The dream state is not the main subject of your post, but as you mention the dreaming and waking states as two sides of the same coin, having equal importance (or lack thereof), I would like to get your take on how is it that even a deep awakening (which, despite pointing to a reality beyond life itself, happens during the waking state) does not even cross the "dreaming state gate". I mean, I have not been able to "keep" any meditative insight within whatever avatar and situation a particular dream has taken me into at night. My dream character knows nothing about awakening and acts accordingly...
How can we expect awakening to cross the border from one physical incarnation to the next (if that happens) when it rarely transverses the border from the waking to the dreaming state?
When you are falling asleep, practice guru yoga. By opening your heart and mind as you fall asleep, you enter the dream bardo in a way that is more likely to accept the non-conceptual reality that we must understand upon awakening. This is good practice every time you go to sleep. In time, the lucid aspects of dreaming allow you to continue in this awareness through the night. Learning to become more stable in lucid dreaming will allow you to develop meditative skills when you dream. This propels your practice rather significantly, if you can do that.
On this extraordinary bubbling nursery of the Milky Way
The uncountable stars have been our guiding lights,
Our navigators since ancient cultures began to traverse
Into parts unknown
And our Universal language, or is it the dancingness of life,
that is love, music nd food?
Each of us is the maestro of our lives so play on outrageously, play on! Pluck the strings, chop the food, love those who will let you and those who wont. That is your artistry manifesting. Laughter is us singing, rippling, roaring or just chuckling to ourselves, tiz the music of us, tiz our masterpiece and needs no one else's permission.
Nd if tears come, let them flow – its you taking the lid off life's pressure cooker, so celebrate in the extraordinarily beautiful tears of translucent water, feel them cool you down, feel them as an essential medicine you have been blessed with
Nd every day, gratefully thank most astonishing nature for being here for you ... oh She who in any way possible surrounds us as quickly as She can, and remains as long as we let Her ... celebrate every season, love the skin of earth and walk on Her tenderly...be honoured that She greets you without prejudice and with open arms.
Good morning music of the universe
Oh dancingness of the way
Be sure to have the adventure your life has come here to live
Fantastic. Thank you for the advice. I appreciate it:)
Thank you, Robert.
The dream state is not the main subject of your post, but as you mention the dreaming and waking states as two sides of the same coin, having equal importance (or lack thereof), I would like to get your take on how is it that even a deep awakening (which, despite pointing to a reality beyond life itself, happens during the waking state) does not even cross the "dreaming state gate". I mean, I have not been able to "keep" any meditative insight within whatever avatar and situation a particular dream has taken me into at night. My dream character knows nothing about awakening and acts accordingly...
How can we expect awakening to cross the border from one physical incarnation to the next (if that happens) when it rarely transverses the border from the waking to the dreaming state?
Thank you for any thoughts you might share.
When you are falling asleep, practice guru yoga. By opening your heart and mind as you fall asleep, you enter the dream bardo in a way that is more likely to accept the non-conceptual reality that we must understand upon awakening. This is good practice every time you go to sleep. In time, the lucid aspects of dreaming allow you to continue in this awareness through the night. Learning to become more stable in lucid dreaming will allow you to develop meditative skills when you dream. This propels your practice rather significantly, if you can do that.
A Catchy Pome
On this extraordinary bubbling nursery of the Milky Way
The uncountable stars have been our guiding lights,
Our navigators since ancient cultures began to traverse
Into parts unknown
And our Universal language, or is it the dancingness of life,
that is love, music nd food?
Each of us is the maestro of our lives so play on outrageously, play on! Pluck the strings, chop the food, love those who will let you and those who wont. That is your artistry manifesting. Laughter is us singing, rippling, roaring or just chuckling to ourselves, tiz the music of us, tiz our masterpiece and needs no one else's permission.
Nd if tears come, let them flow – its you taking the lid off life's pressure cooker, so celebrate in the extraordinarily beautiful tears of translucent water, feel them cool you down, feel them as an essential medicine you have been blessed with
Nd every day, gratefully thank most astonishing nature for being here for you ... oh She who in any way possible surrounds us as quickly as She can, and remains as long as we let Her ... celebrate every season, love the skin of earth and walk on Her tenderly...be honoured that She greets you without prejudice and with open arms.
Good morning music of the universe
Oh dancingness of the way
Be sure to have the adventure your life has come here to live
Very nice 💖🙏