| The
Life of Maha Vajra
François
Lépine was born in Canada on the 7th of July
1972. Raised by loving parents in an environment encouraging
spirituality, François has memories of spiritual
and ESP experiences since the age of 4, where he remembers
having a child-level discussion with an angel.
He started
working with computers as soon as he could read the
slightest, at the age of 5. In parallel to his cybernetic
pathway, he also kept his focus on spirituality and
its various applications.
Martial arts
studies started with Jiu-Jitsu at the age of 12, at
the local martial arts school. In his adolescence, while
he was absorbed in teaching computer science and programming
languages to his friends, he was also studying (and
practicing) all sorts of occult sciences, white, black,
purple with orange dots, whatever the color or the flavor,
he would learn and try.
Prone to “power
trips” during his youth, and with a lot of arrogance
and vanity, he got himself in trouble. Giving shocks
to his nervous systems by overwhelming and unguided
esoteric practices (including basic kuji-in), his friends
fled from him, he entered into his dark age. Wise people
say that suffering is a part of learning. At 16, he
was ready to look at it in a responsible way.
Within the
next few years, his brother got shot and killed, all
remaining grand parents passed, his favorite uncle,
two friends…lots of mourning. Many questions about
life were on the menu. He got himself into classes of
many type: psychology, sociology, philosophy, massage,
Qi-Gong, martial arts, meditation, and of course, as
many books as possible.
He studied
with the masters that were available to him. He read
and practiced continuously. Since the age of 19, he
did all sorts of: pilgrimages, 7 days fasting, 72 hours
meditation/chanting derbies, healing processes…
the works. He studied the work of masters in Budhism,
Hindu, Chinese and Japanese traditions, Kabbalah, Christian
esoterism… thriving to get a global view of the
spiritual arts he practiced.
Amongst others,
he has especially been studying meditation and self-transformation.
Since then he spent most of his time researching ancient
scriptures and spiritual works, and practicing esoteric
techniques, while being even more engaged on his spiritual
path.
The first class
he gave was “Psychological Mind-Building training”
at the age of 21, at the college he was also studying
psychology. It went on for a year and a half, and then
he moved to Quebec City to study deeper in computer
science, cinema and meditation.
Having left
martial arts in the middle of his teens, he got back
to it in his mid 20s, studying Wing-Chun Kung-Fu, Kenpo,
and a bit of Ninjitsu, giving him a multi-cultural view
of martial arts.
His first experience
of enlightenment was at age 24. When coming back for
meditation during a personal growth seminar he was attending,
he sat on the grass outside, and he knew that he was
the creator of all that he was observing, and he was
also all that was created that reached his perception.
He was one with everything, as the creator and as what
was created at the same time. He looked at people dancing
further in the field, close to a cow, and he was the
people dancing, as well as the joy that they felt, as
well as the cow wondering what it was all about. He
describes this event as the experience of Truth, or
in Sanskrit: Sat. When break was over and class was
resumed outside in the middle of the field, he was sitting
amongst everyone, and they were all seeking for him,
including the teacher, and they did not see him while
he was in his elevated state. After two minutes of waiting,
when the teacher ask someone to go fetch him in the
building, he simply raised his hand and said “I’m
here”, and everyone was startled that they did
not notice his presence until he declared it.
When he was
29, coming back from meditation, he was sitting on the
biological waste-release device (guess!!), and he was
looking at the walls knowing it was information standing
still, and not tangible matter. He was looking at the
code of the matrix, knowing all matter was knowledge
of consciousness standing in a position simply because
it remembers that it stands there. He calls this the
experience of Mind-Consciousness, or in Sanskrit: Citta.
When he was 34, he was assisting a quantum physics convention,
and he spent three days in a row in a state of unaltered
bliss, while everyone else were having fun exchanging
ideas and debating them, he was consciously happy at
being this wonderful movement of pure joy in the form
of a quest for truth. It was his first time experiencing,
for more than a day, the existence of over-joy, over-happiness,
ultimate unaffected unshakable bliss. He calls this
experience that of bliss, or in Sanskrit: Ananda.
From these
three major enlightenment outbreaks: Sat-Cit-Ananda,
he gained the knowledge of Satchidananda, said to be
the three properties of the Supreme Self. However, he
did not gain this knowledge from studying, but from
experiencing it as the Self.
Along his path,
he was given the dharma name MahaVajra, from the Buddhist
community, and he is recognized as such by those who
spend enough time close to him. MahaVajra can mean Great
Lightning, or like he describes with humor: Big Bang.
He likes to be simply called "Maha" instead of
Venerable MahaVajra.
Since 1991,
he has been teaching and learning, sharing knowledge
and opening his heart to those who ask for it. He wishes
to share this knowledge with those who are ready to
respect it and understand its value. This is not his
knowledge. It is knowledge by itself, and it existed
way long before all of us. He has been on a spiritual
path since childhood, and today he shares his experience
with those who would appreciate the guidance.
Aside being
a spiritual teacher, he is a down-to-earth software
programmer, graphic artist, and author. Like a few rare
married enlightened masters, he is a husband and the
father of two children. His spiritual teachings are
adapted to the reality of our century. For those who
are stuck with the complexity of their mental labyrinth,
he likes to tease and play games that will provoke the
awareness required to awaken. For those who simply cannot
endure to sit and not-think, he teaches techniques that
are fun to apply, which delivers entertaining results.
He does not
believe that staying numb, forever in a meditative state
contemplating the stars or the wall of a cave, is a
way to embrace the full potential of our human experience
as a Diving being. He believes in movement, action and
responsibility. He believes in love, forgiveness and
compassion. Joy is alive, Joy is powerful, Joy is movement.
He wishes to help you attain what it is you seek, and
together, we will all rejoice in the beauty of Life.
May you all
have the opportunity to learn from our beloved master
Maha, the joyful embodiment of the Great Lightning.
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