The Foundation of Buddhist Practice by Thubten Chodron

Author:Thubten Chodron
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wisdom Publications

Sometimes people dream about their deceased relatives and friends. Are their relatives actually appearing and communicating with them in these dreams?

When we dream of deceased loved ones, it is just a case of past latencies being activated. The person we dream about is not present. He or she is not having the same dream, and even when alive, we don’t experience each other’s dreams. If someone dreams about us, we are not in his dream doing what he dreams we are doing. The dream is due to the ripening of latencies on his mindstream.

Suppose someone lives in a very luxurious house and later moves to another place. Her previous house is torn down to build another building. She may have a very clear dream of the house, so clear that she feels that she is actually in it. Yet this is just her dream; it is a product of activated latencies. Dreaming of the deceased is similar. That dear one no longer has his previous body; he has already taken rebirth in accordance with his karma. Our dream of him is simply the maturation of latencies on our mind.

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