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Hello Mewtwo, I'll give it a wack, but remember I haven't analyzed dreams in ages, so I may be rusty. First since you became another character/person, and presumably a character/person much younger than yourself, I would say that could mean that you have a desire to change who you are, perhaps become someone more powerful and younger (or perhaps healthier). Second, since you were asking another person for help, it could mean that you are facing a problem and seeking guidance. In regards to the door being made of branches, in particular roots, I would say that you may feel that the problem you're facing is deeply rooted in your subconscious. Lastly, since you had to struggle to open the door, and once you did you believed that you had opened your sushumna nadi chakra, that most likely what you wish is to find balance and peace of mind (and of course spiritual progression). The dream doesn't necessarily mean you have opened this chakra, rather that you desire to open it. Note that this is my spiritual interpretation and does not necessarily mean anything. As others have said, dream analysis isn't necessarily accurate since images have different meanings culturally and personally, so take all of this with a grain of salt. Aaron edit- I missed your last post about the frustration and joy, but this really only adds to my view that you are seeking guidance, or at least someone who will pay attention to what you're saying, and that you have a sincere desire to open the sushumna chakra.

What I've said before about dream interpretation before is that symbols are secondary to the feelings. Because symbols vary from person to person. You might like Avatar: The Last Airbender, but someone else might not like it. So seeing the same symbol could mean very different things to different people. So the questions you should be asking are how you felt when you were doing each things? What were you thinking/feeling when you were watching? What did you think/feel when you realized that you were Aang? What was your purpose in mind when you were asking for help? What was the attitude of the person helping out? What did it feel like before you broke the door with your karate chops? During? After? That kind of stuff.

So um i had a dream last night where i was aang / watching aang from the tv series avatar the last airbender. And I was talking to another charecter from the tv series. Well i asked for his help and them i was infront of a doorish thing made of branches or roots and i was karate choping them and one finaly broke from my karate choping and i said alright i have finaly broke the shushumna. Anyone have any interperitations on this. Thanks.

:EDIT: This poem called Reading a Zen Scripture: "We must know that all appearances are not what they appear to be; And if we dwell in remainderless nirvana, then there still is remainder. Forget words at the words, and you comprehend all at once; Talk of dreams in a dream is double layers of vacuity. Can you seek fruit along with flowers in the sky? How do you look for fish in a mirage? If controlling movement is meditation, meditation moves; Not meditating, not moving, this is suchness as is." Is actually by Po Chu-i, NOT Wang Wei.

I like to memorize things aswell, but I really fail at this, no matter how hard I try. As soon as I read something I forget. Tao te Ching by memory would be beneficial I guess. Also remember some great poems. Wisdom that you can use on the go. I have no idea why we should memorize things nowadays... Since the birth of paper, an external memory, we no longer need our memories. Especially now people use technology to store great amounts of information. I'm very curious... Why do you like to memorize things? I like to do it too, but thats just because I'm bad at memorizing. My dream would be to recall with great accuracy; huge amounts of text.

