Dreaming
I am in a traveling troupe of some sort. There are hundreds of beautiful young people (I too am much younger and more buxom and gorgeous than this body recalls). We are all gathering to prepare for our performances. It seems that we are also superheroes of some sort when we travel. We gather in a large auditorium. I shirk this handsome, needy young man who has literally been following me two inches or less from the back. I holler enthusiastically to the crowd and skip to my seat in the front, directly before a mirror. The group begins singing. This is my second year with the troupe but I don't know the songs. I say to myself I don't learn this way (by ear) I need to see the song. The song leader hears me and hands me a typed song sheet. The song sounds like an east Indian chant but it goes "Ta, ra, re, ditty ditty, Ta ra ram ditty ditty ", etc. I sing, chant and wake up.
The interesting part of this dream upon waking was that my conscious mind, identifying with dream Angelina, didn't know a simple song and had the belief that she couldn't learn it AND YET I was the dreamer and the content of the dream- the song, the singers, the scenery, the context and story all arose within the presence of what I am. It interests me how the conscious mind adopts beliefs and limitations that are not only false but ludicrous in their smallness. It interests me how even the dreaming mind chooses to identify with limited parts rather than perceive the whole. It's as if the limited I/Angelina is threatened by its own magnificence and comforts itself with crumbs of consciousness, begrudging its lot, while seated at a banquet table unparalleled in its splendor.
I am in a traveling troupe of some sort. There are hundreds of beautiful young people (I too am much younger and more buxom and gorgeous than this body recalls). We are all gathering to prepare for our performances. It seems that we are also superheroes of some sort when we travel. We gather in a large auditorium. I shirk this handsome, needy young man who has literally been following me two inches or less from the back. I holler enthusiastically to the crowd and skip to my seat in the front, directly before a mirror. The group begins singing. This is my second year with the troupe but I don't know the songs. I say to myself I don't learn this way (by ear) I need to see the song. The song leader hears me and hands me a typed song sheet. The song sounds like an east Indian chant but it goes "Ta, ra, re, ditty ditty, Ta ra ram ditty ditty ", etc. I sing, chant and wake up.
The interesting part of this dream upon waking was that my conscious mind, identifying with dream Angelina, didn't know a simple song and had the belief that she couldn't learn it AND YET I was the dreamer and the content of the dream- the song, the singers, the scenery, the context and story all arose within the presence of what I am. It interests me how the conscious mind adopts beliefs and limitations that are not only false but ludicrous in their smallness. It interests me how even the dreaming mind chooses to identify with limited parts rather than perceive the whole. It's as if the limited I/Angelina is threatened by its own magnificence and comforts itself with crumbs of consciousness, begrudging its lot, while seated at a banquet table unparalleled in its splendor.
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The weirdest thing is that there really are not 2..
There is something interesting to think about.
Have we ever seen out of anyones eyes other that our own?
Did you know that quantuum physics has proven that a subject always perceives and object otherwise there would be no subject or object and the real kicker is that the object is always the subject..
The Movie Source Code show this in a way too.
By shooting only one molecule through a chammber another exact molecule always appears and it isn't a mirror but another molecule.. This molecule is the other one.. This shows us the nature of mind scientifically..
But as we know sis it can never be seen scientifically but only with the guidance of a master whho abides beyond duality..
Now that is interesting eh?
Who is the one who is showing us if he is beyond duality?
He is us.
In fact everyone is us and there is no individual soul. The entire universe is the soul but as we travel deeper into the nature of mind we see that as long as we percieve the universe as an object we are still in duality. This is how the billion-fold universes arise in the 1000pedalled lotus in a small world in a flower inside a begging bowl in the hand on the lap of the Primordial Buddha Samantabhadra.
Angel-
I I have taken some notes on the nature of non-duality from one who abides in that space..
You may find them interesting.
I will leave 3 links here for you
to check out as you feel ..
By the way, if we have only seen out of our eyes than the object we percieve is GOD Himself and not what we think it is and when we become convinced without any doubt at all that everyone is actaully the primordial buddha in person than the billionfold universes opens to us. The nuture of the buddha who is out there and there are more buddhas than atoms is beyond duality but for compassion.
This shows us that nothing is what it appears to be in the least..
The Buddha takes on wrathful forms and peaceful forms according to our karmic propensities which were magically created by us and are delusion too.
"Ho!
Everything — appearance and existence, samsara and nirvana — Has a single Ground, yet two paths and two fruitions, And magically displays as Awareness or unawareness.
Through Kuntuzangpo’s prayer, may all beings become Buddhas, Completely perfected in the abode of the Dharmadhatu. "
The Primoordial Buddha~
http://people.tribe.net/f7a3d649-1972-4af4-bc93-bd89e6c3c77a/blog/af0ee331-2969-46e4-8967-ae0c427331fb
Beyond duality~
http://people.tribe.net/f7a3d649-1972-4af4-bc93-bd89e6c3c77a/blog/505ff33f-420e-40c6-93af-5ab5cb9af90e
The 14 downfalls~
http://people.tribe.net/f7a3d649-1972-4af4-bc93-bd89e6c3c77a/photos/e7efa627-3335-4cbd-b162-668d93d92ec0
conceptualizing?
is'nt this a fault?
"To conceptualize about phenomena that are free from name and [form] is eleventh. " -downfall
So to hold onto the idea that everyone is buddha is grasping and the very act of grasping changes the universe into a conception and traps us in confusion.
"As it is"
sorry if I am think-meditating here..
Sometimes it helps work things out..
In Dzogchen the more thoughts the more realization and to remain thoughtless is a downfall but to be aware of all phenomena is the practice. Not being unconsciously daydreamingin the thoughts and elaborating on them.. Let The Primordial buddha do the thinking and sit back and watch thoughts or no thoughts without conceptualizing when something profound shows itself, becaus ethe minute we do we hault the unfoldment of the infinite buddhafields
sorry bout the typing but this computer isn't the one 'i' am used too..
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