Planet Earth is a Buddha Factory... (reprise)

Xandi Hoesch aka Puma Woman meditating in a Buddha factory in Krabi, Thailand (photo: Antares)

Buddhahood simply means to be awake, enlightened, derobotized and rehumanized. In other words, to be fully conscious.

Planet Earth is actually a Buddha Factory. That's why so many varieties of souls choose to incarnate here - to plunge into physical embodiment and experience the bewildering world of forms, where pain and sorrow are as likely as pleasure and joy to befall you.

Think of Earth as a giant sieve for evolving souls. We arrive as coarse lumps of condensed matter... and depart refined as conscious humans. No doubt, it often takes many, many incarnations to complete the refinement process. But what are a few lifetimes in the cosmic context of eternity?

[This beautiful image was taken sometime in 1987 when my beloved Puma Woman and I were holidaying in Krabi, Thailand. In those days, it hadn't yet exploded into a tourist town and there was only a tiny handful of guesthouses. We rented a motorbike and explored the vicinity, doing a bit of rock climbing and checking out the awesome limestone outcrops. On the outskirts of town we spotted a Buddha factory... and that's how this memorable portrait came about. I didn't notice until afterwards that Xandi had tied her hair in a topknot just like all the Buddha statues! Scanned from a fading 8R print (luckily I had it laminated or nothing would have been left after 25 years) this portrait adorned my High Hut for many years and survived a massive mudslide in October 1999.]

[First posted 22 February 2013. Reposted 15 October 2019]

To Xandi Hoesch @ Alexandra La Rosee (3 February 1963 ~ 4 March 2022) with Limitless Love

At the Buddha Factory, Krabi, Thailand, 1987

Steamy days in the Rt Hon Armpit (1987)

Romantic moment on Thasos, Greece, with Miel as witness

(photo by Robert Russell)

7 Pesiaran Ampang Hilir, Kuala Lumpur, 1988

Pinky Baby, Pink Buddha & me (1987)

Waiting for the ferry in Koh Samui, 1987

At the Hoesch homestead in Chiemsee, February 2019

On horseback in August 2020

Email dated 6 March 2022 from Alexander La Rosee:

I am very sad to have to tell you, that my wife Xandi died two days ago. As you know Xandi had cancer. Unfortunatly we never met, but i know, that you were a very good and dear friend of Xandi. I am so sorry, that i have this sad knews for you. I certainly hope that you and your family are well.

Kindest regards

Alexander

Dear Alexander, 

Thank you so much for letting me know that she has departed. If I recall correctly, Xandi had just turned 59? Interesting that when I was 59 (back in 2009) I almost left my body but was persuaded to return to witness these amazing, intense times.

I have asked Xandi many times to include you in the photos she occasionally sent. I wanted to see what the man she married looks like. But she never once obliged!

A few years ago she mentioned that you had taken her to a Steiner healing center (in Berlin?) I was happy to know you were open to Steiner's spiritual perspective.

You will always be included in my love for Xandi, which has endured at least two lifetimes (I once had a vision that she might have been the Pharaoh Amunhotep III, my father in that scenario!) But in this lifetime, she was a truly beautiful woman I absolutely loved when we met in 1986 and never stopped loving.

Bless you and thank you for being with her and taking good care of her all these years, Alexander. May your heart be light and joyful and not burdened with unnecessary sorrow.

For, in truth, we are immortal souls who enter and exit this worldly stage to learn and experience love in all its many-splendored expressions.

Your friend,

Antares

~^@^~

6 March 2022

[First posted 6 March 2022]

7 LIFETIMES ~ by Antares

Love song inspired by a beauty named Xandi. Written in 1987 and never recorded. This is just a no-frills version taped on my scenic veranda while practising for a gig on September 27th...

You dropped in on me
Right out of the sky
I just wanna thank you girl
For getting me high
Just wanna thank you beautiful angel
For helping me fly
All I wanna do is thank you baby
Thanks for making me cry

Thanks for seven weeks in heaven
Seven weeks in heaven with you
Seven wonderful weeks in paradise

I don't know how this whole thing started
But I know I don't want it to end
Though you and I we're parted now
I hope we'll get together again
Even though you hardly call or write to me
You know I'll always be your friend

After seven weeks in heaven
Seven weeks in your loving arms
Seven weeks in paradise
Let's try for seven lifetimes

Living in this crazy world
Makes me feel I'm in hell
But loving you pretty baby
You know it makes me feel so well
Wo-oh I'm so in love with you
Darling can't you tell

Seven weeks in heaven
Is better than seven years in tears
Seven wonderful weeks in paradise

They say heaven is having fun
With that special someone
You can stay a week you can stay a month or even a year
And if you never leave me we could stay in love forever
What else can we do?

Antares & Xandi in the Dangerous Kitchen of the Rt. Hon. Armpit (1986)