Sunday, 18 June 2023
Wendy's Dream Column
Thursday, 15 June 2023
Introducing Joylina Goodings
Emissary of Light!
Joylina invited me to her home in a leafy London suburb. The room was very beautiful and it reminded me of a high mountain landscape. I was not surprised to hear that Joylina has been involved with leading holidays to places of spiritual interest around the world. She has visited S America, S Africa, Europe and Australasia, Tibet and Bhutan. Bhutan, a small country in the Himalayan foothills, is known as the Land of the Thunder Dragon and is one of her favourite places due to their emphasis on Gross National Happiness instead of Gross National Product. The people, young and old, rich and poor, all have wonderful smiles on their faces. Even the feral dogs don't fight for food but wait patiently in a line for the tourists to feed them.
There are
many Buddhist monasteries in this region and Joylina told me the head Lama recognised
her group members as “sisters in spirit” though of different religions and from
different parts of the world. Joylina describes the meeting "He gave each
of us a personal blessing which included chanted prayers and an anointing with
holy water. It was Remembrance Day, November 11th. The armistice was
signed to end the first world war and we said prayers for peace around
the world. The Lama invited us to the monastery balcony, which overlooks a
steep ravine where he also prays for all sentient beings each day. The lama
asked if he could join us and we held hands in a mutual prayer. Then we
recalled the legend which tells of a place where the Buddha hit a rock with his
staff and water gushed out, and we were shown this spiritual spring of sacred
water to fill our water bottles. It was a very memorable and moving
morning."