Where are you heading?

Upon meeting a Zen master at a social event, a psychiatrist decided to ask him a question that had been on his mind. "Exactly how do you help people?" he inquired, curious.

"I get them where they no longer ask more questions," the Master replied. "To have no queries is to find peace within."

All questions stem from illusion of discontent. Be present.

Dream jumper, dream walker or teleporter?

Analysis of dream submitted by Anonymous in Canada.

Dream- I walked beside a fast-moving river near trees. A familiar man walked across from me on the other side. I looked for a bridge. We found the bridge and met face-to-face.

Location shifted to an auditorium, I sensed two of four white walls around me were shields. A big man in dreadlocks turned out to hide a dog under his long coat. He thought dogs were forbidden in the hostel. He tried unsuccessfully to hide dog in a soda vending machine. I said he did not have to. He was glad.

Then, I turned, jumped through the wall and was in the kitchen of a friend. She had just remoddelled. White and brown cupboards lined wall opposite to the one I came through. Immaculate. She pulled out a sliding drawer. I saw man from bridge leaning against far wall. My friend did not see him.

Next, I walked through the wall to find myself in a stage dance show. No clue what I was doing there. Felt loss of control. Flashy costumes did not suit my personality. Energy was intense. I sensed roles shift at carnival. I wished myself away.

Note Dream body sensations & perceptions; weightlessness, movement, vision, shifting levels vitality

Interpretation-dreamwalking, jumping and teleporting are reality for certain beings. Teleportation is where physical matter is dematerialized at one point and recreated at another. This happens on the physical plane. Lighter energy moves in dream realms. Dreamwalking and jumping are possible was one grasps lucid dreaming. Presumed limits in the physical do not apply in other realms. You transcend logic and laws there.

As mind grasps the inner workings and sight of the higher or spiritual self, consciousness shifts. One view is every dream element reflects aspects of repressed or ignored inner selves. You give each object or feeling meaning. Another view is foreign entities or spirit take form and formless states to watch and sometimes help you.  Ask why you go where you go.

Dreams are like doorways to places where you explore abilities. To understand and experience more than one energy realm suggests you are never alone, whatever journeys you take. To note the presence of something or someone could be a shadow, ego, split soul or whatever else makes sense.

Different levels of conscious dreaming exist. These range from being aware you are dreaming to being able to control some dream actions, to ultimately disciplining capacities to control all dream events or environments. As a dreamer masters certain skills, he discerns how and when to take full control of dream events and when to not control or, to allow the subconscious mind to take charge. Every dreamer is a participant and observer to things not noticed by mental radar.

You cannot steal the Moon

Ryokan, a Zen master, lived the simplest kind of life in a little hut at the foot of a mountain. One evening a thief visited the hut only to discover there was nothing in it to steal.

Ryokan returned and caught him. "You may have come a long way to visit me," he told the prowler, "and you shoud not return emptyhanded. Please take my clothes as a gift."

The thief was bewildered. He took the clothes and slunk away.

Ryokan sat naked, watching the moon. "Poor fellow, " he mused, "I wish I could give him this beautiful moon."

Learn to see though your choices

Human beings often mistakenly believe that they are their choices. In reality, individual choices do not reflect who you are. You are not your lunch. You are not your job. You are not your partner. You are not the book you are reading. This is part of a process of learning to see through your choices.

You get stuck when you assume external things are you. As you dissolve the fear of separating from or losing these things you feel are you, then you start creating or, focus more inner energy on creating. You shift the flow of energy to permit your true self to blossom. The nature of your thoughts and feelings invites you to set yourself free. How do youbegin the process?

1) Trust that every choice is a teacher. Some emotions are based on misunderstanding. Those that promote love are real.

2)Engage mind and spirit to co-create.  Take responsibility.  Be willing to follow the direction guided by intuition.

3) Reconnect with your core self. Distance yourself from any person or situation that evokes negative energy inside you.

4) Be aware of beliefs and effects. Release what does not serve you. Recognize thoughts and feelings shape your destiny.

Tap into the teacher within

Human beings are often socially- conditioned to seek outside themselves for answers. They request guidance from religious leaders, counsellors, therapists, New Age Seers and other perceived experts, for insight they choose not to find within.

Now, every person you meet is helpful to you based on your beliefs and what you hope to learn. Every connection has meaning and purpose.  When you choose to sense it, everyone and everything is a teacher who encourages you to draw the best out of yourself.  Regardless of who you consult and your apparent conditions, you have internal work to do for yourself.

Its a milestone to reach a point where you are willing to acknowledge fear or face reasons for discomfort of any kind.  Self-honesty and raising awareness do not come easily to everyone. Be gentle with the self.  Write yourself a letter. This need not intimidate you with the requirement of a journal, but you can choose to do that too.  Begin with these questions;

1) How do you describe happiness? Do you feel it now?

2) Which experiences enrich you, add meaning to your life?

3) What do you believe you deserve? How do you prevent it?

4) Why do you sense a crossroads? Which lessons beckon?

5) Which situation(s) are you ready to let go of forever?

6) How would the inner voice answer for your subconscious?