I've always found it interesting that the TTC makes mention of the 3 treasures of the sage (as Lin Yutang puts it), and yet the TTC never really tells us how he got to be that way. The Nei-Yeh seems to go a bit further into inner cultivation, but still doesn't seem to answer some fundamental questions about this. I've noticed on this forum that there are several different opinions on the inner cultivation thing. There is a line of thought that the Sage becomes the Sage by actively cultivating his inner life and consciously attempting to develop the Te (virtue) of his condition; and there is another line of thought that feels that the best way is to act spontaneously and not actively attempt to change anything on the inside; that things are all natural, of the Tao, and will work out on their own. I think there's tremendous merit to both approaches, and it's a matter of choice. If one acts spontaneously, yet mindfully accepts and understands the lessons in life which are being served up to him, the spontaneous action will certainly lead to the One just as well as the man who intentionally develops his inner self. I've only got one translation of chapter 67 (The Three Treasures) in front of me; it is Yutang's. For purposes of further discussion, if anyone cares to throw other interpretations in his, it might be really valuable for purposes of triangulating this issue; essentially picking the brains of the masters / interpreters (if that is indeed the case) and really looking at the personality qualities of the sage. Lin Yutang - excerpt from Ch. 67: I have Three Treasures; Guard them and keep them safe: The first is Love. The second is, Never too much. The third is, Never be the first in the world. Through Love, one has no fear; Through not doing too much, one has amplitude (of reserve power); Through not presuming to be the first in the world, One can develop one's talent and let it mature. In my opinion, I would assume that this means the Sage is a non-judgmental being. In order to Love all things (seemingly good or seemingly bad) he would not make the judgment in his mind; every being would be worthy of Love, regardless of how vile. The challenge becomes how to love the seemingly vile. Or the argumentative. Or the unkind ones. To realize that he is, in essence, One with the vile ones too. As to Never too much, this seems to go to our fears of lack. We have a fear of not thriving, of not having enough - this seems to be built into us. This explains our national personality, in my opinion, of the panic when the stock market takes a plunge. We're so fearful of not getting all our benefits, not having the 'great American dream'....and yet, we are perfectly content to see our Brother grovel in the sand on the other side of the world with unsanitary drinking water and no place to lay their heads other than a cardboard box. This characteristic of the Sage (Never too much) is a characteristic that we too can develop; but the fear that seems to be hardwired into us can be eliminated by gratitude for what we do have. And an understanding that the only sure thing in life is Change. At any given time, circumstances may change for us, and the Sage will remain in a mentally mobile state in order to receive it without fear. When he says Never be the first in the World, I think the Sage has tempered his ego by this time. He has no more need to contend, he doesn't need to make the most money, be at the top of the corporate ladder; in fact, just the opposite. He may still be at the top of the corporate ladder, but not because he 'needs' to be because he's reacting to a fear of not being good enough inside. I think the Three Treasures (or whatever they're referred to in other translations) is a real key to developing the Sage-like qualities that we seek. If we're not seeking these qualities, why waste the time of being here? Then it's all just words. Any other interesting translations on Chapter 67 that will help triangulate this and flesh the Sage out fully?

That's kind of what I mean by my last post. I've woken up in that state between dream and wakefulness and I sometimes see beings with their arms in my body moving things.

Dream of forever In an instant we exist Awake to your sleep

Mirror for heaven, The sandman is here to stay, Dream of forever.

What worked for me (note, for me, might not be for everyone, but I'm sharing in the hope something resonates and helps because it's a horrible thing to go through IME). - Get a good acupuncturist - Get a half-decent therapist who won't freak out about the content of such things (if you're unsure that they will, practice telling them what you're going through in ways they understand, I know it defeats the purpose somewhat but Mal mentioned a lot of them have done their own dabbling- funny they don't tell anyone much about it :-)) - I'd look at the biology of kundalini website. I found it very helpful. And even helpful in general. But it probably requires more discernment if you're not scientifically minded, I wouldn't try everything on there, especially all the herbals. A lot of that gets discussed here anyway, in fact most of what we seem to discuss here is related to problems with practice :-) - Eat very good food - Temporarily rid yourself of emo vampires and the company of a44holes (you can always start hanging out with them again once you're feeling ok :-)) - Stay away from gurus and extreme physical/visualization practices - Know it's potentially part of the journey that you chose to embark about by taking up 'practice' (I know this doesn't help much when you're in the middle, but I think that's where the 'once started, better to finish saying comes in) - Know thyself. As Steve says, it doesn't matter what Buddha said, and it doesn't matter what Steve says either :-) Well, it does, but all of that is 'technique' and people sharing what works for them. At this point mr VJ, please do not jump in and say it works for everyone. Because if it does, then something's 'up' IMO. Weedkiller works too :-) - Salt baths - Lots of water (to drink) - Belly breathing - Physical exercise - Don't get caught in the scenery. I know that seeing big red goddess things is supposed to be some kind of marker, but it just freaked me out. I still dream of snakes on my path. You're also not obliged to deal with any of those. - Full compassion for yourself. The last thing other unfortunate people need IMO is someone in the throws of a dark night 'taking care of them' - each person's path is their own and interfering unless you're asked to is IME a bad idea (did I mention I'm no good at it either, but this time you did ask, so take what works and leave the rest :-)) It does get better :-)

omg somebody used the moon for nuclear weapons testing in your dream when you landed on the moon , did it clink? like hollow metal? if the astronauts had 6 arms and 2 legs how can you know if they were the spiders from mars?

