(Friday, March 15, 2013) Fragment: I dream I am receiving a “direct transmission” from my T’ai Chi instructor, Sifu Rob. All I see in the dream are his eyes with a kind of spotlight glow around them, à la Bela Lugosi in “Dracula.” But without the spookiness.
Direct transmission = shaktipat
Day notes:
T’ai Chi in ancient China was taught one-on-one, master (sifu) to student, without words. Entrainment.
This is my second dream about T’ai Chi. “Light-body Cannonball Training” was my first. I have been noticing that there is a new strength and energy running along my spine (called “plumb-line” in T’ai Chi) and I can feel all the bones and tendons in my body loosening. They make a crackling sound.
The Tao (yin/yang) symbol looks like eyes. Moon eye and solar eye.
From the web:
Eyes can represent clairvoyance, omniscience, and/or a gateway into the soul. Other qualities that eyes are commonly associated with are: intelligence, light, vigilance, moral conscience, and truth. Looking someone in the eye is a western custom of honesty.
The word “eye” has many meanings, from an organ that detects light to the symbolic eye with its many metaphors that link to conscious awareness. Reality is a consciousness hologram virtually experienced through the eye of time. The physical eye has a pupil symbolizing we are pupils/students in a university or universe. Center of the Milky Way, black hole, hurricane, vortex.
WOW! What a lovely dream. Did your first dream have the same feeling to it? It sounds like a healing dream, like a direct connection between Self and consciousness. A blessing. (if it were my dream). What is happening in your waking life? Any reason why this dream, now?
Well, Bonnie, ever the teacher you are. What great questions. I don’t know about my waking life, but I feel like I am learning a lot in my dreams right now. I’m starting to see how dreams that felt completely unrelated are, in fact, connected. The river of dreaming that Evan Hodkins (the Franciscan retreat in LaCrosse we went to) talked about.