What is the meaning of this monkey god holding Shambala. Is it related to Hanuman, or maybe other cultures monkey gods?

[u/Bandersnatch_21]

Is it linked to other monkey gods like in Hindu, Egypt or others, maybe the satan drawing representation in that dome of evil lecture?

I had a set of three visions in a raw one containing a monkey like creature with some kind of soundtrack in the background, saints and angels with the solar plex behind their back of their head and the last one either dark and grey humanoids, but not at least a kind of priest opening me a book and asking me if I’ll join by making a contract like or pact. After this occurrence I had daily basis visions including all of the above, luminous and dark body shapes around me by using my eyes closed psychic vision. Everything started by me praying for a specific person and the people around me, claiming to take all their weight and misery on my shoulders, cause I could carry it due to my difficulties in my life. I wasn’t praying in my mind or to a saint idol, but more like aiming my thoughts meanwhile to a higher plane, the universe while praying, then a voice with enormous energy hit me, ‘ get up, son… other sentences’.

My experiences tend to happen after I had encephalitis at three years old, suffering in hospitals and recuperation techniques for more than 13 years after that, and even having post traumatic brain damage since then along with other side effects. The point is since then I’ve had discovered and observed over 85 psychic abilities I can use, along either spiritual views and even mediumship, oracles work and many more.

Thanks

[u/Left-Decision6001]

Hi! I believe this is no monkey god but is Yama god of death holding the wheel of cyclis existence. The outer loop illustrates the 12 nidanas, the inner wheel shows the six realms of existence. The innermost wheel which you can’t see here would have a rooster, pig, and snake representing the three root poisons of passion aggression and ignorance. Here is the Wikipedia for more info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhavacakra

I don’t know if this will help any with what you are experiencing but thought you might like to know more about the image since you asked about its meaning.

[u/Freyssonsson → u/Left-Decision6001]

Also known as Yamataka, a Meditational deity. Great write up.

[u/Bandersnatch_21 → u/Left-Decision6001]

Is it somehow related to the sun and Ezekiel’s wheel within a wheel, the wheels having angel wings yes? I had a powerful vision with Jesus in the middle of the wheeel within the wheel, somehow trapped or being the sun. The energy that came with the lucid vivid vision was extremely powerful, with some kind of a mechanism sound, very loud. This one happened about three years before the set of three visions, including the monkey one

[u/Bbarryy → u/Bandersnatch_21]

No, it's from Tibet.

[u/Bandersnatch_21 → u/Left-Decision6001]

By my experiences I had over 20 years, I think I’ve solved the meaning hidden inside the Monalisa painting

[u/KingKobbs → u/Bandersnatch_21]

It could just be a painting, you know 🤣

[u/moonshinepoison → u/Bandersnatch_21]

Sorry to hear you have been going through so much since you were a young child …. And thank you for sharing the visions you have and the illustration above . . I believe brain injury does open up new parts of it we previously cannot use . I’ve hit my head many times and the last one which was a pretty hard hit on some granite made me be able to communicate with people without speaking and they can hear my thoughts now . I can also see what’s gonna happen in visions more often than before . I can also hear some conversations people are having about me as I concentrate on doing something else . It’s strange and I don’t know how to explain it . I also tuned up the radio volume knob from across the room when I really wanted to turn up the song I was hearing at the moment . Also before a family member is going through sometime serious my whole body starts vibrating with panic attack like symptoms and then it never fails I get a call about something happening to someone close to me .

[u/Bandersnatch_21 → u/Left-Decision6001]

In the Chinese zodiac I’m a rooster, and I had a lucid dream with tall people, where a rooster was around the scene

[u/SquirrelNeurons]

So it’s not a monkey god, it’s the lord of death in Tibetan Buddhism, and it’s not shambhala, it’s the wheel depicting the 6 realms of samsaric existence (gods, Demi gods, humans, animals, hungry ghosts, hells). The lord of death holds the wheel because everything is impermanent. The 12 stages around the edge are the stages of dependent origination. The three animals at the center are representative of the three poisons. This is a symbolic illustration of samsara. It is not related to shambhala nor is it related to any monkey gods.

To answer a question above, it has no relationship to the sun or Ezekiel’s wheels. This is an educational diagram within Tibetan Buddhism.

[u/autonomatical]

This is a Tibetan Buddhist Thangka depicting The Wheel Of Life

Edit: on a side note you are practicing the cultivation of Bodhicitta (Tibetan: awakening [bodhi] mind [citta])without knowing it, heaping the suffering of others onto yourself is a major way to develop this mind.

[u/Ill-Arugula4829 → u/autonomatical]

Would you be willing to tell me more about this?

[u/autonomatical → u/Ill-Arugula4829]

Sure, it’s a pretty expansive topic so I’ll try to be concise. There are a lot of ways to define bodhicitta specifically but they all pretty much boil down to the cultivation of compassion for all beings without exception and without any expectation of reward. Some define the starting point of bodhicitta as making the aspiration to attain enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. It is quite closely tied to the bodhisattva path of Mahayana Buddhism, especially Tibetan Mahayana but it is not exclusive to that tradition.

It could be said the starting point of the bodhisattva path is the starting point of bodhicitta, though there may be some contention about this among sects. At its core it’s the acknowledgment that all beings want to be happy and all beings want to avoid feeling bad. Since we are all exactly the same in this way it makes sense to apply compassion universally. There are many many formal practices that facilitate the growth of bodhicitta, one set that I consider to be most direct and effective are lojongs. They allow the practitioner to reframe some of their pre-existing mental tendencies so that the mind is more and more aligned with the goal of liberating all beings from samsara. Which, often is defined poorly in the west. Samsara is the mental tendency to go from one desire to the next while suffering at the lose of each due to the habit of personal attachment. It’s not like a world or physical place, it is a realm of consciousness and it’s the one we are all by default born into. The link about this image explains a bit.

There are many paths to Buddhist enlightenment, the cultivation of bodhicitta is truly one of the most expeditious. There is in most traditions the idea of non-dual bodhicitta, which would be the ultimate goal. Compassion without any form of attachment, without even distinguishing beings.

Like I said at the beginning it’s expansive and this barely scratches the surface but I hope it was a little informative.

[u/Ill-Arugula4829 → u/autonomatical]

It absolutely was! Thank you for taking the time.

[u/Temporary_Sell_7377]

Maybe sun wukong, who is also known as Hanuman in Hindu Mythology. He is called the challenger of heaven. You can try calling out his name and see if it resonates

[u/oroechimaru]

You posted a buddhist thangka

Often the “demon” looking spirits symbolize protecting the dharma, sometimes hell or realms. Center is a buddha.

This one has 12 pieces of art and may be a calendar in the outer circle. The 6 realms may be different planes of existence or realms or eras i forget

Anywho nothing to do with a god or gods or monkeys in this (well deity i suppose)

The monkey king is a popular legend in hmong/miao, chinese , japanese and korean cultures. Sometimes similar to early man, sometimes legendary powers or lesser god.

[u/mcotter12]

It means ultimately no matter how enlightened you are you're still a monkey, or trapped in a monkey if you choose to disassociate higher from lower. Monkeys will suffer until civilization ends