The craters from that dream were a vision of Yucca flat. Which is easily found with Google earth. In the tradition of the dancing wu li masters! Working through the stuff from Robert Lazar about balanced thermonuclear reactors that use a matter antimatter reaction to create a propulsion field. The strong force is the force that binds the nucleus of atoms together. Unlike the other forces it does not diminish in strength with distance. Once a distance the size of a Hadron(think proton and neutron) has been reached the strong force remains stable. Any extra energy put into splitting the particles apart only create more force carriers. These additional force carriers are the continued presence of the strong force. Wu wei I hypothesize: The problem with creating stable heavier isotopes is the lack of a supporting mass. All of the particle experiments are doomed to failure because of the lack of the supporting mass. It is the bending of space time that greater amounts of mass create which allow for the heavier particles to aggregate into the heavier elements. It's easier to think about in terms of energy generation and walking in a circle.

The smile on pictures is just because you are closer to a subconcious or dream state while you are waking. Like in dreams, or lucid dreams, pictures form and morph along with your thoughts. So your eyes are scanning a head, and then creating a picture with the data in your bio-computer. Its nothing. Same happens to me when I meditate and then go out and see signs that seem to change words. The ghoulish guy in a forest is probably similar type thing, a pathway created by your subconscious, maybe in childhood, of the fear of being alone in the deep forest. Once the path starts, it will end up at the beast, and the triggers may be numerous. But I am just guessing. Maybe you can pray to a deity to help clear you of any beasties, just to make sure. So you took drugs, and was doing spiritual practise and got accelerated results, and now you are having trouble adjusting to all the energy. What you describe is likely you had an opening, and now the spiritual energies are rushing, helping you as fast as they can to clear out and create your energy body channels to support the new situation. As you can see, the mind can only control a little amount of a certain kind of energy, not the kind thats doing the work in your head. Good thing for that, because you wouldnt be making progress otherwise.

Well shit!!! What can I say as a follow-up after what Zerostao just said? Hehehe. But then if we look at Chuang Tzu's story about forgetting himself while walking in the park and walking on the grass where it was forbidden to walk and was chased off by the grounds-keeper we see that Chuang Tzu really knew that he wasn't a butterfly but it was only a dream that caused him to believe he was. Therefore I suggest that we must understand the difference between our illusions and delusions and our physical reality. Yes, it is nice to dream of being a butterfly living a care-free life, just fluttering around sipping on all the nectar of the gods. But a butterfly's life is so short and extremely limited. Better, I think, to be who and what we are.

