My ‘Buddhist’ Dream [1998 and 2002]

[JON]

This opened with a gold statue with four heads, each facing a different point of the compass. Rha-Nu was believed to be ‘all-seeing’ and ‘all-knowing’. Pilgrims came from far and wide to hear his ‘divine wisdom’. This was imparted, it was said, through The Eye - a ruby actually set in the middle of the statue’s torso. He had four arms, the hands holding:

1) A sacred scroll, which was unrolled.
2) Another lotus flower.
3) Prayer beads [like a Catholic rosary].
4) Cymbals.

The image sat cross-legged on an open lotus flower. Rha-Nu was said to have emerged from an egg hatching in such a flower.

The air in the Temple was thick with clouds of incense, and the fragrance of the bushes and flowers in the Temple gardens.

The Temple was part of a Monastery. It stood on a mountain in Khathurindhar [pronounced Cat-Ur-In-Dar]. And reached by a treacherous winding path. The Monastery had white walls, beamed ceilings and tiled floors. And not much furniture. Large windows and an arcaded courtyard made it light and airy. As the Monastery was above the clouds, and due to the clear, thin atmosphere, the Summer Sun could be very strong. The Monastery gates were huge and bronze. A bell hung above them - pilgrims pulled a cord to ring it in order to gain admittance.

The priests were shaven-headed apart from a single plait hanging down the back. And wore red and orange robes. Except the High Priest, presently Lhuwan, whose robes were white and gold. They were renowned for their piety, learning and wisdom [the Monastery had many old and quite valuable books], and generosity to travellers. Pilgrims were given food and water and housed in the Hostelry.

The Monastery was said [like Glastonbury and Stonehenge] to be a ‘gateway’ between worlds. Depending on the tale, the ‘gatekeeper’ was a dragon, or eagle, or ancient blind old man….

Resident in the Monastery was a young man more revered than the High Priest. He had his own lodgings and servants. He was Khiru-Shan [pronounced Kir-Shan], the latest ‘incarnation’ of Rha-Nu. He had been 'discovered' in a village called Lharna, teaching in the local school.

Rha-Nu had ‘spoken’ through his statue. Lhuwan had been told where to ‘find’ him. Monks had been sent to investigate, and reported back to the High Priest. To satisfy his own curiosity, Lhuwan had interviewed Khiru-Shan personally at the Monastery to satisfy his curiosity.

Having passed various tests and challenges, and for fulfilling all the requirements, Khiru-Shan was officially proclaimed. Then the rites and ceremonies of confirmation were enacted [a bit like a coronation]. Khiru-Shan would live in the Monastery for the rest of his life, and treated like a god. When he ‘passed on’, the hunt for the ‘next incarnation’ would begin….

What does all this mean?

[Wolfjk]

Hi Jon,
"What does all this mean?"
You have probably been reading a lot about Budhism. Many parts of the dream are actually near truth pictures and stories that you read somewhere before, and since you are fascinated by the religion and way of life, your subconscious brings it back in the dream to entertain you and satisfy your cravings.
The story about Khiru-Shan isvery similar to the way the Dalay Lama is chosen. Have you watched Michael Palin's travels? Your dream sees to draw a lot on it.
Cheers Wolfjk

[JON]

Hi Wolfjk, thanks for your feedback. I first studied Hinduism and Buddhism at school in Religious Education. Both have aspects that appeal to me, but the latter in particular. And even more so now my sister has qualified as a Crystal Therapist and Reiki Healer.

I've been interested in Mythology since childhood. As I feel we can learn a lot from legends about ourselves. But also about 'forgotten parts' of History, tales from before the invention of writing that have been passed down verbally for a long time before being recorded. And, of course, have changed somewhat with each telling. The Bible's very much the same.

Not only the Dalai Lama, but the Pope too, I suspect! Yes, I've seen Palin's programmes amongst others. But, as I child, I visited S.E. Asia, and exotic Thailand in particular sticks in my mind. You just can't forget all those glorious statues and temples, and the beautiful temple dancers. Dad didn't want to leave!!

Thanks again, Jon

[blueberrysummer]

Jon what an incredibly beautiful dream

It does not resonate with the every day symbology of dreams but takes on a higher and more profound quality.

These qualitys are very personal to you there is much information you are being given on different levels.

When dreaming we are also able to access higher teachings from different planes and it seems that you are being taught or that these teachings are coming to you in some way. Im just wandering here if you are beginning to remember, or if the call of these dreams is for you to remember who you really are.

The temple being placed above the clouds does suggest that it is an intemediary place, a gate way as you describe between worlds. There are many of these temples around the world and not necessarliy just Buddhist in nature, each existing on the etheric planes. There is one temple based in Luxor, and one over Sedona and many others, which are all possible to access in meditation and through dreaming.

