Vajrapani the Energy of Good

His name is Vajrapani, the Lord of Thunder, the embodiment of the vijra.

He represents the Energy in search of the Good.

He’s the archetype of that which is the only truth: everything changes. Nothing stays the same.
Normally we look for something permanent to hold on to but if we instead accept that things will change, our lives can be much easier.

He has a dynamic quality and meditates contemplating how everything is a continuing flow.

His emblem is the vajra that he holds in his right hand
The vajra is a thunderbolt made of diamond. It fuses the powerful force of a thunderbolt and the unbending natural object that cuts everything else but itself.
It is a state of mind which is unshakeable, never affected by anything mundane.

The vajra is irresistible, nothing can stop it.
It smashes through all obstacles, especially the ignorance that causes suffering, and at the same time it is stable and unaffected.
A vajra always destroys its target and returns to the hand of the person who threw it.

In his peaceful form he has a light blue color; he’s young, radiant and relaxed.

In his aggressive form his dark-blue, very fierce looking in a warriors pose, with 3 glaring eyes, one in the middle of his forehead. The halo of flames of transcendental wisdom around him. Holding the vajra in his right hand as if he’s going to throw it.

He looks angry and cruel but it’s because he’s spiritually impatient about the suffering in the world.

He’s the energy that you need to focus and break through ignorance and the energy that is liberated when you finally see things as they are.
When your limiting ideas vanish there is more energy available to you.

He can help you overcome the main obstacle of Life:
Your laziness

If you visualize him in your meditations
He’ll stir your energy up and some of my qualities would start to appear within you.

- You’ll feel protected; you’ll feel an energy that will defend you against laziness or anything else.

- You’ll apply relentless effort; you’ll keep on going and trying. Everything overtime will transform

- You won’t despair; you’ll always get to a point that will be harder that what you though but you’ll believe that wherever you are in life that’s a workable place from which to work towards enlightment.

- You won’t turn back. We all move towards the unforeseen and sometimes you discover things about yourself or your life that you don’t like. That’s when you need that energy that doesn’t turn back. Sometimes we need to retrieve and keep going. That’s the heroic energy of taking a spiritual stand

- You’ll never be satisfied! You’ll always do what is needed and then some.

And you’ll stop worrying about what is or is not. You’ll be able to relax and find out who you are and what you really want.

If you can do that, if you can decide who you want to become as a human being, how you want the world around you to be, and work towards that, knowing that it wont be easy, that there is no absolute truth and no time to lose then you will become the Buddha that embodies compassionate and heart felt effort towards good.

You’ll become Vajrapani the embodiment of wisdom and compassion, the holder of the diamond thunderbolt.


Based on: “Vajrapani - Energy Unlimited”
Podcast of life lecture by Tibbetan Buddhist Vessantara, recorded December 6th, 2006 in Cambridge, England.
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