Did i say that? I said Jalus is not an attainment. Just as calm-abiding or contentment is not an attainment. These are fruitions or effects of a spiritual life well lived. One simply keeps practicing and practicing until one day the perception of dualistic forms as separate from one's mind dissolves. How pure the body becomes is directly related to how far one reaches in stabilizing the Non-dual view of Great Equanimity, and most importantly, if this great view can be maintained at death. One can practice in non-dual awareness all of one's life, or cultivate all the siddhis in one life, but if at the point of death, there arises an ounce of doubt, or fear of loss, or that one has not done enough, or regret for losing all the siddhis gained, these become the very mindstates that will hamper the ultimate transference (phowa), which is the basis for Jalus to take place. I agree that simply reading books cannot lead to any real realizations. Yet its foolish to ignore the words of the great adepts who have been there done that. And one of the greatest adepts of all, Longchenpa, has this advice for you: "We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust the body, speech and mind; and stretching out in inconceivable non-action, in the unstructured matrix, the actuality of emptiness,where the natural perfection of reality lies, we ought to gaze at the uncontrived sameness of every experience, all conditioning and ambition resolved with finality." "Pure mind is like the empty sky, without memory, supreme meditation; it is our own nature, unstirring, uncontrived, and wherever that abides is the superior mind, one in buddhahood without any sign, one in View free of limiting elaboration, one in meditation free of limiting ideation, one in conduct free of limiting endeavor, and one in fruition free of limiting attainment. Vast! Spacious! Released as it arises! With neither realization nor non-realization; experience consumate! No Mind! Open to infinity." "In the universal womb that is boundless space all forms of matter and energy occur as flux of the four elements, but all are empty forms, absent in reality: all phenomena, arising in pure mind, are like that. just as dream is a part of sleep, unreal in its arising, so all and everything is pure mind, never separated from it, and without substance or attribute. Experience is neither mind nor anything but mind; it is a vivid display of emptiness, like magical illusion, in the very moment inconceivable and unutterable. All experience arising in the mind, at its very inception, know it as all-empty!" Longchenpa speaks of ultimate freedom: "Freedom attends reality: free at the core, any effort is wasted; timelessly free, no release is needed; free in itself, no corrective is possible; directly free, released in the very seeing; completely free, pure in nature; constantly free, familiarization is redundant; and naturally free, freedom cannot be contrived. Yet 'freedom' is just a verbal convention, and who is 'realized' and who is not? how could anyone be 'liberated'? How could anyone be lost in samsara? Reality is free of all delimitation! Freedom is timeless, so constantly present; freedom is natural, so unconditional; freedom is direct, so pure vision obtains; freedom is unbounded, so no identity possible; freedom is unitary, so multiplicity is consumed. Conduct changes nothing - our lives are already free! Meditation achieves nothing - our minds are already free! The View realizes nothing - all dogma is freedom! Fruition demands nothing - we are already free as we are!" These words alone will take lifetimes to permeate the conditioned mind which yearns for spiritual awakening, yet if due to meritorious ripening of karma from previous moments or lifetimes, one's wisdom mind at once realizes the profundity and utter simplicity upon reading these words, what is left to do?

one of the great things about Finnegans Wake is you can say more or less anything you like about it and no one will ever argue. A genuine stream of consciousness thread here is elevating the creative qi of the board so that over-literalism runs for the well, after trying to throttle us all into submission, it jumps in cowering, having an identity crisis and finds a sleeping snake who isnt really 'sleeping' but only 'snake - sleeping' which means alert as can be, setting up a dream like dualism that makes wakefulness a mere doze. the snake eats the over-literalism, indigestible and untasty as it is, and the light above the well goes sparkly gold so that all the people who believe what they see are no longer in good relationship with their vision. those shouty american cartoons, I want to call it 'the watsons' but I dont think that is the right name, it's hugely popular but I cannot watch even 20 seconds of it because the voices are repellant and the visuals just so unpleasant. I'd really rather look at the poo and penii of gilbert and george, any day. including monday.

Maybe reincarnation doesn't work like that. At death your ego and personality, are all lost. What remains is the base awareness of existence itself, that finds it's way to a new dream. The universe is a big place, and you wound up here in this world once before. You came from the nothingness, the emptiness, the void. When you die you shall return to it. Everyday millions experience this fact of life. You being incarnated has occurred at least once that we can say for certain, it happens all the time. Is it so illogical and irrational to think maybe it may occur again the same as it has in the past?

