—an experience that is only in the mind—what do you have to compare it to outside the mind? You create something physical, and the physical universe gives you feedback. When you create something in the mind only, what gives you feedback? Well, your own mind, unless, of course, you connect to the Christ mind. But when you do not connect to the Christ mind, because you think the conceptual mind can define reality, what frame of reference do you have? Why would you need the Christ mind when you think your conceptual mind can define how the universe works? And that is how your mind becomes a closed system, a self-validating system and the conceptual mind cannot conceptualize itself out of its own conceptualizations. And therefore, we can say that what qualifies you for the ascension is that you fully consciously give up this concept that the conceptual mind can define truth.
You give up the desire to use the conceptual mind to define an experience, and instead you choose: “I want to have an actual experience of interacting with the ascended realm, rather than interacting with the unascended realm and my own mind. I want to interact with a real world, rather than the sandbox of the material world and the ideas that exist only in my mind.” The fallen beings still believe that one day the universe will conform to their concepts of how the universe works. That is why they are not ready to ascend. If you are willing to ascend, you must give up the desire to conceptualize how the universe should work and say: “I want to experience how it actually works. I do not think I can do better than my Creator. I want to experience what my Creator created, and I can only experience that through the Christ mind. And therefore, I give up—fully consciously give up—the separate mind. I give up all sense that my mind has some superior capacity, give up the sense that there must be some way to explain why what I did when I descended to earth was really good, was really sophisticated, and really shows that I had it figured out.”
You must instead come to realize that you descended not because you had it figured out, but you wanted to have the experience of having it figured out. But that experience existed only in your own mind and now you realize you have had enough of that internal experience, and you do not care about figuring anything out from a distance. You want to experience directly through the Christ mind, not through this filter of concepts created in the mind.
Experiencing the Presence of the Masters
Did my dissertation take your attention away from the Buddhic figure? Is it still hovering above your head, or have you allowed it to descend? Some of you have allowed it to descend. Some of you not yet. I am just checking through the eyes of the messenger, even though I do not need physical eyes. But I just need you to know I am looking at you. I have, of course, no judgment. I am only offering you that you can have an experience that is beyond the words. You can have that at any dictation, I am simply trying to make it more clear to you because what would be the highest outcome of having participated in this event? Is it understanding? Is it resolution of psychology? Is it being together with other people? Is it having three nice vegetarian dinners? I might suggest that the highest outcome of any conference is to experience the Presence of an ascended master as clearly as you can and all of you can experience it to some degree.
What is the highest gift we can give you? Is it teachings? Is it light? It is simply our Presence. What else do we really have to give? And it is, of course, the ultimate frame of reference showing you the difference between the unascended state of mind and the ascended state of being. And that then, gives you the choice. When you make that shift and realize that my purpose for offering you to experience my Presence is not to make you think I am superior to you or you are inferior to me, but to help you experience that what one has done, all can do.
The idolatry of the Buddha
Many of you, whether you have been in contact with Buddhism or not, have an idealized view of the Buddha as you have an idealized view of Jesus. Jesus has done more to break down your idol of him, partly because his teachings have been so distorted. I have not done as much, partly because many of you have not been in a Buddhist religion in this lifetime and, therefore are not as affected by the idolatry. But I can assure you that in my first years, when I lived in this protected palace, I did not have a particularly high level of consciousness. I very much indulged in the pleasures of the flesh, food, physical activities, bathing, later sex. You would have said, if you had seen me: “Oh, this cannot be the Buddha. He is just a party animal. How could he have the potential to become the Buddha?”
Now, most Buddhists will, of course, deny this if they heard this and say this cannot be the Buddha saying this about himself. For we know with our conceptual minds that the Buddha was perfect, but the reality was different. You might have looked at me when I left the palace, just walked away from my wife and child and my parents, went into the forest, sat down under a tree, let my beard and hair grow. You might have thought: “Oh, now he is showing how spiritual he is. Look how he is unmoved by what happens to his body.” But that was not a particularly high level of consciousness. This was an extreme and unbalanced level of consciousness.
