Seeing myself coming down from a mountain in Japan carrying a bundle of herbs. I was dressed like a Taoist Sage, Chinese hair in bun, smiling. Sun shining as I walked through a field of grass and flowers. The funny thing for me was that I was not in China, but Japan.
I then realized that I had fled from China and went to live in the mountains of Japan. Not sure where or when. All I can remember seeing is that I came to a small village where I was greeted warmly. I was helping tend the animals and children with herbs and words.
The last image that came to me was my Taoist self staring at me watching. It was like my past life knew I was there watching. He stared at me, Shinzen, smiled and faded away. It felt very peaceful.
Hands palm to palm,
Shinzen
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This might explain your interest in Karate and Zen Stuff. Also your spiritual wisdom that seems to flourish even when you were young.
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Rizal: makes sense to me that way too. also, I felt as if I didn't arrive in Japan because I wanted to. I had the feeling as if I had to escape.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you can relate to a daily cup of tao post (not due to be posted for several months)
ReplyDeleteCalled: At death I said..
I had a dream, in the dream, I was not free,
I had a dream, but that dream, was not me.
Now I come to see, the whole of reality,
Now I can see this is all that can be.
Ta Wan...My first reaction: Beautiful...peaceful. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI can see the dream of life...and how easy now it is to travel from dream state to dream state...like a cloud forming, changing shapes and dissolving...never really here yet always present.
Here is another post due even later this year...
ReplyDeleteWake, sleep, dream, dead.
You exist behind all of these states.
In your dream you trust the dream as all there is, so too in life.
In sleep and in death you have no such ideas.
Behind all of these states is the same root.
Your true self.