youtube and meditation in the hills of bandu republic aside. When I google "access akashic records". The links that show up seems to be in two categories. 1) hypnosis 2) prayer (new age types). Just wondering if the taoist and the buddhist have anything to say on this subject? Here is what one hypnosis exercise is like: Access the Akashic Records Exercise by Dr. Bruce Goldberg 1. Use any of the previous self-hypnosis or other exercises to relax and apply white light protection. Lie down or sit in an easy chair, and when you are relaxed turn your attention inward and center it on the area of the third eye. See it glow with a golden white radiance and feel it pulsate with energy. As you do this, your realization of the sounds, colors, and temperature in the room around you should gradually fade, and as they do so the subtle psychic stirring will become more noticeable. 2. At first, this may be only an impression of inner light or of brilliantly illuminated geometrical figures, or of stars shooting by in ordered procession, or some other visual appearance which will probably be meaningless. Or your first impression may be of sound, as I have previously described. 3. Focus your mind, not on the Akashic records themselves, but on a specific historical event for your initial trails. For example, I suggest you study first the discovery of radium by Marie Curie or the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. 4. Your next step is to go to that historical event and ask yourself: "What happed that afternoon?" If you have properly prepared yourself, you will find yourself drifting into a scenario-like dream. 5. In the earlier stages or your development you will not get clearly defined contacts that you can recognize as such, so don't expect them. Accept the dream-like sequence that passes before your consciousness as you sit in reverie. Remember what you observe and write it down as soon as possible thereafter. 6. During these practice sessions your should "feel" this connection between your waking consciousness and the Akasha. When this has been accomplished and you can recall and incident from the past as simply as you can look up an account in the encyclopedia, you are then ready to move on to next step. 7. The next step is to repeat the previous steps, omitting the preparation phase consisting of reading about the historical event. 8. Next, check your data with specialty books written about that event in detail, not merely an encyclopedia summary. 9. After successful completion of this step, move on to your own future. Begin with a short range, say one week to a month. Log all of your observations into a journal and occasionally verify the accuracy of your prophecies. 10. With a proven track record, you are now ready to venture much further ahead in time in your current life. Try five years, ten years, fifty years, and so on. 11. You may move several hundred years into the future and explore future lives. My book Past Lives--Future Lives (1988) and Soul Healing (1996) describe nearly twenty such cases as far forward as the thirty-eighth century! 12. Lastly, tap into the general Akasha and allow your consciousness to tune into future world events, inventions, lifestyle changes, and so on.

My financial enlightenment came from a dream: we cannot eat money. All you have to do is replace the word money with food and water, then you can complain all you want. Don't complain about a lack of money when you have no idea what it even is! People who travel and complain about money I just want to smack their faces and say "enjoy your money, I'm going to eat chicken." Alot of people fear their money is going away, since this is a monetary system. The real problem is food and water, we should fear that people die of hunger and disease because of lack of healthy food and water. Nature is whats real. Worry about food, then money. When the economy collapses, its not becauze we don't got enough food or money, its just that he whole system is one big failure or outdated. Some even believe the system is designed to keep us working as slaves, slaves that house their selves. Ultimate slavery. Soon we'll have to pay for air too. Then people will really seek financial enlightenment. I'm sure they'll have a perfectly good excuse for us paying for air. "Global warming! Now pay for air, because we've got kill some children who are potential terrorists. Bring them food and water for free? Hell no. Thats bad for the environment. Replace the working children in africa with robots? Hell no thats bad for the economy. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to eat my money du fromage. MMmmmm..." People wont protest unless their system collapses. Look at greece and spain. Took so long for the people to notice all the flaws. When a country suddenly goes bankrupt only then do they realize/accept they've become a modern slave.

I've found that neither money nor desire is the most important thing in life. Money is currently equal to debt. Desires change and never become satisfied. I seek that which does not change, it is within. With this inner truth any life is peaceful. So I just continue on pretending I don't know this is a dream. Unless someone asks ofcourse. I'm going to let this one slip my mouth. Sorry in advance Thanks for sharing the video. I've enjoyed listening to it

Ok, I can totally relate to that. I thought you ment follow your heart as in follow your desires. I know that everything out there is fake. Only our senses and present experiences or feelings are real. I practice lucid dreaming and addepting quickly to new realities. This practice has been really fruitful. Or dream yoga its called? Our thoughts are not in the present. Thoughts derive from the memory and hold the concept of past and future, while in the real world we cannot possible comprehend the true nature of time. I think the answer to this one really lies within. I totally overlooked this one though. Motivation has not got much to do with concentration from that perspective. The illusipn here is that some things are more fun then others. It is an ilusion from the memory that comes up while trying to focus on my goals. My ego was in the way here, I'm embarresed to admit. The topic title should be focus vs flexibilty. Let me share the concept here. Its the least I can do. As I said, my weakness is focus. For example: Goal: Reach the next country C. The road has a huge wall blocking. I start driving on the sand beside the road and make a stop at country G then Eventually I end up in country Z. Got flexibility but no focus. While someome who lacks flexibilty Goal: Reach the next country C. The road has a huge wall blocking. Oh my god a wall. What are we going to do now? My focus is on getting on the other side of the road. You try to ride up to the top of the wall and your engine explodes. Not even realizing that you can ride besides the road on the sand aswell. Focus, but no flexibility. Thanks for the great posts Otis. Very powerful advice indeed. You seem to write from a place of much experience. It is generous.