Making the switch
When I had that epiphany of seeing the Middle Way, this was not because I was superior to you. I went through a process that all of you can go through. Some people have come up with this idea that we of the ascended masters are staying with earth because we want people to look up to us and worship us as kind of god-like figures. They do not understand what the ascension is. First of all, you have no desire or need to be worshipped. You are complete in yourself. You need nothing from the human realm. The human ego will never accept this because it wants to say: “I am important even to an ascended master. You cannot just leave me behind. Look how important I am in this world. I must also be important to God and the ascended masters.” This is, of course, nonsense.
But now consider it this way. If we saw ourselves as superior to you and saw yourselves as so inferior to us, how would it boost our sense of superiority to be worshipped by beings who are so inferior to us? Where is the logic? Could we not find planets with more sophisticated beings and try to get them to worship us? Why stay with this lowly planet and try to get people on earth to worship us? What would we get out of it? Even if we had egos, what would our egos get out of being worshipped by such lowly beings that you think you are? But we do not think you are, we see your potential, your origin and we see, I see, that many of you are as close to the breakthrough I had, as I was not so long before it happened. I see that many of you have the potential to go through that same awakening experience and you are closer than you might think with the outer mind.
What does it take? Just a slight turn of the dial of the mind, a slight switch. Can I reach into your mind and turn that switch? No. That would violate your free will. Can you reach into your mind and turn that switch? No. What can you then do? Stop trying to change your mind. Let your mind fall still and experience my Presence. How did I make the switch? Out of the powers of my own mind? Nay. My mind fell still, and I experienced the Presence of an ascended master. That is the only way to make the switch, by experiencing the Christ mind expressed through an individual ascended being. When will that experience happen? In the now. If you are not experiencing it now, then there will be another now. When will that be? I do not know. You cannot know with the outer mind either, but you can allow it to happen by once in a while focusing on my Presence, or the Presence of whichever master is close to you and just allowing the mind to fall still. Do not seek to understand or grasp or think with the linear mind. Do not seek to find answers or solve problems.
Experiencing the Presence of the Buddha
Experiencing the Presence of an ascended master is not a problem to be solved by the mind. It happens naturally when you stop trying to solve problems with the mind. You see, the mind is so geared towards solving problems that when you hear about a spiritual path and the potential to attain Christhood or experience the Buddha’s Presence, the mind thinks: “Ah, this is a problem to solve! And if I do not experience the Buddha right now, it is because there is a problem in my mind that the mind has to solve.” But the problem in the mind is the mind, and the mind cannot solve the mind. You can stop trying to solve the problem of the mind and just let it fall still. Yes, some of you cannot do this at my command, but if you will spend a little time just letting the mind fall still, there will come a point where it happens, and you will experience my Presence.
Allow your minds to fall still. There is stillness that is the absence of sound. There is stillness that is the Presence of the Buddha. I offer you the latter. Any time you care to attune your mind to my Presence, you can listen to this dictation, you can set up a simple meditative practice, whatever appeals to you at your present level, you can envision that golden Buddha figure above your head and allow it to descend and allow yourself to be absorbed in it without thinking about what it means, without analyzing, without conceptualizing, just feeling absorbed in the Presence of the Buddha that I AM.
I seal you in that Presence, and I invite you to sit here, not for long, but just for a little time in silence, and thereby I seal this conference, and I seal you in the Presence of all of us in the ascended realm who have been present with you.
After a five-minute silence, the Messenger spoke these words:
Om Buddha, Om Buddha, Om Buddha, Om Buddha, Om Buddha, Om Buddha, Om Buddha, Om Buddha, Om Buddha, Om Buddha.
Hear O Masters, I am grateful.
Hear O Masters, I am grateful.
Hear O Masters, I am grateful.
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