I now dream regularly and get hit over the head with dream signs every night it seems. So, even when my hand changes I can remain reified. A few nights ago I found myself dreaming I was in LA where I ended up in a Night Club with someone else. Didn’t catch the obvious. He went off with a woman and I eventually left to catch a bus. I was standing outside with a few Hispanic ladies who asked me if I spoke Spanish to which I replied “asi-asi (so-so).” A bus came by and I went to pay with two and a half slices of bread (didn’t wake up), and the driver wouldn’t let me on. Not enough dough? The women told me that was my bus and I missed it, so I woke up. I just finished an “Opening the Lotus” retreat with Charlie Morley last week so I’ve been more purposeful with my nocturnal practices.
Yesterday, we went to a White Tara Empowerment Service with Garchen Rimpoche and it was amazing. This was in Boston and well attended by lay people, students, other Rimpoches and many from other schools of Tibetan Buddhism. After The White Tower Empowerment I went out to put some things in my car when it started to hail. Big time. It rarely, if ever hails in Boston—or so I’m told. Several of the folks there said this was not so unusual when The Rimpoche does this special empowerment service, but who knows? I did have my first fully lucid dream last night where I was not only lucid but able to determine my actions, so maybe getting hit with hail loosed up some of my reification resistance.
Andrew will be here in Massachusetts in a couple of weeks for a retreat so I know that learning and practicing more with him will keep my aspiration batteries charged.
