KALACHAKRA FOR WORLD PEACE

The initiation of Kalachakra is a part of the tantric tradition  of Tibetan Buddhism. It belongs to the highest class of Tantra, the so called Anuttarayogatantra.

Kalachakra is an expression of the enlightened  mind of the Buddha, that takes the  form of the deity (Kalachakra)  residing in his palace, surrounded by the universe, alltogether  composing his mandala.

The Kalachakra was conferred for the first time by  Buddha Sakyamuni Himself to the king of Shambala, to help the king and his people to fight against possible invasions by the enemy. It is one of the few initiations that is given to everybody and it represents a special blessing for those who participate and host it. 

The aim is to promote peace and tolerance on earth: the empowerment of Kalachakra may be compared to the gesture  of someone sowing seeds of peace into the mind of those who receive it. This is the origin of the link between the initiation of Kalachakra and Peace in the world.

An initiation is a blessing that is given to the participants by a qualified Master. The Master has to  belong to an unbroken lineage from Master to disciple, and must have fulfilled many retreats on that practice to be considered qualified. The initiation lasts two days and it is divided into a preparation part and a main part.

Kalachakra in Sanscrit means Wheel of Time, as to underline that the concept of time and cyclicity can be traced in the universe as in our breath, in the interconnection of macrocosm and microcosm that gives us a place in universal  harmony. The teachings of Kalachakra are vast and complex, they contain teachings on cosmology, epistemology, till studies on the mind.  They are interpreted at different levels, external, internal and other. The external relates to the laws of space and time of the physical world  and it includes topics such as astronomy, astrology and mathematics. Whereas the internal relates to the structure  and the elements of the human body and includes also its energetic system. The other is the doctrine, the way of the meditation on the deity and His mandala.

Kalachakra stands strongly against the system of Indian castes, It is against social and material discrimination  and tries to optimise the psychophysical and spiritual well-being  of the person.

We can say that this event on the Florentine territory is very auspicious, Kalachakra has never been conferred on a larger scale in Italy before. It has been given lately by H.H. the Dalai Lama in Graz, Austria, to 8000 people.