Ascended Master Padmasambhava through Kim Michaels, May 24, 2026. This dictation was given at the conference in Kazakhstan: Co-creating with the ascended masters on the seven rays.

I AM the Ascended Master Padmasambhava. It is my joy to offer you some assistance in dealing with the first initiations you face as you pass that 96th level. And one of the questions you face is what was hinted at by Sanat Kumara, namely, when you are in the flow of co-creation with the ascended masters, is it only a flow that goes out, and how much comes back? In other words, since your origin as a co-creator, you have been used to sending out and evaluating what comes back. Do you do that as the Living Christ also?

Evaluation in Christhood

And what happens to many people at this stage is that you feel an obligation to evaluate other people’s reactions. In other words, you reach up for a flow from the ascended masters, you express your Christhood in some way. Obviously, not all of you will do it as the messenger is doing it. Not all of you will do it by speaking publicly or writing. You might do it in a family situation, at work, or in many other ways. But you express yourself.

And now you are so used to evaluating how people react to you and what you are saying and doing that you do the same thing. The problem with this is that what you are reaching up for from the ascended masters comes from the Christ consciousness, from Christed beings, and it is free from duality. But what you receive back in reaction from other people is in most cases colored by duality. When you evaluate in your own mind: “How could I learn from people’s reactions to refine my expression?”— you are facing the question, what can duality teach you about oneness? How does an expression of duality have any value for your expression of Christhood? What will be helpful for most people in the beginning will be to simply make the clear distinction that when you are in the flow from the ascended masters, the flow coming from us is going down through you and then out. You do not need to have any flow coming back.

Now there is, of course, a distinction between energy coming back and your observation of people’s reactions. And certainly, we can say as a Christed being, you never allow a reverse flow of energy. You are not obligated to take on people’s lower energies. You have a right to stay centered in your own being, to keep your chakras in balance, and not accumulate lower energies in your energy field. But in the beginning, it is helpful to say: “I do not need to evaluate people’s reactions. I express something, then I reach out for the ascended masters to receive another impulse, and then I express that.” It is a one-way flow, an alpha action without an omega. I know you can say this goes against what we have said about closing the omega flow, or the figure eight flow. But really, if you stay in the flow with us, you are closing the flow. And this is not a permanent measure. I am not saying that you will do this for the rest of your time in embodiment. But I am saying that in the beginning, it is helpful to decide: “I am just focused on feeling the flow and expressing it. Whatever people do with it is up to them.”

Re-evaluating your motivation for coming to earth

Now, you may say, of course, this is all well and good, Padmasambhava, but how do I then achieve that? Well, here is again where you need to be willing to look at what Sanat Kumara described: your view of what it means to come to earth. What was your intent? What was your sense of a reward that you would get out of this? And most of you will find that your expectation of a reward was not really self-centered, in the sense that what you expected would be that you would help other people. And that would give you a sense of fulfillment, that you had done something valuable by coming to earth. Now, in a sense, you can step back and say, is that not still self-centered because you are hoping to get something out of it? But let’s put that aside for now. What most of you will find is that you hoped to achieve something on earth. But what you hoped to achieve was to change other people. Do you have the power to change other people? No, because they have free will. And you respect free will. You are not willing to force others, or you would not be an avatar, but a fallen being. This is your dilemma. You are seeking to help other people change, but you cannot and will not force them. This then makes it a low probability that you will have your expectation fulfilled. And this is indeed what you experience when you receive that birth trauma. But now that you are more mature on earth, you can say: “I am willing to look at my motivation for coming to earth and transcend it. That was the motivation I had back then before I had experienced earth. Now that I have much more experience not only with earth, but also with myself because I am much more mature today, I am willing to re-evaluate my motivation and therefore, let go of that desire to change other people.”

Outer reword vs the flow as the reword

You see, it is really very, very simple. If you do not have a desire to change other people, you cannot be disappointed by their reaction. If you do not have a desire to change other people, you do not have to even evaluate their action. You certainly do not have to think: “How should I change myself based on their reaction?” But this, of course, requires you to shift a little bit again and realize that, as we have said before but as I will say again, you need to stop seeking an outer reward for your co-creative efforts. You need to decide this. And then instead realize that experiencing the flow is its own reward. There is again a dilemma because, as long as in your mind you are fixated on having that reward of changing other people, you cannot really experience the flow as the only reward you need.

Therefore, you could say again, a dilemma: if you experience the flow, it would be easy to let go of the reward of wanting to change other people. But as long as you are fixated on changing other people and want that kind of reward, you cannot really experience the flow as a reward. How do you break the catch-22?

Well, because you are a self-aware being with free will, you can come to a realization and based on that make a decision to let go of that desire to change other people. Does that mean you will not have any reward for having been on earth for this long of a time? No. You will have two kinds of rewards.

Growth is the purpose and the reward.

First of all, the reward that you have grown tremendously by being here. This may not be instantly obvious to you, but as you rise above the 96th level, something will happen. And what will happen is that when you have let go of that self-focused self, you begin to realize, and you can realize this faster, of course, by thinking about it, which is why I am giving the teaching, that your real desire, your true love is to grow, to rise to higher levels of awareness, a higher degree of oneness with your higher self, with the ascended masters. That is your true desire. And when you realize this, the desire for an outer reward, even the desire to see a result of you being on earth, falls away. Because you now see that the real result you were seeking before you came was growth, rising to a higher sense of self. And when you have let go of the self-focused self that evaluates its specialness based on something in this world, then it begins to become obvious to you just how much you have actually grown in your time on earth.

