Twenty-Five Doors to Meditation by William Bodri

Author:William Bodri
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781609252359
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser Conari

All phenomena are like

A dream, an illusion, a bubble, and a shadow

Like a dew drop and flash of lightening.

Thus should you view them.

Now as a warning, one must never, upon reaching the state where the world appears dreamlike, become attached to the physical sensations that accompany this particular experiential realm, since the “thick,” flowing characteristics of this blissful samadhi can be quite seductive. One must detach from all sensations while the mind rests in the clear, open, formless clarity of empty presence. The important point is to realize that phenomena have a nature which is utterly different from their presence, and thus to mentally detach from this realm of nonreality.

All phenomena are empty by nature, for if you slice their existence down to even the tiniest moment of time, you won't find a single item that is fixed and not being transformed. There's no fixed reality, there's no ultimate substance other than voidness, the absence of marks and stains. That's true formlessness because what's real has no shape. As to the phenomenal world, however, nothing ever stays, and so everything is always moving or transforming. Nothing remains fixed, so there is nothing you can point to as being real. There's only an ever-moving display that we call “appearance,” but it doesn't have any true substance! That's the nature of of the universe about us. Hence, extending this concept further, there's not a single particle within living beings that we can call a final self. We're selfless. There's no final reliable thing that we can call a personal ego. Thus, all the actions we perform during our waking hours can be considered a type of dream, but unfortunately people don't know how to realize this true nature of phenomena.

So how do you go about cultivating the practice of dream yoga? One way is to cultivate samadhi during the waking state and then as you go to sleep you place the mind into the state of samadhi and continue your samadhi awareness into and during sleep. Another means is to master bringing the vital energies into the central channel during the waking state, as is done with kundalini yoga. Then at the time of sleep, you cultivate awareness of the realms of emptiness that occur during the stages of sleep; if you're successful at this, when dreams appear you will naturally recognize them as such.

Another means is to cultivate a strong resolution during the waking state to remain conscious during the dream state, but to succeed in this practice you must also meditate on the chakras of the body (especially the throat chakra) before going to sleep. When you meditate on your throat chakra before going to sleep, your dreams will tend to be more vivid and last longer. Once you're in the dream state and can maintain your conscious presence, then you engage in whatever spiritual practices are deemed important.

Today it's quite popular to study the dream state or to analyze dreams as a symbolic projection of reality. A real cultivator

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