treasure tower

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I am searching out various stories, legends and historical references

to Gemstones. This is from one of the Buddhist sutras or sacred

teachings. This may also be of interest to Reiki people as the phrase

in Japanese given here as treasure tower is the same as the name of the

Reiki Master symbol. The treasures are references to the senses, the

energy bodies, the chakra, the sacred laws and have any number of

special esoteric significance.

This takes place at the gathering of all the avatars ,sages Buddha's

etc. . of all worlds in the most remote past Where basically assignments

were chosen and promises to serve to teach

were made. I don't have the list of what the seven jewels of the

treasures represent in detail available anymore and do not recall it

well enough to reproduce it from memory

The rain of flowers of blessing is also a useful image in many

meditations and in manifestation procedures .

 

~ At that time in the Buddha's presence there was a tower adorned with

the seven treasures, five hundred yojanas in height and two hundred and

fifty yojanas in width and depth, that rose up out of the earth and

stood suspended in the air. Various kinds of precious objects adorned

it. It had five thousand railings, a thousand, ten thousand rooms, and

numberless streamers and banners decorated it. Festoons of jewels hung

down and ten thousand million jeweled bells were suspended from it. All

four sides emitted a fragrance of tamalapatra and sandalwood that

pervaded the whole world. Its banners and canopies were made of the

seven treasures, namely, gold, silver, lapis Lazuli, seashell, agate,

pearl, and carnelian, and it as so high it reached to the heavenly

places of the Four Heavenly Kings. The gods of the Trayastrimsha heaven

rained down heavenly mandarava flowers as an offering to the treasure

tower, and the other heavenly beings and the dragons, yakshas,

gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas, human and nonhuman

beings, an assembly of thousands, ten thousands, millions, offered all

kinds of flowers, incense, necklaces, streamers, canopies and music as

alms to the treasure tower, paying it reverence, honor and praise.

 

At that time a loud voice issued from the treasure tower, speaking words

of praise: " Excellent, excellent! Shakyamuni, World-Honored One, that

you can take a great wisdom of equality, a Law to instruct the

bodhisattvas, guarded and kept in mind by the Buddhas, the Lotus Sutra

of the Wonderful law, and preach it for the sake of the great assembly!

It is as you say, as you say. Shakyamuni, World-Honored One, all that

you have expounded is the truth! " ~

 

Solarraven

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