You begin to realize that the difference between your level of awareness before you came and what you have now is tremendous. And that is a reward. When you can accept that as one very important reward for being on earth, you can then lock into the flow. And then feeling the flow is so fulfilling that you do not need the outer reward of changing other people or being recognized by other people. In other words, the separate self will think that Christhood is the ultimate validation and recognition. But as we said, if you look at the life of Jesus, how many people could even see him as the Living Christ while he was in embodiment? And certainly, he received no public validation. What happened when he appeared before the public? They cried, Barabbas, Barabbas. And what did the murderer set free rather than the Living Christ? The ultimate non-validation.

You realize then that the Christ does not seek validation from the world. And why not? Why would you need it when you experience connection to and oneness with the ascended realm, your higher self? What recognition or validation from this world can even compare to experiencing oneness with a spiritual realm? This is not something I am asking you to understand intellectually or theoretically. I am just asking you to be aware of this so that when you reach those levels of these first levels of Christhood, you can consciously shift. Because even though you are experiencing some flow, in the beginning, you will not be quite as conscious of it. But by making these shifts, you will feel the flow much more.

The choice of the Christ

There are, of course, other initiations you face as you walk higher in Christhood. But our goal for this conference is really just to help you, first of all, overcome that hurdle at the 96th level, giving up that self, and starting the co-creative process. Because naturally, the co-creative process goes through various stages and phases based on your individual, we might say, life plan, but also your individuality, your choices, how you respond to it, what you decide that you are willing to do here on earth. You see, I understand very well that based on the teachings we have given, both in this and previous dispensations, you can formulate the image that the Christ is always going to be going outward and having a public mission. But that is not a given. Not all of you will have to do this. In fact, none of you will have to do it. You will only do it if you choose to do it. And you have a right to choose not to do it. But you can still be co-creating with the ascended masters by allowing the flow of energy to flow through you. And that will still have a positive impact on the planet.

The in-breath and out-breath of Christ

Now again, we face this enigma, so to speak, the Christ expressing something for those who are trapped in duality. We have said that Christ’s consciousness was created by the Creator to allow the outplaying of free will, so that no matter how deeply you went into separation, the Christ was still there so you could find your way back. And this means that you can look at the Christ as a certain out-breath and in-breath, a certain flow. And the way you can look at this and relate it to you coming from a natural planet is that in the beginning as a new co-Creator, you are sort of part of the in-breath of the Christ, where you are seeking to raise your connection to the Christ mind by going upwards. And then when you, on a natural planet, reach some high level of awareness, you have reached a critical level of Christhood where you stop being focused on yourself and your own growth.

This is similar to what we talk about at the 96th level, because really what you do at the 96th level, you stop focusing on your own growth, the refinement of your spiritual self, the reward for your self-focused self. And you say: “I am not here to elevate that self. I am here to look the other way and help those who have not risen as high as I have.” First, you are focused on your own growth on a natural planet. Then you become aware there are beings who have not reached the same level. And there are even some who are stuck in separation and duality. And then you make the decision to flow outwards again. In other words, first you attain Christhood by climbing up the mountain. But then you decide to express the Christhood by climbing down the mountain to those who are stuck in the valley below, in the valley of the shadow of death, we might say. Then, on a planet like earth, this means that the expression of Christhood is not to descend with some attainment, appearing like some godlike figure that is way above the people. The expression of Christhood is to descend to the 48th level, where you forget your attainment. You are just like other people on earth. You go into duality. But then you reawaken yourself and start climbing back up. Do you see?

It may seem as if you came to earth and you lost your Christhood. And especially when you are exposed to the attacks of the fallen beings and that evaluation: “Was I wrong for coming to earth? Is what I am doing here wrong? Is being here wrong?” It may seem that you lost your Christhood. You lost your attainment, your centeredness, your level of oneness with a Christ mind. Because you were lost in duality again. But you did not lose it. You just obscured it temporarily with these selves you took on.

And now that you have climbed back up to the 96th level and reached a higher level of Christ attainment that you had before because of what you have gone through on earth, now you can then descend again and go out and express. And this in-breath, out-breath, in-breath, out-breath, it may seem like it goes back and forth. You lost your attainment. Now you recapture it. But this back and forth movement brings you up. There is an upward trajectory hidden behind the back and forth movement. It is, in a sense, when you are washing clothes the old-fashioned way, you go back and forth and back and forth. And it seems like you are going nowhere. But suddenly, the clothes are cleaner than before. It is the blacksmiths who are heating the iron, hammering on it, heating again, hammering on it. And it seems like it is going nowhere, but suddenly, the iron is hardened.

You see, there are those co-creators on a natural planet who choose to ascend and go directly upwards in the ascended realm. But there are those who choose to rise on a natural planet, but instead of ascending, they forego their ascension. They postpone their ascension to go out again. And you might do this several times because you gain experience so that you ascend with a greater experience than otherwise. I am not saying one is right and one is wrong. I am just saying those of us who are here, whether you are ascended or an ascended master working with the unascended sphere, we made that choice. And it was just a choice.

With this, I have given you what I wanted to give you. And I shall now withdraw and leave the closing of this truly enjoyable gathering to Gautama, the Buddha. But I will, again, give with you the OM, where we visualize the rings spreading in the water of the collective consciousness.

Padmasambhava I AM.

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