roxy,
Hi,
A most pleasant sleep did I have. Thanks.
As to your quiry? Perhaps I can begin a reply. As the subject is largely beyond my 'experience' and 'recollection', but perhaps not entirely, I cannot predict how extensive or abbreviated my response(s) may be. Also, I am saddled with the limitations of common language. However, I do own the statements I make.
Imagine a 'state of being' where the energy is devoid of all of the polarizations we experience in Samsara. In the terms of Ego existence, which is basically what Samsara is all about, there are no wants, desires, aversions, hates, passion love, andsoforth. There is, thus, no Intention as we know it because there is no physical body, hence no brain. Yet achieving this 'state of being' is far from being a no-brainer.
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So, imagine a dream in which you come to others as a Bodhisattvah, the Avalokiteshvara, for example, and all you know is compassion. Every single action that you express is compassionate. You are compassion. People use the phrase "being Reiki". Perhaps that is a simple though quite limited analogy if I understand that phrase at all.
This is how I interpret the goal of yogas of sleep and dreaming. Dreams are, afterall, the closest we will come to being able to 'act' in a realm approximating the Bardo. We can not know, first hand, the Bardo but we can experience first hand, so to speak, thru our dreams, ways to face and master the 'forces' involved when we dream (the Contents of the Unconscious, especially the Shadow, are quite powerful, afterall, if expressed in waking life).
To be able to interact with and influence our dreams directly and consistently, lucid dreaming being a helpful skill, is it seems the best we can to prepare for the forces of the Bardo and our Karma which we will encounter there.
Cheers,
RC
