Living in a myth

March 5, 2012
Location: City center


I was invited by my roommate to visit a special place with her. It was in the city center. Indeed, it was a very interesting place. Girls in white with incredibly long hair, who do Japanese shiatsu and other special massages, looked like divine beings. They had faces with no make-up, but glowing with light and signs of inner health.

I was taken to a room, where a young man scanned my body and diagnosed my physical problems. From the staff of the center, I found that he was said to be a reincarnation of Guru Rinpoche, great Buddhist master, who is said to be the next Buddha after Shakyamuni. Prior knowing this, when I looked at the young man, he was very handsome, wearing a mixture of lay and monk’s clothes with incredibly big and powerful hands.

Then I was led to another room, where a reincarnation of White man, the first character of 108 cham dance characters. White man had grey hair, long grey beard and looked very much like as usually depicted in the drawings. He was 84 years, but had almost no sign of aging. He was just back from retreats in the Himalayan mountains and he also traversed around Mongolian territory. He was complaining that nagas and lords of lands were all drunk because Mongolians offered lots of vodka to them as if practicing generosity.

Prior to visiting the place, I was vomiting and feeling pain in some parts of my body. The next day, I observed that my body was much lighter, no pain and vomiting. I sincerely imagined that the young gentleman was indeed the reincarnation of the Buddha. On my way back, I was thinking that some myths are still alive these days and I was very happy that I could spend a few hours in them.