The wisdom and teachings you have either recieved in the past, or what you have studied in the past has woken you up to your abilty to recieve such ancient teachings these being imparted to you through the third eye, or at least indicates to you how such knowledge and wisdom can be imparted.

When we move to a different mode of perception we are able to recieve such insights via the third eye or the ajna chakra as it is known in the sanskrit.

Your dream seems to speak of both symbology and truth, those deepest truths of how everything comes to be in our physical world, In this temple, were you actually here in your dream? was it through your eyes that you were looking around?

its as if consciouness and the highest truths of it are reflecting in your dream and quite possible in a physical sense as well when we recreate these spaces in a physical way what we are recreating are these truths. Spending time in various buddhist monastrys in the himalayas one can sense the quality of love and wisdom that these places exude compared to that of mcdonalds.

Our physical worlds and what we create are allways in some fashion a reflection of our own inner nature which in turn govern our own personal tastes and prefrences. You can allways tell a man by his house so the old saying goes. Just to make things clearer the more we intergrate a higher (not from ego) way of living intergrating those qualitys that are more refined such as love and wisdom into our lives then we will be more drawn to those physical places and people that reflect our own ways of being in the world.

But we all have access to these truths it all depends on how much we are willing to clear the blocks that cut us off from this source that exists within.

So your dream then seems to speak of both a mix of this higher vibration and essence of consciouness speaking to you and the possibility that you have at some point in you soul sojourn recreated and lived these truths within the physical plane.

The high priest and kIR-SAN are quite possibly conveying your own higher guidance within this space and may also be people you have incarnated with before.

Your dream suggests for you to find a way to reconnect to these trurths more consciously so that you can recreate the love and wisdom of them once again here on the physical plane.

I hope this helps a little, but really I have no authority to determine your dream but this is the feeling I get when reading this dream and it truly sings to me.

There used to be a moderator within this site by the name of Sowelu who has wonderful insight into the dreaming mind and the more esoteric layers of our being she may be able to help you more if you are still looking for answers.

Goodluck Marce

[JON]

Thank you for your feedback. And insights. I think you are right in your interpretations. That’s why I decided to share the dream, just in case the images ‘resonated’ with others. My grandmother [mother's mother] and her sister were born in India, and their mother and her eight sisters lived out there. A lot of my grandmother's family were born out there too. And I recently found my father's family had connections with that country. So I guess it was 'in the genes', even before I went to S.E. Asia.

I’ve never been to India, Nepal, or Tibet, though. Or Egypt for that matter, but I have studied that civilization for over 20 years now. It is my favourite, as there’s so much that is unique about it. Many of my dreams have Egyptian elements in them.

Dreams do indeed take us to different ‘planes’ and ‘levels of consciousness’. And access different ‘realms‘, by opening ‘doors’ and ‘windows’ into them. Like a ‘gateway‘. The clouds could in themselves be a 'barrier' between our world - the physical', and the 'other' or 'spiritual' world. The Sun representing the 'divine' or as a 'life-force'. I found it interesting that though he was called Khiru-Shan, it was pronounced Kir-Shan. An anagram of the Hindu God Krishna!

My sister introduced me to the world of crystals, chakras, third-eyes, etc, as she is a Crystal Healer and Reiki Therapist. I was one of her first ‘patients’, and it was an experience I’d never had before, and will never forget. I’d never felt so ‘at peace’ with myself and the ‘world’ until then. Thereafter, I’ve looked at life very differently!

I even have a ‘crystal skull’ of my own called Freddie, who came from a bone house [a Charnel Chapel] near Prague. As well as crystal obelisks and pyramids of different gemstones. They have different qualities and properties, and channel different kinds of ‘energies’.

Because of my love of things Egyptian, I have several pieces of lapis lazuli [a real tangible link with them]. A pendant [called Thoth] that I do my own ‘readings’ with. A pyramid [called Osiris]. And a sphere [called Isis]. I have statues of those gods too, and the Sphinx. My bedside table is a mini-Giza! And I chose for my Avatar the eyes of Horus [Heru] flanking a pyramid. I’ve also pendants of Egyptian silver, including the Eye of Horus [called Cleopatra], and an Ankh [called Anubis]. Thoth ‘told’ me that gemstones have ‘genders’, and ‘he’ helped me name them, and ‘himself’!

It is rare for me to ‘physically appear’ in dreams. When I do, it’s not usually as ‘myself’. My ‘character’ is ‘in tune’ with the surroundings. Thus, in those
18th Century French dreams, I was Isobel. Her reflection in a mirror was ‘me’ in that ‘world‘! And the other people engaged with me as her. But the real me - the one in the bed - is only ‘looking through’ her eyes. It wasn’t quite like being on stage as an actor playing a role. It felt more like moving a ‘virtual character’ in a computer game with the keyboard or a joystick. You have about as much control on things. In most dreams, though, I’m ‘unseen’ by people in it. Like a ghost or ‘hidden camera’.

