Die Hard and The Dali Lama

Greetings on my first blog! Hi, I suspect some might share my belief in taking dreams very seriously. So let me share with you what I dreamed November 27, 2010. I call it "Die Hard and the Dali Lama".

There was a cyclinder shape office building and this took place at the top floor. I am one of eight bodhisattva, enlightened compassionate beings, and the Dali Lama is there with us. An antagonist appears in the very center of the room. All the Bohisattva flee into smaller rooms behind them to the perimeter of the floor to escape this being.

This antagonist is an archetype. He is a devil. One incarnation of Chairman Mao Zedong. He is seated in the lotus position in the center of the room. His Holinessis standing beside me and is unseen by this devil. He seems like a ghost.

The Dali Lama is talking to me in my right ear. He is trying to advise me what to do. Sadly, I'm not listening to his instruction. LOL! I feign like I'm going to attack Mao and he stands up. The Dali Lama yells, "No!". I reach in and push the button to close the door to the elevator. This gives me time to turn around and enter a men's room behind me. Then it gets a little weird. The Dali Lama floats up and away through the roof. The devil Mao chases after me. A dimensional portal, a vertical crack in space/time, opens in a urinal! I squeeze into it to what seems to be  a distance of about 6 feet and it closes in behind me as I move forward. Mao is unable to penetrate the barrier. Then I wake up and I'm uncertain if I was trapped there or escaped.

It should be no surprise my dream has all this fascinating content really. I'm currently reading: "The life of Milarepa" and The Tibetan Book of the Dead", and I spend lots of time watching Dali Lama videos on Youtube.

You know ever since mother gave me a cup of white lotus tea, back when I was 17, I've had a bit of an obsession with Tibetan Buddhism. That tea gave me a vision of a Tibetan monk, which will haunt me forever.I stumbled into something that shook my consciouness into a wider reality.

It was a clever ruse, on my part, to close that elvator door. The Dali lama must have been concerned that I was going to violently attack Mao. Still, being clever can get you into all kinds of trouble. There  is tons of symbolic meaning to mine out of this dream. I'm going to ponder this for a long time to come...

Some recent analysis: I've had some insights while meditating on this dream from last year. The building's circular shape represents the pattern of the Eight Spoke Wheel, the oldest symbol of Buddhism, each spoke represents the eight fold path as taught by Buddha. The center hub represents moral reasoning. The rim is mindfulness.

I have deduced some things: Mao, as the adversarial archetype, intrudes into moral reasoning with a goal of creating a new order. So luring him out of the center becomes a highly desirable goal. Mao, by his nature, is a corrupting force. It is interesting that the Dali Lama ascends when Mao vacates the center. Mao cannot penetrate the rim of mindfulness.

Well, as you can see, there still is much more that could be dug out of the material. The collective consciousness has down loaded much more than I have figured out. So much more could be explored in this. I owe much to Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell and Terence McKenna for the tools to even begin to understand. I would love to here any additional insights or comments any else might offer.

Darl aka battlebauble