Hi Steve, I think that when people talk about "reality", they're rarely talking about the actual world (even though they think they are); they're only talking about their models of the world. If I say "get real", I mean: get with my version of reality. Reality (as I hear people use the word) is utterly personal, and shared by no two people. It exists only in mind, as you say. Which raises the question: is there even an actual world, something beyond the subjective reality? The only answer that makes sense to me is: it sure seems like it, but I can't say for sure. Since there is absolutely no way that I can be sure that I am not, say, a brain in a vat, being fed experiences, or that I am perhaps part of a simulation or deep in a dream; therefore I must always beg ignorant as to what cause has generated my experience of reality. I know that when I'm high or depressed or angry or horny or self-conscious or preoccupied, the world changes. Things look different; space feels different; pain, events, and people are received differently. Which suggests that my state of mind has a lot to do with how my reality appears. What I think is within my capacity, is to witness how much I add my preconceptions and emotional weight to experience, and then progressively try to reduce the interference of my biases. IME, that alone makes my life a lot easier, more joyful, and more interesting. But I don't see how any experience, no matter how clear, no matter how profound, no matter how "of course", could ever be deduced to be "truth". There's never an objective yardstick of Truth to compare any experience to.

Generally speaking,the higher the way it is , the less it has to touch upon things like levels or locations ( say the three dantians) , or functions / physical entities( the 5 organs) . The highest way , of course,is to start from " no where ", without touching anything ,even the " nothingness/ emptiness"; Some readers likely immediately think of the similar Zen's way, which is something as difficult as what we have mentioned . The result of adopting this way, based on the unpleasant experience that the Chinese experienced in the Zen Buddhism history , is that most of the practitioners are either trapped in the so-called Lunatic Zen "disease"(狂禪)(guys who boasted of their understanding of Enlightenment, Awakening , addicted to philosophical arguments with others , yet in fact are lack of any actual experience in Englightenment ..etc).. or degenerate into Verbal Zen (口頭禪) ( people who relate those daily life matters to and carelessly interpret them in Zen's terms , turning the indepth things into trivials ; which is ,in fact, a vulgarization of something great) . In a word, although not starting from dantian/ postures sound good , most likely,on most people, it doesn't get good results . So, most sifu, nowadays, still talk about things like lower dantian , upper dantian, the five-elements stuff...etc, which do reflect the being-entangled-in- the-post-heavenly-qi status that most people are situated when they start their practice. Of course, there will be one day , after decades of searching, a sifu does comes across a gifted disciple, then he may exceptionally preach a way of starting from nowhere... The more excellent a sifu/master is, the lonelier he is in this world , as Liu Yi Ming's writes in a poem : 看破浮生一也无，单身只影走江湖。 鸢飞鱼跃藏真趣，绿水青山是道图。 大梦场中常觉我，千峰顶上视迷徒。 Having seen through in life nothing real I lonely travelled across lakes and rivers Truth hides in , flying eagles and swimming fish Green water and mountain , where Tao hovers In a big dream , I always find myself alone awakening Like overlooking from top of mountains, I view the people down there, lost

dream yoga. A lot of teaching goes on. Not just in a class in the temporal realm either.

Tao's great! In a way I'm quite glad I took the course from Santi because he didn't do any explaining. More 'experience'-based. But I also enjoy looking at the process from a lot of different angles, so adding the 'technical' stuff in is good too IMO. The stumbling blocks I get with technical explanations are more to do with my own lack of knowledge and education on these matters so I've been trying to remedy that. Still, I keep finding I come up with ideas about things (often after a 'teaching dream') that then get discussed and debated elsewhere. It's hard to know 'where' this stuff comes from. Is it something I read ages ago? A direct 'insight'? The 'teaching dream' sounds weird. But that's exactly what it is. 'Someone' comes along and teaches me about something while I sleep.