Thank you once again, Marce.

Jon.

[blueberrysummer]

Hi Jon Thank you for the feedback,
Yes it did resonate, it never ceases to amaze me in the way we are giving this information, I like how your dreaming mind reflected the qualitys within the higher guide/priest as Krishna. What was the energy of Krishna in this part of the dream relating to you here?

Lord Krishna is one of the great avatars of Hinduism. He is the Eastern equivalent of the Christ, interesting to see the many parrallels here. He lived in 5000 BC and was Lord Maitreya in a past life and was believed to be Buddha in his ninth incarnation.
As I understand Krishna was the eighth incarnation of Vishnu, the second aspect of the threefold godhead , Bramha, Vishnu and Siva. It is in the Bagavad Gita that his teachings seem to be most prominently expressed, where by he becomes a 'guide' for arjuna the 'spiritual warrior' who in his hour of need is open to such teachings, in a nut shell I believe that Krishna conveys information in relation to the Five senses and the attachment that this generates, as well as the mystery's of incarnation this in turn helps him with the conflict he presented with upon the battlefield.

Im sure your well versed in these teachings thankyou for sharing your dream it has given me much to ponder.

Namestae Marce

[JON]

Thanks for replying. I’m not sure what his ‘energy’ involved here. But it's funny you should compare Christanity and Hinduism, because....

When Krishna was born, the three gifts were, interestingly, Gold, Myrrh and Frankincense! The child was baptised on an altar with soma [purified butter], receiving the name ‘akta’ meaning "anointed" [like the Hebrew "messiah" and the Greek "christos"]. The event was greeted with widespread rejoicing from the Earth and Heavens [devas - angels] through hymns. The god now outshine the rising Sun and the Full Moon that flanked him.

Agni, the Holy Fire of Ancient Hindu religion, was "born" when Twastri, the Divine Carpenter, the god's father, created the divine spark of new life using a pramantha. This lance-like piece of wood was passed through a hole in the centre of a cross f ormed from two pieces of wood fastened by four nails. The god's mother, Maja [pronounced Maya], dwelt within the cross. Agni was the King of Kings and taught the Doctors, revealed the mysteries of life to humans, and was named Jatavedas. "He in Whom Wisdom is In-born". In other words, Jehovah..

Yet...thousands of miles away in Mexico...is the Bonampak Fresco Cycle. According to Maurice Cotterell, in his Lost Tomb of Viracocha, the life of the Mayan deity Xipe Totec is encoded in it. Xipe had three aspects: God of the Eastern Sky, God of Fire and God of Sacrifice. As the first he was the rising Sun symbolising birth and regeneration. He created fire in his second by rubbing two sticks together. These became the cross upon which he died in his third. I’ve noted that his forename contains the initials of Christ in Greek -the Chi [X Rho [P]. Curious, eh?

Thanks again. Regards. Jon.

[powerdreamer]

This name might represent Kemetian (Egyptian) /r</ (the sun-god) + /nw/ (the sky). Being stationed on a waterlily blossom is characteristic of a certain young Kemetian god.
/Khiru/ might be for the name of the Kemetian god /H.RW/ (spelled in Greek as /Horos/).
Possibly /Lhuwan/ might represent (for /lhu-/) the name /Lag-idai/ of the Hellenistic dynasty which ruled Kemet, while /-wan/ may be the hieroglyph /wn/ ('rabbit', the same meaning as for the Hellenic /lag-/).
An name with /khath/ cannot occur in Sanskrit, which would automatically changed it to /katha/ (the word for 'story'), but it could for some transliteration from Kemetian (where the /kh/ stands for /h^/, etc.).

[JON]

Originally Posted by powerdreamer

This name might represent Kemetian (Egyptian) /r</ (the sun-god) + /nw/ (the sky). Being stationed on a waterlily blossom is characteristic of a certain young Kemetian god.
/Khiru/ might be for the name of the Kemetian god /H.RW/ (spelled in Greek as /Horos/).
Possibly /Lhuwan/ might represent (for /lhu-/) the name /Lag-idai/ of the Hellenistic dynasty which ruled Kemet, while /-wan/ may be the hieroglyph /wn/ ('rabbit', the same meaning as for the Hellenic /lag-/).
An name with /khath/ cannot occur in Sanskrit, which would automatically changed it to /katha/ (the word for 'story'), but it could for some transliteration from Kemetian (where the /kh/ stands for /h^/, etc.).

Thank you for this feedback. It has provided an interesting insight into this odd dream of mine.